regarding the importance of the customer in today'scompetitive world, and considering the previous researches whichindicated the cost of attracting new customers is far more than the costof maintaining customer loyalty, studying the methods of obtainingand maintaining customer loyalty in various businesses has received ahigh priority. the purpose of this study is to determine thecomponents...

Location-based services (LBS) provide resources or information based on the user’s own location or an indicated location of interest. This paper introduces a number of data store and access requirements for LBS based on examples from our own work and that of others in the field. We consider specifically the areas of location representation, gathering location data, assets, location-based querie...

The emergence of mobile application services and App Store has led to the explosive growth of user innovation, which users voluntarily contribute to. User innovation communities where end users freely reveal innovative ideas and needs with other community members are becoming increasingly influential in this area. However, user’s ideas in user innovation community are not enough to be new servi...

Ecological studies are essential for understanding the environment-diet relationship. The purpose of this study was to describe environmental conditions and their relationship with fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among Brazilian public health service users in the city of Belo Horizonte. We evaluated food stores contained within 1600 m buffer zones at 18 Health Academy Programme sites, from...

P2P e-commerce applications have lower operational costs and inherently more scalable than conventional client-server online trading. Community Trust Stores (CTS) provide reliable and secure storage services for peers involved in P2P e-trading by storing trust data for the peers. Freely available cloud services can host the Community Trust Store and provide 24/7 availability to participating tr...

We hypothesize that recent changes in policy and the spread of in-store medical clinics favor the provision of medication therapy management (MTM) services by large chain pharmacies while creating the potential for conflicts of interest from employed prescribers. First, MTM is now required by Medicare Part D, but the program may be more practical for community pharmacy chains than independent p...

although many scholars had proposed lots research results about online shopping, they are quite vague and hard for enterprisers to practice it. hence, this research observes the online store policies, services, functions, and activities among 17 online shopping platforms in taiwan, china, and hong kong. and, this research (1) finds online stores assessment items by literature review; (2) establ...

The current trend favoring real-time services delivery anywhere at anytime has difficulties to cope with the dynamics of mobile networks. Furthermore, the present Internet network architecture is defeated by environments where links are error prone, intermittent, with high delay and when nodes may disappear unexpectedly. Transport services based on store and forward (such as the Delay/Disruptio...