Mobile Application Adoption by Young Adults: A Social Network Perspective

The use of mobile applications, defined as small programs that run on a mobile device and perform tasks ranging from banking to gaming and web browsing, is exploding. Within the past two years, the industry has grown from essentially nothing to a $2 billion marketplace, but adoption rates are still on the rise. Using network theory, this study examines how the adoption of mobile apps among young consumers is influenced by others in their social network. The results suggest that the likelihood of adoption and usage of mobile apps increases with their use by the consumer\u27s strongest relationship partner. In addition, the authors find marginal support for the hypothesis that the adoption of mobile apps will be more strongly influenced by a consumer\u27s social contacts (friends, compared to family members), possibly due to their closer similarity to the consumer. Managerial and theoretical implications are discussed

Interrelation of Circulatory, Respiratory and Motor Systems in Children and Adolescents Under Static Stresses of Large Muscle Groups

В работе анализируются возрастные особенности взаимосвязи систем кровообращения, дыхания и двигательного аппарата у детей и подростков при статических напряжениях больших групп мышц.The article analyses age-specific features of the relationship of the circulatory, respiratory and motor systems in children and adolescents under static stresses of large groups of muscles

Swimming in Preschool Educational Institutions as a Way to Improve the Health of Preschool Children

Статья посвящена влиянию плавания на здоровье детей дошкольного возраста, воздействие на различные системы организма, а также воздействие на их психоэмоциональное состояние и становление личности.The article is devoted to the influence of swimming on the health of preschool children, the impact on various body systems, as well as the impact on their psycho-emotional state and personality development

Digital news resources: An autoethnographic study of news encounters

We analyze a set of 35 autoethnographies of news encounters, created by students in New Zealand. These comprise rich descriptions of the news sources, modalities, topics of interest, and news ‘routines’ by which the students keep in touch with friends and maintain awareness of personal, local, national, and international events. We explore the implications for these insights into news behavior for further research to support digital news systems

Drivers and technology-related obstacles in moving to multichannel retailing

Today, multichannel retailing is a key strategic issue for most retailers. Yet, while there are many drivers associated with retailers going multichannel so too are there technology-related obstacles, however, few prior empirical studies explore these themes. In light of this, by using a multi-case approach to understand the key drivers and technology-related obstacles associated with retailers moving to multichannel retailing our study makes two key contributions. First, we extend prior theory by providing novel empirical insights into the main drivers underpinning retailers using a multichannel strategy. We find that meeting customer needs and increasing sales were the primary drivers behind retailers using the strategy, although there is diversity in the way retailers respond to these motives. Second, we provide empirical support for a proposed theoretical framework which summarises the key technology-related obstacles retailers encounter when going multichannel, by stage of implementation. The framework reveals that retailers face technology-related obstacles when implementing a multichannel strategy due to the need to switch/acquire resources and achieve channel integration. Furthermore, the framework highlights that these resource and channel integration issues are often interrelated with each other and with other staff engagement and cultural issues, vary by retailer and stage of implementation, and pose greater obstacles to retailers using new and multiple channels than the extant literature suggests

Lifelong Learning with Weighted Majority Votes

Better understanding of the potential benefits of information transfer and representation learning is an important step towards the goal of building intelligent systems that are able to persist in the world and learn over time. In this work, we consider a setting where the learner encounters a stream of tasks but is able to retain only limited information from each encountered task, such as a learned predictor. In contrast to most previous works analyzing this scenario, we do not make any distributional assumptions on the task generating process. Instead, we formulate a complexity measure that captures the diversity of the observed tasks. We provide a lifelong learning algorithm with error guarantees for every observed task (rather than on average). We show sample complexity reductions in comparison to solving every task in isolation in terms of our task complexity measure. Further, our algorithmic framework can naturally be viewed as learning a representation from encountered tasks with a neural network

Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet

In the era of social media, rumors spread faster and wider than ever before. After a rumor spreads, its effect can be curbed by issuing online refutation messages known as denials. Notwithstanding the potential of denials to reduce Internet users' likelihood to be misinformed, they generally remain less pervasive than rumors. Hence, there is a need to identify how users can be enticed to share denials. Informed by the literature, this paper argues that users' salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials could influence their intention to share such messages. Salient beliefs refer to beliefs about a behavior that are cognitively easy to access at any moment, and serve as primary determinants of performing the behavior. As a part of a larger ongoing project, this paper conducts a survey to identify salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials. The following salient beliefs were identified: Sharing denials help to spread the truth. Friends and the online community would encourage the behavior of sharing rumor denials. Source credibility of denials facilitates sharing of such messages. Significance of the findings and future research directions are highlighted.MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore)Accepted versio