Proposal, project, practice, pause: developing a framework for evaluating smart domestic product engagement

Smart homes are fast becoming a reality, with smart TVs, smart meters and other such “smart” devices/systems already representing a substantial household presence. These, which we collectively term “smart domestic products” (SDPs), will need to be promoted, adopted, and normalized into daily routines. Despite this, the marketing canon lacks a substantive discourse on pertinent research. We look to help correct this by melding ideas from organizational sociology, innovation diffusion and appropriation studies, and service dominant logic. Consequently, we suggest a framework for research that responds directly to the specific characteristics of SDPs. Using the SDP eco-system as a context, our framework emphasizes the interplay of embeddedness, practice, value and engagement. It comprises a four-stage horizontal/ longitudinal axis we describe as proposal, project, practice and pause. Cross-sectionally we focus on value, and combine aspects of existing thought to suggest how this impacts each stage of our engagement continuum. We subsequently identify perceived personal advantage as the resultant of these two axes and propose this as the key for understanding consumer and SDP sociomaterial engagement. This article also advances a definition of SDPs and ends with an agenda for further research

Examining the role of three sets of innovation attributes for determining adoption of the interbank mobile payment service

The interbank mobile payment service (IMPS) is a very recent technology in India that serves the very critical purpose of a mobile wallet. To account for the adoption and use of IMPS by the Indian consumers, this study seeks to compare three competing sets of attributes borrowed from three recognized pieces of work in the area of innovations adoption. This study aims to examine which of the three sets of attributes better predicts the adoption of IMPS in an Indian context. The research model is empirically tested and validated against the data gathered from 323 respondents from different cities in India. The findings are analysed using the SPSS analysis tool, which are then discussed to derive the key conclusions from this study. The research implications are stated, limitations listed and suggestions for future research on this technology are then finally made

Vitamin A derivatives in the prevention and treatment of human cancer.

Vitamin A is essential for normal cellular growth and differentiation. A vast amount of laboratory data have clearly demonstrated the potent antiproliferative and differentiation-inducing effects of vitamin A and the synthetic analogues (retinoids). Recent in-vitro work has led to the exciting proposal that protein kinase-C may be centrally involved in many of retinoids' anticancer actions including the effects on ornithine decarboxylase induction, intracellular polyamine levels, and epidermal growth factor receptor number. Several intervention trials have clearly indicated that natural vitamin A at clinically tolerable doses has only limited activity against human neoplastic processes. Therefore, clinical work has focused on the synthetic derivatives with higher therapeutic indexes. In human cancer prevention, retinoids have been most effective for skin diseases, including actinic keratosis, keratoacanthoma, epidermodysplasia verruciformis, dysplastic nevus syndrome, and basal cell carcinoma. Several noncutaneous premaligancies, however, are currently receiving more attention in retinoid trials. Definite retinoid activity has been documented in oral leukoplakia, laryngeal papillomatosis, superficial bladder carcinoma, cervical dysplasia, bronchial metaplasia, and preleukemia. Significant therapeutic advances are also occurring with this class of drugs in some drug-resistant malignancies and several others that have become refractory, including advanced basal cell cancer, mycosis fungoides, melanoma, acute promyelocytic leukemia, and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and of the head and neck. This report comprehensively presents the clinical data using retinoids as anticancer agents in human premalignant disorders and outlines the ongoing and planned studies with retinoids in combination and adjuvant therapy

First flight of Wright Model A Flyer at Fort Myer

Wright Model A Flyer in flight. Caption below photograph, When \u27It\u27 immediately became an object of wild celebration. C. H. Claudy Ft. Myer photograph album. This photograph is attributed to C. H. Claudy, Washington, D.C.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/3001/thumbnail.jp

Left rear view of Wright Model A Flyer in flight

Left rear view of the Wright Model A Flyer in flight. Caption below photograph, From behind. C. H. Claudy Ft. Myer photograph album. This photograph is attributed to C. H. Claudy, Washington, D.C.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/3149/thumbnail.jp

Lt. Selfridge and Orville Wright just before take-off

Sitting in the Wright Model A Flyer are Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge and Orville Wright just prior to take-off. Caption below photograph, Waiting for Claudy to step back. The last picture of Selfridge, taken just as he was about to pull the trip lever to start the flight. C. H. Claudy Ft. Myer photograph album. This photograph is attributed to C. H. Claudy, Washington, D.C.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/3153/thumbnail.jp

Preparing for a flight at Fort Myer

Soldiers hauling a line in preparation for a flight by Orville Wright at Fort Myer in 1908. This photograph is attributed to C. H. Claudy, Washington (D.C.)https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/1845/thumbnail.jp

Wright Model A Flyer being loaded on a wagon

Orville Wright directing the loading of the Wright Model A Flyer onto a wagon. Caption beside photograph, Mr. Wright directing the removal of \u27It\u27 from the Balloon House to an Army Wagon. C. H. Claudy Ft. Myer photograph album. This photograph is attributed to C.H. Claudy, Washington, D.C.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/3248/thumbnail.jp

Wright Model A Flyer circling to land

Right rear view of Wright Model A Flyer circling to land. Caption below photograph, Circling to land. C. H. Claudy Ft. Myer photograph album. This photograph is attributed to C. H. Claudy, Washington, D.C.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/3146/thumbnail.jp