What Factors Influence Customers’ Purchase Intentions in Travel-Related Social Commerce?

Social commerce significantly impacts the tourism and hospitality industry. Nonetheless, further empirical research investigating the factors that impact the purchase intentions of those who engage with travel-related social commerce. Combining the Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) and TAM, the present study will investigate the relationships between purchases intentions and the following factors: perceived usefulness, perceived ease-of-use, entertainment, interaction and information seeking. During the research, four different models will be compared. The Ridge Model will be used to explain the effects of the aforementioned factors. The findings indicate that customers’ social commerce purchase intentions are positively impacted by all five factors

What are the impetuses Behind E-health applications’ self-management services’ ongoing adoption by health community participants?

Over the past 20 years, the identification of interventions related to healthcare management has been greatly facilitated by improvements in the well-being and health of the entire population. However, regardless of the positive developments in smart health applications and e-health research, there are two important gaps, (1) the role of gamification variables in the continued use of eHealth applications has not been adequately assessed, and (2) the extent to which people’s perception of the continued use of e-health applications is encouraged through habit. Customers and companies can derive considerable value from exploring E-Health applications’ health self-management services. Accordingly, estimating such services’ ongoing adoption by customers is aimed for in this research, with habits, intrinsic and extrinsic variables incorporated into a study model which is then tested. This paper examined perceived autonomy, perceived competence, perceived relatedness has positively related to enjoyment and habit. Reward has positively related to perceived autonomy and continued to use. Enjoyment and Habit have positively associated with the decision to continue to use in e-Health Apps. 269 individuals who have used Chinese e-health applications comprised the data collection sample, being reached via an online questionnaire. Data analysis was undertaken using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). It was found that the ongoing adoption of e-health self-management services was perpetuated to a greater extent by intrinsic variables; in terms of strategizing for companies’ e-services, the results can inform this process

Root Isolation of Zero-dimensional Polynomial Systems with Linear Univariate Representation

In this paper, a linear univariate representation for the roots of a zero-dimensional polynomial equation system is presented, where the roots of the equation system are represented as linear combinations of roots of several univariate polynomial equations. The main advantage of this representation is that the precision of the roots can be easily controlled. In fact, based on the linear univariate representation, we can give the exact precisions needed for roots of the univariate equations in order to obtain the roots of the equation system to a given precision. As a consequence, a root isolation algorithm for a zero-dimensional polynomial equation system can be easily derived from its linear univariate representation.Comment: 19 pages,2 figures; MM-Preprint of KLMM, Vol. 29, 92-111, Aug. 201

Benzyl (E)-3-(2-methyl­benzyl­idene)dithio­carbazate

The title compound, C16H16N2S2, was obtained from the condensation reaction of benzyl dithio­carbazate and 2-methyl­benzaldehyde. The asymmetric unit contains two independent mol­ecules. In both mol­ecules, the methyl­phenyl ring and the dithio­carbazate fragment are located on opposite sides of the C=N bond, showing an E conformation. In each mol­ecule, the dithio­carbazate fragment is approximately planar, the r.m.s deviations being 0.018 and 0.025 Å. The mean plane of dithio­carbazate group is oriented at dihedral angles of 7.9 (3) and 68.24 (12)°, respectively, to the methyl­phenyl and phenyl rings in one mol­ecule, while the corresponding angles in the other mol­ecule are 10.9 (3) and 69.76 (16)°. Inter­molecular N—H⋯S hydrogen bonding occurs in the crystal structure to generate inversion dimers for both molecules

Discovering the knowledge hierarchy of mathworld for web intelligence

One important demonstration of web intelligence is learning oriented search, which means to find the right knowledge from the right place and present to the user in the right order so that the user can learn fast and manage the knowledge easily. The most difficult question here is how to present the knowledge to the user for fast learning, which requires to discover the knowledge hierarchy from the web automatically. We study this problem using the Math-World as an example, which is an online encyclopedia of mathematics. We study various statistical properties of the network, and find that the network of mathematical knowledge is a small world and is not created through preferential attachment. Only a small number of knowledge with large betweenness centralities are the basic and important mathematical knowledge, and should be learned first by a user. We hope this work sheds insight to the study on web intelligence in general. Index Terms — Knowledge hierarchy, learning oriented search, web intelligence, MathWorld