Factors That Impact Consumers' Intention to Shop on Foreign Online Stores

Cross-border e-commerce has been rapidly expanding. However, little research has been done to investigate how consumers decide to shop across national borders. This study aims to explore the factors that impact consumers’ intention to shop on foreign websites. A conceptual model is developed from the perspectives of consumer perceived trust and value. We also examine the effects of vendors’ signaling on perceived trust, as well as the effects of benefits and costs on perceived value. This study conducts an online survey to test the research model. Our findings can help researchers and practitioners understand the barriers to cross-border e-commerce and devise strategies to overcome these barriers

Schwarzschild-de Sitter Metric and Inertial Beltrami Coordinates

Under consideration of coordinate conditions, we get the Schwarzschild-Beltrami-de Sitter (S-BdS) metric solution of the Einstein field equations with a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. A brief review to the de Sitter invariant special relativity (dS-SR), and de Sitter general relativity (dS-GR, or GR with a $\Lambda$) is presented. The Beltrami metric $B_{\mu\nu}$ provides inertial reference frame for the dS-spacetime. By examining the Schwarzschild-de Sitter (S-dS) metric $g_{\mu\nu}^{(M)}$ existed in literatures since 1918, we find that the existed S-dS metric $g_{\mu\nu}^{(M)}$ describes some mixing effects of gravity and inertial-force, instead of a pure gravity effect arisen from "solar mass" $M$ in dS-GR. In this paper, we solve the vacuum Einstein equation of dS-GR, with the requirement of gravity-free metric $g_{\mu\nu}^{(M)}|_{M\rightarrow 0}=B_{\mu\nu}$. In this way we find S-BdS solution of dS-GR, written in inertial Beltrami coordinates. This is a new form of S-dS metric. Its physical meaning and possible applications are discussed.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figur

Factors That Impact Consumers\u27 Intention to Shop on Foreign Online Stores

Cross-border e-commerce has been rapidly expanding. However, little research has been done to investigate how consumers decide to shop across national borders. This study aims to explore the factors that impact consumers’ intention to shop on foreign websites. A conceptual model is developed from the perspectives of consumer perceived trust and value. We also examine the effects of vendors’ signaling on perceived trust, as well as the effects of benefits and costs on perceived value. This study conducts an online survey to test the research model. Our findings can help researchers and practitioners understand the barriers to cross-border e-commerce and devise strategies to overcome these barriers

catena-Poly[[[tetra­aqua­nickel(II)]-μ-4,4′-bipyridyl-κ2 N:N′] 3,3′-(p-phenyl­ene)diacrylate]

In the title compound, {[Ni(C10H8N2)(H2O)4](C12H8O4)}n, the NiII, 4,4′-bipyridyl (bipy) and 3,3′-(p-phenyl­ene)diacrylate (L 2−) moieties are situated on inversion centres. The bipy ligands bridge NiII ions into positively charged polymeric chains along [101]. The NiII atom is coordinated by two N atoms from two bipy ligands and four water mol­ecules in a distorted octa­hedral geometry. L 2− anions inter­act with the polymeric chains via O–H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional supra­molecular network