The Determinants, Nature and Value of Electronic Information Intermediation

While the Internet is capable of supporting non- mediated relationships between producers and users of information, most medical information that is disseminated though the Internet is mediated. A variety of information intermediariesi provide mediated medical information on the Internet that helps physicians (decision-makers) and patients (decision-receivers) in clinical decision-making (Detmer and Shortliffe, 1997; Ferguson, 1996; Goldstein and Flory, 1997). These intermediaries include web-based medical literature providers, Internet patient records providers, integrated medical information providers, electronic journals and web-based medical support/ discussion/ chat groups, who perform the task of information intermediation. Some of these are just Internet-automated versions of traditional forms of information intermediation (e.g. electronic journals) while others are new forms of information intermediation (e.g. web-based discussion groups)

Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality

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A survey of the snake-handling cult of West Virginia

For over half a century the snake-handling cult has been active in the United States, especially in the Appalachian area. There has been little scientific information published about this cult. The two major works were mainly confined to a single church in Durham, North Carolina, and a single church in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. This investigator studied four churches in West Virginia, and one in Durham, North Carolina, for two and a half years to gain a deeper understanding of these people and their religious behavior

Short and Sweet Waltz

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A Trust Based Model of Buying Behavior in Electronic Retailing

The exponential growth of the Internet has seen the use of this medium by organizations to sell their goods and services. While buying and selling over the Internet has grown dramatically so has been the failure of ventures that were started to sell goods or services over the Internet. This paper attributes this failure to be a function of improper understanding on the part of sellers as to how buyers buy products or services over the Internet. Focusing on the retail side of electronic commerce, this paper develops a model to explain buying behavior for products over the Internet. The model developed emphasizes on trust as being an essential component and that trust coupled with buyer motivation can help understand and manage buying over the Internet

The Impact of Software Development Process on Information Systems Success: A Theoretical Perspective Integrating Customer Satisfaction, Technical and Organizational Issues

Total Quality Management (TQM) principles emphasize the use of customer satisfaction as a measure of quality. This paper shows how customer satisfaction can be managed during the systems development process to ensure software quality when technical quality and a fit between organizational needs and systems capabilities are present. To that end, we present a model for managing the customer satisfaction aspect of developing quality software. This model is based on the TQM philosophy for both service and production operations

An Empirical Investigation of Cloud Computing for Personal Use

Cloud computing is rapidly diffusing among individuals for personal use. By reviewing extant literature on individual adoption and use of information technology, this research develops a theoretical model to explicate the use of cloud computing for personal use. The proposed research model is empirically evaluated using a nationally drawn sample of 960 individuals. Partial Least Squares, a variance-based structural equation modeling technique, is used to analyze the research model. We discuss the results and identify areas for future research

Is Electronic Retailing the Glorified Catalog of Tomorrow?

In spite of all the glamour and hype surrounding it, it could be argued that electronic retailing is nothing more than glorified catalog selling. While this may appear to be so at present, we argue emphatically that it will not remain this way. Using a socio-technical framework, we analyze the enormous potential that electronic retailing has to alter the very way we think about retailing and the benefits accruing for customers and sellers