415 research outputs found
The Effect Of Electronic Word Of Mouth On Consumer Buying Decision In Lazada
These past few decades, the internet has developed into a vast global market place for the trading of goods and services. People are doing business online and it has become more easy and fast due to internet development. Online shopping has grown in popularity, mainly because people find it convenient and easy to shop anytime and anywhere. These new technologies also altered our way to communicate and to interconnect with people. Internet advancement has developed and transformed Word-of-Mouth into something much more influential and fast-spreading, Electronic Word of Mouth (E-WOM). This research is conducted in order to analyze the influence of E-WOM using experience, perceived credibility, and customer susceptibility to interpersonal influence on consumer buying decision. The sample of this research is people who have been shopped in Lazada online shop as many as 60 respondents of purposive sampling. The result of this research reveals that experience is the only variable that has a significant influence on consumer buying decision. This research suggests that the e-business firms should further expose the reviews section to users
Analisis Rasio Solvabilitas Pada PT Bank Sulut
: To cover the shortage of funds, the company will need to obtain funds from its own capital and of leadership. When combining these two sources of funds is called the ratio of borrowed funds or solvency ratio or leverage ratio, which recognizes the extent of the company's assets is financed by debt. The solvency ratio is a tool to measure the wealth assessment company. For this study entitled: Solvency Ratio Analysis in PT Bank of North Sulawesi. Analysis solvency ratio is the ratio used to measure the extent to which the company's assets financed with debt, so that the company can measure the ability to pay all of its liabilities, both short and long term. This study used a descriptive method and analyze the company's financial statements, in particular the analysis the solvency of the PT Bank of North Sulawesi. To determine the extent of the bank's ability to seek funding, to finance their activities and the ability of some element of equity to assets in terms of efficiency. The results show that financial performance under conditions of solvability is the source of funds and property companies, total assets and total liabilities of the company is likely to increase from year to year. Primary level ratio showed a trend increase from year to year; Risk Assets Ratio levels tended to increase from year to year; Capital Ratio experienced a rising trend from year to year, except in 2012 due to declining reserves or losses on earning assets. So the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) also showed rising trend. In conclusion, the level of Primary Ratio, Risk Assets Ratio, Capital Ratio and Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) shows the trend of the increase; PT Bank of North Sulawesi can be said as a solvent company, the level of capital adequacy or CAR can be met from 2010 to 2013. As a suggestion, the company's ability to raise or provide funds rely more improved, can satisfy funding for operational activities, in order to increase the level of CAR PT Bank of North Sulawesi remains solvable
Prevalence and distribution of the fabella: a radiographic study in Turkish subjects
Background: The purpose of this study is to examine the plain knee radiographs in Turkish subjects in order to determine the prevalence of the fabella and analyse the differences between age, gender, laterality and its symmetry pattern.
Materials and methods: Bilateral antero-posterior and lateral knee radiographs of 500 patients (250 male and 250 female subjects, 1000 knee radiographs) were randomly selected from the clinical database and retrospectively evaluated. Data on patient age, gender, and knee laterality (right–left) were evaluated from hospital records. The differences between the sesamoid bones at a particular location and the side, sex and age groups were analysed.
Results: The overall prevalence of the fabella (unilateral or bilateral) was 22.8% (114 subjects). The fabella was present unilaterally in 38 (7.6%) subjects, while it was present bilaterally in 76 (15.2%) subjects. The prevalence of the fabella was similar between the body sides. The prevalence of the fabella was also similar between genders (unilateral or bilateral cases) and age groups.
Conclusions: We examined the prevalence, symmetry pattern, age and gender differences in Turkish population. It is the first study performed on Turkish population with the largest sample in current literature. Prevalence of fabella is found to be 22.8% which is quite similar with other Caucasian ethnic populations
Return mobilities of highly skilled young people to a post-conflict region: the case of Kurdish-British to Kurdistan – Iraq
Building upon insights from recent studies on the ‘return mobilities’ of children of migrants to their parents’ country of origin, this paper focuses on the motives of highly skilled young people from the UK who migrate to their parental post-conflict region (Kurdistan-Iraq), an area that has experienced long-term conflict and profound economic and political instability. The existing studies on children of migrants’ return mobilities place more emphasis on cultural and economic considerations while paying little attention to the associated ideological and political elements. Based on interviews concerning 32 highly skilled young British-Kurdish people’s migration to Kurdistan-Iraq, this paper argues that the transnational mobilities of the 1.5 generation and second generation of refugee-diasporas are more driven by the collective trauma of their parents’ displacement, their feeling of expulsion and intergenerational articulation with an imagined homeland, than they are by economic considerations and/or nostalgia. The Kurdish political aspiration to develop Kurdish institutions and a national economy for a potential statehood in Northern Iraq has also created hope among young Kurdish people and influenced their motivations to ‘return’. In this context, this paper focuses on the political, ideological and emotional dimensions of return mobilities and draws attention to return mobilities among a new generation of refugees to their parental post-conflict homeland
Sense of place in the changing process of house form: Case studies from Ankara, Turkey
This paper aims to investigate the impact of typomorphological changes of residential environments on residents’ sense of place’. Seven housing developments representing different types introduced in Ankara, Turkey since the late 19th-century are selected as case studies. Their morphological characters at the building, street and neighbourhood scales are examined, and typological transformations among the cases in terms of the degrees of continuity are identified. The paper proposes a conceptual model consisting of ten indicators to assess sense of place at the building, street and neighbourhood scales of the residents of the seven cases. The scores of sense of place are generated through structured interviews with the residents and analysed in SPSS. The results show that sense of place is negatively affected by typomorphological changes over time, particularly when mutational changes occur. Continuity in typomorphological transformation helps to maintain sense of place at a desirable level. Furthermore, physical changes at the street and neighbourhood scales have larger impact on sense of place than that at the building scale. The research thus suggests that planning and design should be responsive to traditional types in residential development, particularly at the street and neighbourhood scales to maintain residents’ sense of place
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