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While social and environmental issues as well as self-reliance are concerned by consumers, voluntary simplicity lifestyle has been attracted by increased media. Consumers with voluntary simplicity would tend to decline material consumption in order to free their resources, primarily money and time, and to seek life satisfaction, fulfillment, and personal growth. Although the scales of voluntary simplicity...
The paper is to explore how to satisfy customer-contact employees when they encounter their managers in the Chinese leisure industry. Adopted a qualitative approach, based on a case study of the Chinese golf industry, the research indicates internal service quality is constructed by nine dimensions in the four service situations, and develops a model of internal service quality construct during internal...
Information Systems Adoption is a multi-faceted and complex investigation area that can cross disciplinary boundaries, combine multiple research methods and consider different methodological approaches to analyse emerging IS Adoption phenomena. In order to generate valuable and reliable outcomes a research methodology has to be carefully determined. A persistent concern of the IS discipline is choosing...
It is helpful to understand the interactions of manufacturer-supplier dyad by investigating the contents of supplier adaptive behaviors. The paper develops a measurement scale of supplier adaptive behaviors in Chinese context based on referring to extant research results and carrying out interviews. Then, the paper explores the content dimensions of supplier adaptive behaviors, using the method of...
Investigated the relationship between change over time in severity of depression symptoms and facial expression. Depressed participants were followed over the course of treatment and video recorded during a series of clinical interviews. Facial expressions were analyzed from the video using both manual and automatic systems. Automatic and manual coding were highly consistent for FACS action units,...
Changes in students' personal epistemology are especially important for engineering educators to examine because they may affect the way students learn and their ability to adapt to engineering education learning environments and culture. Despite the large amount of theoretical research that has been done concerning students' conceptual change, little research has been done concerning their epistemological...
This research identifies the dimensions of relationship value in E-business and tests the effects of relationship value dimensions on customer loyalty. Findings of the study indicate that relationship value includes three relationship benefit dimensions and two relationship cost dimensions. These five dimensions influence customer loyalty indirectly via relationship satisfaction and relationship commitment...
Nowadays the computer-aided Communicative Language Teaching has been widely applied in Chinese universities. This paper is to prove the effectiveness and viability of it by using case studies through classroom observations, diary entries and interviews.
A recent International Civil Aviation Organization initiative mandates that pilots and air-traffic controllers operating on international routes demonstrate adequate English-language proficiency for successful communication. The Versant Aviation English Test was developed to serve this purpose. It is a fully automated speaking and listening performance test, where administration of the test tasks...
Research into engineering education can take different forms, ranging from large scale multi-institutional studies, to cross-institutional impact analysis, to individual teachers undertaking action research. It can often be challenging, requiring an understanding of not only how students learn but also an understanding of educational research methods. Many academics, when first embarking on research...
Most of current research focuses on students and how technology affects them, but less has been done to describe the role of the teachers, especially in the context of E-education. The paper is to find the way to solve the problem. This study finds that firstly, Students need their teacherspsila help both psychologically and technically in the context of E-education. Secondly, itpsilas the teacherpsilas...
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