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The impact of consumer local engagement on local store patronage and customer satisfaction
2017
This paper examines the drivers of local grocery retail patronage. Drawing on institutional and social network theory literature, we develop a framework to investigate how consumers’ personal values and engagement with local communities affect their satisfaction and local store patronage. We test our model with survey data on 1504 Finnish consumers. Our results show that the relationship between customer local engagement and local retail patronage is indirect rather than direct, and it is mediated by the vitality of local services, social interaction, and consumer satisfaction.
Experiencing ethical retail ideology in the servicescape
2020
Studies of the ideological underpinnings of retail stores have improved our understanding of consumers’ retail experiences in brand and national ideology contexts. In retailing, ideology is manifested in retail spatial settings through tangible and intangible cues in servicescapes. This study expands our knowledge on ethical retail ideology by exploring how servicescapes convey cues that shape consumption experiences and foster ethical consumption. Data from an ethnographic study highlight how consumption experiences in physical retail spaces embedding a particular ethical ideology can be thematised as aesthetics, nostalgia and care. We show that the material and discursive aspects in servi…
Examining Consumers’ Usage Intention of Contactless Payment Systems
2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a conceptual model that combines the modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) with a consumer brand engagement (CBE) model to predict consumers’ usage intentions toward contactless payment systems in a developed country. Design/methodology/approach The authors cooperated with a contactless payment service provider in Finland and reached out to 22,000 customers, resulting in 1,165 usable responses. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The study shows that the UTAUT2 and the CBE model together explain approximately 70 percent of the variance in usage intention. Of the…
Dantes laikmets tālajos austrumos
1921
P. Šmita raksts par Dantes laikmetu tālajos austrumos publicēts "Dante : rakstu krājums 600 gadu nāves dienas piemiņai (Rīga : Dantes svētku komiteja, 1921). Tajā salīdzināts laikmets Eiropā un tālajos austrumos, skatot to no Dantes dzīves laika - tā laika literatūra, zinātne, ceļojumi u.tml.
The causal representation of outpatients with Crohn's disease: is there a link between psychological distress and clinical disease activity?
2013
Objectives: Because of the fluctuating and occasional character of Crohn’s disease (CD), patients have to cope with a changeable condition of health. Personal perceived control is known to be an important element of adaptation to their medical condition. The objectives of this work are to determine if perceived personal control is predictive of the clinical activity of the disease and of psychological distress (depression, anxiety). Methods: The Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), the causal dimension scale and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI; assessing perceived severity) were administered to 160 patients affected by Crohn’s disease. Indicators of inflammation (CRP), disease dura…
Multifactorial Assessment of Risk of Falling in 753 Post-Menopausal Women: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study by the Italian Group for the Study of …
2020
Giovanni Iolascon,1 Alessandro de Sire,1– 3 Dario Calafiore,1,4 Maria Grazia Benedetti,5 Carlo Cisari,2,6 Giulia Letizia Mauro,7 Silvia Migliaccio,8 Ranuccio Nuti,9 Giuseppina Resmini,10 Stefano Gonnelli,9 Antimo Moretti1 1Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties and Dentistry, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy; 2Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy; 3Rehabilitation Unit, “Mons L. Novarese” Hospital, Vercelli, Moncrivello, Italy; 4Section of Neuromotor Rehabilitation, Department of Neuroscience, ASST Ca…
Palermo e la guerra. Narrazioni: dalle immagini alle proposte di rinnovamento urbano
2023
The images of the bombing in Palermo in May 1943 are still etched in the collective memory. Some of the lacerations caused by the bombs are still clearly visible in the historic city centre, which has been the subject, since the post-war period, of numerous proposals that have remained in the drawer, images of an ethical and civil responsibility that has remained unheard. Old images of war and maps of ideas intersect in a history only apparently concluded in which they become generators of meaning and also bearers of messages relating to a desire for renewal.
X-ray tomographic method for measuring three-dimensional deformation and water content distribution in swelling clays
2015
A non-invasive method for simultaneous measurement of the 3D displacement field and the water content distribution of a wetted solid material is developed. The method is based on comparison of X-ray tomographic images of a material sample in the reference state and in the wetted and deformed state. The deformation and water content analyses were successfully compared with numerical results for a cylindrical rubber test sample under axial compression, and with gravimetric results from axially wetted and sliced cylindrical bentonite samples, respectively. The methods were applied in a 4D study (three spatial dimensions and time) of wetting and deformation of purified swelling bentonite doped …
La sfida della rigenerazione dei waterfront di città medie per lo sviluppo urbano sostenibile: il caso studio di Catania
2021
Lo sviluppo futuro sostenibile del territorio europeo richiede una gestione del territorio più efficiente che interrompa l’avanzamento dell’attuale trend di crescita. Un'opportunità chiave per le città europee sta nella rigenerazione delle aree abbandonate o sottoutilizzate lungo il waterfront. Nelle città-porto medie e medio-piccole in Europa, infatti, la situazione è particolarmente complessa: la frammentarietà delle scelte di sviluppo, la presenza di autorità differenti non sempre coese, la bassa disponibilità di risorse e le condizioni di crisi possono rallentare, o rendere sfavorevole, le proposte di rigenerazione basate su modelli integrati di sviluppo città-porto (Carta & Ronsiva…
The sustainable lifestyle of Aalborg
2020
The strongest and most appealing image of Aalborg is its waterfront, facing the Limfjord that runs across Denmark, halfway between Kattegat and the North Sea. However, until a few decades ago, this water-“front” could have been described more likely as a sequence of “rears” of inaccessible, degraded and disused factories and abandoned port infrastructures. Fed by the strongest will power, the city council decided to adopt a new project in order to emerge from the economic crisis that, between the Seventies and Eighties, saw factories and industries shutting down one by one. The idea therefore was to reconvert the image of the city from an industrial and port center into a strategic, innovat…