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The Effects of Consumer Demographics and Payment Method Preference on Product Return Frequency and Reasons in Online Shopping

2021

In online shopping, product returns are very common. In order to reduce them, one must first understand who are making them and why are they being made. In this study, we aim to address these questions by examining product return behaviour from a consumer-centric rather than the more traditional product-centric, retailer-centric, and order-centric perspectives. More specifically, we focus on the effects of four demographic characteristics of consumers (i.e., gender, age, education, and income) as well as their payment method preference on their product return frequency and product return reasons. As the data, we use the responses from 560 Finnish online consumers, which were collected with …

Preliminary data on antiproliferative effects in haemocyte extracts of the ascidian Styela plicata (Stolidobranchiata, Styelidae)

2008

Roles of Exogenous Technologies in Vehicle Innovation: Cases from a Japan’s Automotive Parts Manufacturing Firm

2017

This paper explores the roles of technological innovations in the growth of Japan’s motor vehicle industry, mainly from technology spillover perspective from the early 2000s to today. An empirical analysis focusing on business performances, R&D investments, and patent applications taking a noteworthy unique case in Japan was attempted. Empirical analyses on the productivity of patent to technology stock, use of exogenous technologies for their own technological innovation on its Automotive Business Unit elucidated that innovation capabilities, incorporation of exogenous technologies, and profit generation makes a virtuous cycle of continuous technological innovation. Furthermore, we fou…

Co-Evolutionary Coupling Between Captured and Uncaptured GDP Cycles : Cross Learning from Amazon and Finland Models for Sustainability

2019

A solution to the critical problem of a dilemma between R&D expansion and productivity decline that a majority of information and communication technology (ICT) leaders have been confronting in the digital economy is expected. It can be expected by a spinoff from economic functionality-seeking GDP-based coevolution cycle to supra-functionality beyond an economic value-seeking uncaptured GDP-driven coevolution cycle. However, the transformation dynamism remains a black box. By means of numerical simulations based on empirical analyses of the development trajectories of global ICT leaders, focusing on Amazon and Finland, together with an intensive review of preceding analyses, this paper atte…

Production of a 15C radioactive ion beam based on 18O(n, α)

2019

In the context of the SPIRAL2 radioactive beam facility the production rate of the neutron-rich 15C nucleus by 18O(n,α) has been investigated. In a water target of 20 cm3, enriched in 18O and placed behind the neutron converter, a rate of a few 1010 nuclei per second can be reached with 1mA of 40MeV deuterons. A 18O(n,α) cross-section based on the activation method is proposed. It is intermediate between the highest and lowest evaluations available to date. peerReviewed

Trudności w procesie studiowania z perspektywy studentów i pracowników uczelni wyższej

2019

Przedmiotem rozważań zamieszczonych w niniejszym artykule są trudności w procesie studiowania - ich skala, typy i rodzaje. W pierwszej części przytoczono definicje niepowodzeń edukacyjnych i dookreślano termin trudności w procesie studiowania. W kolejnej części przedstawiono wynik badań empirycznych, przeprowadzonych w formie analizy dokumentów, badan sondażowych i wywiadów – dwóch indywidualnych i jednego grupowego (zogniskowanego). Badane zjawisko dotyczyło studentów Wydziału Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Opolskie, a w szczególności studentów Instytutu Nauk Pedagogicznych. W końcowej dyskusji dokonano podsumowania uzyskanych wyników badań oraz przedstawiono rozwiązania mogące zmniejszyć b…

COVID-19 Remote Work : Body Stress, Self-Efficacy, Teamwork, and Perceived Productivity of Knowledge Workers

2021

Due to COVID-19, companies were forced to adopt new work processes, and reduce modern work environments such as collaboration spaces. Professionals from many fields were forced to work remotely, almost overnight. Little is known about the impact of such non-volunteer remote work on productivity, stress, and other key aspects of work performance. To further our understanding of the impacts of this situation and remote work in general, we conducted an exploratory study by studying 28 knowledge work professionals (researchers, software developers, interior designers, service designers, and development consultants) from the viewpoint of perceived productivity and aspects affecting it in this un…

A different glimpse into mobilities: On the interrelations between daily spatial mobility and social mobility

2017

We explore the link between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, taking changes in the contemporary labor market and family as examples. We propose a new theoretical approach to mobility that is defined as a productive force of social labor. Analyzing the relationship between daily spatial mobility and social mobility, we show that spatial mobility has become a strategy of compensation for the lack of social mobility. Explanations for the increase in daily spatial mobility are also provided. Lastly, we reveal how spatial mobility has the capacity to produce major social change, taking the family as an example. peerReviewed

Working while studying: does it lead to greater attachment to the regional labour market?

2017

This chapter studies the link between working while studying and migration. Understanding this link is important because policy-makers are often calling for actions that would cut down the hours students spend on working to shorten the graduation time. The chapter’s analysis focuses on graduates from Finnish universities, polytechnics and vocational schools in 1991–2004. It uses rich register-based longitudinal microdata constructed by Statistics Finland, and find a negative relationship between working while studying and graduate migration. An increase in student employment can thus partly explain the decline in geographic mobility among Finnish graduates from higher education.

Preču cenu uzraudzības sistēma

2015

Preču cenu uzraudzības sistēma “WebApiPrice” ir tīmekļa lietojumprogrammas saskarne, kas ļauj lietotājam uzzināt sev interesējošu produktu cenas lielveikalos neizkustoties no mājām. Sākotnējā sistēmas versija paredzēta tīmekļa klient programmatūras izstrādātājiem, lai varētu to piedāvāt plašākai auditorijai. Sistēma ļauj lietotājam apskatīt dažādu kategoriju produktu cenas veikalos un izveidot savu produktu grozu, lai piekļūtu sev interesējošiem produktiem vēl ātrāk. Sistēma arī piedāvā iespēju lietotājam pievienot jaunus produktus, atjaunot produktu cenas, un izveidot jaunas produktu kategorijas, tādējādi uzlabojot sistēmas funkcionalitāti.