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As conventional tools for assessing and improving the ability of older adults to perform functional tasks that entail executive functions (EF) are limited, there is a need to identify alternate approaches including the use of simulated environments. The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate differences in EF in older and young adults as determined by their performance on the Adapted Four-Item...
A primary goal of maintenance is to minimize the consequences of component and system failures. Two subcategories of maintenance actions include: preventive maintenance (PM) at predetermined time intervals prior to failure and emergency repair (ER) upon failure, where the cost and downtime of ER is significantly greater than PM. Most maintenance models developed over the past several decades assume...
Reliability is an area in which there are many misconceptions due to misunderstanding or misuse of the basic language. It is therefore important to get an understanding of the basic concepts and terminology. Reliability study is considered essential for proper utilization and maintenance of engineering systems and equipment's. A practical definition of reliability is “the probability that a piece...
Based on rich literatures, this paper develops and tests an integrative model to examine the relationships between service quality, satisfaction, and trust of rural tourists and to investigate impacts of them on loyalty. The model is tested using surveyed data from 320 rural tourists. The findings reveal that service quality has an indirect influence on loyalty mediating by satisfaction and trust,...
In recent years, loyalty program as an important means of relationship marketing, has been highly concerned by scholars and enterprises. However, there are many problems when execute the loyalty program. The traditional loyalty program only focus on short-term economic profits is clearly needed to be improved. This paper explores the impact of loyalty programs on relationship benefits and customer...
This paper explores the relations of competitive priorities in global small, medium, and large-scale manufacturing enterprises based on the competitive priorities theory of the manufacturing strategy. This paper analyzes the six competitive priorities (quality, delivery, cost, flexibility, innovation and service) in the manufacturing enterprises with the data collected from the International Manufacturing...
The aim of this study is to examine the factor structure of the scale of Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), and its divergent and convergent validity in Chinese population. Data were collected with JSS from 1073 urban employees in Liaoning. Four alternative models were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. The first two models are models validated in the US, while the third and fourth models are composed...
With the wanton spread of the global financial turmoil in 2008 ,the majority enterprises in China have been the impact in great degrees, including Apple industry. In this context, it is an urgent need to address many problems of Apple industry in order to obtain stable development. And organizational innovation is the effective measures to sustainable development and transforming itself.Based on the...
With the growing pursuit of leisure and health in life, the goods and services of the traditional beauty industry produce a great impact due to the aromatherapy has different levels of approach to cosmetology and health protection. In response to the typical industrial styles of aesthetic economy and experience economy times, Spa industry not only requires high-quality service system, but also relies...
A value-driven service satisfaction model is developed and tested in this research in order to know how customer's perceived value, defined in terms of benefits and sacrifices, systematically influences customer's satisfaction in service. By using meta-analytical method, the empirical generation results of 57 quantitative studies from 1980 to 2007 reveal that not only value construct as a whole can...
The research on brand identity impression and satisfaction degree of customers is an important issue and academic frontier in the brand research area. In this paper, using first-hand data of KFC and structural equation model (SEM), we have empirical study on the impact of customers' brand identity impression to satisfaction degree. The results show that: advertisements and customers' consume experience...
Under the conditions of mutual benefit and win-win situation, the relationship gradation between the increasingly become increasingly evident, with differentiation as the core of marketing theory in no longer enough to help today's companies to take marketing opportunities. In this paper, Relationship Gradation-centric is the core of understanding relationship value, we proposed the marketing moment...
From the view of customers' perception, this paper analyzes the factors effecting online shopping, and combines with empirical analysis method for research. Gathering information by the questionnaire survey, we use statistical analysis, such as reliability analysis, validity analysis, regression analysis. These results show that questionnaire design is reasonable ,the reliability and validity are...
The purpose of this study is to (1) developing a measure and verifying the the typology of the market-creating service innovation proposed by Berry et al. (2006) and (2) identifying the association of each stage in NSD process with market-creating service innovation. The results indicate that the measure of the four types of market-creating service innovation are identified and verified. The degrees...
The development level of service industry is the important index measuring social economy developing stage. Rapid development of service is the internal requirement of solving human problem and improving social harmony. This article will focus on service with experience qualities. Through the analysis on development of service industry, brand analysis and the influence of loyalty, this article summarizes...
Human dispatch is a kind of employing labor way beneficial to employee, enterprises and society. However, human dispatch industry has not formed quality specifications as a newly arisen service industry, which restricted the development of human dispatch service. This paper argues that an important way of establishing service specifications for human dispatch industry is continuous improvement of...
It is significantly important to select an appropriate ICT for effective communication among members of a virtual team. Based on the "Technology Acceptance Model", this paper adopt the methods of conceptual modeling and empirical study to research ICT adoption model for virtual team, emphasize on the study of ICT applicability through AHP, and then use case study to verify them. This study...
Enterprise learning is an important way to maintain the advantages in a cluster. It is a serious issue for the clusters of enterprises, institutions, policy makers at all levels to enhance the competitive ability of the clusters through industrial collective learning. This paper established the relationship model to analyze the systemic relation among the variables based on the hypothesis. And through...
IT service quality has been proved important to IS success, but former researchers used to consider IT service quality and information system quality as two independent factors, the relationship between the two factors were never studied .The goal of our study is to understand the link between them, and help organizations manage their system better. SEM and SERVPERF instrument were used in our study.
The paper started from analyzing the background of the development of headquarter economy in Xi'an Hi-Tech Industries Development Zone (ldquoXi'an High-tech Zonerdquo for short) and the literature review of financing efficiency , and took the effect that financial services system had on corporate financial efficiency as the research object. The research took high-tech enterprises, financial institutions'...
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