adverse effects of e commerce

... effects or problems created by the advent of the Internet and e- commerce revolution While the adverse effects of ecommerce and the Internet not fit into mutually exclusive categories, we categorize ... prices Some of these effects of e- commerce are unintentional and create adverse business and personal conditions that could have societal consequences This chapter describes the various adverse effects ... place between commerce and society, a blurring that is likely to increase in the age of e- commerce Thus the key significance of the easilyreinsertable, decontextualized quality of e- commerce previously...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 12:39

... the management of type or type diabetes Two of the four factors were related to the effects of treatment, i .e. , the main treatment effect and the effect of treatment on body weight Two other ... providers and health care users express different preferences when they are confronted with identical information and are asked to decide according to their preferences Therefore, preferences of both ... individual ascribes a value to the observed effect Values are based on preferences, preferences can be measured and preferences should definitely be considered in health care decisions [6] Appraisals...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... diabetes had Page of been diagnosed before 45 years of age with insulin treatment started at least years after diagnosis, were considered as people with type diabetes Ninety one point two percent ... diabetes are reported elsewhere [16] People over age 85 years (n = 66) were excluded due to the potential lack of validity of their answers The sample characteristics are summarized in table Table ... single OHAs, less frequently treated for a cardiovascular disease and received an overall better quality of diabetes care [29] Our results may therefore underestimate the true impact of diabetes...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... though generally lower than those in the Middle East, are considerable, exceeding 20% of supply costs in several Asian countries However, some economies have started to replace this type of subsidy ... 245 Percentage Breakdown of Energy Use by Region, 2009 (kilotons of oil equivalent) 254 Net Energy Imports as a Percentage of Energy Use, 2007–2009 255 Percentage Change in GDP per Unit ... Table 8.2 Target 8.B: Address the special needs of least developed countries 118 Table 8.3 Target 8.C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... define the general soil degradation thresholds and then at the local scale we also need to address the specificity of the land management impacts, and define the threats associated to a specific ... and management context, and may thus stress one of the general soil functions but not forget about the rest In table we present a list of selected indicators that are often used for assessing soil ... processes as they not account for the effects of the pollutants transferred to other environmental compartments References Foley J.A., DeFries R., Asner D.F., Barford C., Bonan G., Carpenter S.R.,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... Patients were excluded if they had another acute illness that was more likely the cause of hyperlactataemia Reasons for exclusion were severe dehydration, hepatic failure, sepsis and severe anaemia ... measured Thus we reported the referral rate rather than an incidence rate, but it is likely that the referral rate approximates the incidence rate as all cases of suspected and confirmed severe SHL ... introduced selection bias However, our experience is that referral practices have improved over time as the ART programme has matured making this an unlikely cause of the reduced referral rates we...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... calculated in order to assess the priority weights of the main objectives The values of the fuzzy synthetic extent of the four objectives were denoted SService Quality, SService Cost, SService Speed, ... the service time Therefore the attributes reflects these items can improve the location selection results Service centers must be sustainable to provide appropriate services to the farms, so their ... and farm machineries are needed, but in developing countries considerable number of them are old and their efficiency has been reduced, so need to be replaced Also other services such as advisory,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 07:23

... the commerce experience needs to be more clearly defined and its value better articulated As with mobile, the use of social media and networks is currently being adopted more frequently by the ... visited the store to compare several brands of the same product • 22 percent said they opted for the store because they needed to receive the product immediately • 19 percent said they chose to ... with the advancement of technology in recent years Although some now prefer the ease of the internet or the convenience of their mobile devices, data suggests that shoppers are still relying...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/38 Strengths of our study include the large sample size of cardiac patients All questionnaires were completed before catheterization and responses were therefore not influenced by the ... are independent variables and all variables in "Level 1" are dependent variables The variables in "Level 0" and "Level 1" are independent variables for "Level 2", and the variables in "Level 0, ... assessment of the relationship between depression and LVEF is therefore assumed to be of great importance [44,45] There are few prior data on this relationship [45] Our result of less depression...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Between weeks 16 and 32, peripheral neuropathies were the main reason for drug changes Elevated transaminases and hyperlactatemia were the main causes of drug toxicities between weeks 32 and 48 of ... the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK Your research papers will be: available free of charge to the entire biomedical community peer reviewed ... life Eleven participants experienced drug-related toxicities during the first 48 weeks of HAART Ninety-one percent (n = 10) of these toxicities occurred in women, with 50% (n = 5) of these being...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... are consistent with evidence, but can also be feasibly implemented These differences speak to the underlying intention of our process versus conventional guideline development processes, where ... blotter’s key messages were revised to reflect Malawian priorities, and case scenarios were reworked to be consistent with the adapted guideline (Table 3) Because of reduced access to investigations ... (Table 1) The review process revealed inconsistencies across various guidelines One example is the difference in the Schull et al Implementation Science 2011, 6:82 http://www.implementationscience.com/content/6/1/82...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... practice has not been extensively studied A recent study based on health insurance claims reported that total healthcare expenditures increased by $1340 between the 12-month periods before and after ... agent received on the index date (“initial therapy”) Patients with evidence of receipt of more than one GAD-related agent on their index date (e. g., SSRI and a benzodiazepine) were assigned to a ... Joshi were employees of Pfizer Inc The analyses were conducted by Ariel Berger, John Edelsberg, and Gerry Oster, all of whom are employees of Policy Analysis Inc Policy Analysis Inc received financial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... no competing interests Received: November 2009 Accepted: 14 October 2010 Published: 14 October 2010 References Kessler RC, Chiu WT, Demler O, Merikangas KR, Walters EE: Prevalence, severity, ... Anxiety (SPS/SIAS) The SPS and the SIAS [31] are 20-item self-report questionnaires The SPS was designed to measure the fear of being observed, whereas the SIAS provides a measure of fear of social ... antidepressant use were entered but not selected in any regression models through application of a stepwise method a Entered into the analysis but not selected in the multiple regression model through...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... Current alcohol/drug disorder Current smoker Interpersonal adverse life event Work or educational adverse life event Financial adverse life event Adverse life event within months Adverse life event ... die before their death and 58 (30%) had left a suicide note The majority of deaths (124 cases, 64%) took place at the home of the deceased Univariate models There were differences between cases ... researc h in our lifetime." Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK Your research papers will be: available free of charge to the entire biomedical community peer reviewed and published immediately...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... De Vos et al (2005) Nevertheless, there is some relevant literature on the various components of the problem investigated The first of these components is literature on the essence of a university ... number of subquestions were formulated Greater insight into the three elements of the research process, namely the problem statement, the research design and the choice of methodology and greater ... that the researcher has to take to execute the research project.” The three elements of the research process are discussed individually below Problem statement The primary research focus of this...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 22:20

... the Internet can allow us to connect with people outside of our culture, it is important to consider the effects of bringing together people from diverse cultures We can benefit from the richness ... however, where we can’t see each other’s body language and tone, issues of power and control can feel more intense, even if not intended Who “controls” the community’s technology may have more ... you choose to use them and how members are supported in learning how to use them can influence a community’s success There will be more details later in the module but here are some general factors...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... practice with the materials and knowledge available at that time Another scientific development in the end of the 19th century offered an alternative; the usage of the electron A tiny particle of negative ... The fovea contains no rods, but has the highest concentrations of cones Due to the dense representation of these cones, the highest spatial frequencies can be observed in the fovea The highest ... consumer electronics products can improve the emciency of even highly efficient compression techniques It seems appropriate, therefore, to evaluate the available options in de-interlacing, before...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 14:15

... Internet era No one denies the efficiency benefits of the Internet, but argument remains over the social costs of the new efficiencies If one believes that the health of society depends on the strength ... not the most likely to meet their partners online For heterosexual men the shape of the age dependency of meeting online is similar to the shape of the age dependency of the partnership rate for ... same-sex couples in the past To an even greater extent than for heterosexual couples, the Internet seems to be displacing all other ways of meeting for same-sex couples The rise of the Internet...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... the sequence specified by the receiver (which is returned in the resolution step) When the receiver and sender switch roles, the original receiver may need to resolve the original sender’s EID ... also receive, for each triple, an application directive For example, if s represented a Web server, then the triple returned might be (EID of the Web server, TCP, port 80) If s represented a Web ... receiver-controlled indirection, are not exclusive: when both entities specify intermediaries, the source creates the actual sequence of intermediaries by concatenating its desired sequence to the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... reduce gender-related obstacles Assessment of delivery system to identify ways of improving the health of newly delivered mothers; changes in obstetric practices, based on assessment Better understanding ... approaches; Increase in number of state-level RH rights enforcement mechanisms and assessment of whether revised service delivery protocols include human rights language; Existence of patients’ ... the means; equality is the result.9 I Empowerment: Empowerment focuses attention on the degree of control individuals are able to exert over their own lives and environments and over the lives...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20