Airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online check-in services: The role of personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge

This study integrates the individual psychology constructs (personal innovativeness and subjective knowledge) with the Technology Acceptance Model to develop and test a model of airline passengers’ continuance intention towards online flight check-in services. Predictions were tested with data from a sample of airline passengers in China who have experienced the online check-in service. The findings of this study demonstrate that airline passengers’ innovativeness and subjective knowledge have a direct effect on continuance intention, and an indirect effect through partial mediation of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.     

对贯彻执行“新消防法”的几点思考——以“央视新址和长乐拉丁酒吧火灾事故”为例

分析了近期由于监管不到位而引起的两起严重火灾事故,结合新颁布的消防法,提出提高消防监管实效的措施。     

Preface and Introduction

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Newspaper Research

This research paper assesses the recent past and antic- ipated research practices of a random sample of U.S. newspapers. Past and anticipated participation in circulation, advertising, and ed- itorial research was assessed. Dimensions of interest were method- ologies utilized, expenditures, and providers of the research. This research provides the first cross-sectional of practices of U.S. news- papers and allows a baseline for assessing future research practices.     

Applicability of economic instruments for protecting ecosystem services from cultural agrarian landscapes in Doñana,SW Spain

Abandonment and conversion of cultural agrarian landscapes are major drivers behind the loss of ecosystem services in Europe. One incentive for land-use conversion is the higher (private) economic return from industrial mono-functional crops relative to traditional multi-functional ones. However, conversion of cultural agrarian landscapes can involve high direct and indirect costs to society through the loss of ecosystem services. Using as a case study the traditional vineyards surrounding the Doñana National Park, South-West Spain, this research has three objectives: i) to measure soil erosion impacts from the conversion of traditional vineyards in biophysical and economic terms, (ii) to identify drivers of change behind the loss of traditional vineyards, and iii) to assess the applicability of economic instruments to protect traditional vineyards. Our results suggest that uprooting of traditional vineyards is an important driver behind the siltation of the marsh in the Doñana National Park, which in turns involve socio-environmental costs in terms of loss of ecosystem services and cultural values. Subsidy reform to reward management practices that sustain ecosystem services and eco-labelling of vine-derived products are pointed at as promising economic instruments to slow down or reverse abandonment or conversion of traditional vineyards.