“I live with terror inside me”: Exploring customers’ instinctive reactions to terror

Terrorist attacks occur mostly at public service-oriented sites. Consequently, their victims are likely to be customers. The present study explores how customers instinctively react toward the reality of terror in a matrix of 2 × 2 aspects concerning terror circumstances: temporal proximity (brief or long) and physical proximity (close or remote) from the terror event. In qualitative in-depth interviews, customers from France and Israel were requested to share their instinctive reactions and coping strategies when approaching hospitality (hedonistic) and transportation (utilitarian) services. Participants (N = 47) comprised customers having a protracted acquaintance with persistent terror threats. The analysis identified differences in reactions, subject to temporal and physical proximities. When terror attacks are physically close, customers’ emotions, cognitions, and behaviors undergo modification with time. However, when terror attacks occur at a location remote from the customer, customers’ emotions and cognitions, but not their behavior, change with time. These reactions were comparable for the two service contexts. Practical implications were elaborated to enable service establishments (i.e., hospitality and transportation) to design and manage their operations for the short and long term to assist customers in the difficult era of terror.     

Cost Analysis of Calcium in Store Brand versus National Brand Grocery Products

Objective: This study was to determine if calcium fortification yields a higher price per serving in grocery store products. Researchers compared store brand to national brand grocery products in relation to cost in order to examine if calcium values were similar between store brand and national brand products. Methods: A total of 112 store brand and 211 national brand grocery products were collected from three low (national chain store), middle and high priced (Virginia and North Carolina regional store) grocery venues. Products were compared using price and calcium percentage per serving. ANOVA was used to determine between store brand and national brand for price per serving and calcium content, and between grocery venues. Results: National brand fortified products had a significantly lower mean price per serving when compared to national brand non-fortified products (p = 0.0002). There was no statistical difference between store brand fortified and non-fortified products (p = 0.9256). Low priced store brand products had the lowest mean price per serving ($0.34 ±0.24). Conclusions: This study found store brand products have similar calcium content as national brand products. Product cost was lower at low priced store compared to middle and high priced stores.     

The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans

We generalize and extend the sequential model proposed by the resources and appropriation theory to explain the digital divide in the European Union plus the United Kingdom (EU27+UK). We measure the theoretical constructs of the model with data provided by the EU and test the theoretical predictions using a partial least squares structural equation model. We find support for the hypothesized relationships but find that the effects vary depending on the digital development level of countries. While education overall is the primary determinant of the social production of digital inequalities, a country's digital development level is crucial for less well-educated Europeans. These findings have theoretical and practical implications: (1) they call into question the homogeneity of the effect of causal relationships and the assumption that individuals differ only in terms of motivation, access, and digital skills, and (2) they indicate that socially disadvantaged Europeans benefit from living in more digitally developed countries.     

谈体育教学改革发展趋势

体育教学“以人为本”观念形成的社会环境是现代化发展的必然结果。我们教育改革思路提出“健康第一”的指导思想，同样验证了“以人为本”的现代体育观念的社会环境背景。学生对体育课的要求和看法将对体育教学改革提供“主体”依据，体育教学改革要“以人为本”。     

基于案例的推理技术在连锁便利店订货系统中的应用研究

将基于案例推理应用到连锁便利店订货系统中,充分利用了连锁便利店的消费群明确、信息容易收集的特点,很好地解决了连锁便利店在特殊事件发生下的某些商品的销售量激增与多品种、小批量的频繁订货模式之间的矛盾。     

气候变化对经济金融系统性冲击的物理风险研究

中国作为全球最大的发展中国家,其综合实力伴随着经济、科技的快速发展而不断增强。但我国的极端气候事件趋多趋强,气候风险水平呈上升趋势,影响我国经济社会的发展。金融作为经济运行的核心,在宏观经济中有着举足轻重的作用。为了研究气候变化与经济金融稳定之间的关系,本文对极端气候事件损失体系和区域经济金融稳定性综合体系进行指数合成并构建面板模型探讨气候变化中气温和降水量因素的变动和极端气候事件对区域金融稳定的影响,得出气候变化的物理风险通过极端气候事件对经济发展和金融稳定有负面影响,并根据实证结果提出完善绿色金融市场和优化信息披露制度的政策建议。     

城市土地储备量研究——以杭州市为例

1996年以来，土地储备机制在我国各地先后施行，它不仅涉及及土地收购，储备，出让的立法工作，而且还涉及资金流转过程，所以确定合理的土地储备量已迫在眉睫。本文在分析影响土地储备量大小的三大方面诸多因素作用关系基础上，拟定城市土地储备量大小的思路，即在相关因素评判检验的基础上，建立开发项目土地供应量与建成区面积，房地产开发量二元线回归方程，运用SPSS软件推算出土地储备量的大小。     

谈学校体育中体育文化的教育功能

在学校体育中对学生进行体育文化教育的关键是对学生进行体育精神的培养与教育。同时提出了体育精神包含着现代人自强不息的拼搏精神 ,发展自我的超越精神 ,费厄泼赖的竞争精神及真善美的追求精神等四方面的内容。     

对一个常用物流评价指标的重新思考

目前很多的物流论文中常用物流总成本／GDP这一指标来证明我国物流市场的巨大潜力，本文对此提出了质疑．认为这一比例的高低与我国目前所处的工业化阶段和我国运输业的发展水平有很大的关系。最后，指出了讨论该问题的意义。     

我国物流组织与物流体系的创新与发展

现代物流作为“降低成末的最后边界”，从组织看，是由流体、载体和流向三要素构成，从运作看，体现储存、运输和配送三大功能；从投入产出看，寻求降低物流成本和提高服务水平的动态均衡。供应式物流到订购式物流是我国物流组织创新的内容，其发展战略是即时物流、协同或一体化物流、高度化物流。物流体系创新应从行政区域、组织到按经济区域组织来实现。