Providing a model of purchase intention and customer experience on customer behavior in virtual networks by Kazem Tolooee, Hossein budaghi Khajeh Noubar, Hossein Gharehbiglo, Mojtaba Ramazani

“…An online marketplace focuses on capturing the needs of specific consumers and offers various possibilities for online retailers to advertise their products or services. …”
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Survey of Artificial Intelligence Model Marketplace by Mian Qian, Abubakar Ahmad Musa, Milon Biswas, Yifan Guo, Weixian Liao, Wei Yu

“…The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse industries, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and retail, underscore the transformative potential of AI technologies. …”
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Exploring Factors Influencing Crash Occurrence Involving Autonomous Vehicle: Random Parameters Model With Heterogeneity in Means and Variances Approach by Haocheng Li, Amjad Pervez, Jaeyoung Jay Lee

“…On segments, first quarter of the year, the retail/entertainment land use, sideswipe collision, dangerous maneuver of HDVs and proceeding straight moment of AVs affect the likelihood of AV-involved crashes. …”
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Pentazocine Misuse among Sickle Cell Disease Patients and The Role of Lack of Enforcement of Opioid Dispensing Regulations by Community Pharmacies: A Descriptive Observational Stud... by Oluomachi Charity Nnachi, Chinedu Obasi Akpa, Favour Ogonna Nwani, Oghenevwogaga Obukohwo Edenya

“…However, about 77.9% of pharmacies interviewed retail pentazocine without prescription. A lack of enforcement by the state and federal taskforce was reported to contribute to this practice. …”
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Characterization of fruit production and market performance in northwest Ethiopia by Mengistie Mossie, Alemseged Gerezgiher, Zemen Ayalew, Zerihun Nigussie, Asres Elias

“…According to the survey results, there was no measurement consistency among farmers, local collectors, and small retailers. District level collectors received a higher margin share (42.66 and 40.18% of apple and mango, respectively) than other actors in the chain, which was unjustified given their contribution to the market chain. …”
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Towards consensus: defining and supporting a professional role for pharmacists associated with traditional and complementary medicines – a protocol of implementing an international... by Joanna E Harnett, Carolina Oi Lam Ung, Shane Desselle

“…Introduction Traditional and complementary medicines (T&CM) are predominantly self-selected from retail outlets including pharmacies as part of self-care practices. …”
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The Commercial Determinants of Nonalcoholic Beer: Redemption, Revenue, or Men’s Harm Reduction? by John L. Oliffe, Nina Gao, Mary T. Kelly, Trevor Goodyear, Murray Drummond, Christine Levesque, Katherine White

“…Coupled with industry production costs and profit margins, these taxes contribute to NAB and alcoholic beer retail price parity. From a public health perspective, there are also concerns about increasing alcoholic beer brand recognition and sales revenue by extending NAB visibility in more places (e.g., supermarkets), contexts (e.g., taking medication), and activities (e.g., driving). …”
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Using Pretreatment of Carbon Monoxide Combined with Chlorine Dioxide and Lactic Acid to Maintain Quality of Vacuum-Packaged Fresh Beef by Fei Lyu, Yuliang Zhao, Kejing Shen, Xuxia Zhou, Jianyou Zhang, Yuting Ding

“…Due to microbial growth, beef easily gets corrupt in retail conditions, and the color and quality of the meat will be deteriorated. …”
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How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal by Serena Ferrari, Guillaume Duteurtre, Christian Corniaux

“…Methods: Through semi-structured interviews with consumer groups and stakeholders in the dairy value chain (producers, importers, processors, and retailers), we collected information on consumers’ selection criteria for dairy products and processors’ quality strategies, as well as on coordination mechanisms, contracts, and power relations within the value chain. …”
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Inorganic Acid Anions in Distilled Alcoholic Beverages: Capillary Electrophoresis with Conductometric Detection by Nataliya V. Shelekhova, Irina M. Abramova, Tamara М. Shelekhova

“…The study involved model solutions and 30 samples of distilled alcoholic beverages purchased by random sampling from a retail chain. The chemical analysis relied on a PrinCE 560 capillary electrophoresis system equipped with a conductometric detector. …”
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Information Communication Technology and Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda: A Case Study of Equity Bank In Kabale Municipality. by Sabiiti, Ignatius

“…The study results on ICT platforms used by Equity bank Kabale branch, responses were obtained from automated teller machine, Mobile banking and PC banking, the study went ahead to find the effect of ICT on performance of Equity bank Kabale branch, responses were obtained from information technology has helped in easing enquiry, saving time and improving service delivery, information and communication technology has provided self-service facilities, it helps customer to validate their account numbers and receive instruction on when and how to receive their cheque books, credit and debit cards, it offers retail banking services to customers at their offces/homes and saves customers time, and gives more convenience for higher productivity and the study results further on challenges facing ICT use by Equity bank Kabale branch, the responses were obtained from in adequate ICT infrastructure, technophobia among the ICT bank officials due to inadequate skills in information technology, the cost demands of ICT gadgets, lack of digital preservation knowledge and network problem. …”
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Vulnerability and adaptation in flood-prone ecosystems of Bangladesh: a case study of rice farming households by Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Md. Jahangir Kabir, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Jatish C. Biswas, Md. Abdullah Aziz, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, Andrew M. McKenzie

“…While floods have minimal effects on overall rice production, their consequences significantly increase rice prices at the retail level. Importantly, whereas floods prior to 2007 often resulted in substantial rice shortages, the post-2007 era, despite frequent and severe flooding, has witnessed a surplus in rice production. …”
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of <i>Campylobacter</i> Plasmids Identified in Food Isolates by Yiping He, Gretchen Elizabeth Dykes, Siddhartha Kanrar, Yanhong Liu, Nereus W. Gunther, Katrina L. Counihan, Joe Lee, Joseph A. Capobianco

“…In this study, we identified 34 new plasmids from 43 <i>C. jejuni</i> and <i>C. coli</i> strains isolated from retail meat using long-read and short-read genome sequencing. …”
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Female Consumers’ Involvement in Intentional Non-Sustainable and Unintentional Sustainable Apparel Decisions: An Emerging Market Perspective by Elizabeth Kempen, Rejoice Tobias-Mamina, Mariette Strydom, Lorna Christi, Mirriam Makopo

“…Unintentional sustainable practices have not been identified in the South African context, indicating the valuable contribution consumers in an emerging market context (EMC) can make if better awareness is created by the government and the retail sector specifically to address intentional non-sustainable purchasing behaviours in future.…”
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Assessing the quantities of legume-based products: A dataset of conversion coefficients into a comparable dry-legume equivalent unitRecherche Data Gouv by Marine Spiteri, Lola Pedrini, Agathe Thierry, Valérie Orozco, Olivier de Mouzon, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache

“…For this purpose, we first list all legume-based products purchased in French retail stores from 2002 to 2019. Those products were identified in our primary data source, the Kantar Worldpanel data. …”
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Investigating the Presence of Falsified and Poor-Quality Fixed-Dose Combination Artemether-Lumefantrine Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms in Kumasi, Ghana by Simon Nyarko, Kwabena Ofori-Kwakye, Raphael Johnson, Noble Kuntworbe, Denis Dekugmen Yar

“…A total of fourteen brands of FDC AL medicines, comprising eight tablets and six suspensions were purchased from various retail pharmacy outlets in Kumasi, Ghana. All samples were subjected to thorough visual inspection as a quick means of checking quality through meticulous observation of the packaging or dosage form. …”
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Optimal Decision and Coordination of Organic Food Supply Chain from the Perspective of Blockchain by Junhui Ding, Shizhen Bai

“…Driven by the pain points of the organic food supply chain, which has been plagued by counterfeiting and difficulties in pursuing accountability, this paper investigates a secondary organic food supply chain consisting of suppliers and retailers and establishes two supply chain models under the traditional model and in the blockchain traceability context. …”
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Bio-preservation Potential of Leaf Extracts of <i>Ocimum gratissimum L.</i> on Fresh-Cut Fruits of <i>Citrullus lanatus</i> (Thunb) by A.M. Ebabhi, O.O. Adeogun, A.A. Adekunle, A.O, Onafeko

“… This study was conducted to assess the retail market edibility quality of Citrullus lanatus fresh-cut fruits enhanced with the extracts from the leaves of Ocimum gratissimum. …”
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Intelligent Multi-Agent Based Multilayered Control System for Opportunistic Load Scheduling in Smart Buildings by Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Kashif Hanif, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary

“…Two variants of OSR are proposed: 1) priority inversion logic-based OSR to subsidize the responsive consumers and 2) maximum energy consumption limit <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-based OSR-Q to maximize the profit of energy retailers. Finally, the proposed mechanism is validated on a set of loads to show the applicability and proficiency under a dynamic environment.…”
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New Zealand policy experts’ appraisal of interventions to reduce smoking in young adults: a qualitative investigation by Janet Hoek, Heather Gifford, Jude Ball, El Shadan Tautolo

“…Participant selection was based on seniority and expertise and ensuring diverse perspectives were represented.Interventions We examined nine interventions that could either promote greater mindfulness or introduce barriers impeding smoking uptake: smoke-free outdoor dining and bars; no tobacco sales where alcohol is sold; social marketing campaigns; real life stories (testimonials); life skills training; raise purchase age to 21; tobacco-free generation; smokers’ licence; make tobacco retail premises R18.Results The policies perceived as more effective denormalised tobacco; made it less convenient to access and use; highlighted immediate disadvantages (eg, impact on fitness); aligned with young people’s values; and addressed the underlying causes of smoking (eg, stress). …”
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