Beyond Virtual Bazaar: How Social Commerce Promotes Inclusivity for the Traditionally Underserved Community in Chinese Developing Regions [PDF]
The disadvantaged population is often underserved and marginalized in technology engagement: prior works show they are generally more reluctant and experience more barriers in adopting and engaging with mainstream technology. Here, we contribute to the HCI4D and ICTD literature through a novel "counter" case study on Chinese social commerce (e.g ...
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E-Commerce Logistics Service Quality: Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
With the recent developments in technology, globalization, and COVID 19 pandemic, the volume of e-commerce logistics activity has been growing rapidly.
Siber Akil, Mustafa Cahit Ungan
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Urine is a rich source of biomarkers for cancer detection. Tumor‐derived material is released into the bloodstream and transported to the urine. Urine can easily be collected from individuals, allowing non‐invasive cancer detection. This review discusses the rationale behind urine‐based cancer detection and its potential for cancer diagnostics ...
Birgit M. M. Wever+1 more
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Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland
Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini+9 more
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CommerceMM: Large-Scale Commerce MultiModal Representation Learning with Omni Retrieval [PDF]
We introduce CommerceMM - a multimodal model capable of providing a diverse and granular understanding of commerce topics associated to the given piece of content (image, text, image+text), and having the capability to generalize to a wide range of tasks, including Multimodal Categorization, Image-Text Retrieval, Query-to-Product Retrieval, Image-to ...
arxiv
A Special Issue on Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Electronic Commerce Research [PDF]
This special issue is a product of the First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Electronic Commerce Research, which took place on May 22--23, 2005, at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park (\url{www.smith.umd.edu/dit/statschallenges/}).
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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers
There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products -- books and CDs -- using a data set of ...
Michael D. Smith, Erik Brynjolfsson
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Marketplace, Reseller, or Hybrid: Strategic Analysis of an Emerging E‐Commerce Model
Traditionally, online retailers have acted as product resellers. Recently, these retailers have also started to serve as online marketplaces by providing a platform to directly connect sellers with buyers.
Lin Tian, A. Vakharia, Y. Tan, Yifan Xu
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Subpar reporting of pre‐analytical variables in RNA‐focused blood plasma studies
Pre‐analytical variables strongly influence the analysis of extracellular RNA (cell‐free RNA; exRNA) derived from blood plasma. Their reporting is essential to allow interpretation and replication of results. By evaluating 200 exRNA studies, we pinpoint a lack of reporting pre‐analytical variables associated with blood collection, plasma preparation ...
Céleste Van Der Schueren+16 more
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E-Commerce and Consumer Protection in India: The Emerging Trend
Given the rapid growth and emerging trend of e-commerce have changed consumer preferences to buy online, this study analyzes the current Indian legal framework that protects online consumers’ interests.
Neelam Chawla, B. Kumar
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