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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Markets Work for Rural-Poor: Why a Need to Develop Roadside Farm Markets for Small-Scale Farmers in South Africa? [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016 Over 70% of rural population in South Africa survives on subsistence small-scale farming as source of food and household incomes. However, due to lack of Agro-market facilities in rural South Africa, small-scale farmers can hardly compete favourably to ...
Douglas Kibirige
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Promotion Optimization for Multiple Items in Supermarkets
Management Sciences, 2017 Promotions are a critical decision for supermarket managers, who must decide the price promotions for a large number of items. Retailers often use promotions to boost the sales of the different items by leveraging the cross-item effects. We formulate the
Maxime C. Cohen +2 more
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Price flexibility in British supermarkets [PDF]
This paper delivers a significantly different empirical perspective on micro pricing behaviour and its impact on macroeconomic processes than previous studies.
Seaton, Jonathan S., Waterson, Michael
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No. 05: Mapping the Informal Food Economy in Cape Town, South Africa [PDF]
, 2016 The informal food retail sector is an important component of urban food systems and plays a vital role in ensuring access to food by the urban poor. Yet, policy frameworks both to address food security and to govern the informal sector neglect informal ...
Battersby, Jane +2 more
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Developing medication independence: The experience of UK teenagers
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims There is a progression through childhood from being provided medications by caregivers to having to take responsibility for medications yourself, but little is known about when the transition of adolescents managing medicines begins. The aim of this study was to obtain a cross‐sectional sample of UK adolescents and when they become independent ...
Holly Hutchins +5 more
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Models of Customers Satisfaction with Supermarkets in Poland
European Journal of Business Science and Technology, 2018 The purpose of this paper was to compare three models of customer satisfaction with supermarkets in Poland. The authors decided to verify what kinds of satisfaction models are appropriate for describing relations between customer satisfaction and other ...
Grzegorz Biesok, Jolanta Wyród-Wróbel
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
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A techno-economic study of energy efficiency technologies for supermarkets in South Africa
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017 The food retail sector is energy intensive, consuming large amounts of electricity for refrigeration, air-conditioning and cooking. Retailers are aiming to reduce their electricity consumption in supermarkets and thus their carbon footprint using energy ...
Simisha Pather-Elias +2 more
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Impact of Family Business on Economic Development: A Study of Spain’s Family-owned Supermarkets
, 2017 Family-owned businesses are the backbone of many economies around the world. This research aims at exploring the overall contribution of the family-owned supermarkets to the economic development of Spain.
M. Rahman +2 more
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