Changes of Organizational Usage Processes: Attitudes, Behaviours and Consequences

Marketing ZFP ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Huber ◽  
Michael Kleinaltenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Usage Processes

Social and Usage-Process Motivations for Consumer Internet Access

2010 ◽  
pp. 159-175
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Heavy Users ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
America Online ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Socially Motivated ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Usage Processes

Differences between light and heavy users of America Online are investigated using theoretical expectations derived from recent research on uses and gratifications theory. Measures of Internet-usage-process gratifications and Internet socialization gratifications were utilized to test for differences between light and heavy Internet users in the consumer market, and it was expected that heavy users would be more socially motivated in their Internet use while light users would be more motivated by gratifications related to usage processes. However, results indicate that both heavy and light users are more motivated by usage factors, although the difference between usage and social motivation was more pronounced for heavy users. Heavy users are more socially motivated than light users, but both heavy and light users show a significant preference for process uses and gratifications as compared to social uses and gratifications for Internet use.

Models and estimation for systems with recurrent events and usage processes

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerald F. Lawless ◽  
Martin J. Crowder
Keyword(s):  
Recurrent Events ◽  
Usage Processes

Symbiotic relationships in educational services for vulnerable adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-831
Author(s):  
Suzana Battistella-Lima ◽  
Tânia Veludo-de-Oliveira ◽  
Edgard Barki
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Parental Participation ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Symbiotic Relationships ◽  
Deprived Neighbourhoods ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Usage Processes

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and to what extent different forms of symbiotic relationships (named mutualism and collaboration) within a usage centre lead to different levels of value in use for its resource integrators. This study focusses on the educational services provided in deprived neighbourhoods to potentially vulnerable adolescents. Design/methodology/approach This study applies a two-phase sequential exploratory mixed-method design. The first phase included a qualitative study that involved both the focal (the students) and peripheral resource integrators (the students’ parents) of a Brazilian educational institution that had exceptional results. The qualitative findings were used to build a comparative multi-group survey with four subgroups in which 530 peripheral resource integrators participated. Findings A mutualistic educational institution in which the participation of students’ parents is mandatory creates more value in use than collaborative institutions in which parental participation is optional. In the context of educational services for vulnerable adolescents, value in use is echoed in the coexistence of families, greater caring about the students, and the encouragement from the adolescents’ positive beliefs about education and respectful relationships with others. Social implications Initiatives aimed at addressing social issues regarding children or adolescents in situations of vulnerability will achieve better results if their families are contemplated and involved. Originality/value This study is the first to empirically test Kleinaltenkamp et al.’s usage centre framework (2017). In so doing, the study advances the understanding of how the interdependence of actors in the usage processes leads to value creation for vulnerable populations.

scholarly journals Distribution of the Soil PAHs and Health Risk Influenced by Coal Usage Processes in Taiyuan City, Northern China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6319
Author(s):  
Rongjie Li ◽  
Mingchao Cheng ◽  
Yang Cui ◽  
Qiusheng He ◽  
Xiaofang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Carcinogenic Risk ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Positive Matrix ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Usage Processes

The quality of urban soil is closely related to the safety of public places and the guarantee of food quality. This study investigated the level, distribution, source, and carcinogenic risk of 16 U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban, agricultural, and montane soil in Taiyuan. The ∑16PAHs level varied from 104.78 to 6594.63 ng g−1 with a mean of 922.93 ng g−1, and 47.73% of the soil samples were severely contaminated, with a concentration higher than 600 ng g−1. PAHs with higher molecular weight (≥4 rings) were dominant in PAHs profiles accounting for 80.92%. In the spatial distribution of PAHs, hotspots of ∑16 PAHs were observed near the industries, indicating pollutants emitted by the industries directly affect the surrounding soil quality. The sources identified by positive matrix factorization (PMF) indicated: coal combustion (40.77%), vehicle exhausts (32.94%), biomass combustion (14.89%), and coking source (11.40%). Coal-related sources (coal and coking sources) were the major contributors (52.17%) to PAHs and carcinogenic risk (46.48%) assessed by BaP toxic equivalent concentration in total soils. Therefore, the extensive usage of coal was the leading factor for PAH pollution and health risk in Taiyuan soil.

scholarly journals Mechanical Properties Of Composite Biomass Briquettes

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aivars Kaķītis ◽  
Imants Nulle ◽  
Dainis Ancāns
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Particle Size ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Densification Process ◽  
Crushing Force ◽  
Pressing Operation ◽  
Biomass Particles ◽  
Usage Processes

In the handling and usage processes, sufficient density and durability of biomass (straw, read) briquettes should be provided. For the briquettes density standards determined the value ρ > 1.0 g cm-3. In ? the densification process usually fine grinded particles are used, what significantly increases energy consumption for stalk material cutting. Calculated energy consumption for common reed cutting to sizes less than 3 mm was > 7 kJ kg-1 but for size 20 mm it was approximately 1 kJ kg-1. The goal of the investigation was to obtain the necessary density and durability of briquettes of larger biomass particles by arranging them. The orientation of straw or reed stalks had to promote binding by the pressing operation. The long stalk linking, in the picture of coloured stalk briquettes sections, is good visible. Crushing force dependence on particle size for arranged structure briquettes is stated in laboratory experiments. The specific splitting force of arranged structure coarse chopped wheat straw and reed briquettes reaches value 35 N mm-1. It is approximately the same as industrially produced wood briquettes. Splitting force of the hemp stalk briquettes reaches 115 N·mm-1.

scholarly journals Curating knowledge, creating change:: University Knowledge Center, Kosovo national transition

IFLA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Mary M. Somerville ◽  
Anita Mirjamdotter ◽  
Edmond Harjizi ◽  
Elham Sayyad-Abdi ◽  
Michele Gibney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Collaborative System Design ◽  
The University ◽  
Usage Processes

A collaborative system design initiative at the University for Business and Technology in Kosovo aims to make local knowledge visible and to enhance local knowledge creation, within the university and throughout the country. Since its inception in 2015, design activities aimed to activate systems through modeling the global knowledge landscape, technology enabled systems, and human activity processes. Within the framework of Informed Systems, application of Informed Learning Theory and Information Experience Design (IXD) guided prototyping systems that informed building an institutional repository named the UBT Knowledge Center. The knowledge vision anticipates that sustained curation, organization, discovery, access, and usage processes will accelerate academic engagement, national development, and global visibility, over time and with practice to further theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory.

Ontology-Based Information Model for the Exchange of Uncertainty in Load Carrying Structures

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Sprenger ◽  
Michael Haydn ◽  
Serge Ondoua ◽  
Lucia Mosch ◽  
Reiner Anderl
Keyword(s):  
Process Parameters ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Information Model ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Core ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Usage Processes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Common Platform

Knowledge about future process properties is crucial for the development of safe and economic products with load carrying structures. Real processes are influenced by uncertainty what causes scattering and deviation from assumed values. As a consequence, products are often oversized or even product failures can occur. To control uncertainty, extensive knowledge about future processes is necessary in the development process. This paper shows an approach for the representation of uncertainty in production-and usage-processes, according to scattering properties and their cause and effect relations. This approach is used as a common platform for storing, locating, comparing and reuse of knowledge about uncertain properties and their relations. The core of the proposed approach is an ontology-based information model with the ability to represent different levels of trusted information in relation to process parameters and cause and effect relations.

Customer usage processes

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Pfisterer ◽  
Stefan Roth
Keyword(s):  
Usage Processes
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