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Energy & Fuels
Hassan Obeid, Ayse Tugba Ozturk, Wente Zeng, Scott J. Moura
Summary: This paper introduces a framework for optimizing the pricing policy of electric vehicle charging by learning and shaping human behavior. The effectiveness of the framework is demonstrated through behavioral experiments and simulations.
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Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Miguel A. Gomez, Adrian Cid, Fernando Rivas, Julia Barreira, Joao Guilherme Cren Chiminazzo, Jaime Prieto
Summary: This study analyzed the scoring performance dynamics of male badminton players, revealing differences in coordination at the beginning of the game and in the second half. The results indicate stronger coordination in the scoring process during the knockout phase compared to the group stage, with less variability in entropy at the start of the second half but higher variability in the first half.
CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Diego Marques-Jimenez, Jaime Sampaio, Julio Calleja-Gonzalez, Ibon Echeazarra
Summary: This study aimed to investigate how situational variables affect youth soccer players' perceived exertion (RPE) after official matches. The findings showed that game-playing time, player status, and match outcome were significant predictors of RPE.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE
(2023)
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Business
Fifi Kvalsvik
Summary: This study aims to identify the situational factors that drive older adults to adopt online grocery shopping. Through qualitative research and an experiment, it is found that health, mobility issues, and distance to a store are the most important factors influencing older adults' decision to buy groceries online. The findings provide insights for online grocery retailers in designing promotional programs targeted at older adults.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2022)
Article
Economics
Basil Schmid, Felix Becker, Kay W. Axhausen, Paul Widmer, Petra Stein
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between three key dimensions in transport modeling: residential location, mobility tool ownership, and mode choice. The findings suggest that the accessibility of residential locations influences the ownership of public transport season tickets and the preference for public transport over cars. Additionally, the study demonstrates that income has a positive impact on car ownership, with higher-income individuals tending to live in areas with higher accessibility and lower car usage. Furthermore, when considering longer-term decisions, the short-term effects of level-of-service attributes on mode choice decrease by more than 20%.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Qing Yi, Jingyong Yang, Xinlei Wang, Yang Gai, Miguel-Angel Gomez-Ruano
Summary: The aim of this study was to examine the interactive effects of situational variables on teams' technical performance in the UEFA Champion League. The results showed that the differences in technical performance between the group stage and the knockout stage were mainly found in dribble and yellow card. The variables related to goal scoring and offense showed more significant differences compared to variables related to defense, with defense differences mainly detected in yellow card.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Saeko Kamoshida, Naoto Nihonmatsu, Gen Takagi, Koubun Wakashima
Summary: This study examines the relationship between variables related to family members living together during the COVID-19 pandemic and social problems such as anxiety about COVID-19, domestic violence, child abuse anxiety, internet addiction, and mental health. The results suggest that family composition, smoking, and decreased income are associated with these social problems.
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Neurosciences
Fanny Cazettes, Luca Mazzucato, Masayoshi Murakami, Joao P. P. Morais, Elisabete Augusto, Alfonso Renart, Zachary F. F. Mainen
Summary: The brain considers multiple strategies rather than a single decision variable (DV) when facing many possibilities. In an experiment with mice performing a foraging task, it was found that mice used multiple DVs and occasionally switched strategies. Optogenetic manipulations showed that the secondary motor cortex (M2) is necessary for mice to utilize different DVs in the task.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Limin Yang, Feng Wu, Enpan Hou
Summary: This study utilizes survey data from the China Household Finance Survey to examine the impact of digital penetration on residents' entrepreneurship. The findings suggest that digitization helps to promote residents' entrepreneurship, but the effect varies among residents with different levels of household wealth.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Mengshuai Zhu, Chen Shen, Yajun Tian, Jianzhai Wu, Yueying Mu
Summary: In the face of changes in China's agricultural products marketing channel, smallholder farmers choose different strategies to obtain more benefits. The logistics factor and age factor are the main factors influencing the choice of different channels, while the improvement of market and transportation conditions has a promoting effect on all channel choices.
Article
Criminology & Penology
Timothy C. C. Barnum, Michael K. K. Logan
Summary: Objective: This study investigates extremists' decision-making processes and sensitivity to perceived sanction risk during arson, using data collected from self-reported communiques of radical environmental extremists. The results show that extremists are sensitive to situational factors affecting apprehension certainty and employ crime-specific risk management techniques to minimize detection risk. The findings are consistent with recent research on extremism, situational crime prevention, and restrictive deterrence, providing insights for preventative policies against ideological and political crimes.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Xiulin Qi, Changxing Song, Nuo Jin, He Wu
Summary: Dialect diversity can lead to social segmentation, which affects financial activities, but there have been few studies on this topic. This paper combines data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS 2019) with the dialect diversity database to examine the impact of dialect diversity on household credit channel choice. The findings suggest that in areas with greater dialect diversity, households are more likely to choose formal credit channels. The potential mechanisms indicate that communication costs are not significant, and dialectal diversity promotes formal credit channel choices by reducing social trust.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
John W. Francis, Alun J. Owen, Derek M. Peters
Summary: This study developed a field-goal shooting performance analysis template and used binary logistic regression modeling to explore the impact of identified variables on field-goal attempts in elite men's wheelchair basketball. The research identified key offensive, defensive, and contextual variables that affect the likelihood of a successful field-goal attempt, providing coaches and players with valuable insights for improving performance.
Article
Sport Sciences
Jose M. Oliva-Lozano, Daniel Rojas-Valverde, Carlos D. Gomez-Carmona, Victor Fortes, Jose Pino-Ortega
Summary: This study identified the external load profile of match-play in Spanish professional soccer players through PCA and analyzed the impact of match location, match outcome, and microcycle length on the external load profile. The results provide coaches with valuable variables for match-play analysis and highlight the importance of contextual factors in influencing external load profile.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hao Xu, Jinglong Lin, Qianyi Liu, Yuntian Chen, Jianning Zhang, Yang Yang, Michael C. Young, Yan Xu, Dongxiao Zhang, Fanyang Mo
Summary: As an important attribute of organic compounds, polarity greatly affects their properties. Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is commonly used for polarity estimations. However, current TLC techniques lack standardization, resulting in low reproducibility. In this study, an automated system is developed to conduct TLC analysis under standardized conditions, allowing high-throughput data collection. Machine-learning methods are then utilized to establish surrogate models that correlate compound structures with their polarity. These trained models can accurately predict the polarity of organic compounds in different solvent combinations, providing general guidelines for purification conditions and facilitating the generation and analysis of quality TLC data.
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Xiaowei Cai, Javier Cebollada, Monica Cortinas
Summary: The study reveals that in the Chinese video game market, traditional gaming and mobile gaming have a complementary relationship rather than a substitutable one. While there are differences in switching intentions, the overall trend of transitioning from traditional gaming to mobile gaming is low.
ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Monica Cortinas, Carmen Berne, Raquel Chocarro, Frode Nilssen, Natalia Rubio
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Business
Xingting Ju, Oscar Martin Martin, Raquel Chocarro
Summary: This study investigates the heterogeneous nature of consumer preferences across borders and cultures in the context of mobile social media use. The research identifies determinants of individuals' mobile social media behavior and profiles international microsegments. Findings reveal three unobserved user segments with distinct behavioral patterns, cultural values, and demographic characteristics, highlighting the importance of perceived usefulness and differences in user segments for scholars and marketers in the global marketplace.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES
(2022)
Review
Management
Xingting Ju, Raquel Chocarro, Oscar Martin Martin
Summary: This study provides a systematic review of mobile social media use for value creation, identifying 14 aspects. The findings show that mobile social media are effective for firms to create and capture value from customers, and for customers to co-create value.
BALTIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xiaowei Cai, Javier Cebollada, Monica Cortinas
Summary: Video game companies are diversifying their profit models by selling in-game goods, which requires balancing challenges and player skills. The motivations and behavioral processes for purchasing different types of in-game goods vary.
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Xiaowei Cai, Javier Cebollada, Monica Cortinas
Summary: The flow theory has been widely applied to explain video game players' gaming and purchasing behaviour. However, researchers face difficulties in measuring the dispositional flow experience of adult video game players due to flaws in existing measurement instruments. This study aims to conceptualize and develop a measurement instrument specifically for flow experience in the video game context. After conducting five phases of research with different participants, the study successfully developed a 28-item scale, named the Video Game Dispositional Flow Scale (VGDFS), and identified the hierarchical antecedent model as the best structure to represent flow experience.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Business
Xiaowei Cai, Javier Cebollada, Monica Cortinas
Summary: With the development of e-commerce, customers have become active contributors of content. This research confirms that buyer-created content has a more direct influence on product sales compared to seller-created content. Enhancing the informativeness and multimedia richness of content can still positively impact product sales.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2023)
Article
Business
Miriam Alzate, Marta Arce Urriza, Monica Cortinas
Summary: This study investigates privacy concerns regarding voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) on Twitter. It finds that negative privacy-related news increases negativity and volume in Twitter conversations, while positive news only boosts volume. Privacy-related tweets are more negative than general tweets. The study also observes a temporal evolution in sentiment, with general attitudes toward VAPAs becoming more positive but privacy-specific discussions becoming more negative.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN INTERACTIVE MARKETING
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Raquel Chocarro, Monica Cortinas, Gustavo Marcos-Matas
Summary: This paper examines the factors that explain teachers' acceptance of chatbots in education, such as the perceived usefulness and ease of use, conversational design, and teachers' age and digital skills. The results show that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness are key factors in increasing acceptance of chatbots.
EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Business
Raquel Chocarro, Monica Cortinas, Arantxa Villanueva
Summary: This paper examines the attention to product images in the product area on e-commerce sites, considering the effects of purchase stage and product category. The results show that images attract attention more than text, but receive less overall attention. Images receive less attention when they are not crucial for completing a task. Younger individuals spend less time viewing product pictures compared to older individuals.
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Management
Raquel Chocarro, Monica Cortinas, Maria Luisa Villanueva
Summary: Consumers' information search behavior prior to contracting services is influenced by the type of service attributes. Consumers use fewer information sources for services with search attributes, while they exhibit higher levels of information search intensity and online media usage for services with experience attributes. Services with credence attributes tend to have fewer consulted information sources, but the obtained information has a greater impact on decision making.
SERVICE INDUSTRIES JOURNAL
(2021)
