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Mobile advertising, influenced by the current growth in smartphone applications, creates new opportunities for the advertising industry. This study identified motivations for the use of smartphone applications as well as lifestyle clusters of users and examined their influences on the relationships between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude and intentions to use. This research used a face-to-face survey and empirical analyses to investigate key questions about how and why consumers use smartphone applications, illustrating the imperative roles that motivations and lifestyle clusters play in an important advertising context. This study represents a step toward clarifying how different lifestyle clusters influence different relationships between motivations, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude and intentions to use applications as advertising media, offering implications for advertising academics and practitioners.

The experimental observations of the in-gap state by various measurements on a Kondo insulator provide a special and interesting character on the insulator. We show that the system is classified into the strong topological insulator leading to the topologically protected surface states within the gap on the surface and the in-gap states correspond to the surface states of the topological insulator. We argue the spectral functions and spin textures for different surfaces, comparing with recent angle resolved photoemission data. We also discuss the necessity of more sophisticated calculation in order to understand the whole picture of this compound.

Koreans consume much seafood; the country is surrounded on the east, west and south by the sea. Koreans have eaten raw sashimi for a long time. However, a concern in the raw sea food industry is that the parasitic nematode Anisakis simplex L3 occurs naturally in marine fish. Thus, the fishery industry needs a non-thermal processing method. High hydrostatic pressure (HPP) has been demonstrated to be effective. White spotted conger flesh containing 20 live larvae was exposed to different pressures (150 and 200 MPa for 1 and 5 min; 250 and 300 MPa each for 1 min). The viability of A. simplex L3 was significantly (p 0.05) reduced in the flesh of white spotted conger by the stepwise increase of high pressure and time. The conditions required to eliminate A. simplex L3 were as follows: 200 MPa for 5 min or 300 MPa for 1 min. The flesh of the white spotted conger treated at 300 MPa for 1 min was whiter and yellower than untreated controls or that treated at 200 MPa for 5 min. No significant changes (p 0.05) in any of the Hunter colour ('L', 'a' and 'b') values were found after HPP at 200 MPa for 5 min. The fresh treated at 300 MPa for 1 min scored 4.0 (the defect limit of quality) of flavour, texture and overall acceptability in untrained sensory evaluation using a seven-point hedonic scale. However, the flesh treated at 200 MPa for 5 min scored 5.0 ('like') for all sensory parameters. This study suggested that HPP at 200 MPa for 5 min could potentially be used for the inactivation of A. simplex L3 in raw fishery food products without any concomitant changes in their colour or sensory qualities.

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is one of the leading foodborne pathogens causing seafood contamination. Here, 22 V. parahaemolyticus strains were analyzed for biofilm formation to determine whether there is a correlation between biofilm formation and quorum sensing (QS), swimming motility, or hydrophobicity. The results indicate that the biofilm formation ability of V. parahaemolyticus is positively correlated with cell surface hydrophobicity, autoinducer (AI-2) production, and protease activity. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) showed that strong-biofilm-forming strains established thick 3-D structures, whereas poor-biofilm-forming strains produced thin inconsistent biofilms. In addition, the distribution of the genes encoding pandemic clone factors, type VI secretion systems (T6SS), biofilm functions, and the type I pilus in the V. parahaemolyticus seafood isolates were examined. Biofilm-associated genes were present in almost all the strains, irrespective of other phenotypes. These results indicate that biofilm formation on/in seafood may constitute a major factor in the dissemination of V. parahaemolyticus and the ensuing diseases.

The authors analyze how globalization affects carbon emission reductions in the context of sustainable development using panel data for 255 countries during 1980 to 2011. First, estimation results illustrate that globalization is a positive factor to reduce carbon emissions. Second, the authors find that the intermediate effect of technology to reduce carbon emission is more evident for an economy with a higher level of globalization than autarkic economies. Findings also suggest that globalization of an economy itself and in conjunction with the use of technology play an important role to facilitate carbon emission reductions.

This introductory article provides a multidisciplinary and international lens through which to view green management and climate change in the global and the Asia-Pacific context. As background, this article uses international movements in sustainable development, the global financial crisis, and corporate sustainability challenges. It offers a brief overview of the current research to highlight the way in which environmental challenges and climate change are the underpinnings of green management in the globalized economy. A focused summary of each of the articles presented in this special issue is described.

This study examines the effects of mobile direct experience on perceived interactivity, attitude toward smartphone applications, and purchase intention. Specifically, the study explains mobile direct experience and examines the relationships between direct experience and perceived interactivity, attitude toward smartphone applications, and purchase intention. Moreover, the study employs an experiment to examine key questions about the effects of direct experience among smartphone applications users. The results present the integrative framework of the roles of direct experience in the smartphone application context.

1. Introduction and Structure of the Book Part I: Introduction to Environmental Management Accounting 2. Environmental Management Accounting 3. Comparative Case Study on EMA in South-East Asia Part II: Case Studies on EMA in South-East Asia 4. EMA for Eco-Efficiency in a Towel Production Firm: Indah Jaya, Indonesia 5. Managing HSE in a Mechanical Engineering Firm: Bisma Jaya, Indonesia 6. Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Snack Producer: JBC Food, the Philippines 7. EMA for Cleaner Rice Processing: Oliver Enterprises I, the Philippines 8. EMA for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Rice Processing: Oliver Enterprises II, the Philippines 9. Environmental Impact Assessment, Compliance Monitoring and Reporting in Electroplating: Well-Ever, the Philippines 10. Relevant Environmental Costing and Decision-Making in a SEA Paper Manufacturer: Classic Crafts, Thailand 11. Environmental Risk Assessment at a Pulp and Paper Company, Thai Cane Paper, Thailand 12. Decoupling Economic Growth from Pollution: Tan Loc Food, Vietnam 13. Supply Chain Information and EMA in Coffee Exporting: Neumann Vietnam, Vietnam 14. Environmental and Quality Improvements as Justification for Higher Capital Expenditure and Land Use in Shrimp Farming, Chau Thanh Tam Shrimp Farm, Vietnam 15. Material and Energy Flow Accounting in Beer Production: Sai Gon Beer, Vietnam Part III: Findings, Discussion and Conclusion 16. Rationale Behind and Reasons for Applying EMA in Corporate Practice 17. Revealing Patterns of Environmental Management Accounting Application 18. Conclusions and Outlook

Appropriate rank procedures are not presently available for the problem of testing for equality of treatment-effect patterns in several two-way layouts. In this paper, we consider a rank-based contingency table approach to address this problem. We propose an asymptotically distribution-free test procedure that is based on position vectors, using the concept of grouping similar block rank permutations to obtain an effective number of pattern categories. We illustrate the application of the proposed procedure to two data sets and provide the results of a substantial Monte Carlo simulation study of the power properties of the procedure.