The objective of this study is to examine the dynamic nature tourist destination image and influence tourists’ overall satisfaction on modification. empirical data were collected in Seoul, a major tourism South Korea. A total 520 usable survey analyzed using paired t-test analysis variance. results supported proposed research hypotheses: (1) there statistically significant differences with respect all dimensions between their pretrip posttrip images at α = .01 level, (2) was related extent...

Combining conceptual perspectives from emerging research on COVID-19, safety-seeking motivations, and extremeness aversion in choice (i.e., compromise effects), we examine how why the perceived threat of COVID-19 affects consumers’ decision making hotel restaurant domains. Across seven studies (two secondary data sets five experimental studies), provide novel evidence that or salience amplifies general tendency to select options, avoiding extreme ones, within a set. We highlight role...

Objective To explore potential relationships between sperm DNA integrity and both semen parameters clinical outcomes. Methods Semen analysis of 498 samples was performed according to the 2010 criteria World Health Organization. The fragmentation Index (DFI) assessed using a neutral comet assay. Results Sperm DFI showed significant correlation with parameters, including patient's age, viability, motility, morphology, number leukocytes (p<0.05). values for asthenozoospermic (15.2%),...

The present research investigates how the threat of COVID-19 affects consumers' choices among hospitality/travel options varying levels quality and price. Drawing on compensatory consumption theory, we predicted that virus's prominence would increase preference for more expensive in a choice set. Five empirical studies one secondary data analysis investigated various business budget hotels. results consistently showed consumers their safety-seeking under high prefer hotel option. To enhance...

Social media connects individual users and corporate bodies on a self-service technology (SST) platform. The food beverage industry has increasingly adopted the social media-based SST over other online kiosk types of technologies for their service delivery. present study sheds light dimensionality quality in delivery context went further to investigate impact functional value, user satisfaction, intention reuse. analytic results 410 valid survey data found five salient dimensions (i.e.,...

Given the exponentially increasing number of fake/suspicious online information, this study aimed to investigate tourists’ filtering mechanisms for detecting credible or suspicious information. To examine effects visual cues on those mechanisms, we adopted a mixed method approach with two empirical studies. As result, Study 1 identified that induce credibility and/or skepticism heuristics. 2 findings illustrated how tourists differently use these heuristics in trust and distrust information...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how festival quality, satisfaction and intention return among cannabis attendees were interrelated by using the 2018 Mile High 420 Cannabis Festival in Denver, Colorado, USA. Design/methodology/approach This study employed an online survey with Festival. A total 664 participated survey. Findings revealed demographic profile (i.e. relatively young, single evenly distributed terms gender residency) its relationships respondents’ perceived...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine the effects abdominal hollowing during lower-limb proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) training on activation contralateral muscles. [Subjects] Twenty male college students without symptoms or signs muscular nervous disease participated in experiment after signing a consent form. [Methods] All subjects were measured with electromyography (EMG) muscle test before and hollowing. In PNF program, pattern training, maintained for 5...

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that motivate tourists engage in collaborative efforts with tourist destinations for co-creation innovative tourism products. Targeting who have visited Tokyo purpose, verifies antecedents tourists' intention co-create, which include perceived benefits (PB), costs (PC), subjective norms, and ability co-create innovation. This further reveals PC do not a significant impact on participate innovation activities, while other play important...

Purpose The present study aimed at classifying cannabis festival attendees based on their motivation and travel activities, profiling the resultant latent groups with demographic characteristics examining association between groups. Design/methodology/approach With a quantitative-exploratory approach, this collected 392 out-of-state visitors' responses to in Denver, Colorado classified them according activity participation. Using classification results, profiled visitors characteristics....

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects injection laryngoplasty (IL) with hyaluronic acid in patients vocal fold paralysis (VFP).A total 50 VFP participated study. Pre- and post-IL assessments were performed, which included analyzing sustained vowel /a/ phonation, patient reading 1 Korean sentence from "Walk" passage that comprised 25 syllables 10 words. To investigate effect IL on function, acoustic analysis (acoustic voice quality index, cepstral peak prominence, maximum...

Blockchain technology on the platform business becomes a new paradigm which gets security, irreversibility, and trustfulness closer to both of clients service providers (SPs) for providing better quality service. To provide an economic analysis such blockchain-based business, game theoretic approach is used model competitive market against incumbent operated by centralizer as trusted third party. In this market, platforms behave mediator deliver services provided SPs clients. The crucial...

This study examines the structural relationships among film quality, value, and satisfaction on perspective of moviegoers. The experience economy concept is employed as theoretical framework, where moviegoers' cognitive affective evaluations are projected in fulfilling their perceived value. Moviegoers' movie attributes experiences assessed to evaluate satisfactions through functional emotional values. In particular, this article investigates how four dimensions mediate effect value...

[Purpose] Although lung capacity in the elderly is affected by age, little research has been performed studying decreasing relation to increasing life expectancy. The aim of this study was examine effects increased span on women. [Subjects and Methods] subjects were 55 healthy women over 60 years age who living Busan. Subjects classified following categories: 60s, 70s 80s. For pulmonary function test, a spirometry (Pony FX, COSMED Inc., Italy) used. item for measurement maximum-effort...

Purpose Patients with diffuse axonal injury experience various disabilities and have a high cost of treatment. Recent researches revealed the underlying mechanism pathogenesis injury. This study aimed to investigate correlation between radiological grading clinical outcomes patients. Methods From January 2011 December 2016, among 294 patients traumatic brain injury, 44 underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A total 18 were enrolled in this except for other cerebral injuries, such as...

We analyze the interdependencies between energy usage, costs, renewable shares, economic growth, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Korean industrial sector by employing a time-series panel vector model. Although topic itself about has been classic one, our research to investigate diverse dynamics large small-mid size businesses using micro-firm level data is first study literature. Since firms with different sizes are put policy circumstances, aggregate-level analysis could possibly...

The consumer decision journey is a complex and situation-dependent process. In highly competitive markets with diverse brands in the hospitality industry, it important to understand how customers’ wallets are allocated particular brand among set of competing brands. A review literature indicates that customers generally follow previous purchasing experience its evaluation (e.g., satisfaction, preference) but may change their former decisions at moment through dynamic This study builds upon...