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Impacts of iPad attributes, Lifestyles and media dependency on adoption of iPad and intensity of iPad usage in Mainland China

Kevin, Li Xinpeng - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012

predictive power of iPad attributes, lifestyles, media dependency, and demographics on adoption of iPad, iPad usage patterns and … of iPad usage. Regarding lifestyles, strivers were found to be associated with higher likelihood of buying iPad …

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Bhutan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has been rapid from about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in 2012. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important determinants of reproductive health. Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...

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Inequity in the Face of Death

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Schokkaert, Erik; Ourti, Tom Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …

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Models of energy saving systems: the battlefield of environmental planning

Norgard, Jorgen S. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 13 (2000) 1/2/3, pp. 102-122

Traditionally, energy planning has been interpreted as planning for an appropriate energy supply system, based on a crude prognosis for the energy demand. Over the past couple of decades, however, the immense possibilities of regulating energy demand - and the benefits of doing it - have become...

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Health, Lifestyle and Growth

Coppola, Gianluigi - In: Social Exclusion. Short and Long Term Causes and …

In this article, I attempt to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First, I consider the ways in which health affects a consumer’s utility, and I then define a Health Production Function for which health is the output and consumer good is the input. In this...

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The Economic Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands

Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...

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Wine packaging: marketing towards consumer lifestyle to build brand equity and increase revenue

Barber, Nelson; Taylor, D. Christopher; Deale, Cynthia S. - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 3/4, pp. 215-237

motivational preferences and relationships between consumer lifestyles. Results indicated that wine packaging equity originates in …

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Household Income and Vegetable Consumption among White, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans

Tran, Thanh V; Vatcher, Rita; Lee, Hae Nim; Phan, Phu Tai; … - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 1 (2013) 2, pp. 31-43

Objectives; This study aims to examine racial/ethnic differences in vegetable consumption between White and three major groups of Asian Americans. We hypothesize that racial/ethnic differences in frequency of vegetable consumption is significantly related to respondents¡¯ household income....

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The future of mobility in cities: Challenges for urban modelling

Wegener, Michael - In: Transport Policy 29 (2013) C, pp. 275-282

Urban development in the last two centuries has been driven by an unprecedented growth in mobility made possible by abundant and cheap energy. Yet this trend will not continue forever. Despite technological innovation, finite fossil fuel reserves will in the long run lead to increasing costs of...

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Mediating role of education and lifestyles in the relationship betwee early-life conditions and health: evidence from the 1958 British cohort

Tubeuf, Tubeuf; Jusot, Florence; Bricard, Damien - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2011

The paper focuses on the long-term effects of early-life conditions with comparison to lifestyles and current … of education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and later health. Direct and indirect … effects of early-life conditions on adult health are explored using auxiliary linear regressions of education and lifestyles …

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