This research aimed to investigate site quality influence on customer satisfaction as well as the role of customer satisfaction in forming shopping intention, which can turn into actual and continuous usage of online shopping. Data was collected from 382 Ghanaian online consumers. The findings highlight the significant importance of site quality and customer satisfaction in online shopping. Additionally, shopping intention directly affected both actual usage and continuous usage, and there was a...

Business Analysis  Business Statistics and Analytics 

Chinese excellent traditional culture is the root and soul of a nation. This paper analyzes the current situation of the integration of Chinese excellent traditional culture into English Teaching in junior high schools, and puts forward countermeasures to the problems in the process of integration, aiming to find a better way of integration. The survey found that there are still many problems in the current integration process, such as the school atmosphere, teachers’ quality, students’ subjecti...

Language Education 

The holding tube and heat exchangers are the most significant components in High-Temperature-Short-Time (HTST) pasteurization processes as they ensure that the system adheres to the set temperature and time conditions. The purpose of this study was to visualize the temperature and flow behavior in heat exchangers and the holding tube of the continuous pasteurizer. The pasteurizer consists of three heat exchangers (heating, regeneration, and cooling section) operating on a counter-current flow sy...

Agricultural Engineering  Mechanical Engineering 

The calcium to magnesium ratio plus adequate vitamin D greatly determine success or not in the immune battle against pathogens and cancer, not to mention cardiovascular disease. Ionized calcium and magnesium in normal, healthy individuals can be calculated and a ratio determined from serum levels. Using widely accepted laboratory reference range values and NHANES data, the recommended daily allowances from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for calcium, magnesium, and ...

Pathology 

Released in 2000, Gladiator, a deeply moving epic film, bagged five nominations for the 73rd Academy Awards and won the Best Picture Award that year, marking a milestone in the career of director Ridley Scott. Through his inventive use of spectacle, Ridley Scott exemplifies the possibility of imbuing spectacle with multiple levels of meaning and provides his own commentary on the moral and political value of spectacle. This paper attempts a superficial analysis of the two types of the spe...

Art 

Vehicular traffic congestion is an extremely dangerous problem in urban areas, where transportation networks are becoming more complicated to design and execute. However, the apparent normal idea to build more roads in order to solve the traffic congestion can be sometimes quite a bad idea. The Braess’ paradox, which is a counter-intuitive phenomenon that can occur in transportation networks, states that under certain circumstances the addition of a new road to a traffic network can increase the...

Mathematical Analysis  Applied Statistical Mathematics  Network Modeling and Simulation 

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted impacts on the intercultural competence of Chinese undergraduate students studying abroad. Based on Zheng et al.’s developmental framework of intercultural competence of university students, this study conducted a questionnaire survey among students from Class 2017 and Class 2018 from a double-first-class university in Shanghai who continued their undergraduate studies in Germany. It explored the status quo of this student cohort’s intercu...

Culture  Sociology  Economics 

In this paper, we study to solve the additive (β₁,β₂)-functional inequality with n-variables and their Hyers-Ulam stability. First are investigated in complex Banach spaces with a fixed point method and last are investigated in complex Banach spaces with a direct method. These are the main results of this paper.

Mathematics 

Seasonal variation of crown mineral concentrations in cool-season forages and hypomagnesemia (grass tetany), as well as hypocalcemia (milk fever) risk, were assessed using the grass tetany index (GTI) and dietary cationanion difference (DCAD). Thirty-three cultivars from orchardgrass, festulolium, smooth bromegrass, perennial ryegrass, meadow fescue, tall fescue, alfalfa, white clover and red clover were grown on Andisol in northern Japan. Plants were harvested thrice, and mineral contents were ...

Agricultural Science 

Human trafficking is identified as one of the most widespread organized crimes against humanity across the globe. The vice has huge implications for human rights and human dignity in the civilized world. While large scores of profits and influence for criminal organizations fuel human trafficking, it is also coupled with human suffering, deaths, exploitation, slavery and loss of human dignity for its victims. Therein, this study sorts to explore the nature of human trafficking to Saudi Arabia fr...

Sociology