The influence of store image on customer satisfaction: a case study of a shoe store by Tarsis Souza Silva, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi

“…We then employed factor analysis to obtain seven store image factors: assortment, convenience, reputation, price, atmosphere, layout and service. The results show that the factor that most affects customer satisfaction in the store studied is service, and that atmosphere and layout have no effect in this respect. …”
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Advertising and Public Relations Efficiency Measurement and Control by Zdenka Kádeková, Anton Kretter

“…Public relations and advertising are important tools of marketing activities in meeting the business objectives, contributing the building of reputation and image of the enterprise and the customer´s awareness about the products. …”
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La pierre dans l'architecture rurale en Lorraine by Jacques Guillaume

“…These provide a rich selection of building stone from rubble quarry stone to cut stone. The reputation of the latter often went beyond the frontiers of the country. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-African issues across fields and times. …”
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Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…We are extremely concerned by such malpractice which considerably impacts the image of our title and our Publisher’s reputation. For further details, please refer to our publishing ethics policies. …”
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La prison Winter. Revitaliser le (sombre) patrimoine sherbrookois by Sophie Abdela, David Lacoste, Yanick Laverdière

“…Opened in the province of Quebec in 1869, the Sherbrooke common jail (Winter Jail) quickly acquired a reputation for being harsh, severe and, above all, unhealthy: despite various phases of renovations throughout the building’s history, living conditions improved very little and led to its ultimate closure in 1990. …”
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BRS-Based Robust Secure Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks by Ning Yu, Lirui Zhang, Yongji Ren

“…In the first stage, the trust evaluation framework is established on the basis of beta reputation system. In the second phase, we employ the weighted Taylor-series least squares method to estimate the coordinates of sensor nodes. …”
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Basic Properties of Incomplete Macdonald Function with Applications by Jian-Jun Shu, Kunal Krishnaraj Shastri

“…The incomplete version of the Macdonald function has various appellations in literature and earns a well-deserved reputation of being a computational challenge. This paper ties together the previously disjoint literature and presents the basic properties of the incomplete Macdonald function, such as recurrence and differential relations and series and asymptotic expansions. …”
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Contributors to the Edition by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-African issues across fields and times. …”
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Les opportunités marketing de Twitter : dépasser le discours « SoLoMo » by Jean-Claude Domenget

“…However, despite the opportunities related to strengthening the brand in customer loyalty, prescription ordinary relationship marketing, or on e-reputation company, several limitations are discussed. …”
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Coexistence, contacts and conflicts in the precordillera of Tacna during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450) by Romuald Housse

“…The precordillera of Tacna, between the communities of Sitajara and Tarata, has long had the reputation of being a zone of cohabitation between local, altiplano and coastal populations. …”
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Research progress of sensor-cloud security by Tian WANG, Yang LI, Weijia JIA, Guojun WANG, Shaoliang PENG

“…Through consulting lots of domestic and international literatures about sensor-cloud security,a series of security problems are found,such as reputation problem of service provider,the coupling problem of physical nodes,the leak of authority management,et al,which seriously hinders the further development of sensor-cloud.The secure problems occurring in sensor-cloud were analyzed,the current secure technologies were contrasted ,similarities and differences of various types solutions were discussed and summarized.After that,several future challenges of sensor-cloud security were concluded.Finally,a fog-based structure was proposed to solve the security problems,which would bring new ideas to the sensor-cloud security research.…”
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D’imagier à ymaginero : la présence de sculpteurs septentrionaux en Espagne aux xve-xvie siècles by María Teresa Rodríguez Bote

“…Many of these foreign carvers enjoyed a solid professional reputation and developed a highly successful career.…”
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS EDITION by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-Af rican issues across fields and times. …”
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF EFFECTIVE ACTIVITY OF ORGANIZATION by Zi Gunchao

“…The reasons, why CSR should become an integral part of the effective activity of the organization: moral obligation, sustainability, license to act and reputation, have been highlighted in the article. The problem of CSR integration into corporate goals has been considered. …”
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Luang Prabang, sanctuaire Unesco et paradis gay by David Berliner

“…Famous for its Buddhist monasteries and orange-robed monks, as well as for its colonial architecture, its international reputation has grown quickly. It has now become a key destination for tourists in Southeast Asia. …”
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THE WAYS OF ABSCONDING FROM SUPERVISION OF FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES THROUGH BANKING SYSTEMS OF CLIENT EXCHANGE by B. Loginov

“…It is easy to use assistance of these systems by clients for transferring current accounts from one bank into another one and by banks for switching unwanted clients, who can undermine bank reputation. These systems must be thoroughly analysed by financial intelligence units of all countries with relation to the set of risks disrupting effective antimoney-laundering performance and in order to find an adequate response to these new challenges.…”
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Conditional privacy-protection remote user authentication mechanism for WBAN by Jin CAO, Yi-qing ZHENG, Hui LI

“…A conditional privacy-protection remote user authentication scheme based on a certificateless group signature was proposed,which can accomplish the anonymous mutual authentication between the user and the remote doctors.In addition,when the doctors perceived that users were in case of an emergency,the mechanism enabled the only group manager (GM) to expose the real identity information of users and given users timely assistance.The scheme can provide the anonymity,traceability,mutual authentication,non-reputation and some other security features.The performance analysis results show the scheme is more suitable for WBAN.…”
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Assessing the Impact of Social Media Usage and Performance of the Selected Small and Medium Businesses in Ntungamo District. by Nyamwija, Bonitah

“…The study findings further assessed the challenges encountered when small business owner-managers in the Ntungamo district use social media in their business and these included time constraints, limited expertise, Negative feedback and online reputation management, and keeping up with algorithm changes. …”
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Thomas Jefferson and Politics: “A game where principles are the stake” by Ari Helo

“…For many scholars, his racist statements, his scant concern for women’s rights, his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and his anti-Federalist politics suffice as proof of the very opposite of his reputation. This article argues that politics can be viewed as the centerpiece of Jefferson's worldview, according to which all purposes needed to be brought into compliance, to the effect that one ended up with different politics for advocating democratic institutions, for progressive science, for personal self-development, and for socioeconomic issues, including slavery. …”
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