This paper investigates the coordination between logistics and policy decisions for electric vehicle (EV) exports under the Belt and Road Initiative. Focusing on the two modes—maritime shipping and the China Railway Express (CR Express)—a...
Bikesharing (BSS) is an emerging alternative mode of transportation with various benefits, such as reducing reliance on single-occupancy automobiles, boosting public health, lowering pollution levels, and enhancing accessibility. Accordingly, proximi...
This study investigates the repurchase intention of passengers who have experienced premium economy class. To achieve the research purpose, we examine the relationship among psychological factors, perceived price, perceived service quality, perceived...
19 February 2020
Online health communities allow doctors to fully use existing medical resources to serve remote patients. They broaden and diversify avenues of interaction between doctors and patients using Internet technology, which have built an online medical con...
This study examines the impact of Customer-based Brand Equity (CBBE) on passengers’ Willingness to Pay Premium (WPP) for airline tickets, comparing low-cost and flag airlines. The research is prompted by the competitive nature of the industry a...
The insurance market deliberately excludes the buildings’ envelope from their insurance policies, neglecting all the damage that can be caused by the degradation process or ageing of the materials. This stance is mainly due to the lack of knowl...
Forests are essential for the provision of water, financial resources, food, and carbon, and offer immense ecosystem service values. The accurate, quantitative, and objective evaluation of forest ecosystem service (FES) values can help uncover method...
In the transportation services industry, the proper assessment of insurance claim count distribution is an important step to determine insurance premiums based on policyholders’ risk profiles. Risk factors are identified through regression anal...
Insurance is a growing economic activity within the construction sector. Homes and buildings are perhaps the most important investment an individual makes in his/her lifetime. Nevertheless, the market for insurance coverage policies applied to the bu...
The scope of this topic stems from the change in insurance companies and the subsequent transition to IFRS 17. The new code came into force on 1 January 2023. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to compare the two standards in terms of methodol...
The purpose of this study is to verify the willingness of customers of luxury cruises to pay for the perception of a well-being component and to pay a price premium based on the experiential value of luxury cruises. The following research objectives...
In the field of land use and urban management, real estate value-added issues have attracted much attention. Previous studies mainly focused on the premium of basic public services (such as infrastructure) in real estate value. As an important part o...
The medical assistance to seafarers was not always improved in parallel with advances in medicine and telecommunications. Today technology offers systems including digital devices helping in collecting symptoms to be referred correctly to remote phys...
In the mandatory health insurance market in Switzerland, a range of insurers offer policies that differ in characteristics like premium and service level while benefits are the same and regulated by law. In this paper, we give an overview of the mark...
This study applies experiential value and overall image to identify antecedents of customers’ behavioral intention (revisit intention and willingness to pay a premium) toward environmentally certified hotel restaurants (ECHRs). Data from 391 in...
The purpose of this study is to identify, in an era of extensive digitalization, the major opportunities and threats that influence the experiences of digital premium banking customers at key stages of their banking interactions. This study’s concept...
With the opening of electric retail side, premium power value-added service has become a main concern for both sensitive customers (SCs) and new electric retail companies (NERCs). However, due to the lack of appropriate investment strategy and optima...
The aim of this study was to (1) calibrate an item bank to measure patients’ experience of drug therapy for adult patients with SMIs and (2) develop computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to improve its use in routine practice. This is a cross-sec...
One of the key challenges in the provision of sustainable energy is understanding how younger generations perceive and respond to the relatively higher cost of green energy. This paper examines the attitudes of Generation Z towards paying premium for...
5 May 2022
Community-based health insurance schemes help households to afford healthcare services. This paper describes healthcare facilities and community factors that are associated with the Improved Community Health Fund (iCHF) scheme in the Ubungo district...
Funding shortages are a persistent issue, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and the problem tends to worsen cyclically. The market for factoring and invoice discounting aims to address delays in payment for commercial invoic...
Urban park green spaces have the functions of improving the urban ecological environment and providing recreational services, and at the same time, they have a certain effect on the value of the surrounding residential property. To quantitatively ass...
Risk analysis entails the systematic use of historical information to determine the frequency, magnitude and effects of unexpected events. Wildfire in boreal North America is a key driver of forest dynamics and may cause very significant economic los...
The software industry is increasingly adopting a feature-limited freemium business model that combines “free” and “premium” contents in one product, to sell its products. How to determine the optimal product quality differences between the free and p...
This study develops a risk-informed pricing framework for maintenance contracts in the trucking industry. We apply a comprehensive methodology combining statistical segmentation, cost analysis, and Value at Risk (VaR) modeling to a dataset of nearly...
Service Level Agreements are employed to set availability commitments in cloud services. When a violation occurs as in an outage, cloud providers may be called to compensate customers for the losses incurred. Such compensation may be so large as to e...
External electricity supplementation for islanded microgrids at expressway service areas is often settled under tiered electricity pricing based on cumulative energy consumption, where marginal prices increase discontinuously once tier thresholds are...
Over the past few decades, drastic advances in technology have forced insurers to seek transformation in order to survive in a changing environment. Along with the outbreak of COVID-19, online insurance has become a much-needed distribution channel f...
A franchise business is a contractual relationship in which the franchisor and franchisee should cooperate to promote sustainable growth of their franchise entities. However, it is still unclear whether the relationship between franchisees and franch...
This study investigates how next-generation digital infrastructures—terahertz (THz) communication and AI-driven network orchestration—shape perceived service quality, luxury perception, and loyalty within the context of luxury hospitality...
4 August 2025
As ad-supported subscription models proliferate across over-the-top (OTT) media platforms, understanding the psychological mechanisms and perceptual factors that underlie consumers’ transition decisions becomes increasingly consequential. This...
Although metropolises continue to grow worldwide, they face the risk of shrinkage. This study seeks to capture and contextualize the “shrinkage” of the office market in Tokyo, a city that is one of the largest in the world but whose labor...
To reduce the negative impacts of risks in farming due to climate change, the government implemented agricultural production cost insurance in 2015. Although a huge amount of subsidy has been allocated by the government (80 percent of the premium), f...
The research presented in this paper focuses on the impact of fast charging stations (FCSs) on voltage quality. When the operation of FCSs causes a voltage fluctuation and light flicker, the FCSs may be disconnected, as per the utility general standa...
The growing interest in fitness services is demanding optimal service management and operation. This research aims to identify the best practices in fitness center management for increasing customer engagement and for long-term stability and sustaina...
27 February 2025
Aims: High smoking rates and deprivation levels in the North East of England have led to an opportunity to pilot a tobacco dependency treatment offer for NHS (National Health Service) staff who smoke, to make a supported quit attempt. The direct and...
The rapidly growing interest in healthy lifestyles and the health benefit of foods and the growing tea-consuming population are driving the growth of the tea industry. In particular, the growing preference among Millennials for premium blended tea is...
6 August 2025
Freemium, a popular business model in the digital economy, offers a basic product for free while charging for advanced features or value-added services. This pricing strategy enables platforms to attract a broad user base and then monetize through pr...
User-side battery energy storage systems (UESSs) are a rapidly developing form of energy storage system; however, very little attention is being paid to their application in the power quality enhancement of premium power parks, and their coordination...
18 March 2022
Purpose: The first coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spike and subsequent pandemic in South Korea were rapid and disruptive. Government response measures for disadvantaged groups against infectious disease should be prioritized based on evidence and aff...
Based on the survey data of five large grain-producing provinces in China, we have studied the promotion effect of the agricultural production trusteeship on the high-quality production of grain by using a propensity score matching method. The empiri...
Manufacturing firms may lose profits after a servitization transition due to a mismatch between service offerings and demand, causing them to fall into the servitization paradox. The purpose of this paper is to address the reality of the mismatch bet...
With the growing cost of carbon emissions reduction, the application of industrial restructuring to suppress carbon emissions is becoming more attractive. By constructing an input-output optimization model, this study explored how industrial restruct...
In the present-day digital landscape, websites have increasingly relied on digital marketing practices, notably search engine optimization (SEO), as a vital component in promoting sustainable growth. The traffic a website receives directly determines...
The transportation landscape is witnessing profound changes due to technological advancements, necessitating proactive policy responses to harness innovation and avert urban mobility disruption. The sharing economy has already transformed ridesharing...
This study explored the dynamics of a residential property value premium for proximity to a light rail transit (LRT) station in the intermediate term (roughly two years) since the pandemic. We applied a longitudinal quasi-experimental design using re...
4 August 2020
Walkability has been associated with urban development and political plans, contributing to more connected cities with improvements in communication, shopping, and pedestrian base. Among these services, fitness centers are becoming important elements...
The assessment of urban green space ecosystem services is an important basis for urban ecosystem management and decision-making. To further enhance the accuracy of this evaluation, this paper refers to the main research results of international urban...
The increasing number of new battery electric vehicle (BEV) registrations worldwide and the development of advanced batteries with higher energy density and pack capacity have contributed to large volumes of batteries approaching the end of their fir...
The Fintech business, which was initially focused on the payment sector, is becoming a global issue due to the entry of nonfinancial firms into the banking business. With the advent of the “mobile age in your hand”, global ICT companies a...
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