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Determinants of Consumer Satisfaction in Fast Food Industry of Lahore Pakistan

  • Ali, Asma;Lee, Jong-In
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.424-431
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the key success factors for the fast food industry in the region of Lahore Pakistan. Fast food concept developed very speedily in the last few years in Lahore region. The success or failure of a fast food industry based on some factors like Physical environment, Brand-name, Food quality, Price, Taste, Promotional activity, Habitual consumption, Health threats, Consumer expectation, and Family meal. To identify which of these factors has a greater influence on consumer satisfaction, four fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, PIZZA HUT, KFC, and subway were targeted randomly. The proposed research is quantitative in nature and for data collection; a random sampling technique was used. A questionnaire survey answered by 273 people was considered in this research. Data have been analyzed through statistical techniques. It is observed that Brand name, Food quality, Physical environment, Health threats, Price, Family meals, Habitual consumption, and Consumer expectation showed significant impacts on Fast food industry compared to other factors evaluated herein.

The Influence of Physical Environments on Tourist's Emotional Response & Behavioral Intention in Tourist Destination (관광목적지의 물리적 환경이 감정적 반응과 행동의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Gyu-Young;Lee, Jung-Eun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2014
  • This study examines the influence of the physical environment on tourist's emotional response and behavioral intention in the tourist destination. The research was mainly performed in leading tourist destinations of Busan Metropolitan City (Haeundae, Gwanganri & Songjeong area) by the sampling survey method in April-May 2013. The results demonstrate as follows. Firstly, the tourist's convenience and amenity in physical environments have significant impacts on the negative feeling of emotional response, but attractiveness did not influence in negative feeling. By contrast, the attractiveness and amenity the a of physical environments give significant impacts on the positive feeling of emotional response but convenience did not work in positive response. Secondly, both positive and negative feeling of emotional responses give meaningful impacts on Tourist's behavior intention. According to the meaningful relationship between physical environment and emotional response, the regional characteristics and effective marketing management of tourism resource and preparedness should be considered in setting up tourist facilities.

The effects of the organizational characteristics and interorganizational network level on social welfare organizations' effectiveness -Focused on resource capability of women's welfare organization- (사회복지조직의 특성과 네트워크 수준이 조직효과성에 미치는 영향 -여성복지조직의 자원확보능력을 중심으로-)

  • Jang, Yeon Jin
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.147-175
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the organizational characteristics and interorganizational network level on social welfare organizationas' effectiveness using structural equation model. For achieving this purpose, this study defined organizational effectiveness as financial, human and physical resource capability according to resource systems approach. Organizational characteristics variables included the number of qualified staff, degree of resource dependency, the proportion of government subsidies, the main organizational philosophy, establishment year, the attitude of top manager and the number of informal ties. Interorganizational network variables were divided by outdegree centrality and indegree centrality. The data collected from women's welfare organizations in Seoul through survey method. The analysis tools used the UCINET 6.245 for the network analysis and AMOS 18.0 for the structural equation model. The results of this study are as follows. The factors affected on the financial resource capacity were the number of qualified staff, the proportion of government subsides and the indegree centrality. Meanwhile, only indegree centrality directly influenced on the human resource capability. The significant affecting factors on physical resource capacity were the number of qualified staff, the attitude of top manager and informal ties. Based on these results, the implications of this study and the ways to enhance social welfare organization's effectiveness were discussed.

A Comparative Study of Academic Resource Sharing and Service System Between Korea and Japan (한국과 일본의 대학 학술정보 공유 유통 체계 비교 연구)

  • Cho, Jane
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.23-45
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    • 2012
  • From 1990s the Ministry of Education and KERIS have developed nationwide academic resource sharing and service system based on universities, and have contributed to bridge the gap of information and to facilitate resource sharing between universities. Meanwhile, in Japan which starts 15 years earlier than us, the Ministry of Education and NII built nationwide academic resource sharing and service system with starting on the project of university holding resource sharing and until now have shown similar aspect of development like us. But lately, since information environment has been changing rapidly, Japan try to find new paradigm which goes around electronic resources management substitute for physical resources and open access based academic communication, institutional repository which disseminate university's research output to the outside world. This study compare academic resource sharing and service system between Japan and Korea and try to suggest for Korean academic resource sharing and service system development. In Korea, firstly we should try to replacing published resources management system to electronic resources', secondly, reorganizing oversea's resource sharing and service system, thirdly, reactivating institutional repository toward open access, finally, unification of distracted driving force.

Resource Allocation based on Quantized Feedback for TDMA Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Xu, Lei;Tang, Zhen-Min;Li, Ya-Ping;Yang, Yu-Wang;Lan, Shao-Hua;Lv, Tong-Ming
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.160-167
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    • 2013
  • Resource allocation based on quantized feedback plays a critical role in wireless mesh networks with a time division multiple access (TDMA) physical layer. In this study, a resource allocation problem was formulated based on quantized feedback for TDMA wireless mesh networks that minimize the total transmission power. Three steps were taken to solve the optimization problem. In the first step, the codebook of the power, rate and equivalent channel quantization threshold was designed. In the second step, the timeslot allocation criterion was deduced using the primal-dual method. In the third step, a resource allocation scheme was developed based on quantized feedback using the stochastic optimization tool. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme not only reduces the total transmission power, but also has the advantage of quantized feedback.

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Development of Patient Classification System in Long-term Care Hospitals (요양병원 환자분류체계 개발)

  • Lee, Ji-Yun;Yoon, Ju-Young;Kim, Jung-Hoe;Song, Seong-Hee;Joo, Ji-Soo;Kim, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.229-240
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: To develop the patient classification system based on the resource utilization for reimbursement of long-term care hospitals in Korea. Method: Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) conducted a survey in July 2006 that included 2,899 patients from 35 long-term care hospitals. To calculate resource utilization, we measured care time of direct care staff (physicians, nursing personnel, physical and occupational therapists, social workers). The survey of patient characteristics included ADL, cognitive and behavioral status, diseases and treatments. Major category criteria was developed by modified delphi method from 9 experts. Each category was divided into 2-3 groups by ADL using tree regression. Relative resource use was expressed as a case mix index (CMI) calculated as a proportion of mean resource use. Result: This patient classification system composed of 6 major categories (ultra high medical care, high medical care, medium medical care, behavioral problem, impaired cognition and reduced physical function) and 11 subgroups by ADL score. The differences of CMI between groups were statistically significant (p<.0001). Homogeneity of groups was examined by total coefficient of variation (CV) of CMI. The range of CV was 29.68-40.77%. Conclusions: This patient classification system is feasible for reimbursement of long-term care hospitals.

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Efficient Method to Support Mobile Virtualization-based Cloud Resource Management (모바일 가상화기반 클라우드 자원관리를 지원하는 효율적 방법)

  • Kang, Yongho;Jang, Changbok;Lee, Wanjik;Heo, Seokyeol;Kim, Jooman
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.277-283
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    • 2014
  • Recently, various cloud service has been being provided on mobile devices as well as desktop pc and server computer. Also, Smartphone users are very rapidly increasing, and they are using it for enjoying various services(cloud service, game, banking service, mobile office, etc.). So, research to utilize resources on mobile device has been conducted. In this paper, We have suggested efficient method of cloud resource management by using information of available physical resources(CPU, memory, storage, etc.) between mobile devices, and information of physical resource in mobile device. Suggested technology is possible to guarantee real-time process and efficiently manage resources.

A Fair Radio Resource Allocation Algorithm for Uplink of FBMC Based CR Systems

  • Jamal, Hosseinali;Ghorashi, Seyed Ali;Sadough, Seyed Mohammad-Sajad
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.1479-1495
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    • 2012
  • Spectrum scarcity seems to be the most challenging issue to be solved in new wireless telecommunication services. It is shown that spectrum unavailability is mainly due to spectrum inefficient utilization and inappropriate physical layer execution rather than spectrum shortage. Daily increasing demand for new wireless services with higher data rate and QoS level makes the upgrade of the physical layer modulation techniques inevitable. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) which utilizes multicarrier modulation to provide higher data rates with the capability of flexible resource allocation, although has widely been used in current wireless systems and standards, seems not to be the best candidate for cognitive radio systems. Filter Bank based Multi-Carrier (FBMC) is an evolutionary scheme with some advantages over the widely-used OFDM multicarrier technique. In this paper, we focus on the total throughput improvement of a cognitive radio network using FBMC modulation. Along with this modulation scheme, we propose a novel uplink radio resource allocation algorithm in which fairness issue is also considered. Moreover, the average throughput of the proposed FBMC based cognitive radio is compared to a conventional OFDM system in order to illustrate the efficiency of using FBMC in future cognitive radio systems. Simulation results show that in comparison with the state of the art two algorithms (namely, Shaat and Wang) our proposed algorithm achieves higher throughputs and a better fairness for cognitive radio applications.

Efficient Virtual Machine Resource Management for Media Cloud Computing

  • Hassan, Mohammad Mehedi;Song, Biao;Almogren, Ahmad;Hossain, M. Shamim;Alamri, Atif;Alnuem, Mohammed;Monowar, Muhammad Mostafa;Hossain, M. Anwar
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1567-1587
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    • 2014
  • Virtual Machine (VM) resource management is crucial to satisfy the Quality of Service (QoS) demands of various multimedia services in a media cloud platform. To this end, this paper presents a VM resource allocation model that dynamically and optimally utilizes VM resources to satisfy QoS requirements of media-rich cloud services or applications. It additionally maintains high system utilization by avoiding the over-provisioning of VM resources to services or applications. The objective is to 1) minimize the number of physical machines for cost reduction and energy saving; 2) control the processing delay of media services to improve response time; and 3) achieve load balancing or overall utilization of physical resources. The proposed VM allocation is mapped into the multidimensional bin-packing problem, which is NP-complete. To solve this problem, we have designed a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model, as well as heuristics for quantitatively optimizing the VM allocation. The simulation results show that our scheme outperforms the existing VM allocation schemes in a media cloud environment, in terms of cost reduction, response time reduction and QoS guarantee.

A qualitative study on family roles on the job activities of women with acquired physical disabilities (중도지체장애여성의 직업활동에 대한 가족 역할 연구)

  • Lee Eun-Mi;Paik Eun-Ryoung
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.61-86
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    • 2006
  • This phenomenological study aims at exploring the role of family in promoting, maintaining, and developing job activities of women with acquired physical disabilities. As a result of in-depth interviews with 8 women with physical disabilities, 6 theme clusters and 14 sub-themes have appeared. Participants have vividly revealed their experiences with regard to the various support and help of their family. They were provided physical, emotional and financial supports which helped at great extent to overcome the anger and loss resulted from the acquired disabilities. Although most of the participants have experienced failure in job finding several times, they have at last succeeded in it by the consistent help of their family. In particular, the support and help given from the family were substantial and specific which promoted maintaining and developing their career. Therefore the participants could obtain more confidence in themselves and this made the participants to speak for themselves. Although the family roles for the job finding and maintaining of the participants are played in various ways which is positive, effective and specific, there remains some significant problems and limitations. Participants expressed their uncomfortableness in opening their most in-depth thinking and emotions to their family. They have also experienced a great deal of difficulties in maintaining job because of the housework load and child bearing work which is mainly regarded by the family members as the woman's(participant's)duties. In addition to this, sexual needs and sexual identity of the participants are neither recognized nor dealt with seriously in family, The participants also mentioned about the inequal relationships and their self-consciousness among family member as well as the lack of career guidance role of the family. Based on these research findings, we have made a number of suggestions to promote the positive roles and overcome the limited roles of the family.

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