Factors influencing customer satisfaction and loyalty to internationally branded clothes

Satisfaction is important as the principle purpose of a business is to create satisfied customers that will consequently lead to higher profitability in the future. Therefore, it is crucial for marketers to focus on creating and retaining customer loyalty in a business. Besides, customer satisfaction and loyalty are being highlighted due to growing interests and practices in customer relationship management. Thus, this study seeks to examine the factors affecting customer satisfaction with regard to the purchase of imported apparel, and to determine the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. A questionnaire was constructed and data were collected from 100 buyers of imported apparel in Malaysia. Results indicated that customer satisfaction is positively affected by brand credibility, perceived quality, and perceived value. This finding implies that a higher customer satisfaction leads to higher levels of customer retention and loyalty towards a specific brand. In conclusion, understanding such factors will help marketers of internationally branded apparel to operate their businesses effectively

Sorrow, coping and resiliency: parents of children with cerebral palsy share their experiences.

Purpose: To explore the grieving, coping and resiliency experiences of parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to investigate the suitability of chronic sorrow theory as a framework to understand those experiences. Methods: This study combined focus groups with a web-based cross-sectional survey to explore chronic sorrow in parents of children with CP. Eight parents of children with CP participated in focus groups. The discussion was transcribed verbatim and thematic analysis was performed. A further 94 parents participated in the web-based survey study in which they completed the Adapted Burke Questionnaire on chronic sorrow. A content analysis of responses was used to confirm the primary qualitative analysis. Results: The reports of parents in the focus group were consistent with chronic sorrow theory, as were the responses of parents to the web-based survey. Some parents found the diagnosis itself a distressing time whereas others found it a relief. Parents reported that times of medical and allied health intervention were particularly challenging. Conclusion: Chronic sorry theory is a useful way of understanding the experiences of parents of children with CP. It is recommended that health practitioners are mindful that, even years after diagnosis, parents of children with CP may experience intensified chronic sorrow symptoms following a triggering event and that this is normal

Risk Minimization and the Traditional Ahupua'a in Kahikinui, Island of Maui, Hawai'i

Rather than viewing the culture history of Kahikinui, Maui, as a process of gradual population growth and ecological adaptation, this article proposes that the settlement and subsistence system found in the district at European contact was implemented virtually intact in the mid-fifteenth century as a deliberate and conscious chiefly strategy-both to avoid the social risks inherent in increasingly factionalized windward polities and to minimize the environmental risks involved in settling this dry leeward district. By approximately A.D. 1650, the spatial distribution of settlement and the formalization of agricultural field systems suggest the implementation of the ahupua 'a, or traditional Hawaiian community land unit. Kahikinui, located at the fringes of the pre-Contact sociopolitical structure, may have been among the first areas to suffer from the breakdown of the traditional ahupua'a system after European contact in A.D. 1778. KEYWORDS: Hawaiian archaeology, leeward environments, Maui, risk

RECEIVING WATCH FACES FOR WEARABLE DEVICES

A watch face system transmits a watch face to a user, based on a current context of the user and one or more predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system receives the current context for the user (e.g., the user’s current location, events, and/or activities associated with the user). The system determines that the current context for the user satisfies the predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system then transmits the watch face for display by a wearable computing device associated with the use

RECEIVING WATCH FACES FOR WEARABLE DEVICES

A watch face system transmits a watch face to a user, based on a current context of the user and one or more predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system receives the current context for the user (e.g., the user’s current location, events, and/or activities associated with the user). The system determines that the current context for the user satisfies the predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system then transmits the watch face for display by a wearable computing device associated with the user

8-Oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-1-mediated DNA repair is associated with Rho GTPase activation and α-smooth muscle actin polymerization

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are activators of cell signaling and modify cellular molecules, including DNA. 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) is one of the prominent lesions in oxidatively damaged DNA, whose accumulation is causally linked to various diseases and aging processes, whereas its etiological relevance is unclear. 8-OxoG is repaired by the 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1)-initiated DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway. OGG1 binds free 8-oxoG and this complex functions as an activator of Ras family GTPases. Here we examined whether OGG1-initiated BER is associated with the activation of Rho GTPase and mediates changes in the cytoskeleton. To test this possibility, we induced OGG1- initiated BER in cultured cells and mouse lungs and used molecular approaches such as active Rho pull- down assays, siRNA ablation of gene expression, immune blotting, and microscopic imaging. We found that OGG1 physically interacts with Rho GTPase and, in the presence of 8-oxoG base, increases Rho–GTP levels in cultured cells and lungs, which mediates α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) polymerization into stress fibers and increases the level of α-SMA in insoluble cellular/tissue fractions. These changes were absent in cells lacking OGG1. These unexpected data and those showing that 8-oxoG repair is a lifetime process suggest that, via Rho GTPase, OGG1 could be involved in the cytoskeletal changes and organ remodeling observed in various chronic diseases

Konseling Hipertensi dan Komplikasinya pada Lansia di Kelurahan Tosaren RT 28 RW 10

Hypertension is a state of increased blood pressure that gives symptoms to a target organ resulting in damage as a stroke (occurs in the organ and effects the high mortality). Coronary heart disease (damage to the blood vessels of the heart). As well as constriction of the left ventricle or left ventricle (occuse in the heart muscle). In addition on disease, diabetes mellitus and others. Causes of hypertension include stress, obesity, lifestyle. Hormonal disorder. Symptoms of hypertension are usually dizziness, headache, neck stiffness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, ringing ears, the world is spinning, blury vision and insomnia. Hypertension can be handles by weight loss for obesity, regulate diet, stop smoking, regular exercise, multiply eating fruits and vegetables, taking medicine according to doctors instruction