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View article: Beyond Money: How Social Motives Drive Green Purchases in the Sharing Economy
Beyond Money: How Social Motives Drive Green Purchases in the Sharing Economy Open
While the sharing economy has been described as a potential pathway to enhancing sustainability and reducing hyper-consumption, scholarly inquiry into this linkage remains limited. In this research, we examined whether and how service prov…
View article: A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform
A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform Open
Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes modulate DNA accessibility and gene expression; however, their genomic targeting mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify SWIFT (SWI/SNF Ig-fold for transcription factor …
View article: High Quality Diet Enhances Immune Response and Affects Gene Expression During Viral Infection in an Insect Herbivore
High Quality Diet Enhances Immune Response and Affects Gene Expression During Viral Infection in an Insect Herbivore Open
Herbivorous insects tolerate chemical and metabolic variation in their host plant diet by modulating physiological traits. Insect immune response is one such trait that plays a crucial role in maintaining fitness but can be heavily influen…
View article: Artificial intelligence in hospitality services: examining consumers’ receptivity to unmanned smart hotels
Artificial intelligence in hospitality services: examining consumers’ receptivity to unmanned smart hotels Open
Purpose With recent advances in artificial intelligence, the hospitality industry has introduced the concept of unmanned smart hotels staffed by service robots instead of human employees. Research is needed to understand consumers’ recepti…
View article: Fifteen Years of Research on Customer Loyalty Formation: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model
Fifteen Years of Research on Customer Loyalty Formation: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model Open
Despite extensive research on loyalty formation, findings regarding interrelationships between loyalty and its key drivers, such as perceived service quality, perceived value, and customer satisfaction, are inconclusive and often contradic…
View article: Unpacking the complexity of cultural distance in inbound and outbound tourism: A case‐oriented approach
Unpacking the complexity of cultural distance in inbound and outbound tourism: A case‐oriented approach Open
Due to limitations in mainstream symmetric methodologies, the linkages between cultural dimensions and tourism demand have yet to be fully understood. Drawing on Hofstede's theory of national culture and adopting the asymmetric and case‐or…
View article: Mammalian SWI/SNF complex activity regulates POU2F3 and constitutes a targetable dependency in small cell lung cancer
Mammalian SWI/SNF complex activity regulates POU2F3 and constitutes a targetable dependency in small cell lung cancer Open
Small cell lung cancers (SCLCs) are composed of heterogeneous subtypes marked by lineage-specific transcription factors, including ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3. POU2F3-positive SCLCs, ∼12% of all cases, are uniquely dependent on POU2F3 itsel…
View article: High quality diet enhances immune response and affects gene expression during viral infection in an insect herbivore
High quality diet enhances immune response and affects gene expression during viral infection in an insect herbivore Open
Herbivorous insects tolerate chemical variation in their host plant diet by modulating several traits. Insect immune response is one trait that plays a crucial role in maintaining fitness but can be heavily influenced by variation in host …
View article: Cross-validating the measurement scale for consumers’ experience with hospitality and tourism technology: a multi-sector approach
Cross-validating the measurement scale for consumers’ experience with hospitality and tourism technology: a multi-sector approach Open
Purpose This study aims to cross-validate the technology experience (TE) scale and examine the potential differences in consumer TE across three different sectors. Design/methodology/approach Across three separate studies, the TE scale and…
View article: Social media marketing activities, customer engagement, and customer stickiness: A longitudinal investigation
Social media marketing activities, customer engagement, and customer stickiness: A longitudinal investigation Open
Although customer engagement has been deemed critical for optimizing social media marketing performance, prior research has mainly examined customer engagement through cross‐sectional designs, thus limiting insight into its evolving dynami…
View article: High quality diet enhances immune response during viral infection in an insect herbivore.
High quality diet enhances immune response during viral infection in an insect herbivore. Open
Insect immune response plays a crucial role in how external threats influence overall fitness through life history traits. An understudied question is how the use of different host plants might affect the ability of herbivorous insects to …
View article: Mammalian SWI/SNF complex activity regulates POU2F3 and constitutes a targetable dependency in small cell lung cancer
Mammalian SWI/SNF complex activity regulates POU2F3 and constitutes a targetable dependency in small cell lung cancer Open
Small cell lung cancers (SCLC) are comprised of heterogeneous subtypes marked by lineage-specific transcription factors, including ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3. POU2F3-positive SCLC, ∼12% of all cases, are uniquely dependent on POU2F3 itself…
View article: Psychological ownership research in business: A bibliometric overview and future research directions
Psychological ownership research in business: A bibliometric overview and future research directions Open
Despite the academic importance and industry imperatives of psychological ownership (PO), surprisingly little research has comprehensively addressed its structure and thematic evolution through organizational and customer lenses in the bus…
View article: Artificial intelligence-generated virtual influencer: Examining the effects of emotional display on user engagement
Artificial intelligence-generated virtual influencer: Examining the effects of emotional display on user engagement Open
Focusing on the application of artificial intelligence, this study investigates the impact of emotional display on user engagement with computer-generated imagery influencers through the lens of the computers are social actors (CASA) frame…
View article: Guest editorial: The sharing economy in a post-pandemic world
Guest editorial: The sharing economy in a post-pandemic world Open
Since Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers coined the term "collaborative consumption" in their 2010 book What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, this economic model, known as the sharing economy, has gained widespread accept…
View article: Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior
Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior Open
Shuqair, S., Costa Pinto, D., Cruz-jesus, F., Mattila, A. S., Guerreiro, P. D. F., & So, K. K. F. (2022). Can customer relationships backfire? How relationship norms shape moral obligation in cancelation behavior. Journal of Business Resea…
View article: Enhancing Consumer Confidence and Response Efficacy in Tourism: Typology and Effectiveness of the Hotel Industry’s Responses to COVID-19
Enhancing Consumer Confidence and Response Efficacy in Tourism: Typology and Effectiveness of the Hotel Industry’s Responses to COVID-19 Open
Although the tourism industry, including hotels, has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, few empirical studies have systematically examined the typology and effectiveness of their responses. To capture common response strategies within …
View article: The hotel industry’s responses to COVID-19: Insight from hybrid thematic analysis and experimental research
The hotel industry’s responses to COVID-19: Insight from hybrid thematic analysis and experimental research Open
Although the travel and tourism industry has been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic, little research has empirically examined the types and effectiveness of the hotel’s industry’s responses. To examine common response strategies within th…
View article: Elimination of <i>Calm1</i> long 3′-UTR mRNA isoform by CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing impairs dorsal root ganglion development and hippocampal neuron activation in mice
Elimination of <i>Calm1</i> long 3′-UTR mRNA isoform by CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing impairs dorsal root ganglion development and hippocampal neuron activation in mice Open
The majority of mouse and human genes are subject to alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA), which most often leads to the expression of two or more alternative length 3′ untranslated region (3′-UTR) mRNA isoforms. In neural tissue…
View article: Platforms in the peer-to-peer sharing economy
Platforms in the peer-to-peer sharing economy Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine peer-to-peer sharing platform business models, their sources of competitive advantage, and the roles, motivations and behaviors of key actors in their ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach …
View article: Elav-Mediated Exon Skipping and Alternative Polyadenylation of the Dscam1 Gene Are Required for Axon Outgrowth
Elav-Mediated Exon Skipping and Alternative Polyadenylation of the Dscam1 Gene Are Required for Axon Outgrowth Open
Many metazoan genes express alternative long 3' UTR isoforms in the nervous system, but their functions remain largely unclear. In Drosophila melanogaster, the Dscam1 gene generates short and long (Dscam1-L) 3' UTR isoforms because of alte…
View article: Precise removal of<i>Calm1</i>long 3′ UTR isoform by CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing impairs dorsal root ganglion development in mice
Precise removal of<i>Calm1</i>long 3′ UTR isoform by CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing impairs dorsal root ganglion development in mice Open
Most mammalian genes are subject to Alternative cleavage and PolyAdenylation (APA), often resulting in alternative length 3′ UTR isoforms. Thousands of extended or long 3′ UTR variants are preferentially expressed in neuron-enriched tissue…
View article: Small-molecule anticancer agents kill cancer cells by harnessing reactive oxygen species in an iron-dependent manner
Small-molecule anticancer agents kill cancer cells by harnessing reactive oxygen species in an iron-dependent manner Open
In the course of generating a library of open-chain epothilones, we discovered a new class of small molecule anticancer agents that has no effect on tubulin but instead kills selected cancer cell lines by harnessing reactive oxygen species…