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This study examines how justifications that are offered by service providers affect the impacts of inferred motives and negative emotions on perceived fairness after service failure. Some researchers have indi...
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The role of visual art in enhancing perceived prestige of luxury brands
Does visual art enhance the prestige of luxury brands? To test the integration effect of luxury brands and art, we conduct two studies using the Louis Vuitton (LV) brand. This paper shows that visual art enhan...
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The factors influencing adolescents’ purchase intentions of state-of-the-art cell phones in Taiwan
To understand why adolescents pursue state-of-the-art cell phones, this study examines the role of materialism in affecting purchase intentions. The vanity traits of adolescents, peer groups, innovativeness, ...
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Open AccessA systematic approach to detecting transcription factors in response to environmental stresses
Eukaryotic cells have developed mechanisms to respond to external environmental or physiological changes (stresses). In order to increase the activities of stress-protection functions in response to an environ...
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Open AccessDynamic modeling of cis-regulatory circuits and gene expression prediction via cross-gene identification
Gene expression programs depend on recognition of cis elements in promoter region of target genes by transcription factors (TFs), but how TFs regulate gene expression via recognition of cis elements is still not ...
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Isolation of plant nuclei suitable for flow cytometry from recalcitrant tissue by use of a filtration column
Flow cytometry is widely applied in the determination of nuclear DNA content and ploidy level in many organisms. However, a difficulty with flow cytometry is the method's intrinsic inability to tolerate large ...
