QQ China features interactive and connective online channels that generate social relational resources, encourage individual engagement, and facilitate embedded economic potential. The objectives of this research are to describe QQ users’ demographics and virtual behavior characteristics, to identify the underlying dimensions of relational social capital and virtual engagement, and to investigate the impacts of social capital and virtual engagement on purchase intention. Results from an analysis of data (n = 216) from China reveal the significant impacts of relational social capital and virtual engagement on purchase intention. First, functional purchase motivations, channel usage, and purchasing behaviors are captured to portray characteristics among QQ’s users. Second, trust, identification, and norm of reciprocity are primary antecedents to predict purchase intention in QQ. Third, three dimensions of relational social capital facilitate QQ users’ virtual engagements. Finally, information seeking and knowledge creation leads to product purchase intention.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a global health crisis. Consequently, many countries have adopted restrictive measures that caused a substantial change in society. Within this framework, it is reasonable to suppose that a sentiment of societal discontent, defined as generalized concern about the precarious state of society, has arisen. Literature shows that collectively experienced situations can motivate people to help each other. Since societal discontent is conceptualized as a collective phenomenon, we argue that it could influence intention to help others, particularly those who suffer from coronavirus. Thus, in the present study, we aimed (a) to explore the relationship between societal discontent and intention to help at the individual level and (b) to investigate a possible moderating effect of societal discontent at the country level on this relationship. To fulfil our purposes, we used data collected in 42 countries (N = 61,734) from the PsyCorona Survey, a cross-national longitudinal study. Results of multilevel analysis showed that, when societal discontent is experienced by the entire community, individuals dissatisfied with society are more prone to help others. Testing the model with longitudinal data (N = 3,817) confirmed our results. Implications for those findings are discussed in relation to crisis management. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement. / New York University Abu Dhabi

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I detta arbete har jag undersökt huruvida mina musikaliska intentioner lyckas nå fram till olika lyssnare. Jag har presenterat fyra av mina låtar för en fokusgrupp och distribuerat en enkät som 19 personer har svarat på. För att besvara mina frågor har jag använt mig av Ternhags bok "Vad är det jag hör?" (2009), där han presenterar två olika analysmetoder: intentions- och receptionsanalys. Genom att tillämpa dessa metoder har jag kunnat jämföra om mina intentioner med min musik når fram till lyssnarnas reception av musiken. Resultaten visade att mina intentioner delvis lyckades nå fram till lyssnarna, men att detta var mycket individuellt. En viktig lärdom jag har tagit med mig från detta arbete är att andras reception inte spelar en avgörande roll för ens eget skapande, utan att kvalitet handlar om att kunna beröra lyssnarna.

Culpability in criminal law Abstract The topic of this diploma thesis is culpability in criminal law. Culpability is a traditional institute of substantive criminal law and is an obligatory feature of the subjective aspect of a criminal offense. It expresses the internal psychological relationship of the perpetrator to the facts constituting the crime. Criminal liability in the legal system of the Czech Republic is based on the principle of liability for fault. If actual facts relevant from the point of view of criminal law are not covered by the culpability of the perpetrator, his criminal liability cannot be inferred. The thesis is divided into an introduction, 6 chapters and a conclusion. In order to understand the position of culpability within the structure of criminal offense, the first chapter defines the concept of a crime as a whole and its individual features. A general characteristic of the institute of culpability is offered in chapter two. It discusses the principle of liability for fault and the definitional features of culpability, including its individual components, i.e. the consciousness and volitional components, as well as the content of culpability, its degree, and procedural aspects, including the proving of culpability in criminal law. The central chapter of this diploma thesis is...

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The purpose of this dissertation study was to assess the neurophysiological activity associated with selective attention, response selection, and response inhibition. The subjects were 27 right-handed college students, 14 men and 13 women, aged 18-21. They performed a go/no-go auditory discrimination task while EEG was recorded from 19 monopolar electrode sites and averaged for evoked potentials. Amplitudes and latencies were measured for four event-related potentials (N1, P2, N2, and P3) at three midline electrode sites (Fz, Cz, pz) and eight bilateral sites (Fp1, Fp2, F3, F4, C3, C4, P3, P4). Measures from the midline and bilateral sites were subjected to separate repeated measures ANOVAs for within subjects factors of condition (go and no-go), region (prefrontal, frontal, central, and parietal), and hemisphere (left and right). Grand averages and topographic isopotential maps were generated for each component and condition. Based on neurophysiological theories of attention and intention, and prior go/no-go studies, it was expected that the amplitudes of N1, P2, and P3 would be larger in the go condition. N2 was proposed to be associated with response inhibition and greater in the no-go condition. As N2 was proposed to be generated at the orbitofrontal region, it was expected that N2 would be larger over the prefrontal region, not shown in previous studies due to sparsity of electrode placement. It was expected that N1 would show a frontocentral distribution, but P2 and P3 would be concentrated centroparietally. It was hypothesized that N2 and P3 latencies would be longer in the no-go condition. The results supported the regional hypotheses, and were in the correct direction for the condition effects. Importantly, N2 demonstrated an extremely anterior prefrontal distribution. Nl showed a frontocentral distribution and was larger in the go condition for the bilateral sites. P2 had a centroparietal distribution. P3 was of higher amplitude at frontal and prefrontal sites during the no-go condition, but was higher at central and parietal sites overall. At the prefrontal region, P2 and P3 were higher over the right hemisphere, but N2 was greater over the left. P3 latency was longer in the no-go condition at all sites, and significantly longer at the prefrontal region than at the other regions. / Ph. D.

No / Mobile phones have become an integral part of human lives with majority of people using them to access product and services for their day-today needs. However, mobile shopping adoption across the globe is not wide or fast as expected. In addition, the research is very scant in understanding various predictors of consumer adoption towards mobile shopping. The objective of this study is to identify most significant and non-significant predictors of consumer mobile shopping acceptance. Systematic review and weight analysis on 34 mobile shopping studies revealed researchers mostly employed TAM and UTAUT model as theoretical lens. This study found an interesting revelation that extrinsic motivation variables such as social influence and perceived usefulness determine consumer mobile shopping behavioral intention during early stages. However, in later stages intrinsic motivation variables such as satisfaction and trust play crucial role to emerge as best and promising predictor of consumer continuous intention respectively.

Yes / The continuous use of eGovernment services is a de facto for its prosperity and success. A generalised sense of citizens' self-efficacy, expectations, and satisfaction offer opportunities for governments to further retain needed engagements. This study examines the factors influencing citizens' continuance use of eGovernment services. Through the integration of Social Cognitive Theory, Expectation Confirmation Theory, DeLone and McLean IS success model, and E-S-QUAL, a survey of 471 citizens in the UK, engaging in online public services, found that prior experience, social influence, information quality, and service quality, personal outcome expectation, and satisfaction, are significant predictors of citizens' intention to use eGovernment, when they are regulated, through citizens' self-efficacy. The present study extends the roles of pre-adoption and post-adoption by offering a self-regulating process. Therefore, it demonstrates how critical it is for the government's leaders to understand the patterns of the long-term process for electronic systems continually. / There is a corrigendum for this paper at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101492. Elvira Ismagilova was not included as an author on the original record when she should have been.

Yes / The purpose of this paper is to propose and examine a conceptual model that best explains the key factors influencing Jordanian customers' intention to adopt mobile banking (MB). Design/methodology/approach – The proposed conceptual model was based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This was extended by adding perceived risk and self-efficacy as an external factors. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was conducted to analyse the data collected from the field survey questionnaires administered to a convenience sample of Jordanian banking customers. Findings – The results showed that behavioural intention is significantly influenced by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived risk. Research limitations/implications – Practical and theoretical implications for both Jordanian banks and researchers in the MB context are also discussed in the concluding section. Originality/value – MB-related issues are yet to be examined empirically in the Jordanian context. This submission has attempted to fill this gap by empirically examining some of the important factors influencing the adoption of MB from the Jordanian customers’ perspective.