This study examines two important issues of consumer behaviors, associated with imperfect information in the health care sector, consumer health information seeking and the function of patient trust that is inherent in the doctor-patient relationship....

Transnational studies has increased dramatically in the last few years, particularly among Chinese students. Understanding their experience within the framework of transformative learning theory and Confucianism reveals that transformative learning takes places through the use of Chinese proverbs, sayings and metaphors, rather than discourse....

The innovative performance and scalability features with each newer edition of the Oracle database system can present challenges for users. This book teaches software developers and students how to effectively deal with Oracle performance and scalability issues throughout the entire life cycle of developing Oracle-based applications....

With advanced computer technologies and their omnipresent usage, data accumulates in a speed unmatchable by the human\'s capacity to process data. To meet this growing challenge, the research community of knowledge discovery from databases emerged....

The ability to analyze and understand massive data sets lags far behind the ability to gather and store the data. To meet this challenge, knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is growing rapidly as an emerging field....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2000, held in Kyoto, Japan, in April 2000. The 33 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions....