Differentiated influences of risk perceptions on nuclear power acceptance according to acceptance targets: Evidence from Korea

Contrasting Two Surveillance Contexts According to Acceptance

Surveillance technologies are used all over the world for various reasons. In urban environments, surveillance technologies are predominantly used for detecting or preventing crimes. Simultaneously, an increasing number of technologies are used for medical monitoring at home, but also at clinical facilities, and at public environments for assuring patients’ medical safety. An intensive policy d...

Public Acceptance of Nuclear Power - Some Ethical Issues

Since the last major International Atomic Energy Agency Conference on "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy", nations have been obliged to adjust to significant new factors that have come to dominate the world energy market. At previous meetings, the industrialized nations were assuming a long-term future dependence on the use of nuclear energy for electric power generation. The developing nations we...

On the Acceptance Power of Regular Languages

Hertrampf et al. (1993) looked at complexity classes which are characterized (say accepted) by a regular language for the words of output bits produced by nondeterministic polynomial-time computations. A number of well-known complexity classes between P and PSPACE are accepted by regular languages. For example, NP is accepted by the regular language which consists of the words which contain at ...

Mechanisms of Graft Acceptance: Evidence

Influences on acceptance of bitter foods and beverages.

Bitterness is generally viewed as an undesirable attribute of foods and beverages, yet segments of the population regularly ingest items with a prominent bitter taste. The influence of taste sensitivity, exposure, selected personality traits (i.e., neophobia, variety seeking, sensation seeking) and pharmacological reactivity on alcohol and caffeine consumption, two widely consumed bitter substa...