Don’t Want It Anymore? Resilience as a Shield Against Social Media-Induced Overloads

Social Resilience as a Protection Against COVID-19 Outbreak

Disasters whether natural or man-made occur from time to time and are accompanied by financial and human casualties. Their harmful effects are sometimes immense mostly on the poor, the illiterate, and marginalized people. This condition may be worsened when the governments have no financial support for the poor to save their lives.

I Dont Want to Hear About it: Rational Ignorance among Morally Motivated Consumers

Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may have an incentive to avoid information indicating that voluntary contributions are socially valuable. The reason is that such information can increase these individuals’perceived burden of responsibility. An increase in the believed social value of contributions a¤ects neither behavior nor the utility of Homo Economicus and of the ...

Practice parameters as a shield against physician liability.

Now You See It, Now You Dont: how social cues and questions misdirect our attention

Magic tricks offer powerful tools to manipulate people’s attention and conscious experience. Using realworld eyetracking we can investigate how different misdirection cues drive people’s eye movements. Moreover, by measuring people’s susceptibility to the trick, we can evaluate how these cues influence people’s conscious experience. We used a magic trick to explore the way in which spoken quest...

We Want It All, and We Want It Now!

Low power, high performance, cost, integration, quality — consumer electronics customers demand all of these, with an increasing sense of urgency and diminishing product cycle times. Properly balancing these factors is the key for success in today's consumer electronics semiconductor industry. SOC designers are faced with challenges of not only delivering complex and highly integrated mixed sig...