Social networking sites have increased in popularity and are utilized for many purposes which include connecting with other people, sharing information and creating content. Many people on social networking sites use these platforms to express opinions relating to current affairs within society. People do not realize the value of their data divulged on these platforms and the tactics implemente...

We experimentally investigate information aggregation through majority voting when some voters are biased. In such situations, majority voting can have a “dark side,”that is, result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. In line with theoretical predictions, information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased, b...

Studies of the dark side of Information Systems are encountered with increasing frequency. In this paper, we investigate how selected hotel employees in China deliberately subvert IT Policy in order to gain access to the IT applications that they believe essential to work. Following a review of the literature on IT Governance, resistance and subversion, we engage in an interpretive case study o...

The proposed model, by incorporating both 1) banker screening of new issues and 2) costly evaluation by investors, is the first to admit endogenous double-sided information production. It demonstrates a nontrivial link between these two sides: the banker wishes to structure a sale conducive to investor research because selling to an uninformed pool would result in his own shirking. One applicat...

objective: frankincense improves memory in different models of learning. however, its influence on models of alzheimer's disease (ad) has not been studied widely. in the present study, the therapeutic effect of frankincense was evaluated in a model of ad induced by i.c.v administration of streptozotocin. materials and methods: under stereotaxic surgery, two guide cannulas were implanted in...

Using Japanese firms that went public during the period 1998-2006, we find that independent venture capitalist-backed IPO firms are significantly younger and smaller than IPO companies backed by venture capital firms that are subsidiaries of financial institutions. Independent venture capitalists tend to make firms go public on stock exchanges with less strict listing requirements. Importantly,...

We present a poster about a possible cyber-crime attack scenario based on data sciences, social engineering and open data. We want to raise awareness about dangers associated with the use of knowledge discovery techniques applied to open data by cyber-criminals. We hope this poster will spark interest in the topic.

Parker, Mallory A. M.A., Purdue University, August 2016. The Dark Side of Reactive Attitudes: From Persons to Compatibilism. Major Professor: Daniel Kelly. This thesis contains two independent papers that both address the problems associated with the reactive attitudes. The first paper, presented in Chapter 2, discusses the negativities of the reactive attitudes in debates regarding skepticism ...