O social networks greatly facilitate social exchange among friends. At times, for amusement, individuals may be targeted by friends’ playful teases, which often involve exposing individuals’ private embarrassing information, such as information that reveals their past indecent behavior, mischief, or clumsiness. Although individuals sometimes do enjoy the humor, they might also be offended by th...

Three-dimensional Li ion microbatteries are known for their high surface area which leads to high current and capacity compared to traditional planar batteries. This paper describes economical approaches to prepare half 3D microbatteries based on silicon microchannel plates (MCP). The high aspect ratio silicon MCP is formed by electrochemical etching and a nickel layer is coated onto the silico...

Some studies suggest that Perceived Privacy Risk exerts no influence on the Actual System Use of a Social Network Site. However, the potential indirect relationships between Perceived Privacy Risk and Actual System Use through its central antecedents have so far been overlooked. In this paper, we postulate that Perceived Privacy Risk exerts a negative influence on the Perceived Enjoyment of Soc...

Few people are familiar these days with the Table (or Tablet) of Cebes, a once renowned literary work of ancient Greece. In the past few centuries this pagan Pilgrim's Progress has only rarely appeared in print, and then usually tucked in at the end of Epictetus, to make a thin book a bit thicker. The obscurity in which it languishes does not, however, seem entirely unmerited, and to those who ...

This article considers the phenomenon of online body display by users of social networking sites in Hong Kong. A survey of 392 young adults was conducted to investigate the relationships between narcissism, grandiose exhibitionism, body image satisfaction, perceived privacy risks, and online body display. A Body Display Index was developed to measure the perceived level of sexual explicitness o...

We show that signal ow graph theory provides a simple way to relate two popular algorithms used for adapting dynamic neural networks, real-time backpropagation and backpropagation-through-time. Starting with the ow graph for real-time backpropagation, we use a simple transposition to produce a second graph. The new graph is shown to be interreciprocal with the original and to correspond to the ...

Research on cost-benefit analysis of situational crime prevention is examined and found wanting. The few existing studies do not accurately represent the likely benefits of the situational approach. While measures of non-monetary crime costs are improving, at least four other key areas warrant more attention: First, "routine savings" derive from routine precautions. Second, models of victim (pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how consumers’ value evaluation and personality factors influence consumers’ intention to adopt mobile coupon (M-coupon) applications in China. The moderating effect of gender on the relationships between personality factors and consumers’ adoption intention is also tested. Design/methodology/approach – This study conducted a survey to collect d...

Online shopping provides a good example of the business revolution. In China, e-commerce is currently experiencing a period of rapid development; the large number of Internet users provides a good foundation for the expansion of the online shopping market. In this study, perceived usability, perceived security, perceived privacy, perceived after-sales service, perceived marketing mix, and perce...

Environmental scientists are continually discovering new and emerging environmental problems. There have been many studies of how a particular environmental problem has occurred, its costs to society, and its (potential) resolution. However, to date there have been few studies of the rate at which new environmental problems are generated by human technological innovations. In this note, I prese...