The abiding interest that sustains scientific research has only rarely been displaced onto interest itself. What little research there is, however, has pursued one of two parallel paths. The first path is the study of interest as a transient affective state. Emotion psychology—this path's primary traveler—has historically viewed interest as the black sheep in the flock of basic emotions. The ―p...

Numerous public opinion polls reveal that individuals are quite concerned about threats to their information privacy. However, the current understanding of privacy that emerges is fragmented and usually discipline-dependent. A systematic understanding of individuals’ privacy concerns is of increasing importance as information technologies increasingly expand the ability for organizations to sto...

Existing empirical research on the business value of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) has only measured the extent of SOA adoption – but not maturity – to determine whether typical goals, like increased business agility or IT cost reduction, could be achieved. However, a widely implemented SOA might be less mature than an SOA adopted only in particular areas of the organization, which in tu...

Over the last decades, the use of corpora has grown in popularity as more and more researchers and professionals in the language industry have discovered its potential. With new methodologies and data, corpus linguistics has made us aware of language patterns that were previously hidden in obscurity. The field of translation is only one of many language subjects to be fascinated by the insights...

Embedded systems are ubiquitous in this era of portable computing. These systems are empowered to access, store and transmit abundance of critical information. Thus their security becomes a prime concern. Moreover, most of these embedded devices often have to operate under insecure environments where the adversary may acquire physical access. To provide security, cryptographic security mechanis...

Centralized collection and disposal is an integral component of waste management strategies for many solid and liquid wastes, and carbon capture and storage is currently being considered for gaseous waste. In this paper we show how collective waste disposal systems introduce essential changes in the design of optimal environmental policy. Absent collective disposal, an optimal environmental pol...

Few histories of the Ohio Valley region have mentioned George Rogers Clark's 1780-1781 Fort Jefferson. Indeed, its current obscurity was first foretold by the fort's commandant, Captain Robert George, who referred to it as "this Remote hole". Today, several views hold that this western Kentucky fort has literally been washed away mto continued obscurity by the Mississippi River. Our stt.~dies a...

Two benthic mollusc assemblages of the continental shelf on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, a tropical one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and another, temperate, in Galicia, Spain were investigated, with a view to finding common environmental descriptors which would explain, on a macro-scale, why these assemblages are there. Both of the assemblages concerned show approximately the same species ri...

For over a century the Mexican state has justified its control of forests by claiming that rural people are ignorant and destructive fire setters, in the face of abundant evidence to the contrary. Academic and popular stereotypes of the state have tended to assume that official power and knowledge go hand in hand. In an institutional ethnography of the Mexican environment agency, SEMARNAP, I sh...

Research about self-disclosure on social network sites (SNS) is based on the assumption that all entered personal information is publicly available by default. Literature lacks empirical insights on how restrictive default privacy settings influence the privacy calculus and the self-disclosure on SNS. To gain empirical insight we analyzed how the perception of users regarding the benefits and p...