C negative information about a product increase sales, and if so, when? Although popular wisdom suggests that “any publicity is good publicity,” prior research has demonstrated only downsides to negative press. Negative reviews or word of mouth, for example, have been found to hurt product evaluation and sales. Using a combination of econometric analysis and experimental methods, we unify these...

Mental Health, to call the attention of the Press Council to a matter which recently has been the cause of considerable concern to members of the Association. Their concern arises from the amount of space, detail and prominence which has been given by certain sections of the Press in their reporting of a recent murder case.

Grid Com puting is a p latform f or coord inated r esource sharing and problem solving on a global scale among vir tual organizations. Grid uses Grid Services to access and use a set of Grid resources. Subsequently, these Grid Ser vices need to be discov ered, selected and invoked quickly and efficiently to s atisfy the needs of a demanding environment such as Grid. In this pap er, we introd uc...

Researchers in many fields use dozens of different rapidly growing on-line knowledge sources, each with its own structure and access methods. Successful research often depends on a researcher's ability to discover connections among many different sources of information. The popularity of Google suggests that high-quality indexing would provide a uniform method of access, although it still leave...

Current large-scale authentication and non-repudiation systems offer various security measures, but do not meet the needs of today’s Internet-scale applications. Though several designs exist, there have been no significant deployments of Internet-scale security infrastructures. In this paper we propose a novel concept called the public-space that makes complete information of digital entities’ ...

Prejudicial pretrial publicity (PTP) constitutes a serious source of juror bias. The current study examined differences in predecisional distortion for mock jurors exposed to negative PTP (NPTP) versus nonexposed control participants. According to work by K. A. Carlson and J. E. Russo (2001), predecisional distortion occurs when jurors bias new evidence in favor of their current leading party (...