This study identifies the risks to e-commerce using a diverse sample of Internet and other firms by assessing the stock market reaction to hacker attacks. The research issue is, do expert business risk assessors perceive that Internet activity and ecommerce risks per se generate incremental risk of financial distress?

Although infants and animals respond to the approximate number of elements in visual, auditory, and tactile arrays, only human children and adults have been shown to possess abstract numerical representations that apply to entities of all kinds (e.g., 7 samurai, seas, or sins). Do abstract numerical concepts depend on language or culture, or do they form a part of humans' innate, core knowledge...

BACKGROUND Obesity increases the risk of many cancers including colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS This is secondary data analysis of the 2010 National Health Interview Survey data. A total of 9360 obese and overweight participants, aged 50 to 80 years, were analyzed according to their perception of their personal cancer risk. RESULTS Having a perception of increased risk for cancer was assoc...

The recommendation diversity is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in satisfying users’ needs for recommender systems. Various diversity-enhancing methods have been developed to increase diversity while making personalized recommendations to users. However, one crucial issue remains. Could the diversity, as system designers have carefully incorporated, be perceived by users and...

In this paper, I critically assess the enactive account of visual perception recently defended by Alva Noë (2004) . I argue inter alia that the enactive account falsely identifi es an object ’ s apparent shape with its 2D perspectival shape; that it mistakenly assimilates visual shape perception and volumetric object recognition; and that it seriously misrepresents the constitutive role of bodi...

Motion illusion refers to a perception of motion that is absent or different in the physical stimulus. These illusions are a powerful non-invasive tool for understanding the neurobiology of vision because they tell us, indirectly, how we process motion. There is general agreement in ascribing motion illusion to higher-level processing in the visual cortex, but debate remains about the exact rol...