Major nuclear accidents, such as the recent accident in Fukushima, Japan, have been shown to decrease the public's acceptance of nuclear power. However, little is known about how a serious accident affects people's acceptance of nuclear power and the determinants of acceptance. We conducted a longitudinal study (N= 790) in Switzerland: one survey was done five months before and one directly aft...

In this paper, double acceptance sampling plans are developed for a truncated life test, when the lifetime of an item follows the Marshall-Olkin extended exponential distribution. The probability of acceptance is calculated for different consumer’s confidence levels fixing the producer’s risk at 0.05. The probability of acceptance and the producer’s risk are explained by means of examples. Zusa...

This paper aims to predict consumer acceptance of e-commerce by proposing a set of key drivers for engaging consumers in on-line transactions. The primary constructs for capturing consumer acceptance of e-commerce are intention to transact and on-line transaction behavior. Following the theory of reasoned action (TRA) as applied to a technology-driven environment, technology acceptance model (T...

This study examines the relations between aggressive children’s perceived levels of peer acceptance at Time 1 and actual levels of social preference and aggression 30 months later. Participants were 49 children nominated for one of two interventions by teachers for their aggressive behaviors in second or third grade at Time 1. This study used longitudinal data to determine whether a positive vi...

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors affecting consumers’ acceptance of mobile marketing in China. The author draw on technology acceptance and uses and gratifications theories to develop a conceptual model of antecedent factors and marketing-related and valuebased mobile activity related to the acceptance of mobile marketing practice. The conceptual model is tested using data collec...

Introduction: The use of cartilage as a grafting material has been advocated in cases where there is a high risk of graft failure, such as subtotal perforations, adhesive processes, and residual defects after primary tympanoplasties. The purpose of this study was to compare the graft acceptance rates and auditory outcomes of cartilage tympanoplasty operations using a palisade technique with tho...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effects of sexual victimization history, rape myth acceptance, implicit attention, and recent learning on the cognitive processes underlying undergraduate women's explicit risk judgments. METHOD Participants were 194 undergraduate women between 18 and 24 years of age. The sample was ethnically diverse and composed primarily of freshman, heterosexual, and sin...