Risk communication, where scientists inform policy-makers or the populace of the probability and magnitude of possible disasters, is essential to disaster management – enabling people to make better decisions regarding preventative steps, evacuations, etc. Psychological research, however, has identified multiple biases that can affect people’s interpretation of probabilities and thus risk. For ...

Notes have been circulated on self risk. Nobody can be held responsible if anything is wrong or is improper information or insufficient information provided in it.

The key threat to information security is constituted by careless employees who do not comply with information security policies. To ensure that employees comply with organizations’ information security procedures, a number of information security policy compliance measures have been proposed in the past. Prior research has criticized these measures as lacking theoretically and empirically grou...

We develop a modeling framework to simultaneously evaluate various types of predictability in stock returns, including stocks’ sensitivity (“betas”) to systematic risk factors, stocks’ abnormal returns unexplained by risk factors (“alphas”), and returns of risk factors in excess of the risk-free rate (“risk premia”). Both firm-level characteristics and macroeconomic variables are used to predic...

The need of change in two Portuguese Textile and Clothing Industry companies is discussed using a qualitative analysis of content transcribed interviews through webQDA. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to several top managements level of both companies. From the interviews it has been possible to understand how the companies intend to contribute to change, their attitudes and perceptio...

abstract This article briefly reviews two important goals in online education: interaction and presence. These are important goals in online education because they are linked to learning and motivation to learn. The article provides guidelines and an extended example of how to design an online course in information security in a manner that will enhance interaction and presence. This article's ...

Supply chain management has become an important way for modern enterprise to get competitive advantage in competition and information technology greatly promotes its development. Starting from the perspective of supply chain management, this paper studies the application of information technology in supply chain management and its influence.