Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

Field-dependence and form discrimination

Abstract: Rod-and-Frame Test scores were correlated with performance in a tactile form discrimination task It was found that the more field-independent the S, the higher the accuracy in the discrimination task Of additional interest was the finding that the strongest correlation emerged between female RFT scores and the active touch condition

Fighting botnets with economic uncertainty

Abstract: Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today’s Internet Since current technological defenses against botnets have failed to produce results, it has become necessary to think about different strategies Given that money is perhaps the single determining force driving the growth in botnet attacks, we propose an interesting economic approach to take away the root cause of botnet, ie, the financial incentives In this paper, we model botnet-related cyber crimes as a result of profitmaximizing decision-making optimization problem from the perspective of botmasters By introducing the uncertainty level created by the virtual bots, we make determining the optimal botnet size infeasible for the botnet operators, and consequently the botnet profitability can fall dramatically The theoretical model presented here has a large potential to fight off botnet-related attacks of varying revenue patterns Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

The Rationality of Automobile Seatbelt Usage: The Value of a Statistical Life and Fatality Risk Beliefs

Abstract: This article examines the rationality of seatbelt usage using an original data set of 465 adult respondents. People with high stated values of statistical life, who do not smoke, and who have risk beliefs that are highly elastic with respect to actual risks are more likely to use seatbelts, as economic theory predicts. Respondents' stated values of statistical life were similar on average to the value of life range of $2.2 million to $7.9 million computed from their revealed preferences for seatbelt usage, providing empirical support for the mutual consistency of these two approaches.