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University of Mannheim
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About: University of Mannheim is a education organization based out in Mannheim, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & European union. The organization has 4448 authors who have published 12918 publications receiving 446557 citations. The organization is also known as: Uni Mannheim & UMA.
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TL;DR: Men's acceptance of rape myths has been shown to correlate positively with self-reported rape proclivity (RP) as mentioned in this paper, and the causal pathway underlying this correlation has been explored.
Abstract: Men's rape myth acceptance (RMA; prejudiced beliefs that serve to exonerate the rapist and blame the victim) has been shown to correlate positively with self-reported rape proclivity (RP). To explore the causal pathway underlying this correlation, two experiments were conducted in which the relative cognitive accessibility of RMA and RP was varied. Male students were asked to report their RP in the context of a scale assessing attraction toward sexual aggression (Experiment 1) or in response to five realistic date-rape scenarios (Experiment 2), either before or after they filled out a 20-item RMA scale. In both studies, the correlation of RMA and RP was significantly greater in the after than in the before condition, suggesting that the belief in rape myths has a causal influence on men's proclivity to rape. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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06 Dec 2010TL;DR: The efficacy of Cujo is demonstrated, where it detects 94% of the drive-by downloads with few false alarms and a median run-time of 500 ms per web page---a quality that has not been attained in previous work on detection of drive- by-download attacks.
Abstract: The JavaScript language is a core component of active and dynamic web content in the Internet today. Besides its great success in enhancing web applications, however, JavaScript provides the basis for so-called drive-by downloads---attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in web browsers and their extensions for unnoticeably downloading malicious software. Due to the diversity and frequent use of obfuscation in these attacks, static code analysis is largely ineffective in practice. While dynamic analysis and honeypots provide means to identify drive-by-download attacks, current approaches induce a significant overhead which renders immediate prevention of attacks intractable.In this paper, we present Cujo, a system for automatic detection and prevention of drive-by-download attacks. Embedded in a web proxy, Cujo transparently inspects web pages and blocks delivery of malicious JavaScript code. Static and dynamic code features are extracted on-the-fly and analysed for malicious patterns using efficient techniques of machine learning. We demonstrate the efficacy of Cujo in different experiments, where it detects 94% of the drive-by downloads with few false alarms and a median run-time of 500 ms per web page---a quality that, to the best of our knowledge, has not been attained in previous work on detection of drive-by-download attacks.
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TL;DR: This paper showed that people find uncertain bets more attractive when preceded by questions about less familiar items than when preceded with questions about more familiar items, and that the preference to bet on more familiar domains is less pronounced for the first domain evaluated on a survey than for later domains.
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TL;DR: Genetic testing of SCN5A is especially useful in familial disease to identify individuals at cardiac risk and in sporadic cases, however, a genetic basis and the value of mutation screening has to be further determined.
Abstract: The Brugada syndrome (BS) is a distinct form of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and may cause sudden cardiac death in healthy young individuals. In the surface ECG, BS can be recognized by an atypical right bundle branch block and ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads. Mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene SCN5A are only known to cause BS. In a multi-center effort, we have collected clinical data on 44 unrelated index patients and family members and performed a complete genetic analysis of SCN5A. In 37% the disease was familial, whereas in the majority it was sporadic (63%). Five novel SCN5A mutations (2602delC, resulting in: E867X; 2581_2582del TT: F861fs951X; 2673G>A: E1225K; 4435_4437delAAG: K1479del; and 5425C>A: S1812X) were found and were randomly located in SCN5A. Mutation frequencies (SCN5A+) differed significantly between familial (38%) and sporadic disease (0%) (p=0.001). Disease penetrance was complete in the SCN5A+ adult patients, but incomplete in SCN5A+ children (17%). Genetic testing of SCN5A is especially useful in familial disease to identify individuals at cardiac risk. In sporadic cases, however, a genetic basis and the value of mutation screening has to be further determined. These results are in line with a possibly genetic and clinical heterogeneity of BS.
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TL;DR: It is found that after more negative press coverage of CEO pay, firms reduce option grants and increase less contentious types of pay such as salary, although overall compensation does not change.
Abstract: We investigate whether public opinion influences the level and structure of executive compensation. During 1992-2008 the negativity of press coverage of CEO pay varied significantly, with stock options being the most criticized pay component. We find that after more negative press coverage of CEO pay firms reduce option grants and increase less contentious types of pay such as salary, while overall compensation does not change. The reduction in option pay after increased press negativity is more pronounced when firms, CEOs and boards have stronger reputation concerns. Our within-firm, within-year identification shows the results cannot be explained by annual changes in accounting rules regarding executive compensation, stock market conditions, or pay mean-reversion.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andreas Kugel | 128 | 910 | 75529 |
Jürgen Rehm | 126 | 1132 | 116037 |
Norbert Schwarz | 117 | 488 | 71008 |
Andreas Hochhaus | 117 | 923 | 68685 |
Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
Herta Flor | 112 | 638 | 48175 |
Eberhard Ritz | 111 | 1109 | 61530 |
Marcella Rietschel | 110 | 765 | 65547 |
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg | 107 | 534 | 44592 |
Daniel Cremers | 99 | 655 | 44957 |
Thomas Brox | 99 | 329 | 94431 |
Miles Hewstone | 88 | 418 | 26350 |
Tobias Banaschewski | 85 | 692 | 31686 |
Andreas Herrmann | 82 | 761 | 25274 |
Axel Dreher | 78 | 350 | 20081 |