Finally, Ma, Gam and Banning's article, "Perceived Ease of Use and Usefulness of Sustainability Labels on Apparel Products: Application of the Technology Acceptance Model," utilizes the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to investigate consumers' perceptions of sustainability labels on clothing and the effectiveness of labels in determining purchase intentions.
The corresponding authors of the published articles perceive that biased attitude of the editors as well as the reviewers of international journals and the poor writing skills of scientists are the major factors underlying the non-acceptance of their scientific work.
"My C.O. said, 'After reading the article, I perceive you as a coward,' " Sergeant Espera said.
"There is pretty good evidence for various biases in the way that articles are perceived by reviewers … and double-blind review is one possible way to avoid, or at least mitigate, these biases," says Michael Eisen, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-founder of the nonprofit open-access publisher Public Library of Science PLOSS).
This will not only benefit science but also offers incentives for authors: If not all important limitations are acknowledged readers and reviewers of scientific articles may perceive that the authors were unaware of them.
After buying, renovating and selling the genuine article, Mr. Florke perceived a business opportunity.
They're not going to run an article that's perceived to be anti-Simon Cowell.
"When images of former U.S. presidents Reagan and Kennedy were morphed to increase baby-facedness," the article says, "their perceived dominance, strength, and cunning decreased significantly".
When Allan Houston and Charlie Ward made comments in a 2001 New York Times Sunday Magazine article that were perceived to be anti-Semitic, Dave Checketts, the Garden's president, was alarmed by the fallout and pushed for a strong public relations response.
As I read Steve Martin's article, I kept perceiving a subtext: the public decides who is or is not an artist ("what makes Twombly great is that he mysteriously, inexplicably, made art that museums, scholars and collectors generally recognize as profound").
