In this study, we have constructed a prototype tele-directing system for remote cooperative work, in order for an instructor to give intuitive directions to workers at a remote site. In this system, an instructor can direct remote workers by simply pointing at the live video image of a remote site with a laser pointer in his/her hand. The live image is projected on a hemispherical dome screen t...

Additional Reports on the Effects of a peculiar Regimen in Cases of Cancer, Scrofula, Consumption, Asthma, and. other Chronic Diseases. By William Lambe, M. D. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 526. London, 1815. That death is the common lot of all mankind, cannot be denied ; but that its 'premature accession, by the long black catalogue of diseases, is owing to the tenderness, the luxury, and corruptions introd...

One of Donald Bates’s most striking claims was that the bio-medical sciences were central to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century and that its innovators drew heavily on the “organic mechanism” of the ancients. The paper elaborates on and defends Bates’s proposal against a more conventional reading of the Scientific Revolution as driven by celestial and terrestrial mechanics and physics.

Reputation systems provide a form of social control and reveal behaviour patterns in the uncertain and riskladen environment of the open Internet. However, proposed reputation systems typically focus on the effectiveness and accuracy of reputation management, and suffer from a number of common vulnerabilities. As a result, introducing reputation management into the business environment may only...

a r t i c l e i n f o Motivated by the contradictory findings in literature regarding whether high-reputation sellers enjoy a price premium over low-reputation sellers, this paper examines the pricing strategies of sellers with different reputation levels. We find that a negative price premium effect (i.e., a high-reputation seller charges a lower price than a low-reputation seller) exists due ...

We examine the impact of class size on student evaluations of instructor performance using data on all economics classes offered at the University of California, Santa Barbara from Fall 1997 to Spring 2004. A particular strength of this data is the opportunity to control for both instructor and course fixed effects. In contrast to the literature examining class size effects on test-based outcom...

This paper investigates the concept of corporate reputation and corporate image. Corporate image is the product of the experiences of a product or service and the messages sent by an organisation, while corporate reputation is the product of management behaviours and organisation-public relationships. This paper explores whether corporate reputation can be managed and who manages it. It is espe...

In reputation systems, agents collectively estimate the others’ behaviours through feedbacks to decide with whom they can interact. To avoid manipulations, most reputation systems weight feedbacks with respect to the agents’ reputation. However, these systems are sensitive to some strategic manipulations, like oscillating attacks or whitewashing. In this paper, we propose (1) a credibility meas...

Some form of measure of reputation seems to be at the heart of all online transactional activities that require trust. However, most of the first generation reputation management systems (RMS) used are yet very basic and often vulnerable to various attacks. In this research, we take a holistic approach to the problem of RMS design. We propose a generalized set-theoretic reputation function cons...

the relationship between caring burden and coping strategies in hemodialysis patients caregivers     abbasi a [1] , ashrafrezaee n [2] , asayesh h [3] *, shariati a [4] , rahmani h [5] , mollaei e [6] , bathaei sa [7] , shoori bidgoli a [8]     received: 8 mar, 2012 accepted: 21 jun , 2012    abstract   bachground & aims: patients with end stage renal disease require long term treatment and car...