During 2007, East Africa has been the venue for an attempt to field-test the principles of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). The effort has involved a selfmotivated group of United Nations (UN) offices and programmes, and their partners amongst the non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations, regional research institutions, and academia and beyond. The motivation for the...

Recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have facilitated integration along supply chains. Besides technological advancement and governmental support, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) still face significant challenges when integrating into global supply chains. In a study of SMEs operating in the Macedonian and American wine industries, we investigate the i...

We claim that the digital trust research area has tended to privilege the act of trusting while considering distrust a negative outcome. However, from the users perspective distrust might be as valid an option as trust (it may not be a good idea to trade, collaborate or exchange in a particular context). How do we evaluate digital environments that aim to empower trust for the user? This positi...

Why do individuals interpret the same information differently? We propose that form beliefs following Bayes' Rule with one exception: when assessing credibility of experts, they double-dip data and use already-updated instead their priors. This “pre-screening” mechanism explains why jointly disagree about states world ordering signals experts affects final beliefs, over- or underreact to new in...

This study compared the responses of Americans surveyed before (N = 198) and after (N = 208) the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in regard to their beliefs about their personal worlds, their American national group, and their perceptions of the American national group’s shared beliefs about itself. Examining the five belief domains highlighted by Eidelson and Eidelson (2003)—that is, vuln...

Trust propagation is a fundamental topic of study in the theory and practice of rankingand recommendation systems on networks. The Page Rank [9] algorithm ranks web pagesby propagating trust throughout a network, and similar algorithms have been designed forrecommendation systems. How might one analogously propagate distrust as well? This is aquestion of practical importance and...

We studied prospectively the association of hostility and anger suppression by the use of ultrasonographically assessed 2-year progression of carotid atherosclerosis (PCA) in a sample of 119 middle-aged men from eastern Finland. Based on measures of cynical distrust, impatience-irritability, anger-in, and anger-control, four variants of hostility-by-anger suppression model were tested with mult...