This is the twenty-seventh report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, an...

In this paper, the results of a validation experiment for two existing computational trust models describing human trust are reported. One model uses experiences of performance in order to estimate the trust in different trustees. The second model carries the notion of relative trust. The idea of relative trust is that trust in a certain trustee not solely depends on the experiences with that t...

Each year Medicare's Board of Trustees issues a report that describes the financial condition of the Medicare program in the near term and over the next 75 years. Similar to recent trustees reports, the 2008 report projects that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2019, at which time scheduled income will cover 78 percent of expenditures. Looking at these projections, s...

Anonymity of the participants is an important requirement for some applications in electronic commerce, in particular for payment systems. Because anonymity could be in connict with law enforcement, for instance in cases of blackmailing or money laundering, it has been proposed to design systems in which a trustee or a set of trustees can selectively revoke the anonymity of the participants inv...

C linical use of estrogens and progestogens in women through and beyond the menopause transition continues to be a source of ongoing debate and confusion. The plethora of new clinical trial data regarding postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) published over the last few years prompted The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) to develop reports on HT use in October 2002 (Menopause 2003;10:6-12)...

We exploit the fact that generosity and trustworthiness are highly correlated and the former can thus be a sign of the latter. Subjects decide between a generous and a mean split in a dictator game. Some of them are informed from the start that afterwards they will participate in a trust game and that their choice in the dictator game may matter; others are not informed in advance. In the trust...

A statem ent from the Univer­ sity ’s Board of Trustees concern­ ing parietal hours will hopefully be issued next week, said Dr. Thomas Carney, chairman of the Board’s S tudent Affairs SubCom mittee. The com m ittee met yesterday in the Center for Continuing Education to review a presen­ tation by facult"' and students on hall life. The Board of Trustees is also expected to release statem ents ...

1. In July, 1852, Dr. Andrew McFarland resigned the officc of Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, having, in the language of the Trustees of the Institution, " with signal ability and devotion discharged the duties for about seven years." He was succeeded by Dr. John E. Tyler, in whom the Trustees believe that they have "a judicious, efficient, and devoted Superintendent....

Many models of trust consider the trust an agent has in another agent (the trustee) as the result of experiences with that specific agent in combination with certain personality attributes. For the case of multiple trustees, there might however be dependencies between the trust levels in different trustees. In this paper, two alternatives are described to model such dependencies: (1) developmen...

A “secret sharing system” permits a secret to be shared among n trustees in such a way that any k of them can recover the secret, but any k 1 have complete uncertainty about it. A linear coding scheme for secret sharing is exhibited which subsumes the polynomial interpolation method proposed by Shamir and can also he viewed as a deterministic version of Blakley’s probabilistic method. Bounds on...