The cloud computing paradigm promises to provide flexible IT services delivered via the internet. The cost efficiency of cloud computing services is mainly enabled by a high degree of automation realized by SLAs and minor direct human interaction. In this paper, we analyze eight expert interviews to identify and discuss the different levels of trust from an end-user perspective (trust in mediat...

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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit internationally in March 2020, governments and political incumbents received exceptionally high approval ratings. Such a sudden spike of public support times crisis is often explained as ‘rally ‘round flag’ effect. This paper has three goals: first, to examine whether rally effect indeed occurred; second, analyse how much it related (i) affectedness, i.e. occurren...

Abstract Should those who would be disproportionately affected by a policy change have more influence on that reform than the average citizen? And does it matter whether individuals stand to benefit or lose out from proposed reform? Despite longstanding debates proportionality, asymmetry, and interests in democratic theory literature, we know little about public opinion these questions. This st...

This article explores the conditions that underlie differential marking of objects in Spanish. It is argued here A-marker direct object realization features D (class and animate) verb (affectedness). These must be part label Phi dominates VP. The interaction between participating Spanish DOM will described by using feature geometry.

In (1a) the patient the pie is realized as an object and in (1b) it is realized as an oblique marked by the preposition at. There is a semantic effect associated with this alternation: when the pie is a direct object it is known to have necessarily been affected in some way, but when it is an oblique it may or may not have been affected, depending on the context (i.e. it is underspecified for a...