OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the attitudes and trust that African American and white parents have toward their children participating in research. DESIGN Self-administered, cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of parents. SETTING Primary Care Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from August 2004 through April 2005. PARTICIPANTS One hundred ninety parents (140 African A...

This interview-based study explores trust in public-private cooperation by addressing the research questions: what are the main sources of distrust in public-private contracting? And why? We compare two Spanish social services subfields: one with high levels of cross-sector distrust and another one with no distrust between public and private sectors. The sources of the identified cross-sector d...

Securing multi-party distributed systems is still a challenge. In such distributed systems with completely distributed interactions between parties with mutual distrust, it is hard to control the illicit flowing of private information to unintended parties. Unlike some existing solutions dealing with verification of low-level cryptographic protocol in multi-party interactions, we propose a nove...

According to transaction cost economics, contracts are always incomplete and offer opportunities to defect. Some level of trust is a sine qua non for trade. If the seller is better informed about product quality than the buyer, the buyer has to rely on information the seller provides or has to check the information by testing the product or tracing the supply chain processes, thus incurring ext...

Non-allopathic treatment methods still play a substantial role in management of orthopaedic injuries in Sri Lanka despite the provision of free allopathic health care in state sector. Traditional healing (‘deshiya chikithsa’/‘Sinhala wedakama’) has been practiced for centuries, well before the establishment of allopathic system [1]. These physicians are highly patronised on cultural background,...

Propagating trust/distrust from a set of seed (good/bad) pages to the entire Web has been widely used to combat Web spam. It has been mentioned that a combined use of good and bad seeds can lead to better results. However, little work has been known to realize this insight successfully. A serious issue of existing algorithms is that trust/distrust is propagated in non-differential ways. However...

OBJECTIVE The authors evaluated the validity of trust in automation and information technology (IT) suspicion by examining their factor structure and relationship with decision confidence. BACKGROUND Research on trust has burgeoned, yet the dimensionality of trust remains elusive. Researchers suggest that trust is a unidimensional construct, whereas others believe it is multidimensional. Addi...

Researchers have remarked and recoiled at the literature confusion regarding the meanings of trust and distrust. The problem involves both the proliferation of narrow intra-disciplinary research definitions of trust and the multiple meanings the word trust possesses in everyday use. To enable trust researchers to more easily compare empirical results, we define a cohesive set of conceptual and ...

In social media, trust and distrust among users are important factors in helping users make decisions, dissect information, and receive recommendations. However, the sparsity and imbalance of social relations bring great difficulties and challenges in predicting trust and distrust. Meanwhile, there are numerous inducing factors to determine trust and distrust relations. The relationship among i...