OBJECTIVE To determine how the withdrawal from the market of the rotavirus vaccine has affected physicians' trust in vaccine safety mechanisms, future adherence to vaccine recommendations, and willingness to use a new rotavirus vaccine. DESIGN National survey mailed to 1228 randomly selected pediatricians and family physicians. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Confidence in vaccine safety mechanisms w...

The success of the mission assigned to a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) depends heavily on cooperation between nodes this network. Indeed, given vulnerability wireless sensor networks attack, some entities may engage in malicious behavior aimed at undermining proper functioning As result, selection reliable for task execution becomes necessity To improve and security networks, use Trust Manageme...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the associations of maternal social networks and perceptions of trust with the prevalence of suspected autism spectrum disorders in 18-month-old offspring in Japan. METHODS Questionnaires included measurements of maternal social networks (number of relatives or friends they could call upon for assistance), maternal perceptions of trust, mutual assistance (i.e. individ...

For the stochastic multi-criteria decision-making problem, in which the information on criteria's weights is incomplete and the indices value of alternatives are in the form of interval neutrosophic fuzzy numbers, an interval neutrosophic random decision-making approach based on WYCIN certainty factor and prospect theory is proposed. According to the score function of interval neutrosophic fuzz...

customers extend robust trust to a business when they believe the business puts their interests first. good experience of banking services and recommendations of other customers can increase trust. loyalty and word of mouth (wom) is accepted as key factors successes of marketing. this paper seeks to discover the affecting factors on positive word of mouth and loyalty based on trust enhancement ...

Expert knowledge consists of statements Sj (facts and rules). The expert’s degree of confidence in each statement Sj can be described as a (subjective) probability (some probabilities are known to be independent). Examples: if we are interested in oil, we should look at seismic data (confidence 90%); a bank A trusts a client B, so if we trust A, we should trust B too (confidence 99%). If a quer...