this study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. the servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reli...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...

background and aims: this study aimed to evaluate the effect of enforcement of new traffic laws on the fatal and non- fatal injury rates in iran. methods: in a longitudinal, interventional controlled trial study, all subjects with history of fatal and non-fatal injuries were studied. their injuries were caused by six risky violations (unauthorized speed, illegal overtaking, red traffic light cr...

tokyo metropolis, with some exclusive features such as the experience of land readjustment, high level of technology, great economical centralization, and high density of information, presents a type of complicated, crowded, and instable architecture and city planning. such a status is a problem for determining the architectural typology and makes it practically hard for introducing the contemp...

TRUSTING IT ARTIFACTS: HOW TRUST AFFECTS OUR USE OF TECHNOLOGY

The meaning assigned to the word ‘trust’ is diverse. We present a formalism that allows various interpretations of trust. To this end, we introduce terms that specify the observations of agents, called connections. Then we apply epistemic semantics to reason about the knowledge of agents. We allow specifications of interpretations of trust in terms of facts, and analyze whether agents know the ...

Systems designed with measurement and attestation in mind are often layered, with the lower layers measuring the layers above them. Attestations of such systems, which we call layered attestations, must bundle together the results of a diverse set of application-specific measurements of various parts of the system. Some methods of layered attestation are more trustworthy than others, so it is i...

We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is anonymous, such markets perform poorly: sellers are not trustworthy, and buyers do not trust sellers. If sellers are identifiable and can, hence, build a reputation, efficiency quadruples but is still at only a third of the first best. Adding more information by granting buyers access...

scapes or metropolitan regions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines governance today as “the organization and administration of regional authorities and institutions on the most varied levels as well as the corresponding processes of decision-making, cooperation, and exertion of influence” (OECD 2001). But, as most observers of politico-institutional develop...

Responses of benthic macroinvertebrates along gradients of urban intensity were investigated in nine metropolitan areas across the United States. Invertebrate assemblages in metropolitan areas where forests or shrublands were being converted to urban land were strongly related to urban intensity. In metropolitan areas where agriculture and grazing lands were being converted to urban land, inver...