This study aims to determine the public relations branding strategy in case of transfer status from Bengkulu State Islamic Institute (IAIN Bengkulu) University Fatmawati Sukarno (UIN Bengkulu). We use qualitative data that produces form written or spoken words people and observed behaviour. The selection informants this used purposive sampling, which is information with certain considerations c...

This paper studies patient volume and the severity of case mix as they relate to physicians’ human capital accumulation and pace of technology adoption by exploring a quality signaling mechanism through which physicians build peer reputation. We show that volume building leads physicians to actively manage case mix and find that successful surgeries (particularly for difficult cases) raise futu...

In an ad-hoc network, intermediate nodes on a communication path are expected to forward packets of other nodes so that the mobile nodes can communicate beyond their wireless transmission range. However, because wireless mobile nodes are usually constrained by limited power and computation resources, a selfish node may be unwilling to spend its resources in forwarding packets which are not of i...

Existing economic models of leadership (e.g., Hermalin, 1998) consider leadership in a static setting only. Yet an important phenomenon of leadership is its persistence. One aspect of leadership, for instance, that is unexplorable in a static setting is reputation: The leader develops a reputation for leading her followers well. To allow for reputation effects and other behaviors that make sens...

Distributed trust management addresses the challenges of eliciting, evaluating and propagating trust for service providers on the distributed network. By delegating trust management to brokers, individual users can share their feedbacks for services without the overhead of maintaining their own ratings. This research proposes a two-tier trust hierarchy, in which a user relies on her broker to p...