This study addressed the nature and functioning of relationships of interpersonal trust among managers and professionals in organizations, the factors influencing trust's development, and the implications of trust for behavior and performance. Theoretical foundations were drawn from the sociological literature on trust and the socialpsychological literature on trust in close relationships. An i...

In this month's issue, we report a survey of members of the Association of British Neurologists, which asked if they viewed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) as a neurological condition--84% of respondents did not. This is at odds with current classification in ICD-10. We discuss the difficulties of classifying CFS and myalgic encephalopmeylitis (ME), including historical and sociological factors,...

Abstract: Different sociological, technological, environmental and ecological factors are challenging the individual mobility. Most of these challenges require for further improvements of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and rapid innovations in Driver Information Systems (DIS), jointly forming ”Das Auto 2.0”. The different IT domains of this connected car will be linked by open commun...

The determination of traffic and earnings which are to be antici­ pated for a proposed revenue bond highway project involves many standard traffic engineering techniques, supplemented by special investi­ gations of economic and sociological factors. Traffic considerations also play an important role in preliminary studies to determine the most feasible location for the facility, whether it be a...

IT-based business initiatives, such as ERP and BPR, require high computer self-efficacy among employees because these changes require a large-scale use of computers. Computer self-efficacy is affected by many internal and external factors, for instance, personality, organizational culture, etc. While extensive literature exists on how psychological and sociological factors affect a person’s sel...

Viral marketing has attracted attention from both academics and practitioners. With the rise of usergenerated content (UGC) and broadcasting networks, viral online video advertising campaigns (viral advertising in short) are an emerging trend in viral marketing. Previous literature mainly studied the influence of network structure on viral advertising. Here, we extend such works by decomposing ...

Communities of practices (Cops) can improve organizational performance by effectively promoting knowledge diffusion, and recently they were receiving increasing attention from organizations in abroad. The aim of our study was to further explore how to cultivate and support Communities of practice. According to some literatures, we first studied what is the most important influencing factor of k...

This study is aimed at proposing an agent-based model formulated in (Ezhov & Khrennikov, 2005) and describing the emergence of specific binary memory codes in the system characterized by high inequality. The model is offered as a heuristic tool to predict a new competitive pair in the human brain’s memory localized in the hippocampus and prefrontal corteх, correspondingly. This model is able to...

This paper presents a multidisciplinary methodology for developing public eProcurement (eProc.) projects in countries whose economy are either emerging, developing or in transition. The focus is on the first part of the methodology, namely eReadiness. Our aim is to bring out a number of issues, which are currently challenging many eGovernment projects through an integrated approach by encompass...

Several models of adolescent sexual activity have previously been published and most of them suggest two basic components, biological and sociological. This article highlights important environmental factors in shaping the sexual behaviour of the school-going youth in Uganda. Students in education levels Senior 1 to 6 participated in the study. Information was collected from self-response struc...