In this study we investigate the performance of investment trust new issues during their first 750 days of trading. Research on the initial performance of new issues has documented that abnormal returns are obtained during the first day of trading. We compare the performance of investment trust new issues with the performance of size and style-based matching investment trusts taking the multina...

Many interactions between network users rely on trust, which is becoming particularly important given the security breaches in the Internet today. These problems are further exacerbated by the dynamics in wireless mobile networks. In this paper, we address the issue of trust advisory and its establishment in mobile networks, with application to ad hoc networks, including delay tolerant (DTNs).W...

A network of people having established trust relations and a model for propagation of related trust scores are fundamental building blocks in many of todays most successful e-commerce and recommendation systems. However, the web of trust is often too sparse to predict trust values between non-familiar people with high accuracy. Trust inferences are transitive associations among users in the con...

Participatory planning that includes interest groups and municipal representatives has been presented as a means to deal with the increasing difficulty to reach arrangements due to progressively scarce land resources. Under dispute is whether collaborative forms of planning augment social capital or whether they might actually cause the destruction of such a valuable social commodity. In this p...

Regional development is a dynamic process where relatively stable periods are interrupted by phases of more rapid transformation and disruption. Such dynamics heavily influenced the scope nature knowledge networks. Trust key mechanism influencing mobilisation networks for learning innovation thereby an important factor understanding regional development. This paper sets out to unpack role initi...

P66 Recruitment aids for a phase II randomised trial in low risk bladder cancer Steven Penegar, Rebecca Lewis, James Catto, Joanne Cresswell, Leyshon Griffiths, Micki Hill, John Kelly, Allen Knight, John McGrath, Laura Wiley, Hugh Mostafid, Emma Hall The Institute of Cancer Research; University of Sheffield; South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust;...

Localization is one of the hottest research topics in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), since many important applications of UWSNs, e.g., event sensing, target tracking and monitoring, require location information of sensor nodes. Nowadays, a large number of localization algorithms have been proposed for UWSNs. How to improve location accuracy are well studied. However, few of them t...

During social interactions, we use available information to guide our decisions, including behaviour and emotional displays. In some situations, behaviour and emotional displays may be incongruent, complicating decision making. This study had two main aims: first, to investigate the independent contributions of behaviour and facial displays of emotion on decisions to trust, and, second, to exam...

The concept of trust in multi-agent systems (MASs) has received significant attention in recent years, and a number of approaches have been proposed to enable agents to form, maintain and use trust relationships in their dealings with others. However, current approaches do not adequately address highly dynamic multi-agent systems, where the population and structure changes frequently. For examp...

Trust is the central dimension of e-commerce systems adoption, which is one of the most important aspects of e-CRM. In this paper, the effects of perceived Web quality on e-trust, mediated by website user’s anxiety and hedonic needs, are tested and discussed. E-trust is deconstructed into three dimensions (integrity, benevolence, and ability), and the complex relationships of e-trust dimensions...