this study deals with the social capital effects on organization?s performance improvement in municipality. evaluating the social capital amount and the level of people?s performance improvement in the concerned society and investigating the relation between social capital and organization?s performance improvement and describing their variables of theoretical basis, are the goals of this resea...

BACKGROUND Screening using fecal occult blood testing (FOBt) reduces colorectal cancer mortality, but the test has low sensitivity. A "missed" cancer may cause psychologic harms in the screened population that partially counteract the benefits of early detection. METHODS Three hundred and eleven people diagnosed with colorectal cancer (i) after a negative FOBt result (interval cancer), (ii) a...

The objective of online social networking sites is to make it possible to connect people who share common interests and pursuits across different geographical locations. With this, the concept of trust also comes into perspective as the participants reveal a great quantity of personal information in the Web environment. This work adopts web-based Social Networks as the principle means for study...

Online communities that allow their users to express their personal preferences, such as the members they trust and the products they appreciate, are becoming increasingly popular. Exploiting these communities as playgrounds for sociological research we present two frameworks for analyzing the correlation between interpersonal trust and interest similarity. We obtain empirical results from appl...

BACKGROUND Several factors influence patients' trust, and trust influences the doctor-patient relationship. Recent literature has investigated the quality of the personal relationship and its dynamics by considering the role of communication and the elements that influence trust giving in the frame of general practitioner (GP) consultations. OBJECTIVE We analysed certain aspects of the intera...

Social networking websites (SNS) facilitate communication and information sharing between people. Media have reported significant concerns of SNS users regarding their privacy. SNS have tried to address these privacy concerns by introducing controlling features. This study investigates the issue of trust in SNS, its predictors, and its consequences. We suggest that three categories of factors s...

Virtual marketplaces on the web provide people with great facilities to buy and sell goods similar to conventional markets. In traditional business, reputation is subjectively built for known persons and companies as the deals are made in the course of time. As it is important to do business with trustful individuals and companies, there is a need to survive the reputation concept in virtual ma...