Ad hoc networks are widely used in military and other scientific area. There are various kind of routing protocols are available to establish the route, with the proper analyzation one can choose the routing protocol to form their own network with respect to number of nodes and security considerations. The mobility of nodes makes the environment infrastructure less. It also has a certain number...

This paper reports on system trust and interpersonal trust issues revealed in an embedded-case study of two telemedicine services offered by a teaching hospital. Consistent with McKnight (2005) perceived system competence was an important dimension of system trustworthiness. Drawing on representation theory (Wand and Weber, 1995) we observed: 1. Some clinicians feel telemedicine provides a bett...

It is widely assumed that sustainability reporting is a mechanism that companies can use to demonstrate their trustworthiness with regard to development in a sustainable manner. This article uses the Mayer, Davis and Schoorman trust model as basis to discuss how sustainability reporting can enhance trustworthiness in a sustainable development context. The study also uses a surveyquestionnaire, ...

Evidentiality is the linguistic representation of the nature of evidence for a statement. In other words, it is the linguistically encoded evidence for the trustworthiness of a statement. In this paper, we aim to explore how linguistically encoded information of evidentiality can contribute to the prediction of trustworthiness in natural language processing (NLP). We propose to incorporate evid...

African Americans are disproportionately affected by COVID-19-related disease and mortality due to long-standing social, political, economic, environmental injustice; COVID-19 inequities exacerbated institutional distrust. In the absence of trust, public health authorities have not adequately fulfilled their professional ethical obligations protect American communities from negative effects COV...

There he worked in a unit that housed—or “warehoused,” as he puts it—patients with schizophrenia. Many had been abandoned by their families and faced the prospect of spending their lives in mental health institutions. It struck him: “These were people just like me in nearly every way, except for the fact that they were suffering from this tragic disease,” Ilardi recalls. “They could get lonely ...