introduction: universities and their faculty members are responsible for educating students for social responsibilities. if the faculty members are to contribute to the attainment of university and societal goals, they should trust their dean, colleagues, and students. this will facilitate the collective efficacy of faculty members. if faculty members believe in their collective abilities, the ...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In this paper, we propose a trust enhanced distributed authorisation architecture (TEDA) that provides a holistic framework for authorisation taking into account the state of a user platform. The model encompasses the notions of 'hard' and 'soft' trust to determine whether a platform can be trusted for authorisation. We first explain the rationale for the o...

Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy Institut de Biologie-Biology of Adaptation and Aging (B2A), Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Paris, France Department of Clinical Neurosciences-Division of Stem Cell Neurobiology, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute and NIHR Biomedical Research Centr...

In (Boggs, Tolle and Kearsley 1994b) the authors introduced an eeective algorithm for general large scale nonlinear programming problems. In this paper we describe the theoretical foundation for this method. The algorithm is based on a trust region, sequential quadratic programming (SQP) technique and uses a special auxiliary function, called a merit function or line-search function, for assess...

Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

social system based on mutual trust among members continues to exist. social trust in modem era is more important than earlier periods. subject of current report is focused on the trust of iranian students in different aspects. main question in this investigation is about social-political trust of these students (based on trust in islamic republic of iran) at the past and present. this matter e...

In this short note, the recently popular modifier-adaptation framework for real-time optimization is discussed in tandem with the well-developed trustregion framework of numerical optimization, and it is shown that the basic version of the former is simply a special case of the latter. This relation is then exploited to propose a globally convergent modifier-adaptation algorithm using already d...

Trustworthy applications in fully decentralized systems require a trust anchor. This paper describes how such an anchor can be implemented efficiently in p2p systems. The basic concept is to use threshold cryptography in order to sign messages by a quorum of peers. The focus is put on advanced mechanisms to secure the shares of the secret key over time, using proactive secret sharing. This mech...