The first premise of J. L. Schellenberg’s Hiddenness Argument equates God’s love with a positive relationship to human beings. To illustrate this relationship, the model parental is used, based on standards modern American liberal world, not biblical standard. As result, we attribute God narrowly understood horizontal towards people, which completely alien understanding developed in Christian t...

Introduction of the Hospital SAHZU is a not-for-profit tertiary care public hospital founded in 1869 by the British Church Missionary Society with a mission of Spreading Benevolence and Saving People. It has 2 sites, the Jiefang Road Campus and the Riverside Campus, with a total capacity of 3200 inpatient beds, and is the major medical center in southeast China. In 2013, SAHZU was accredited by...

Recently, the IBM Institute for Knowledge-Based Organizations (IKO) studied the role of trust in knowledge sharing. Factors such as the strength of the relationship between the knowledge seeker and the knowledge source, the difference between competence-based and benevolence-based trust and the type of knowledge being exchanged were explored. Data from a two-part survey of 138 people in three c...

It is indispensable for users to evaluate the trustworthiness of other users (referred to as advisors), to cope with possible misleading opinions provided by them. Advisors’ misleading opinions may be induced by their dishonesty, subjectivity difference with users, or both. Existing approaches do not well distinguish the two different causes. In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic grap...

This study explores several downstream effects of trust in virtual communities and the antecedents of trust in this unique type of environment. The data, applying an existing scale to measure two dimensions of trust (ability and benevolence/integrity), show that trust had a downstream effect on members’ intentions to both give information and get information through the virtual community. Both ...

We develop theory that distinguishes trust among employees in typical task contexts (marked by low levels of situational unpredictability and danger) from trust in “highreliability” task contexts (those marked by high levels of situational unpredictability and danger). A study of firefighters showed that trust in high-reliability task contexts was based on coworkers’ integrity, whereas trust in...

While activity participation in later life has attracted considerable attention from policymakers and scholars, indoor outdoor engagement among older Chinese migrants Europe is understudied. Using in-depth interviews with 21 the Netherlands seven Belgium, this study first to explore migrants’ experiences perspective of Confucianism, cornerstone culture. More specifically, impact four acknowledg...

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a subst...

Trust (integrity, benevolence, and ability) is the central dimension of e-commerce systems adoption. Based on customer selfservice systems and human–computer interaction logics, affective variables are important research issues to fully understand the relationship between information systems development and e-trust. In this paper, the effects of the perceived Web quality with service contents o...