In the literature, several different definitions of trust and models have been presented to aid researchers as they apply the concepts of trust within their systems. The multiplicity of trust definitions creates a high level of ambiguity. This paper takes a step away from models of trust and attempts to define and categorize several attributes, methods of discovery, and methods of evaluation th...

Hard-particle packings have served as useful starting points to study the structure of diverse systems such as liquids, living cells, granular media, glasses, and amorphous solids. Howard Reiss has played a major role in helping to illuminate our understanding of hard-particle systems, which still offer scientists many interesting conundrums. Jammed configurations of hard particles are of great...

organizational culture of an organization is one of the fundamental staffs' job satisfaction factors. this study aimed to determine the effects of organizational culture on faculty members' job satisfaction using hofstede's model. in a descriptive applied study 61 faculty members of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences were randomly selected and studies in 2015. hofstede's model were ...

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So far the least growth rate known for a divergent inherent ambiguity function was logarithmic. This paper shows that for each computable divergent total non-decreasing function f : N → N there is a context-free language L with a divergent inherent ambiguity function g below f . This proves that extremely slow growing divergent inherent ambiguity functions exist. For instance there is a context...

Microaggressions are unintentional or thoughtless behaviors that convey negative messages to members of minority groups. Due to the attributional ambiguity of microaggressions, people often differ in their judgments about how morally bad acts of microaggression are. To account for this individual variation, we explored the potential influence of heavy social media use on individuals’ moral judg...

We examine a problem of demand for insurance indemnification, when the insured is sensitive to ambiguity and behaves according maxmin expected utility model Gilboa Schmeidler (J. Math. Econ. 18:141–153, 1989), whereas insurer (risk-averse or risk-neutral) expected-utility maximiser. characterise optimal indemnity functions both with without customary ex ante no-sabotage requirement on feasible ...

An analytic parahermitian matrix admits in almost all cases an eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) with eigenvalues and eigenvectors. We have previously defined a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) domain algorithm which has been proven to extract the eigenvalues. The selection of as functions guarantees turn existence unique one-dimensional eigenspaces eigenvectors can exist. Determining such is not ...

Fuzziness is not a priori an obvious concept and demands some explanation. “Fuzziness” is what Black (NF 1937) calls “vagueness” when he distinguishes it from “generality” and from “ambiguity.” Generalizing refers to the application of a symbol to a multiplicity of objects in the field of reference, ambiguity to the association of a finite number of alternative meanings having the same phonetic...