Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people's willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results sugge...

divine religions have a significant impact on formation of social norms and strengthening of social capital through the promotion of the moral virtues. the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the impact of doctrines, rituals and ethical teachings of islam on muslims’ social capital in the 40 countries using the generalized trust index and the ordinary least squares method. research findings...

Previous work has suggested that low levels of trust in ethnically diverse societies may be one mechanism explaining the negative relationship between diversity and economic growth. Building on theories developed in social psychology, I argue that increased national identification in such societies may reduce the negative effects of ethnic diversity on interpersonal trust by extending trust acr...

Background: Social capital is an important interpersonal organizational resource that may affect health behaviors and seems to be an important factor in chronic diseases. Considering the lack of evidence on this topic, in the present study, we aimed at investigating the association between components of social capital, socioeconomic condition, and controlling Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Iran. M...

– in this paper we consider some (α ,β ) -metrics such as generalized kropina, matsumoto and f (α β )2α = + metrics, and obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for them to be einstein metrics when βis a constant killing form. then we prove with this assumption that the mentioned einstein metrics must beriemannian or ricci flat.

Therapists who work with traumatized individuals can experience psychological growth following this vicarious exposure to trauma. The purpose of the present study is to examine the variables that may moderate such vicarious posttraumatic growth. Therapists (N = 118) completed measures of vicarious exposure to trauma and growth, as well as empathy, sense of coherence, and perceived organizationa...

The interval bounded generalized trust region subproblem (GTRS) consists in minimizing a general quadratic objective, q0(x) → min, subject to an upper and lower bounded general quadratic constraint, l ≤ q1(x) ≤ u. This means that there are no definiteness assumptions on either quadratic function. We first study characterizations of optimality for this implicitly convex problem under a constrain...

BadRank is a method for detecting spam web sites, based on the premise that a page is spam if it points to another spam page; i.e., the BadRank score of a page is the weighted sum of the BadRank scores of the pages that it links to. BadRank is an important tool in spam detection. We consider the mathematical structure of BadRank, showing how it can be modified to guarantee that the iterates con...