In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...

in this study we tried to examine the role of participatory institutions in the local development by measuring the effect of social capital on the promotion of performance. our research sample was dehong's (a village in south of iran) islamic council. on the other hand it tries to evaluate effect of social capital on local development. the result of the study showed that some of social capital ...

Using panel data method, this study examines the effects of different dimensions of social capital on innovation at the societal level across 21 countries (19 Asian countries plus Russia and Egypt) for the period 1995-2011. Dimensions of social capital that have been considered in this study include generalized trust, trust toward friends, institutional trust, civic participation, and norms of ...

in modern times, trust has become an issue crucial to human societies and it has basic role in confronting policies with social problems, particularly in the field of environmental risks. to counter environmental risks such as climate change requires knowledge that is gained through trust to its related informational institutions. these institutions cause the awareness of environmental issues a...

Social networks based trust is a promising approach to supporting people and software agents to interact with “strangers” on the Web. A necessary condition for trust propagation in social networks is that trust is transitive. However, is trust transitive? What types of trust are transitive and why? There are few theories and models found to answer these fundamental questions in a formal manner....

abstract in this study , the relationship between investment components in sport and social capital is examined and the population in this research consists of 55 marketing consultant of iranian soccer league sports sponsors. the research tool is also a questionnaire and for data analysis the statistical software spss and structural equation modeling method graphics amos were used. in theoretic...

This research aims at combined and relative effect levels on anxiety of: (1) perceived risk, knowledge, optimism, pessimism, and social trust; and (2) four sub-variables of social trust among inhabitants concerning living on heavy metal contaminated soil. On the basis of survey data from 499 Chinese respondents, results suggest that perceived risk, pessimism, optimism, and social trust have ind...