Privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality are issues often addressed when collecting sensitive information (Tourangeau, 2017). Despite the importance of concept, there is no consensus on what constitutes a question Rips, & Rasinski, 2000). According to Tourangeau Yan (2007), considered it asks for socially undesirable answer, requesting that respondent admits he or she has violated social legal n...

Word Count: 149 Article Word Count: 2175 Abstract Given the persistence of public doubts about the integrity of ballot secrecy, which depress turnout, two prior experiments have shown precise evidence that both official governmental and unofficial mobilization campaigns providing assurances about ballot secrecy increases turnout among recently registered nonvoters. To assess whether these findi...

This study examines how email is utilized to enact maintenance behaviors in interpersonal relationships and explores whether geographic distance between individuals affects this process. Two hundred twenty-six college students accumulated personal email messages over a one-week period. These emails were coded using Canary and Stafford’s (1994) maintenance strategy topology. Results indicate tha...

Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs is a core requirement of today’s enterprises. This is addressed by decomposing business processes into services that can be provided by scalable service-oriented architectures. Serviceoriented architectures enable requesters to dynamically discover and use subservices. Today, service selection does not consider security. In this paper, we introduc...

Clients of outsourced databases need Query Authentication (QA) guaranteeing the integrity (correctness and completeness), and authenticity of the query results returned by potentially compromised providers. Existing results provide QA assurances for a limited class of queries by deploying several software cryptographic constructs. Here, we show that, to achieve QA, however, it is significantly ...

Wide-scale adoption of intelligent algorithms requires artificial intelligence (AI) engineers to provide assurances that an algorithm will perform as intended. In this article, we discuss the formalization important aspects AI assurance, including its key components.

La Cour de cassation refuse reconnaître le statut victime aux témoins d’actes terroristes, puisque sont qualifiées victimes, au sens l’article L. 126-1 du Code des assurances, uniquement les personnes qui ont été directement exposées à un péril objectif mort ou d’atteinte corporelle.