Introduction: Trust is a major challenge for the online market and this is especially the case for e-consultation platforms. Research that promotes online physician trust is highly desirable. In this study, we focus on whether joining a team led by a...
2 June 2020
Due to the high perceived risk, it is critical to foster users’ initial trust in the promotion of mobile online health community (MOHC) adoption. The present study focused on the role of two different trust elements and examined the initial tru...
To understand human–machine interactions, we adopted a framework that distinguishes between stable individual differences (enduring personality/interpersonal traits), initial trust (pre-interaction expectations), and situational trust (dynamic...
Cyberattacks and cybercriminal activities constitute one of the biggest threats in the modern digital era, and the frequency, efficiency, and severity of attacks have grown over the years. Designers and producers of digital systems try to counteract...
Convex optimization has gained increasing popularity in trajectory planning methods for wide-speed range unmanned aerial systems (UASs) with multiple no-fly zones (NFZs) in the entry phase. To address the issues of slow or even infeasible solutions,...
Global use of carsharing has increased. The dominant model is station-based carsharing, but free-floating providers are continuously increasing their businesses volumes. Carsharing customers have been described as environmentally conscious with a hig...
Currently, eLoran is the ideal backup and supplement for global navigation satellite systems. The time synchronization accuracy between stations in the eLoran system has improved, providing conditions for eLoran pseudorange positioning. The pseudoran...
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications have grown immensely in the past few years. However, security and privacy of the user are two major obstacles in their development. The complex and very sensitive nature of the body-mounted sensors means...
Modal shift to more energy-efficient alternatives, such as from road to rail or sea, is one path to reduce negative environmental effects. Transport providers and shippers have crucial roles in modal choice decisions, and a better understanding of th...
This text delves into the elements on which the notion of quality of a product is built. We believe that, in addition to the standards that regulate a given quality seal, there are other elements that consumers link to the excellence that distinguish...
The concepts of health and health care are moving towards the notion of personalized preventive health maintenance and away from an exclusive focus on the cure of disease. This is against the backdrop of contemporary public health challenges that inc...
Organizational change initiatives are often undertaken to update major business structural components or practices to meet the evolving needs of a changing industry. Unfortunately, explicit emphasis on the importance of truth and buy-in is missing fr...
Trust plays an important role between companies and customers in the online shopping environment because of the anonymous transaction environment and the advantage of virtual property. The most rapidly developing trend in Chinese e-business may come...
Adolescence is an important developmental period for both trust behavior and personality maturation, and individual differences in trust decisions may be related to different personality traits. In the current study, a group of adolescents (n = 483,...
Trust plays a pivotal role in sustaining cooperative relationships and serves as the cornerstone of successful cooperation among participants in public–private partnership (PPP) projects. A decline in trust can result in unethical behavior, fra...
There has been a noticeable shift towards sustainability in participatory sport, emphasizing practices such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, a credible international evaluation tool for assessing the effectiveness of CSR...
This study examines the nature of online reviews to explain changes in satisfaction, trust, and consumer intent to write a review during restaurant revisit stages. Using a data set of two-time lags, the findings show that the impact of online reviews...
1 January 2017
The following article initially proposes a definition of trust that, of course, makes no claim to completeness, but simply delimits the concept via potential contrasting terms. Subsequently, the topic of “trust in relationships” is narrowed down to i...
Background/Introduction: Investor trust and brand relationship quality, along with initiatives for environmental, social, and governance (ESG), have become highly important. Despite their relevance, limited research has been conducted on how ESG init...
In flood disaster emergency decision-making, the dynamic changes in expert trust relationships directly affects the efficiency of reaching a decision consensus. This paper constructs a dynamic evolution model of expert trust relationships in flood di...
The violation of trust as a result of interactions that do not proceed as expected gives rise to the question as to whether broken trust can possibly be recovered. Clearly, trust recovery is more complex than trust initialization and maintenance. Tru...
In order to ensure the reliability and credibility of the data in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), this paper proposes a trust evaluation model and data fusion mechanism based on trust. First of all, it gives the model structure. Then, the calculatio...
The notion of sustainability has received increased attention among marketers, and in theory. Though studies have discussed the crucial role of sustainable practices in shaping consumer responses, the role that perceived sustainability plays in engag...
Trust plays a central role in the effectiveness of work groups and teams. This is the case for both face-to-face and virtual teams. Yet little is known about the development of trust in virtual teams. We examined cognitive and affective trust and the...
The authors of this study aimed to evaluate the links between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, trust, identification, and commitment to measure the impact of consumer perceptions of CSR initiatives on these three marketing outcomes (...
Amid rising sustainability demands, the automotive industry must understand how its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) management influences consumer purchase decisions for high-involvement products. This study investigates this relationship...
Understanding how trust in artificial intelligence evolves is crucial for predicting human behavior in AI-enabled environments. While existing research focuses on initial acceptance factors, the temporal dynamics of AI trust remain poorly understood....
In this paper, we propose a lightweight and adaptable trust mechanism for the issue of trust evaluation among Internet of Things devices, considering challenges such as limited device resources and trust attacks. Firstly, we propose a trust evaluatio...
This study examines the conditional effects of trust on Generation Z’s environmental behaviour using a climate change risk perception framework within an input–output model. Climate change awareness initiates the process, while generalise...
Nzoia river basin county governments barely cooperate in water resources management to jointly increase the basin’s food and energy productivity levels, due to limited trust. In this paper, we propose a game-based approach that can be replicate...
Understanding the role of trust in shaping pro-ecological behaviour is essential for advancing effective environmental communication, particularly in societies characterized by low institutional credibility. This study examines how different forms of...
13 November 2026
Integrating proactive agents into domestic settings requires understanding how people evaluate assistance that begins without an explicit request. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory and the Artificial Intelligence Device Use Acceptance framework,...
Our paper was inspired by the recent Society 5.0 initiative of the Japanese Government which seeks to create a sustainable human-centric society by putting to work recent advances in technology. One of the key challenges in implementing Society 5.0 i...
Communication and trust are fundamental factors in the operation of complex and highly regulated industries like aviation maintenance. This article reviews two preconditions of human error: communication and trust, as well as the way these are linked...
This article proposes a protocol layer trust-based intrusion detection scheme for wireless sensor networks. Unlike existing work, the trust value of a sensor node is evaluated according to the deviations of key parameters at each protocol layer consi...
This study explores the factors driving employees’ sustainability-switching behaviors (SSBs) by integrating the Push, Pull, and Mooring (PPM) model with the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). A quantitative, cross-sectional survey was conducted w...
Consumers and professionals realize the importance of adopting social and environmental responsibility, but it is not easy for companies to implement transparent sustainability strategies that consumers can trust. Thus, it is often hard for consumers...
Despite the open policy of integration, refugees in South Africa have been experiencing increasing exclusion and discrimination in socio-economic development and from social services. State-sanctioned discrimination contributes to mistrust among marg...
With the development of 5G and artificial intelligence, the security of Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration (CEEC) networks becomes an increasingly prominent issue due to the complexity of the environment, real-time variability and diversity of edge devices...
The remarkably developed graph neural networks (GNNs) are extensively applied to specific tasks in online social networks (OSNs), especially in the vital domain of social trust. Meanwhile, the vulnerability of GNN applied in trust assessment can be e...
17 May 2023
Public trust in medical institutions is essential for ensuring compliance with medical directives. However, the politicization of public health issues and the polarized nature of major news outlets suggest that partisanship and news consumption habit...
Recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload by helping users find information relevant to their preference. Memory-based recommender systems use correlation-based similarity to measure the common interest among users. The tru...
The successful implementation of digital transformation initiatives depends critically on public trust in experts guiding these processes. In today’s digital media environment, expert trust faces significant challenges, potentially hindering su...
In the current study, the authors looked at how companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives affect their reputation in the community using the stakeholder theory. More specifically, it is claimed that CSR initiatives with a par...
Recommendation systems often use side information to both alleviate problems, such as the cold start problem and data sparsity, and increase prediction accuracy. One such piece of side information, which has been widely investigated in addressing suc...
Trust is one of the most critical factors that determine willingness to use e-government services. Despite its significance, most previous studies investigated the factors that lead to trusting such services in theoretical aspects without examining t...
Data stored in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) face problems with ease of tampering, easy disclosure and single access control. Based on this problem, we propose an access control scheme for the IoV based on blockchain, trust values and weighted attri...
In the public–private partnership (PPP) supply chain, trust serves as the foundation for collaboration between investment companies and suppliers. However, due to many uncertain factors, the evolution of trust remains a “black box”...
Second-hand consumption on peer-to-peer (P2P) online platforms, as a form of extended product use, is often associated with circular economy initiatives. Yet consumer participation in these markets remains constrained by uncertainty and a lack of tru...
Agent interaction in a community, such as the online buyer-seller scenario, is often uncertain, as when an agent comes in contact with other agents they initially know nothing about each other. Currently, many reputation models are developed that hel...
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