Tesi sul tema "Trust representation"

We can observe a well-documented decline of trust levels in Western societies: from the reputation of political representatives as being "not trustworthy" to the rise of anti-system-oriented populist parties. Yet the implications of different forms of distrust for a society and democratic institutions have been theorized in conflicting ways so far. In order to illuminate existing inconsistencies in social and democratic theory, this article addresses two research questions: What are the implications of different manifestations of distrust for the acceptance of democracy and democratic institutions? How do different forms of distrust affect the motivation to become engaged in democratic decision-making and in civil society institutions? Taking empirical evidence from 25 focus groups in Germany, our findings show that growing social divisions affect the role distrust plays for political interest representation of social groups and for the acceptance of liberal representative democracy.

The following paper focuses on the relatively new rise of populism which has seen a surge across states across the western world. Populism refers to governance of and for the people, as opposed to the ruling elites. As the sensation of democratic deficits and partisan cleavages increase, the reaction is populism which aims to restore the fundamental democratic values back to the people, advocating a more transparent form of democracy, where power moves away from the ruling elites, back to the people. We explore what populism entails through defining it through its theoretical identifiers and analyzing which political and social attitudes are present in supporters of populist parties. This study is meant to complement Staerkle and Greens study about the social representation of right-populists. By using the same research methodology as Staerkle and Green but also including left populists. This means looking at the social representation of left-right populist supporters and identifying mutual conventions and relations through a cross sectional case study of four countries which have seen a rise in populist parties. The findings lead us to see convergence in left-right populist parties toward institutional distrust and divergence in opinion towards globalism and multiculturalism. In essence, we compare and present the social representation of populist supporters of left-right populist parties and investigate which attributes cause the divergence in their political and social identities.

Aim: This study was undertaken to explore the over-representation of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff in the disciplinary process in a National Health Service (NHS) Mental Health Trust. Background: The Trust where this study was undertaken recognised there was a disproportional representation of BME staff involved in the disciplinary process. No reasons were given by the Trust for why this phenomenon existed. The over-representation of individuals from BME groups in NHS disciplinary hearings was raised as a topic for investigation by Parliament in 2008. Seminal work by Archibong and Darr (2010) has explored reasons for this over-representation. Ethnographic methodologies have not been used previously to develop our understanding of this area. Methods: Critical and focused ethnography were used to observe a disciplinary hearing and gain the perspectives of employees directly involved in the disciplinary process in a single trust. To examine the culture of the Trust, data were collected through fieldwork, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, journal/diary and secondary data. Thematic analysis devised by Braun and Clarke (2006) was used to analyse the data collected. Findings: Negative perceptions towards BME staff, particularly ‘black African’ nurses and healthcare assistants were uncovered. Tensions and rivalries within and between BME staff were also found. Disciplinary investigations were not always based on facts and not all the findings were presented. Investigating officers and the chair of the panel were not always given training to undertake their roles. In some cases, BME personnel were intentionally selected onto the disciplinary panel to avoid accusations of racism, particularly when BME employees were likely to be dismissed. Disparity of the sanctions imposed for similar cases were reported. There was a perception that BME staff were not articulate and treated more harshly than their white counterparts. Equality and diversity initiatives also remain on the periphery. The disaggregation and reconfiguration of services had some bearing on the performance of staff. Line management and clinical supervision was underutilised. Some managers who confronted BME employees were accused of ‘racism’ and had grievances taken out against them. Conclusion: Disciplinary processes involving BME staff cannot be discussed in isolation. Key factors, such as the impact of disaggregation and the reconfiguration of the Trust at a time of continuous change in the NHS, the employment of BME staff as well as the disciplinary process itself, need to be considered together. The discussion also needs to shift from the polarised division between ‘black and white’ staff and focus on the differences and tensions within and among BME staff.

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciência Política
Este trabalho é referente à dissertação de Mestrado em Ciência Política, do Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), da Universidade de Lisboa. Tem como objetivo investigar o impacto do escândalo político da Petrobrás sobre a confiança na representação política no Brasil, no período de 2014 a 2018. O estudo busca contribuir para a análise do fenômeno do escândalo político no contexto institucional mais amplo, onde sua incidência tem o potencial de produzir consequências para além da reputação dos titulares do poder político, influenciando o apoio às instituições políticas representativas. A partir de um estado da arte, foram abordadas as teorias da representação política, escândalo político e confiança política com o intuito de embasar este estudo, objetivando, a partir de dados do Latinobarómetro referentes aos anos de 2015 a 2018 sobre confiança institucional, aferir o comportamento dos cidadãos frente ao sistema representativo durante o período da vigência do escândalo. Os resultados da análise apontam que, durante o escândalo político da Petrobrás, houve uma maior perceção da sociedade sobre as disfuncionalidades do sistema político brasileiro, sendo quase consensual que este necessita de mudanças para reverter essa rejeição em relação às instâncias de representação. O escândalo político da Petrobrás revelou, não só uma grave distorção na prática representativa brasileira e uma falha nos mecanismos de controle do poder, mas também e sobretudo uma mudança no comportamento dos representados, não mais dispostos aceitar a falta de democraticidade e de responsividade do governo e dos seus representantes.
This work is related to the Master's thesis in Political Science, from the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), from the University of Lisbon. It aims to investigate the impact of the Petrobras political scandal on trust in political representation in Brazil, from 2014 to 2018. The study seeks to contribute to the analysis of the phenomenon of political scandal in the broader institutional context, where its incidence has potential to produce consequences beyond the reputation of political power holders by influencing support for representative political institutions. Based on a state of the art, the theories of political representation, political scandal and political trust were approached in order to support this study, aiming, from Latinobarometer data for the years 2015 to 2018 on institutional trust, to assess the citizens' behavior towards the representative system during the period of the scandal. The results of the analysis indicate that during the political scandal of Petrobras, there was a greater perception of society about the dysfunctionalities of the Brazilian political system, being almost consensual that it needs changes to reverse this rejection in relation to the instances of representation. The political scandal of Petrobras revealed not only a serious distortion in Brazilian representative practice and a failure in the mechanisms of power control, but also and above all a change in the behavior of those represented, no longer willing to accept the lack of democracy and responsiveness of the government and their representatives.
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Trust plays a critical role in communications, strength of relationships, and information processing at the individual and group levels. Cognitive social simulations show promise in providing an experimental platform for the examination of social phenomena such as trust formation. This work is a novel attempt at trust representation in a cognitive social simulation using reinforcement learning algorithms. Initial algorithm development was completed within a standalone social network simulation and tested using a public commodity game. Evaluation of the contributions and dividends within the public commodity game shows that many of the expected behaviors of human trust formation are present. Initial results show that reinforcement learning can accurately capture the core essentials of human trust formation. Following standalone testing, the trust algorithm was imported into the Cultural Geography model for large-scale test and evaluation.

The objective of this research is to develop a flexible design grammar and genetic algorithm representation to be used in a multi-objective optimization method to design efficient steel roof trusses given space dimensions and loading requirements by the user. The goal of implementing the method as a multi-objective problem is to obtain a set of near-optimal trusses for the defined unstructured problem domain, not just a single near-optimal design. The method developed was required to support the exploration of a broad range of conceptual designs before making design decisions. Therefore, a method was developed that could define numerous design variables, support techniques to locate global or near-global optimal designs, and improve the efficiency of the computational procedures implemented. This research effort was motivated by the need to consider structural designs that may be beyond the established conventions of designers in the search for cost-efficient, structurally-sound designs. An effective design grammar that is capable of generating stable trusses is defined in this research. The design grammar supports the optimization of member size, in addition to truss geometry and topology. Multi-objective genetic algorithms were used to evolve sets of Pareto-optimal trusses that had varying topology, geometry, and member sizes. The Pareto-optimal curves provided design engineers with a range of near-optimal design alternatives that showed the tradeoffs that occur in meeting the stated objectives. Designers can select their final design from this set based on their own individual weighting of the design objectives. Trials are performed using a multiobjective genetic algorithm that works with the design grammar to evolve trusses for different span lengths. In addition to evaluate the performance of the developed optimization method further, trials were performed on a benchmark truss problem domain and the results obtained were compared with results obtained by other researchers. The results of the performance evaluation trials for the proposed method, in which the sizing, shape and topology were simultaneously performed, indicated that the method was effective in evolving a variety of truss topologies compared to previous published results, which evolved from a ground structure. The diverse topologies, however, were obtained over several trials instead of being found in a Pareto-optimal set found by a single trial. In addition, the proposed method was not able to locally optimize the member section sizes. Additional trials were performed to determine the benefit of applying local optimization to the member section sizes for a given truss topology or geometry provided by the method. The results indicate that significant weight reduction could be achieved by performing local optimization to the truss designs obtained by the proposed multi-objective optimization method.

This thesis examines representations of trust in selected British sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. It focuses principally on the manner in which sentimental prose fiction reflects and participates in the shift from premodern to modern formations of trust. Commenting on the nature of modern trust, Anthony Giddens claims that, with the move to modernity, trust relations in the intimate sphere become increasingly dependent on emotional mutuality, while trust in institutions becomes increasingly impersonal and disengaged from assessments of moral character.
My work explores this dual shift in three sentimental novels. It first analyzes Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and contends that Richardson denies the concept of honor its epistemological role in practical deliberations. The denial of the epistemology of honor uncouples the mechanism of personal trust from assessments of role and role performance and thus makes the trust in persons in the intimate sphere less dependent on institutional forms of trust. To replace honor's role in the formation of trust, Richardson proposes that the sentiments can provide reliable grounds for trust in the intimate sphere. However, he denies the sentiments a role in the formation of an encompassing social trust among strangers and mere acquaintances. The thesis proceeds to read Henry Fielding's Amelia (1751). In order to argue that Fielding envisioned divergent grounds for trust relations, it maintains that Fielding considers trust relations in the intimate sphere and trust relations in public life as based on the sentiments and fair distribution respectively. To conclude, the thesis investigates Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) to uncover the manner in which Goldsmith distinguishes personal trust in the intimate sphere from general system trust, which Goldsmith ultimately envisions as an ontological trust in providence.

Esta tese focaliza como tema principal a representação social da confiança. Qual a importância da confiança para a sociedade contemporânea, para as organizações de produção e para as relações interpessoais. A fundamentação teórica é a Teoria das Representações Sociais tomada em sua equação: representação = figura/significado. A metodologia da pesquisa consistiu na realização de grupos focais e na expressão imagética e verbal da confiança. A análise dos textos visuais conjuntamente com os verbais possibilitou uma percepção bastante acurada desta representação social.
The main subject of this thesis is the social representation of trust. It studies the value of trust in the present society, in the social organization of production, and in interpersonal relationships, as well as how it is represented by Brazilians who have a higher education. The theoretical basis of this study is the Social Representation Theory in Moscovici formulation: representation = image / meaning. The research methodology consisted in creating focus groups in two steps: the imagery and the verbal expression of trust. The analysis of the imaged texts together with the verbal ones led to a very accurate view of this social representation.

With increased immigration into western democracies, how to establish generalised trust in society has received new attention. Are minorities and immigrants low trust levels best remediated through Putnam’s theory of civil organisation engagement or Rothstein’s theory of impartial institutions? Simultaneously, people are hired based on their cultural identity to work with minorities and immigrants in Swedish public administration, which is thought to increase the target group’s trust. This resembles the ideas of representative bureaucracy and conflicts with traditional merit recruitment and Rothstein’s theory. This thesis uses an inductive ideal type method based on an assumption of thin rationality to study the phenomena of hiring based on cultural identity, which it names cultural professionalism. It askes firstly, what does cultural professionalism contribute with that makes it desirable for actors in public administration and how is this related to trust? Secondly, what are the trade-offs when using cultural professionalism in public administration? Through studying the rational of the phenomena for actors directly affected by it, the findings indicate that cultural professionalism is a way to communicate information and legitimise implementation towards minority groups. The cultural professionals use their trustworthiness within the group to link implementation and information from public administration towards the group, and information from the group towards public administration. This information also has a socialising potential. The trust is however particularised, i.e. not bridged to public administration. Problematic logics discovered in the material are evaluated towards the three values of public administration: democracy, rule of law and efficiency. In sum, cultural professionals imply trade-offs for democracy and rule of law, and appears to favour efficiency. Lastly, cultural professionalism is described and defined as a “new” ideal type legitimacy model in policy implementation.

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A preocupação em encontrar alternativas que reduzissem os custos de saúde pública e que, ao mesmo tempo, favorecessem o acesso da população em geral à medicamentos levaram – dentre outros fatores – o Governo Brasileiro a adotar uma política de medicamentos genéricos, institucionalizada oficialmente em 1999 através da Lei 9.787. O Governo, ao lançar os genéricos, apoiou esta categoria sob duas bases: medicamento de qualidade garantida e preço baixo. Mas, se por um lado, o argumento de “preço baixo” funciona como um trunfo comercial para os medicamentos genéricos, por outro, a ausência de uma marca de produto pode dificultar a relação de confiança do consumidor acerca do produto. Portando, a “qualidade” só seria observada pelo consumidor em um processo de composição de representações sociais positivas. O processo de composição de representações sociais positivas para um produto é processo fundamental para a sua aceitação social e sucesso, principalmente no caso de medicamentos cujo efeito é ligado diretamente à saúde humana. Com base nisso, o objetivo deste trabalho é verificar quais as representações sociais elaboradas pelos consumidores da cidade do Salvador sobre os medicamentos genéricos, com a finalidade de ajudar a compreender como elas orientam o comportamento do consumidor local no processo de aquisição deste novo produto.
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Zentrale Aufgabe der russischen Gouverneure war es für Ruhe und Ordnung in den Provinzen zu sorgen. Damit wurden sie zu zentralen Akteuren der ersten Russischen Revolution von 1905-1907, in der sie bei der Auflösung von Streiks, Aufständen und ländlichen Unruhen persönlich vermitteln sollten. Die an der Mikrogeschichte orientierte Frage nach den Einflüssen des revolutionären Raums auf die Praktiken und Inszenierung ihrer Herrschaft steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit. Seit der Gründung des Gouverneursamtes waren die Gouverneure als Stellvertreter des Zaren mit einer umfassenden Machtfülle ausgestattet und zählten zu den wichtigsten Stützen der autokratischen Herrschaft im imperialen Russland. Die eingeübten Herrschaftspraktiken der Gouverneure wurden in der Revolution von 1905-1907 auf eine harte Probe gestellt und verlangten von den Stellvertretern des Zaren sich der neuen Situation anzupassen und ihre Herrschaft neu zu inszenieren. Wie sich die Repräsentationen der Autokratie und ihrer Vertreter unter dem Druck des sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels veränderten, spiegelte sich unter anderem in den Begegnungen zwischen den Gouverneuren und den Bewohnern der Provinzen. Die persönliche Anwesenheit und die individuelle Ausgestaltung des Amtes stellten eine Konstante in den Herrschaftspraktiken der Gouverneure dar. Dies ermöglichte es ihnen entweder als Vollstrecker des zarischen Willen Aufstände niederzuschlagen oder als Vertrauens- und Konfliktvermittler aufzutreten und damit am Sieg der Autokratie über die revolutionären Kräfte entscheidend mitzuwirken.
The primary task of the Russian governors was to provide peace and order in the provinces. This is why they were central protagonists of the first Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. Here they personally had to enter into conflicts like for instance strikes, peasant disturbances and uprisings. Which effect this revolutionary space had on the governors'' way to rule, in their ability to use their symbolic power and on their old fashioned practices to solve conflicts, is the leading question of this book. Since the establishment of the gubernatorial office during Peter the Great''s reign the governors were the viceroys of the czar in the provinces. Provided with immense power the governors were very important supporters of the autocratic regime. But the violent revolution of 1905-1907 put the established ways to rule and practiced rituals to hard test and demanded from the governors skills for adaptation and improvisation in many difficult situations. The representations of the autocracy changed. This can for example be studied in the direct encounters between the governors and the inhabitants of the provinces. The personal presence of the governor and his ability to individually define his politics in the gubernatorial office were two important moments in the viceroys'' power in the provinces. These enabled them to act as the executors of the Czar''s intentions. In this role the governors could strike down riots and disturbances violently but could also act as trust brokers and mediators of conflicts. This scope of action and how the individual governor filled in his role therefore had a deep impact of the autocratic victory over the revolutionary forces.

La rencontre des patients addictés suscite fréquemment l’inquiétude. Celle-ci rend difficile l’exercice du soin, même spécialisé, et attaque ses conditions éthiques. Cette thèse se propose d’explorer l’expérience des professionnels de l’addictologie, dans la diversité de leurs approches et de leurs pratiques. Elle s’inscrit dans une épistémologie de la complexité et adopte une méthodologie complémentariste. Des discours socio-anthropologiques, philosophiques et psychanalytiques peuvent ainsi être mis en contact au profit d’une appréhension plurivoque de la problématique éthique et clinique de la relation de soin en addictologie. Dans un premier temps, nous avons exploré de manière qualitative l’expérience des soignants. L’étude « Éthique et Narrativité dans les Addictions » (EthNaA) nous a apporté de nombreuses données sur les sources et les effets de l’inquiétude dans le soin, ainsi que sur des voies de dégagement. Une lecture psychodynamique de ces résultats nous a permis d’extraire une première théorie de la relation de soin : dans la rencontre, soignant et patient se replient sur des positions narcissiques qui déterminent leurs représentations de l’autre et d’eux-mêmes, ainsi que leur modalités de lien ; alternativement monstres et héros, les acteurs s’agrippent et se rejettent dans un climat de défiance qui infiltre tous les espaces ; dans la douleur de cette expérience et dans la conscience des conséquences éthiques pour le patient, les professionnels cherchent des moyens de restaurer une confiance dans un soin de soi et une recherche de soutien à l’ « extérieur », sans toutefois pouvoir s’y engager. Dans un second temps, en tant qu’acteur de ce soin, il était nécessaire que nous présentions notre propre expérience, ainsi que des histoires cliniques, pour pouvoir prétendre soutenir un discours éthique. Cette expérience est très proche de celle des soignants d’EthNaA mais son exposé a permis de souligner l’ancrage intrapsychique des mouvements affectifs décrits précédemment. Cela nous a mis sur la voie d’une seconde théorie capable de soutenir des propositions de nature à restaurer le soin dans ses qualités éthiques et cliniques. La « relation inquiète » met en présence un patient souffrant dans une attente silencieuse, et un soignant désireux de s’investir mais vulnérable, en premier lieu du fait d’un affaiblissement de la fonction tierce en lui comme dans son cadre institutionnel. La relation de soin s’enferme alors dans une circularité qui évoque le cercle des attitudes de Jean-Paul Sartre, entre masochisme, haine, sadisme et amour. Cet amour, présent dans le discours des soignants, reste replié sur soi et défiant. Nous avons alors repris les idées des professionnels d’EthNaA et les avons complétées en proposant un souci de soi, resubjectivant et allié à un réinvestissement de la fonction tierce intériorisée. Cette nouvelle prise de position soignante, dans une affirmation du primat du tiers, doit permettre une reconnaissance de l’autre-patient comme sujet propre. Ce « jeu » entre les protagonistes doit s’inscrire dans une éthique simultanément exigeante et tolérante. La piste « amoureuse » ouverte par les soignants d’EthNaA peut alors rejoindre l’éthique de Vladimir Jankélévitch. La relation de soin entre deux sujets restaurés peut alors se relancer – portée par une nouvelle dialectique entre soin de soi et amour de l’autre, entre inquiétude saisissante et élancement, entre défiance et confiance – sur une trajectoire sinueuse et parfois chaotique, mais qui donne finalement au soin le dernier mot
The encounter with addicted patients frequently arouses a feeling of disquiet. It renders the practice of care difficult, even in expert settings, and degrades its ethical conditions. The present work explores the experience of professionals from the field of addictions treatment taking account of the diversity of their approaches and practices. It is in line with an epistemology of the complexity and adopts a complémentariste methodology. In this way, sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytical theoretical corpus can be put in discussion in order to comprehend the complexity of the ethical and clinical questions emerging from the care relationship.In a first phase, we conducted a qualitative inquiry of the caregiver’s experience. The study “Éthique et Narrativité dans les Addictions” (EthNaA) provided us with numerous data on sources and effects of disquiet in the care setting, as well as on ways out. A psychodynamical reading of these results led us to a first theory of the care relationship: in the encounter, the caregiver and the patient both withdraw on narcissistic positions which determine how they depict one another and themselves, as well as their ways of establishing mutual bounds; alternatively monsters and heroes, the protagonists grab onto each other and reject each other in a climate of distrust which infiltrates all the areas of the relationship; through the pain of this experience and the consciousness of the ethical consequences for the patient, the caregivers seek resources allowing them to restore a trust by taking care of themselves and looking for support from the “outside”, but they still seem unable to commit themselves in this move.In a second phase, as a professional enrolled in the care of addicted patients, it was necessary that we exhibit our own experience and clinical stories in order to support an ethical stand. Our experience is very similar to the caregiver’s in the study but its report allowed us to underline the intrapsychic integration of the emotional dynamics previously described. It opened the way of a second theory able to support innovative propositions likely to restore the care in its ethical and clinical qualities.The “disquiet relationship” brings a suffering patient in a silent expectation face to face with a caregiver, willing to get involved but vulnerable, in the first place because of the weakening of the function of the third position in the caregiver’s thought as well as in the institutional frame. The care relationship then locks itself in a circularity witch evokes the circle of attitudes described by Jean-Paul Sartre among masochism, hatred, sadism and love. This love, present in the caregiver’s discourses, remains withdrawn into itself and distrustful. We then started again from the caregiver’s ideas, completing them by introducing a care of the self able to restore the subjectivity of the agent through its combination with the reinvestment of the function of the third position in the caregiver’s thought. This new caring stand, through the assertion of the primacy of the third position, shall allow the acknowledgement of the patient as a subject. This “play” between protagonists shall place itself in an ethic simultaneously demanding and tolerant. The “amorous” track opened by the caregivers of the study can then rejoin the ethic of Vladimir Jankélévitch. The care relationship between two restored subjects can then make a fresh start – supported by a new dialectic between care of the self and love of the other, between piercing disquiet and anxious yearning, between distrust and trust – on a sinuous and sometimes chaotic trajectory, but which finally gives to the care the last word

La reconnaissance du droit de participation et du droit à réparation des victimes est l’évolution la plus remarquable des dernières décennies dans le domaine des droits nationaux et dans le cadre de la justice pénale internationale. Les Juridictions Pénales Internationales construisent le statut des victimes. Confrontés à des concepts innovants, les juges doivent créer des précédents et organiser les modalités des droits des victimes. Ils doivent allier la coordination de la représentation légale de milliers de victimes avec les impératifs de la justice. Au vu des premières décisions, la place des victimes est acquise puisque les juges ont accepté leur participation. Cependant, leur interprétation des règles apporte de sérieuses restrictions aux droits des victimes dans la pratique. La participation des victimes n’est pas pleinement effective et leur réparation se révèle exceptionnelle. Ainsi, l’intérêt de l’étude de la jurisprudence réside dans la détermination du statut réel des victimes au sein des procès internationaux et l’importance des droits appliqués. Des évolutions positives sont possibles en faveur de la reconnaissance du statut de parties au procès et de l’effectivité des droits des victimes
The recognition of the right to participate and the right to reparation to the victimes is the most remarkable evolution of these last decades in the national laws and in the International Criminal Justice. The International Criminal Jurisdictions built the victims’ status. Confronted to innovative concepts, the judges have to create precedents and organise the modalities of the victim’s rights. They have to combine the coordination of the legal representation of thousands of victims with the necessity of justice. In view of the first decisions, the place of the victimes is established since the judges grant them the right to participate. However, their interpretation of the rules brings serious limitations to the rights of the victims in the practice. The victims’ participation is not fully applied and their reparation turns out to be exceptionnal. So, the interest of the jurisprudence study resides in the determination of the real status of the victims in the international trial and the importance of the granted rights. Positive evolutions can be made in favor of the recognition of the status of parties in the trial and the effectiveness of the rigths of the victims

The rapid growth of the Internet has resulted in the desperate need for alternative ways to keep electronic transactions secure while at the same time allowing entities that do not know each other to interact. This has, in turn, led to a wide area of interest in the issues of trust and trust modeling to be used by machines. A large amount of work has already been undertaken in this area in an attempt to transfer the trust and interaction decision making processes onto the machine. However this work has taken a number of different approaches with little to no correlation between various models and no standard set of criteria was even proposed that can be used to evaluate the value of such models. The proposed research chooses to use a detailed literature survey to investigate the current models in existence. This investigation focuses on identifying criteria that are required by trust models. These criteria are grouped into four categories that represent four important concepts to be implemented in some manner by trust models: trust representation, initial trust, trust update and trust evaluation. The process of identifying these criteria has led to a second problem. The trust evaluation process is a detailed undertaking requiring a high processing overhead. This process can either result in a value that allows an agent to trust another to a certain extent or in a distrust value that results in termination of the interaction. The evaluation process required to obtain the distrust value is just as process intensive as the one resulting in determining a level of trust and the constraints that will be placed on an interaction. This raises the question: How do we simplify the trust evaluation process for agents that have a high probability of resulting in a distrust value? This research solves this problem by adding a fifth category to the criteria already identified; namely: prejudice filters. These filters have been identified by the literature study and are tested by means of a prototype implementation that uses a specific scenario in order to test two simulation case studies.
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências Jurídico-Forenses apresentada à Faculdade de Direito
A presente dissertação tem objectivo reflectir, com um texto que procuraremos ser organizado e coerente, sobre a problemática do Objeto Social que nos afigura determinante num âmbito das Sociedades de Investimento e Gestão Imobiliária criadas pelo Decreto-Lei 19/2019, de 28 de Janeiro e alteradas pela Lei nº 97/2019, de 4 de Setembro. O problema convoca em si que tenhamos que percorrer os conceitos e considerações de personalidade jurídica, capacidade jurídica, objecto social, bem como o regime societário das Sociedades Anónimas previsto no CSC, por se aplicar diretamente ao regime destas novas sociedades. Assim, convocados estes institutos do direito acima enunciados e exposta a posição que consideramos mais consonante com o nosso ordenamento jurídico, nomeadamente no que concerne ao objecto social e à capacidade jurídica das sociedades, passamos à caracterização das SIGI, expondo particularmente aquele que nos parece o problema (interpretativo!) que no surge da análise do seu próprio regime. Levantado o problema, expomos aquelas que nos parecem ser os regimes interpretativos possíveis a aplicar e, consequentemente, o resultado que produzem dessa interpretação. Perante os resultados possíveis partilhamos aquela que nos parece a interpretação e, consequentemente, a solução que nos afigura mais consentânea com a vontade do legislador e o nosso ordenamento jurídico. Essas mesmas interpretações derivam de uma possível analogias com regimes de sociedades que cremos ser idênticos como o das Sociedades de Capital de Risco. As diferenças destas sociedades para aquelas ditas “comuns” previstas no Código prende-se como a definição do objecto, sendo que nas últimas o mesmo é definido, por acordo, no contrato/estatutos da sociedade enquanto que nas primeiras o mesmo é definido na lei. Da nossa análise resulta que para além dos resultados interpretativos, o problema poder-se-á colocar noutro estrato do plano societário: não só no plano da nulidade do acto por falta de capacidade mas, noutro sentido, não sendo nulo o acto se este vincula a sociedade quando praticado por um Administrador. Estamos por isso a levantar a questão da Representação da Sociedade. Desta forma, e sustentando metodologicamente a nossa posição, procurar-se-á desenvolver essa reflexão, suportando-nos num enquadramento de perspectivas entre o aqueles que são os conceitos basilares do Direito Comercial e principalmente do Direito Comercial Societário e o problema que surge da interpretação do Decreto-lei que cria e rege as SIGI.
This dissertation aims to reflect, with a text that we will seek to be organized and coherent, on the problem of the Corporate Object that appears to us decisive in a context of the Real Estate Investiment Trust created by Decree-Law 19/2019, of January 28 and amended by Law No. 97/2019 of 4 September. The problem calls in itself that we have to go through the concepts and considerations of legal personality, legal capacity, corporate object, as well as the corporate regime of public limited companies provided for in the CSC, because it applies directly to the regime of these new companies. Thus, called these institutes of law set out above and exposed the position that we consider most in line with our legal system, particularly with regard to the social object and the legal capacity of societies, we move on to the characterization of THE SIGI, exposing particularly the one that seems to us the problem (interpretative!) that does not arise from the analysis of their own regime. When the problem is raised, we expose those that seem to us to be the possible interpretative regimes to be applied and, consequently, the result they produce from this interpretation. In view of the possible results, we share the one that seems to us to be interpretation and, consequently, the solution that seems to us to be most in line with the will of the legislature and our legal system. These same interpretations derive from a possible analogy with corporate regimes that we believe to be identical as that of Venture Capital Companies. The differences of these companies for those so-called "common" provided for in the Code are related to the definition of the object, and in the latter it is defined, by agreement, in the contract/statutes of the company while in the former it is defined in law. From our analysis it follows that in addition to the interpretative results, the problem may be put into another stratum of the corporate plan: not only in the area of the nullity of the act due to lack of capacity but, in another sense, the act is not null if it binds the company when practiced by an Administrator. We are therefore raising the issue of the Representation of society. In this way, and methodologically supporting our position, we will seek to develop this reflection, supporting us in a framework of perspectives between those who are the basic concepts of Commercial Law and especially corporate commercial law and the problem that arises from the interpretation of the Decree-Law that creates and governs the SIGI.

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靜宜大學
管理碩士在職專班
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Recently, some researches find that “Physical attractiveness”, “Product knowledge”, “Physical attractiveness” will affect customer trust the salesperson or not. However, from now on there are few researches discussed the influence between physical attractiveness, frequency of interaction, product knowledge, and trust in the same research mode. The goal of this research is to probe into the influence between physical attractiveness, frequency of interaction, product knowledge, and trust. The data is collected from 2010/3/2 to 2010/3/17 and by convenient sampling from information system procurement from different fields and there were 332 effective questionnaires. Then, path analysis will show us the direct and indirect relationships in the model. The research results are as follows: physical attractiveness has a positive and direct influence on frequency of interaction, product knowledge and trust. Product knowledge has a positive and direct influence on frequency of interaction. Frequency of interaction and product knowledge has a positive influence on trust. More, this research verify the proposed model and takes value perception and commission as control variables. The conclusions are: perceived price has a positive and direct influence on commission, and commission has not a positive and direct influence on value perception. According to the results of research, this study has three suggestions: 1. Business should not only choose sales who with more Physical attractiveness, but should also train the body gestures of salesperson. 2. Business should discipline salesperson’s product knowledge. For example: Improve the education and training system, hold the contest with a reward. Business should enhance the frequency of interaction between salesperson and customers. For instance: better the reward system of salesperson, strengthen the skill of communication of salesperson. Keywords: Physical Attractiveness, Product knowledge, Frequency of Interaction, Perceived Price, Trust.

Previous research has found a diverging trend between utilising social media (web 2.0) and traditional news media (web 1.0) on citizens trust towards democracy and democratic processes. This essay aims to investigate if this trend holds true in a Swedish context during a non-election year, and in doing so hope to advance the understanding of said trend. Thus, the following essay will investigate the change in trust towards the representative bodies within Sweden, with regards to the effects of either using social media or traditional media online as a means to take part of the digital flow of information.                       This is done by utilizing the SOM-survey, which collects information regarding citizen’s attitudes and general opinions towards political, social and medial habits every year. The data from this survey is then transformed into various indexes, with regards to citizens use of either web 1.0 or web 2.0, and their trust towards political institutions, and tested in an MRA-analysis. The findings of this study confirm the diverging trend between using web 1.0 and web 2.0 on citizen’s political trust. However, the positive correlation between web 1.0 and trust loose its statistical significance when a higher level of education is a factor. That is to say, academics tend to be less affected by web 1.0 with regards to their trust in representative bodies within the democracy. However, on the other hand the opposite holds true for web 2.0, where an inclusion of a higher level of education strengthens a negative correlation.

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une démarche de recherche des principes et mesures permettant de mettre en œuvre efficacement le principe d’égalité en milieu de travail syndiqué au Québec. Adoptant comme guide la sociologie des ordres juridiques complétée et accompagnée par le systémisme luhmannien, nous avons accompli une étude des ordres juridiques qui agissent en ce qui a trait aux aspects juridiques des relations du travail avant de procéder à l’évaluation de la politique publique relative à l’égalité. L’étude est divisée en trois parties. La première est consacrée à une exploration du pluralisme juridique, à la sociologie des ordres juridiques et à la présentation des ordres juridiques du travail. La seconde adopte une perspective historique de l’action syndicale, du droit du travail et de la politique publique relative à l’égalité. La troisième comprend une démarche d’évaluation de cette politique publique et une démarche de construction normative relative aux principes et mesures permettant la mise en œuvre efficace du principe d’égalité. Sur le plan de l’évaluation, nous recourons d’abord à une étude empirique et juridique d’un important dossier de plaintes à la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse : le dossier du gel d’échelon salarial dans la convention collective du personnel enseignant des commissions scolaires; nous accomplissons ensuite une revue de la littérature en ce qui a trait à la politique publique relative à l’égalité; nous accomplissons enfin une analyse de ce qu’offrent aux milieux syndiqués les deux principales voies de mise en œuvre de l’égalité, d’une part, le grief et l’arbitrage et d’autre part, la plainte à la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse et, le cas échéant, le recours devant le Tribunal des droits de la personne. Sur le plan de la construction normative, nous nous basons sur l’analyse sociologique, historique et évaluative accomplie pour concevoir les éléments de politique nécessaires pour atteindre l’objectif recherché.
This thesis follows on from research into the principles and measures that can be used to apply the principle of equality effectively in unionized workplaces in Québec. Guided by the sociology of legal orders, completed and supported by Luhmann’s systems theory, we carried out a study of the legal orders governing the legal aspects of labour relations, and then assessed public policies concerning equality. The study is divided into three sections. The first section explores legal pluralism and the sociology of legal orders, and presents the legal orders applicable to workplace issues. The second section considers the history of union action, labour law and public policies relating to equality, while the third assesses those public policies and takes a normative construction approach to the principles and measures that can be used to implement the principle of equality effectively. With respect to assessment, we began with an empirical legal study of a major complaint submitted to Québec’s Human Rights Commission, namely the freeze on pay scales in the collective agreement of school board teachers. We then reviewed the literature dealing with public policies relating to equality, and analyzed the benefits for unionized workplaces offered by the two main methods of implementing equality, namely grievances and arbitration on the one hand, and complaints to the Human Rights Commission on the other (with, in the latter case, recourse to the Human Rights Tribunal where necessary). With respect to normative construction, we used a sociological, historical and evaluative analysis as a basis for designing the policy elements required to achieve the goals.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
This research explores what roles nonprofits play in political representation by applying the concept of the representational role to nonprofits. The representational role consists of representational focus and style. Representational focus shows those whom nonprofits aim to serve: members, constituents, or the general public. Representational style denotes the ways nonprofits advocate for their focal groups: the delegation, trusteeship, and educational styles. The survey and regression analysis results demonstrate that nonprofits serving their members are most likely to convey their members’ voices directly to policy makers: the delegation style. In contrast, nonprofits advocating for their constituents are likely to pursue what they independently identify as the interests of their constituents: the trusteeship style. Finally, nonprofits speaking for the general public are most likely to work toward educating the general public: the educational style. These results suggest that nonprofits play different roles in political representation, depending on the types of their focal groups.

The diploma thesis deals with the sources of trust in artificial intelligence, and how these sources are conditioned by social representations. It examines what risks the user is aware of when using artificial intelligence and how various factors affect the user's thinking. Artificial intelligence is represented in my work by intelligent virtual assistants (IVA). Based on semi-structured research interviews with their users, I have identified as the main sources of trust: neutrality, belief in the future, fulfillment of expectations and closeness. The first two sources are constant and based on social structure, while the last two sources of trust are based directly on user experience and are variable over time. It was also found that social representations have a significant impact on sources of trust. I divided all social representations into three categories - mechanicality, personification, intangibility, according to which the user's perception of artificial intelligence could be assessed and, based on that, his thinking about it. Because of this, I have proved that the trust of users is conditioned by social representations. An important part of trust is risk awareness. In my work, I have identified six main risks that users are aware of: unexpected software error, mechanical error, misuse of...