Relationship Of Mutual Trust Research Articles

Hezbollah’s Global Tentacles: A Relational Approach to Convergence with Transnational Organized Crime

ABSTRACTThat terrorists, criminals, and their facilitators exploit the global marketplace is well known. While the global movement of illicit goods is well documented, robust empirical evidence linking terrorism and organized crime remains elusive. This article posits Network Science as a means of making these links more apparent. As a critical case study, Hezbollah is quite possibly the most mature globalized terrorist organization, although it thinks of itself as the “Party of God.” However, the means seem to justify the ends: this article shows that Hezbollah’s holy men have no qualms about resorting to pornography, contraband cigarettes, immigration fraud, and credit card fraud to raise funds. Beyond establishing links, Social Network Analysis reveals other important characteristics, such as the relative autonomy from Hezbollah headquarters that local fundraising networks enjoy. That finding implies a paradigm shift: Hezbollah is no less a terrorist organization than an organized crime syndicate. This is apparent in a network’s structure. Transnational Organized Crime is typically about nodes being connected to many others in the network. Yet, Hezbollah fundraising networks allow such connectivity because of the group’s typically high levels of mutual trust and familial relationships. This creates a vulnerability that can be exploited by law enforcement and intelligence organizations.

Organizational Culture and Job Satisfaction of Greek Banking Institutions

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between organizational culture and job satisfaction. In particular, the research hypothesis is that the type of organization culture in a specific institution is able to predict the levels of job satisfaction among employees. For the measurement of job satisfaction in the present study, the Employee Satisfaction Inventory - ESI (Koustelios, 1991, Koustelios and Bagiatis, 1997) was used. The inventory was created using Greek employees as a sample. It included 24 items, which measure six dimensions of job satisfaction. The assessment of organizational culture was performed with the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) developed by Cameron and Quinn (2006). It included six questions (Dominant Characteristics, Organizational Leadership, Management of Employees, Organizational Glue, Strategic Emphases, Criteria of Success). Each question had four alternatives (A=Clan, B=Adhocracy, C=Market, D=Hierarchy). According to the results, there is a significant difference between all aspects of current and preferred organizational culture types among employees of Greek banking institutions. The majority of employees would prefer to work in a more friendly environment, where mutual trust and informal relationships among colleagues are dominant, personal ambitions are taken into consideration and teamwork is rewarded. Moreover, the present study showed that organizational culture can partially predict the levels of employees’ job satisfaction. In particular, the adhocracy and the market type are more likely to make employees dissatisfied with their salary, while the opposite happens with the hierarchy type. Nevertheless, further investigation is needed, so that Greek bank employees’ job satisfaction is being well studied and promoted.

Role development of nurses for technology-dependent children attending mainstream schools in Japan

To describe the role development of nurses caring for medical technology-dependent children attending Japanese mainstream schools. Semi-structured interviews with 21 nurses caring for technology-dependent children were conducted and analyzed using the modified grounded theory approach. Nurses developed roles centered on maintaining technology-dependent children's physical health to support children's learning with each other, through building relationships, learning how to interact with children, understanding the children and the school community, and realizing the meaning of supporting technology-dependent children. These findings support nurses to build relationships of mutual trust with teachers and children, and learn on the job in mainstream schools.

Potential gains from water rights trading in the Aral Sea Basin

Increasing water demand due to population growth, irrigation expansion, industrial development, and the need for ecosystem improvement under mounting investment costs for developing new water sources calls for the efficient, equitable and sustainable management of water resources. This is particularly essential in the Aral Sea Basin (ASB) where ineffective water management institutions are the primary reason of intersectoral and inter-state water sharing conflicts and lack of incentives for improving water use efficiency. This study examined market-based water allocation as an alternative option to the traditional administrative allocation to deal with water scarcity issues in the ASB. Potential economic gains of tradable water use rights were analyzed based on a newly constructed integrated hydro-economic river basin management model. The analysis differentiates between inter-catchment and intra-catchment water rights trading. The results show that compared to a baseline with fixed water use rights, inter-catchment water rights trading can increase basin-wide benefits by US$ 373–476million. Under intra-catchment trading, gains are still US$ 259–339million, depending on relative water availability. Gains from trade are larger under drier conditions. However, water rights trading carries a series of transaction costs. We find that in case transaction costs exceed US$ 0.05/m3 of water traded there is no additional economic gain from water rights trading. Enforcement of the rule of law, infrastructural improvements, participation of representatives of key water stakeholders in decision making processes, and mutual trust and cooperative relationships among the riparian countries are suggested as means for reducing transaction costs of water rights trading contracts.

Uncertainty and Its Consequences in Clinical Practice.

Uncertainty and Its Consequences in Clinical Practice.

Concept Analysis of Nursing Leadership

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a concept analysis of nursing leadership. Methods: The concept analysis process of Walker and Avant (2011) was used. A review of the literature was conducted using several databases, including PubMed, CINAHL, Ovid-Medline, DBpia, and KISS. The databases were searched using the following terms ‘nursing leadership’, ‘nursing’ & ‘leadership’, and ‘nurse & ‘leadership’, and for studies published from January 2000 to March 2015. Strict inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. Results: Analysis of these studies indicated nursing leadership attributes were individual growth, collaboration, nursing excellence, creative problem solving, and influence. The antecedents of nursing leadership were the individual maturity level, construction of mutual trust and confidential relationships, and a job requirement. The consequences were improvement in nursing productivity, development of a supportive work environment, and satisfaction with the nursing profession. Conclusion: The findings in this study provide a definite concept of nursing leadership. The findings also provide the theoretical evidence for the development of nursing leadership competencies in nursing students and professional nurses.

Organizational Socialization and Intention to Leave in Operating Room Nurses Working at Secondary General University Hospitals

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between organizational socialization and intention to leave, and to identify factors affecting on intention to leave in operating room nurses. Methods: This study used a descriptive design. Seventy operating room nurses recruited from three hospitals under the same management style, in-service educational system, and working conditions agreed to participate in this study, and completed self-administered questionnaires of the organizational socialization and the intention to leave questionnaire. Respondents were classified by career as advanced beginner, competent practitioner, proficient practitioner and expert practitioner by Benner's stages of nursing proficiency. Data were analyzed with t-test, ANOVA with multiple comparisons, Spearman correlation, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Nurses unsatisfied with the current in-service continuous education had lower organizational socialization and higher intention to leave. In advanced beginners, job performance was lowest and organizational commitment was highest. In expert practitioners, intention to leave was highest. Organizational commitment, interpersonal relationship, identity and burnout were associated with intention to leave. Mutual trust, burnout, and interpersonal relationship were predictors of intention to leave explained 20.8% of variance. Conclusion: The career ladder program to enhance nurses' organizational socialization and intention to stay should be established and expanded for well-experienced operating room nurses.

MTBAC: A mutual trust based access control model in Cloud computing

As a new computing mode, cloud computing can provide users with virtualized and scalable web services, which faced with serious security challenges, however. Access control is one of the most important measures to ensure the security of cloud computing. But applying traditional access control model into the Cloud directly could not solve the uncertainty and vulnerability caused by the open conditions of cloud computing. In cloud computing environment, only when the security and reliability of both interaction parties are ensured, data security can be effectively guaranteed during interactions between users and the Cloud. Therefore, building a mutual trust relationship between users and cloud platform is the key to implement new kinds of access control method in cloud computing environment. Combining with Trust Management(TM), a mutual trust based access control (MTBAC) model is proposed in this paper. MTBAC model take both user's behavior trust and cloud services node's credibility into consideration. Trust relationships between users and cloud service nodes are established by mutual trust mechanism. Security problems of access control are solved by implementing MTBAC model into cloud computing environment. Simulation experiments show that MTBAC model can guarantee the interaction between users and cloud service nodes.

Taking a shower

This article focuses on an activity routinely carried out in elderly care: taking a shower. The care setting is two nursing homes in Sweden hosting elderly people with dementia. The data consist of transcriptions of three caregivers’ interaction with their residents prior to, and during the performance of the shower task. While the shower routinely is rejected by the care recipient in these settings, the article demonstrates alternative ways of performing the task that are less imposing for the elderly person and that may maintain the care recipient’s dignity and sense of autonomy. The way opposition occurs during the course of the activity depends on how the care worker frames the performance of the task. When physical action is embedded and aligned with the care recipient’s concerns, the washing of the body progresses more smoothly. The article highlights the importance of allowing the care recipient to feel that her priorities form the basis for how the activity should proceed. The implications of this study for the care system are discussed in terms of providing opportunities for caregivers and elderly persons to build relationships of mutual trust and support.

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN EUROPEAN HOSPITALS

IntroductionPrevious empirical studies found that strategic leadership is an important organizational capability, and is essential for quality and safety improvement in hospital settings. Moreover, the quality of leadership depends crucially...

Structural measures for multiplex networks

Many real-world complex systems consist of a set of elementary units connected by relationships of different kinds. All such systems are better described in terms of multiplex networks, where the links at each layer represent a different type of interaction between the same set of nodes rather than in terms of (single-layer) networks. In this paper we present a general framework to describe and study multiplex networks, whose links are either unweighted or weighted. In particular, we propose a series of measures to characterize the multiplexicity of the systems in terms of (i) basic node and link properties such as the node degree, and the edge overlap and reinforcement, (ii) local properties such as the clustering coefficient and the transitivity, and (iii) global properties related to the navigability of the multiplex across the different layers. The measures we introduce are validated on a genuinely multiplex data set of Indonesian terrorists, where information among 78 individuals are recorded with respect to mutual trust, common operations, exchanged communications, and business relationships.

An automated trust negotiation model based on improved coloured timed Petri net

In cross-domain computation, the establishment of mutual trust relationship between entities is the premise and basis of secure interaction. Automated trust negotiation (ATN) is an approach that establishes mutual trust between strangers wishing to share resources or conduct business by gradually requesting and disclosing credentials. According to the weaknesses of conventional ATN models, which are based on the resource unlocking strategy of ordinary tree, this paper puts forward an improved coloured timed Petri net-based ATN model and the concept of optimum certificate set, which could serve simultaneous requests of multiple target resources. Along with synchronised negotiation for finding the optimum certificate set, the negotiation effeciency is substantially improved. Moreover, this model added periodic time constraint mechanism of resource, and increased security ensurance factors for the resource sharing in cross-domain calculation.

Macroeconomic Implications of the German Short‐time Work Policy during the Great Recession

AbstractDespite a sharp fall in GDP, German employment in terms of employees stayed remarkably robust during the Great Recession. At the same time, hours worked per employee declined significantly. This is seen as the core of the German employment ‘miracle’. A general discussion arose about the reasons behind this astonishing labour market performance and the role of short‐time work (STW) as a kind of exportable panacea. In this article we look at the macroeconomic implications of STW and other measures of internal flexibility, in particular focusing on the quantification of safeguarded jobs during the crisis. We find that STW played an important role and helped to safeguard employment in Germany during the Great Recession. However, we show that other measures of internal flexibility (working time accounts, contractual arrangements on working time reductions, reduction of overtime) were equally important. Together with STW these instruments saved around 1 million jobs. To explain and understand the German success story, the features of the German core model – with a strong employer–employee relationship of mutual trust, strong employment protection, traditional standard working contracts and strong works councils at the firm level – are of key importance.

Concept Analysis of Empowerment From Survivor and Nurse Perspectives Within the Context of Cancer Survivorship

The liberal usage of the concept of empowerment has led to the development of a broad and ambiguous term. In health care, empowerment is a core principle of patient-centered care that promotes patient engagement in health management. This is an analysis of the concept of empowerment within the context of cancer survivorship using both Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis and Caron and Bower's dimensional analysis. The dimensional analysis followed the evolutionary concept analysis as the perspectives of patients and nurse providers emerged in the analysis. Data sources included a sample of 249 papers from multiple disciplines covering the period 2000-2013. Empowerment is defined as power-with that is actualized through a beneficial relationship of mutual trust and respect for autonomy that develops within a dynamic and patient-centered process. The attributes, along with the antecedents and consequences, provide a foundation for future theory development of empowerment in the context of cancer survivorship. This analysis demonstrated that although nurses and survivors may have a similar definition of the concept of empowerment, the uses and assumptions of that definition may differ. Future studies should be conducted measuring the effectiveness of an intervention that uses the components of the process of empowerment from survivors' perspectives.

PERANAN MODAL SOSIAL DALAM KEGIATAN EKONOMI

Trust in business is a fundamental element within capital and business success. Businesses need social interaction and networking. Hierarchical mechanism in the corporation, on the one hand aims to streamline the corporate performance targets in the pursuit of profit, but on the other hand there is the critical issue of how the relationship between the shareholders or the investors in monitoring the performance and behavior management in running the company. The problems is simply to look for answers from the existence of a contract containing agreements and management job descriptions, so that the irregularities that occurred outside the context of the contract will be consequential sanctions. The problem is, if then the existence of the contract will streamline the monitoring of behavior and performance management, which all it really comes down to mutual trust relationship, between management and shareholders.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v1i1.2594

스포츠클럽 참여가 사회통합에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of sportsclub on social integration through the sportsclub participation and social integration index. To achieve this goal, 26 countries among OECD members were selected. Life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, social conflict index were selected for correlation analysis. Main findings were as follows. First. Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden had higher sportsclub participation, on the contrary, Korea, Poland, Hungary, Greece, USA had lower sportsclub participation. Second, sportsclub participation had significant correlation with life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, and social conflict index. Specifically, sportsclub participation had positive relationship with life satisfaction, mutual trust, happiness index and negative relationship with social isolation, social conflict index.

Modeling the Consumer Decision-making Process while Building a Relationship of Mutual Trust

Modeling the Consumer Decision-making Process while Building a Relationship of Mutual Trust

Freedom to Fail: The unintended consequences of a prison drama

This article will consider how the failure of a planned applied drama performance by life prisoners in Belfast's Hydbank Wood Young Offender's Centre in October 2009 demonstrated unexpected outcomes of the project which paralleled the themes of the play. Involvement in the drama-making process had created more than mere ‘freedom from’ routine, but a ‘freedom to’ make space for an unfamiliar degree of ‘autonomy, a partial empowerment’ (Kershaw 2004). The prisoners, who included the play's author and co-author of this article, had succeeded in asserting their right to fail. Conventionally, an artist's ‘right to fail’ is an assertion of the importance of being able to take creative risks. By committing themselves to this performance, the participants were offering themselves up to the judgement of a highly unpredictable audience, and furthermore were prepared to engage with the additional uncertainties of an improvised interactive ending. More profoundly, the play reflected its author's pre-existing research into ‘deinstitutionalisation’ which highlighted the inconsistency between the prison system's ostensible commitment to the effective resettlement of released prisoners with the way in which enforced conformity with the prison regime suppressed the very autonomy on which successful reintegration into society depends. Over the course of the drama project significant changes were documented in the core group of six prisoners. It was ironically the thwarting of their goal of sharing their work with younger prisoners that most clearly demonstrated the success of the project in helping to build relationships of mutual trust, as well as providing prisoners with a renewed sense of purpose and self-worth, transferable life-skills necessary to support a positive identity upon release from prison.

Adverse events associated with acupuncture: three multicentre randomized controlled trials of 1968 cases in China

BackgroundIn order to evaluate the safety of acupuncture in China objectively, we investigated the adverse events associated with acupuncture based on three multicentre randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the safety of acupuncture, identifying the common types of acupuncture adverse events, and analysing the related risk factors for their occurrence.MethodsThis observational study included patients who received acupuncture from three multicentre RCTs respectively for migraine, functional dyspepsia and Bell's palsy. The 1968 patients and their acupuncturists documented adverse events associated with acupuncture after treatment. We collected data about adverse events due to acupuncture treatment from their case report forms. We analysed the incidence and details of the adverse effects, and studied the risk factors for acupuncture adverse events with non-conditional logistic regression analysis.ResultsAmong the 1968 patients, 74 patients (3.76%) suffered at least one adverse event throughout the treatment period. We did not observe the occurrence of serious adverse events. 73 patients with adverse events recovered within 2 weeks through effective treatment such as physiotherapy or self-treatment. A total of 3 patients withdrew because of adverse events. There were 9 types of adverse events related to acupuncture, including subcutaneous haematoma, bleeding, skin bruising and needle site pain. Subcutaneous haematoma and haemorrhage in the needling points were the most common adverse events. Age and gender were related to the occurrence of acupuncture adverse events. The older the patients were, the higher the risk of adverse events was. In addition, male patients had slightly higher risk of an adverse event than female patients.ConclusionsAcupuncture is a safe therapy with low risk of adverse events in clinical practice. The risk factors for adverse events (AEs) were related to the patients' gender and age and the local anatomical structure of the acupoints. AEs could be reduced and mitigated by improving the medical environment, ensuring a high technical level of the acupuncture practitioners and establishing a good relationship of mutual trust between doctor and patient.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00599586, NCT00599677, NCT00608660

Ad-hoc 네트워크에서 악의적 노드 관리기법에 관한 연구

Ad-hoc 네트워크가 정상적으로 동작하기 위해서는 각 노드가 동등한 권한을 갖고 상호 협조할 때 원활한 통신이 가능하다. 신뢰성을 확보하기 위해 인증된 노드로만 네트워크가 구성이 가능하지만 인증만으로 악의적 행위를 하는 노드를 완전히 배제할 수 없으므로 이들의 행위가 네트워크 전체를 위험에 빠뜨릴 수 있다. 이를 탐지 및 배제해야만 더욱 안전하고 신뢰할 수 있는 네트워크를 유지할 수 있으나 이에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 미흡한 수준이다. 따라서 신뢰 관계에 있는 노드로 구성된 네트워크에서 이기적이거나 악의적인 노드를 탐지하고 배제시켜 결과적으로 네트워크의 안전성과 신뢰성을 유지하고 처리율을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. An Ad-hoc network will operate properly and provide smooth communication when nodes cooperate mutually with each of them having equal authority. Although it is possible to form a network consisting only of authenticated nodes in order to ensure reliability, authentication by itself is not sufficient to remove malicious nodes and their activities jeopardizing the whole network. Detection and prevention of such activities are vital for maintaining a safe and reliable network, but research on this matter is relatively lacking. Hence a suggestion is made on how to detect and prevent malicious or uncooperative ones among the nodes forming a network by a relationship of mutual trust, thereby maintaining safety and stability of the network and improving its processing abilities