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This study examined whether information about a writer and hyperlinks on a citizen journalism Web site affected the perceived credibility of stories. Participants read stories from a popular citizen journalism Web site and rated the stories in terms of perceived credibility. Results show that hyperlinks and information about the writer do enhance perceived story credibility. Credibility is enhanced most greatly when both hyperlink and writer information are included and, to a lesser extent, when just hyperlink or writer information is present.
... in the media community about the definition of credibility. Some of the earliest work in this ...
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There is a tremendous amount of resources being tied up in litigation between insurance companies and policyholders over things like the extent of coverage for various loss scenarios or allegedly bad faith delays in settlement payments. The fact that policyholders formally dispute insurer coverage positions or claims payment strategies gives credibility to the idea that mismatches exist between what policyholders expect insurance policies to cover and what the insurance contracts actually provide as loss indemnification. This mismatch essentially represents insurance basis risk, the analysis of which can more accurately reflect the value and overall efficiency of insurance contracts and suggest factors that may influence policyholder dissatisfaction and consequently insurance contract d...
...The theoretical definition of insurance basis presented in this article speci...
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Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of convicted drug dealers and urged jurors to think about the definition of "conspiracy" during closing arguments in the trial of three purported members of the Cherry Street Mob.
The arguments capped a seven-day trial in federal court in Milwaukee. Calvin James, Ted Robertson and Jarvis King are charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
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...2. Establish professional credibility . 3. Be persuasive . Meeting Personal Needs . One ... that he knows." This is an excellent definition of credibility. In addition to "knowing," credible...
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...Credibility can be measured by, among other factors, the prose...Deference does not by definition preclude relief. A federal court can disagree with...
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The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May 20, 2009, consolidates three of the separate homeless assistance programs administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant program, revises the Emergency Shelter Grants program and renames the program the Emergency Solutions Grants program, and creates the Rural Housing Stability program to replace the Rural Homelessness Grant program. The HEARTH Act also codifies in law the Continuum of Care planning process, long a part of HUD's application process to assist homeless persons by providing greater coordination in responding to their needs. This final rule integrates the regulation for the definition of ``homeless,'' and the correspon...
... used to make determinations about the credibility of oral statements; a standard set of questions fo...
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... The Act specifically excludes from the definition of "employee" any employee who lacks selective or ... gained a "high level of influence or credibility" with customers, vendors, or other business relati...
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...petitioner's testimony lacked credibility. At the same time she. found, in the alternative,...302 (2005), the credibility. definition at issue here is subject to a provision of that Ac...
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... The Act specifically excludes from the definition of "employee" any employee who lacks selective or ... gained a "high level of influence or credibility" with customers, vendors, or other business relati...
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It is playing in the backdrop of this election like an invisible shield, but we have seen its power in the results of the 2006 election cycle in turning over both the House and Senate to Democrats. So we cannot eliminate this factor, especially because [Barack Obama] is the best of the anti-war candidates in the race. It makes sense, then that some of the wind beneath his wings is that his concept of "change" is defined by how he would stop the war, bring American troops home and restore the country's credibility in world affairs.
The political composition of the Obama victories has given us a confirmation of the case made above, because his attraction has not been simply partisan. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Obama attracted not only old school Democrats, but new Democrats who have not p...
... up, it would be striking, because the definition of "centrist" for the past two decades has been a ...