In order to determine the willingness of the population of São Carlos (a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil) to pay for the environmental protection (WTP) of the Feijão River's watershed, the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), as well as the bidding-games technique, were used. In October 2010, 280 questionnaires were applied to a probabilistic sample of the population. A multivariate logist...

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We give a q-analogue of some Dixon-like summation formulas obtained by Gould and Quaintance [Fibonacci Quart. 48 (2010), 56–61] and Chu [Integral Transforms Spec. Funct. 23 (2012), 251–261], respectively. For example, we prove that

China is a country that is arousing a large amount of interest as a new mega-market, as it opens itself to a market-orientated economy and expands at a remarkable rate. However, the influx of international investment, new business opportunities and advertising from overseas has seen Chinese consumers being exposed to potentially offensive advertising products and images. While some products and...

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My colleague Richard F. West and I began studies of context effects on the word recognition of children when we were both graduate students at the University of Michigan in the mid-i9705.At the time we were heavily influenced by the popular top-tiown models of the reading process.’ We fully expected to make an experimental mark by providing more rigorous confirmationsof the individual-differenc...

We derive a set of new consistency conditions for the pion-pion scattering amplitude. These conditions hold for any s, t, u in the cube, 0 5 s, t, u 2 P2, with the four external mass variables off -mass -shell and restricted such that 4:. = 0, qt = s, 432 = t, and c$ = u. Using these consistency conditions, we determine the coefficients of the power series expansion of the pion-pion amplitude u...

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Talking about helping others makes a person seem warm and leads to social approval. This work examines the real world consequences of this basic, social-cognitive phenomenon by examining whether record-low levels of public approval of the US Congress may, in part, be a product of declining use of prosocial language during Congressional debates. A text analysis of all 124 million words spoken in...