Cultural ecosystem service (CES) constitutes a growing field of researches in integrated land planning, among which is how to optimize the provision to nearby neighborhoods. Thus an understanding of the value of CES appreciated by residents needs to be developed. Stated preference methods are popular in valuing CES, among which, willingness to pay (WTP) is the most widely used way. But still, i...

the upper cretaceous thick bedded succession in badamouyeh mountain in honooj area shows the late cenomanian-santonian stages. also, these deposits are well exposed in the south-west of bibihayat and south of cheshmah gaz village. in the studied section, lower and upper honooj green marls (informal) with intercalation of exogyroferous shaly limestone are overlain by thick bedded limestones and ...

The paper studies a class of games, “All-Pay Contests”, which captures general asymmetries and sunk investments inherent in scenarios such as lobbying, competition for market power, labor-market tournaments, and R&D races. Players compete for one of several identical prizes by choosing a score. Conditional on winning or losing, it is weakly better to do so with a lower score. This formulation a...

Rapid growth of rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Macon County, North Carolina has been giving rise to concerns over declining environmental quality and increasing need for land-use policy. This paper examines willingness to pay (WTP) for hypothetical conservation easements as an alternative land-use policy for the county. Despite the fact that Macon County has struggled to adopt...

Protest bids are often excluded during analysis of contingent valuation method data. It is suggested that this procedure might introduce significant bias. Protest bids are often registered by respondents who may actually place a higheror lower-than-average value on the commodity in question but refuse to pay on the basis of ethical or other reasons, Exclusion of protest bids may therefore bias ...

Animal welfare is often cited as a classic public good, which implies market failure and, thus, that government intervention is required. However, the current literature does not provide an accessible account of how governed markets are supposed to cope with the issues of animal welfare. This paper seeks to fill this gap by re-considering the political economy of animal welfare. Conceptual anal...

The present study surveyed a UK representative sample of 500 individuals and employed the Choice Experiment (CE) to elicit the UK public’s views on the management of stray dogs and people’s willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce the current euthanasia rate. The results revealed that people have an emotional bonding with companion animals and are willing to pay to reduce the current euthanasia rate....

Résumé. Les algorithmes actuels de fouille de données ne supportent que de façon très limitée les mécanismes de guidage et d’engagement d’expert dans le processus de découverte. Dans cet article, nous présentons une nouvelle approche interactive de fouille des images IRMf, guidée par les données, permettant l’observation du fonctionnement cérébral. La discrimination des voxels d’image du cervea...

Introduction Risk evaluation is a global process covering different aspects of employee’s workandfamily life. Nowadays, psychosocial risks are as important physical and chemical risks, their identification isdeterminant in each workplace. Objectives Our study aimed to assess among Electricity Gas Company’s employees identify factors related these risks. Methods A cross sectional was conducted m...