In this paper we propose a methodology to measure the characteristics and composition of intermediate products using productivity indicators based on directional distance functions. We evaluate how quality attributes interact with the quantity level in grapes production, and find evidence of a trade-off between quantity and aggregate quality for Chardonnay. ∗Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche —...

The view that children understand the mind via a coherent theory is supported by evidence that children rigidly follow a Seeing = Knowing Rule: seeing, and only seeing, leads to knowing. This paper presents two kinds of evidence that children do not follow this rule. First, we critically review previous findings that children neglect the role of inference and argue that these studies do not in ...

The pattern is, in short, at the same time a thing, which happens in the world, and the rule which tells us how to create that thing, and when we must create it. It is both a process and a thing; both a description of a thing which is alive, and a description of the process which will generate that thing

When designing a software system it is beneficial to study and use architectural styles from literature, to ensure certain quality attributes. However, as the interpretation of literature may differ depending on the background and area of expertise of the person reading the literature, we suggest that structured discussions about different architecture candidates provides more valuable insight ...

A model is developed that can estimate recreational welfare measures for access to and changes in quality attributes at long distance single-visited tourist sites with only on-site information available. By defining the good (a visit to the site) as indivisible in consumption welfare measures are derived by simply capturing or estimating the chokeprice(s). Stated and revealed methods suitable t...

[ABSTRACT] Some argue that God’s omnipotence and moral perfection prevent God from being afraid and having evil desires and thus from understanding such states—which contradicts God’s omniscience. But, I argue, God could acquire such understanding indirectly, either by (i) perceiving the mental states of imperfect creatures, (ii) imaginatively combining the components of mental states with whic...

The correlation between the performance of attributes and the overallsatisfaction such as they are perceived by the customers is often used tocalculate the importance of attributes in the crisp case. Recently, the methodwas extended, based on the standard Zadeh extension principle, to the fuzzycase, taking into account the specificity of the human thinking. Thedifficulties of calculation are im...