Efforts to frame conservation interventions in terms of idealized outcomes that benefit both human well-being and biodiversity, and the rhetoric of consensus that often accompanies these, have been criticized. Acknowledgement of trade–offs between often incommensurable interests and perspectives, has been argued to be more democratic and transparent. This paper critically examines calls to cons...

How do social networks motivate people to connect not only to their previously existing friends but also to novel or blind new contacts? We report the results of an experiment to identify the value that participants give to alternative network characteristics when deciding to connect to a social network. We focus on network tie characteristics because they represent information that potentially...

Over 15 years, genetically modified (GM) food has gradually reached around the globe. Yet, each new development occasions controversy, and hence, leads to interest in strategies to engage people in searching for durable public bargains. Even-handed treatment of diverse views is crucial to good engagement processes, as is the avoidance of processes that merely reinforce fixed views. Ideally, vie...

Context: The context of this paper is Global Software Development (GSD) which is a current trend concerning the development of software in a distributed manner throughout different countries. This paradigm has several advantages, but unfortunately there are a number of challenges that hinder projects’ successful development. Objective: The main goal of this paper is to discover which factors af...

This study investigated the relations among attachment, mother–child discourse, and theory of mind in a sample of 76 four-year-old children (mean age = 4.48 years; 36 boys). Mother–child conversations about a past event were coded for maternal use of elaborative discourse and mothers’ references to mental states. Mothers completed the attachment q-sort and children completed four false-belief t...

The last decade has witnessed a number of signi®cant methodological advances and developments in the assessment of psychopathy. The Psychopathy ChecklistÐRevised and the two-factor model of psychopathy have facilitated the assessment of psychopathy and clari®ed the di€erential correlates of the personalityand behavior-based operationalizations of this syndrome. Although preliminary evidence sug...

The key issues of Information Technology (IT) managers of Brazilian banking, a highly advanced industry, were assessed. The resulting priorities are comparable to those found in developed countries. As well as the usual key issues method of rating, two other methods were used: Q-sort and interpretive structured modeling (ISM). Respondents Q-sorted issues, and a factor analysis on these data ide...

Virtuallyseductivequalitiesofidentitysharing,contentgratification,andamplesocialatmosphere havemadeFacebookthemostpopularsocialnetwork,boasting890milliondailyusers(“Facebook ReportsFourthQuarter,”2015;Joinson,2008;Orchardetal.,2014,Reineckeetal.,2014).Online socialnetworkstudieslargelyoverlooktheindividual,limitingtheunderstandingofwhatexactl...

We present a condition on the matrix of an underdetermined linear system which guarantees that the solution of the system with minimal `q-quasinorm is also the sparsest one. This generalizes, and sightly improves, a similar result for the `1-norm. We then introduce a simple numerical scheme to compute solutions with minimal `q-quasinorm, and we study its convergence. Finally, we display the res...