The parameter (sigma =2 sigma^prime ) controls how big the difference between appreciations can be for the competitive comparisons to affect the appreciations (i.e. the effect is propagated) (Deffuant et al. 2013; Castellano et al. 2009).
Patients' opinions as reported in our study are affected by the appreciation of the communicative skills of the doctors.
In addition to the competitiveness, (tolerance to) the diversity of group members in regards to their responses to differences in self- and peer-appreciations also affects the formation of appreciation patterns.
"Sharp yuan appreciation will seriously affect the export sector, jobs and economic growth," Li added.
And we would like a much greater appreciation of how staying or leaving the EU might affect the life chances of everyone, no matter their colour or background.
The competitive comparisons of appreciations and the (sensitivity to) competitiveness, however, essentially affect the type of patterns that develop in the group.
Since Sept. 11, it has retrospectively taken on even more meaning than it had during its installation last spring in two walkways at the World Trade Center, where Mr. Pfeiffer hoped it might affect commuters' appreciation of the brief span of a life.
In addition to the competitiveness, the diversity (sigma ) also affects the formation of peer-appreciation patterns, but not to the same degree as the competitiveness.
Technically, the diversity (sigma ) regulates the wideness of the distribution of differences in appreciations that affects the probability of an agent to change its appreciations.
In general, the above results suggest that slight thinning, as executed in this study, does not affect appreciation of the environment and its restorative properties, except for a few indices.
