For all analyses, we dichotomized self-reported ability, self-reported willingness, and the four predictors of willingness so that the most positive response (i.e., "very confident", "very willing", or "strongly agree") = 1 and other responses = 0.
There was once an atmosphere of willingness that made a system of bribes and information exchanges seem, to the people involved, simply a way of working together for a common cause in a climate of public opinion that, unfortunately, required secrecy.
And hope that arises from witnessing the courage and willingness of the many that are already taking a stand.
"It is very clear that the kind of willingness that has been there, in the name of economic growth, to brush everything under the carpet is now gone," said Odd Arne Westad, a professor of international history at the London School of Economics.
"We are a very rich country and I think with a greater cohesiveness between a spirit of willingness that is there among many and mechanisms which governments can put into place, we could be doing more.
It's the same type of willingness that leads a person to believe that a man travelled through the night to Jerusalem on a winged horse-like creature to receive divine wisdom, that another man could walk on water, and that another received instructions from a burning bush.
The term J2 of Eq. 3b represents a family of willingness envelopes that can be customized by properly changing the exponent n and the longitudinal and lateral acceleration limits ax0 and ay0, respectively.
On "intelligent design" websites, creationists have even argued that the willingness of evolutionists to believe that monkeys crossed the Atlantic just shows how far scientists will go to support Darwin's theory.
And what they do is also dictated by the willingness of the studio that owns the film to hire them to undertake the work.
