The social capital literature has focused on the functional and structural properties of social relations, partially neglecting the way in which they are experienced by individuals. Drawing on anthropological and social ...

Intuitionistic reciprocal preference relations constitute a flexible and simple representation of decision makers' preference on a set of alternative options, while at the same time allow to accommodate degrees of hesitation ...

In this effort we show that the Legendre reciprocity relations, thermodynamics’ essential formal feature, are respected by general classic entropic functionals, even if they are NOT of trace-form nature, in contrast with ...

Reciprocity is an integrating principle of supportive economy activities. In non-capitalist societies, it has been realized through the participation of certain institutional arrangements that favored the stability of ...

Trust-repayment behavior is crucial to establish and maintain cooperative links between different (even genetically unrelated) individuals. However, neither the exact nature of this behavior considered mainly as reciprocity, ...

This dissertation aims to study the reciprocal verbs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). These verbs behave syntactically in two ways: one way is the reciprocal verbs simple form, in sentences like João e Maria conversaram (in ...

We explore intriguing links connecting Hellmann–Feynman’s theorem to a thermodynamics information-optimizing principle based on Fisher’s information measure.