“…The global influence for the proposed model is also addressed. It should be mentioned that the local influence has been the subject of many works as, for example, Lawrance (1988), Paula (1993), Lesaffre and Verbeke (1998), Ortega et al (2003), Osorio et al (2007), Paula et al (2009), Patriota et al (2010), and Lemonte and Patriota (2011), among others.…”