Rapid plant breeding is essential to overcome low productivity problems in the face of climatic challenges. Despite considerable efforts improve practices Ethiopia, increasing varietal release does not necessarily imply that farmers have access innovative choices. Prior research did adequately address whether attributes are compatible with farmers’ preferences harsh environmental conditions. Wi...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of declarative intonation produced by standard speakers of German from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The analysis was based on a directly comparable corpus of speech data. A perception test with phoneticians from the three countries suggested (1) that speakers from the three varieties produce different tunes on accented syllables, and (2) that ther...

Soil flooding or waterlogging is a major abiotic stress in upland crops. In barley, there have been several reported studies of selection for flooding-tolerant genotypes, but it is difficult to obtain varietal rankings that are consistent among researchers. Our objectives were to establish experimental conditions that could be applied by other research groups and to verify the varietal ranking ...

Recent theory and experimental work in metapopulations and metacommunities demonstrates that long-term persistence is maximized when the rate at which individuals disperse among patches within the system is intermediate; if too low, local extinctions are more frequent than recolonizations, increasing the chance of regional-scale extinctions, and if too high, dynamics exhibit region-wide synchro...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between local government services and the overall satisfaction of users with the e–recruitment website (e–job website) in Taiwan. A two–dimensional mean value matrix (TDMVM) technique was used to explore the identification, classification, and application of website service quality. The results show that the asymmetrical relationship betw...