In some livestock evaluation contests, participants will be required to place a performance class of breeding animals. A performance class is one in which two important pieces of information are provided to contestants: (1) a production scenario and (2) performance data. In some livestock evaluation contests, the scenario and performance data are used in conjunction with evaluating the phenotyp...

Increasing scholarly attention is being paid to women and judging. The literature now covers a wide field, only some of which can be referred to here: analysis of judicial appointments; the structure, practices and culture of the legal profession (Schultz and Shaw 2003; Resnik 1996); judicial decisions (including both the decisions themselves and their impact, or not, on women, see, e.g. Schnei...

Guo et al. (2011) showed that attractiveness was detectable in peripheral vision. Since there are different types of attractiveness (Rhodes, 2006), we investigated how beauty and cuteness are detected in peripheral vision with a brief presentation. Participants (n = 45) observed two Japanese female faces for 100 ms, then were asked to respond which face was more beautiful (or cuter). The result...

the history of monetary policy in iran, judging by their performance in keeping the value of the currency, maintaining a steady growth in the gross domestic product, faltering investment, show that monetary policy has not been a portrait of consistent successes, to say the least. as a result of the recent studies two rules have emerged as guideline for policy makers: taylor rule and mccallum ru...

Crowdsourcing relevance judgments for test collection construction is attractive because the practice has the possibility of being more affordable than hiring high quality assessors. A problem faced by all crowdsourced judgments – even judgments formed from the consensus of multiple workers – is that there will be differences in the judgments compared to the judgments produced by high quality a...

Support for object-based accounts of visual attention has been drawn from several different types of effect. One effect is found when observers try to restrict their attention to a particular region of a display. Other regions belonging to the same object are often selected as well, suggesting that attention spreads spatially over entire objects. Another effect is found when judging two visual ...