A field study was undertaken during winter (rabi) season of 2013-2014 to explore the effect of graded levels of fertilizers and bio-fertilizers on yield of chickpea, protein content in chickpea seeds and nutrient uptake by the crop. Significantly higher seed and stover yields (1854, 2722 kg ha-1, respectively) were recorded with application of fertilizer @ 100% RDF (25:50:00, kg N:P:K ha-1). Re...

This study examines smartphone adoption behavior among American college students by combining all components of innovation diffusion theory (IDT), the technology acceptance model (TAM), the value-based adoption model (VAM), and the social influence (SI) model. Data indicate that the smartphone adoption rates are beyond the early majority and are now approaching the late majority. The findings o...

BACKGROUND Preoperative renal dysfunction is an important risk factor in cardiac surgery. Thus, the association between creatinine clearance (ClCr) and mechanical ventilation time and ICU length of stay, independent of other established preoperative risk indicators, was analyzed. METHODS In our study, 156 consecutive patients underwent open-heart surgery at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, ...

Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?* Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers’ control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts’ value-added models condition on lagged student abse...

This article demonstrates the potential of using hierarchical Bayesian methods to relate models and data in the cognitive sciences. This is done using a worked example that considers an existing model of category representation, the Varying Abstraction Model (VAM), which attempts to infer the representations people use from their behavior in category learning tasks. The VAM allows for a wide va...

Twenty medicinal plants were investigated for Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) association in a survey of the Pandam area of Darjeeling Himalaya, West Bengal. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza was found to be of universal occurrence in almost all plants located at different regions of the globe except a few one under varied eco-habitats. Great variations were found in the VAM infection perc...

The Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting (VAM) is an important source of professional exposure all levels vascular surgeons, and presentations reflect underlying trends in academic practice. This study aims to explore the distribution changes gender first senior authors abstracts presented at VAM assess areas disparity a setting where are blinded during selection. We conducted retrospect...