The study examined the socio-economic and farm level characteristics influencing adoption of rice production technologies in Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. A total of 76 farmers were randomly selected from 24 villages and data were collected using interview schedule. Descriptive statistics, adoption index and discriminate analysis were used to analyze data. The result reve...

A perceptual discrimination test was conducted to investigate whether humans can discriminate prosodic types solely based on suprasegmental acoustic cues. Excerpts from Chinese, English, Spanish, and Japanese, differing in lexical accent types and rhythm types, were used. From these excerpts, “source” signals of the source-filter model, differing in F0, intensity, and HNR, were created and used...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of gender and bruxism on the ability to discriminate minimum interdental threshold. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and fifteen individuals, representing both genders, bruxers and non-bruxers, with a mean age of 23.64 years, were selected for this study. For group allocation, every individual was subjected to a specific physical examination to detect bruxi...

A new method for the automated selection of colour features is described. The algorithm consists of two stages of processing. In the first, a complete set of colour features is calculated for every object of interest in an image. In the second stage, each object is mapped into several ndimensional feature spaces in order to select the feature set with the smallest variables able to discriminate...

optimal attributes are useful in interpretation of seismic data. two proposed methods are presented in this paper for finding optimal attributes. regularized discriminate analysis(rda) is based on 2 parameters ë, ? which called regularization parameter. the other method is principal component analysi s(pca).in this paper gas chimney detection is defined as the subject of study for ranking relev...

System Factorial Technology is a recent methodology for the analysis of information processing architectures. SFT can discriminate between three processing architectures, namely serial, parallel and coactive processing. In addition, it can discriminate between two stopping rules, self-terminating and exhaustive. Although the previously stated architectures fit to many psychological skills as pe...