being male characteristics—aggressiveness and competitiveness. ‘I think we essentially suffer from the fact that success is measured by a male yardstick,’ Daniela Rhodes from the MRC said. She also expressed her disappointment with the fact that only a few men attended the conference as the issue of gender equality affects them as well. Indeed, it is a problem that men and society cannot afford...

A Portland cement plaster wall system has many positive features, but one of the physical properties that it does not possess is flexural strength. It is because of the inability of the Portland cement plaster membrane to bend or flex that glass fiber strands were used in Portland cementbased plaster. There are various types of synthetic fibers on the market that will provide flexural strength ...

Glass ceiling, a widely practiced but unrevealed obstacle for the development of women and minorities towards executive upper level managerial hierarchy in organizations. At present time this issue is drawing more attention from human resource practitioners around globe. In developed developing countries, women's empowerment burning as economy can reach its peak through participation all gender...

The novel approach of combining audio and symbolic features for music classification from audio enhanced previous audio-only based results in MIREX 2007. We extended the approach by including temporal audio features, enhancing the polyphonic audio to MIDI transcription system and including an extended set of symbolic features. Recent research in music genre classification hints at a glass ceili...