Data from the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization Information Systems were used as a base for characterizing, classifying and comparing air transport demand and supply features of 156 countries. Relevant data from 1980 were chosen to reflect five sets of characteristics namely, air transport, 50cm-economic status, population demography, geographical and environmenta...

Objectives: Voice is influenced by personality. However, it is still questionable which acoustic features are influenced by personality traits. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between acoustic characteristics and personality dimensions. Methods: Thirty-three participants with dysphonia and 33 participants without dysphonia were recruited to take part in this cross-sectional st...

In an increasingly technological milieu, new technologies are appearing and can be integrated into different aspects of education, not only in those subjects strictly related to technology, but also in other settings. In this framework, the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has acquired different elearning platforms since the early 2000 ́s. Initially, PoliformaT, a Sakai-based platform, ...

A large number of features have been proposed by researchers for on-line signature verification. However, little work has been done in measuring the consistency and discriminative power of these features. This paper presents a comparative study of features commonly used in on-line signature verification. A consistency model is developed by generalizing the existing feature-based measure to dist...

Social networking sites are extremely popular online destinations that offer users easy ways to build and maintain relationships with each other, and to disseminate information in an activity referred to as social networking. Students, lecturers, teachers, parents and businesses, in increasing numbers, use tools available on social networking sites to communicate with each other in a fast and c...

A case study research design was employed to investigate college lecturers’ perceptions on factors affecting their participation in continuing professional development (CPD). The survey questionnaire instrument was developed by the researchers to answer the two research questions that were posed. Forty lecturers were randomly selected from the four Faculties at the BA ISAGO University College. ...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 11 SEPTEMBER 2009 1309 COVER Wind turbines near the Great Wall in Shanxi, China. The Chinese government has aggressively fostered wind power development and tripled its target for the year 2020 to 100 gigawatts of installed capacity. Combining assimilated meteorology with current turbine technologies and concession policies, McElroy et al. (page 1378) report o...

background: incivility among nursing students is a common academic problem. knowing the causes of students’ incivility will enable the faculty members and academic institutions to select correct strategies to deal with this problem. this study was conducted to explore the causes of incivility among nursing students from both educators’ and students’ points of view. methods: this qualitative con...