Rice is not just a staple food; but it at the center of culture, politics, and economy Bangladesh. The determinants affecting adoption modern rice cultivars their adaptability in Aman season (June to November) Faridpur region Bangladesh were discussed. A total 500 farmers from five different districts such as, Faridpur, Madaripur, Shariatpur, Rajbari, Gopalganj through multistage sampling techn...

Despite the fact that both males and females have been found to exhibit traditionally masculine, feminine, and androgynous traits (1), gender has been found to be a factor that can significantly bias perception (e.g., 7, 10). Many questions arise with reference to how exactly our perceptions are biased. For example, what are the basic cues (voice, physical appearance, et cetera) that are necess...

A historical review of absenteeism in the popular press is presented through a sample of articles appearing in the New York Times from 1904 to 2004. The review demonstrates the negative perception of absenteeism over the years while also exposing diversity in the treatment of absence in terms of perceived causes, effects, and strategies to combat it. The findings offer insight into social expec...

This paper provides a preliminary report of a study of the thinking styles of mid-level and senior information technology executives from the United States. Contrary to popular belief, a significantly smaller proportion of these executives prefer analytic thinking, and a significantly larger proportion prefer holistic thinking, than would be expected. This reality, coupled with a common (mis)pe...

In this paper, we evaluate popular Web-based tools for test design, implementation, delivery, automatic grading and result analysis. We compare these tools with respect to the variety of question types that support, the capabilities for multimedia use, the security, the easiness of development, maintenance and delivery of tests, the automatic grading and the statistical analysis of the results....

"A popular component of many behaviour change efforts involves asking a person to make a commitment, or “pledge”, to undertake the desired behaviour. This typically involves getting them to sign their name to a promise to save water/energy/emissions. The common perception is that this will make them more accountable, and thus more likely to follow through on the requested behaviours. This month...

Making no claim of being exhaustive, a review of the most popular MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) implementations is made. These differ mainly in the particular approximation of the nonlinear pitch perception of human, the filter bank design, and the compression of the filter bank output. Then, a comparative evaluation of the presented implementations is performed on the task of text...

For the investigation of level fluctuating sounds of longer duration – in particular noise immissions – the method of “Continuous Judgment by Category” was proposed by Namba and Kuwano and applied in several studies by them and others, e.g. [1]-[4]. Arakawa et al. also demonstrated the applicability to music [5]. Recently, this method was used again as part of an investigation to study the popu...

The impact of the changes in Scotland's liquor licensing laws was assessed by comparing trends in alcohol related problems in Scotland with those in England and Wales. The study showed no appreciable effect on the level of alcohol related morbidity and mortality, though some improvements were noted in relation to the rates of convictions for drunkenness. The changes introduced since 1976 appear...