The data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. Cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. The total calculated alpha was 0....

We study the problem of rank aggregation: given a set of ranked lists, we want to form a consensus ranking. Furthermore, we consider the case of extreme lists: i.e., only the rank of the best or worst elements are known. We impute missing ranks and generalise Spearman’s ρ to extreme ranks. Our main contribution is the derivation of a non-parametric estimator for rank aggregation based on multiv...

We present a case study of a difficult real-world pattern recognition problem: predicting hard drive failure using attributes monitored internally by individual drives. We compare the performance of support vector machines (SVMs), unsupervised clustering, and non-parametric statistical tests (rank-sum and reverse arrangements). Somewhat surprisingly, the rank-sum method outperformed the other m...

We study the problem of rank aggregation: given a set of ranked lists, we want to form a consensus ranking. Furthermore, we consider the case of extreme lists: i.e., only the rank of the best or worst elements are known. We impute missing ranks by the average value and generalise Spearman’s ρ to extreme ranks. Our main contribution is the derivation of a non-parametric estimator for rank aggreg...

In this paper we prove Vaught's conjecture for superstable theories in which each complete type has nite U? rank. The general idea is to associate with the theory an V ? deenable group G (called the structure group) which controls the isomorphism types of the models. We use module theory to show that when the theory has few countable models and M is a countable model there is a nice decompositi...

in order to determine yield stability and evaluation of genotype × environment interaction, 20 spring bread wheat promising lines and varieties were studied in a randomized complete block design with three replications in four warm and dry stations (ahwaz, dezful, darab, & khorramabad) during 2002-2004. chamran cultivar was a check in two years trial. the results revealed that the grain yield o...