Conservation biologists mostly agree on the need to identify and protect biodiversity below the species level but have not yet resolved the best approach. We addressed 2 issues relevant to this debate. First, we distinguished between the abstract goal of preserving the maximum amount of unique biodiversity and the pragmatic goal of minimizing the loss of ecological goods and services given that...

introduction: the purpose of this study was comparison of three different methods of presenting tv programs and their impacts on receptive language of deaf people in two stages of consideration in isfahanian population. (1- providing program by sign language and lip reading method; presented by a deaf interpreter 2- providing program by lip reading method; presented by a tv broadcaster 3- provi...

news via mobile devices and digital platforms such as search engines social media. The study examined whether trends were escalating in the contexts where a large number of people continued to access from traditional media sources TV, news, print. A survey 512 respondents living Sarawak, Malaysia was conducted (33.8% rural, 10% suburban, 56.2% urban). results showed that gadgets most commonly u...

The Internet is on its way from a toy mostly used by researchers to a tool used for everyday purposes in the living room of private homes and in offices. Things have changed dramatically during the last few years, being to some extend driven by the appearance of the web and its applications. Ecommerce is one of the “magic” distributed applications appearing on the Internet. Others are IP teleph...

Laughter is a nonverbal vocalization that occurs often in speech communication. Since laughter is produced by the speech production mechanism, spectral analysis methods are used mostly for the study of laughter acoustics. In this paper the significance of excitation features for discriminating laughter and speech is discussed. New features describing the excitation characteristics are used to a...

Electronic sport, or e-sport, denotes the extreme practice of video games where so-called cyber-athletes compete in world-wide tournaments. As for any sport, such professionals are surrounded by sponsors and practice within professional teams. These professional games are even broadcast by commentators over specialized TV channels. StarCraft II (Blizzard Entertainment) is one of the most compet...

Live sport broadcasts can evoke emotions in consumers and allow companies to reach their audience environments that for automatic processing of brand messages. However, only few studies have applied psychophysiological methodologies assess how the live nature a competition viewers' affect sponsor messages, prior research has mostly relied on ex-post data. Therefore, identify interplay game outc...