Farmers’ risk preferences play an important role in agricultural production decisions, takers means the farmers who are willing to take risky decisions farming, aversion attitude of reluctance farming. Climatic change effects all regions across globe and causes substantial agitations that can be expected natural systems have foreseeable influences on economic upland through both direct indirect...

Challenging the conventional belief that sophistication in strategy is always better, it was found in W. Huang 2002a that a price-taker who adopts the Cobweb strategy yields higher profits than those who adopt more sophisticated strategies. This study explores the possibility of improving further the relative profit advantage that the price-taker has over its counterparts through incorporating ...

This paper presents an investigation of lexical chaining (Morris and Hirst, 1991) for measuring discourse coherence quality in test-taker essays. We hypothesize that attributes of lexical chains, as well as interactions between lexical chains and explicit discourse elements, can be harnessed for representing coherence. Our experiments reveal that performance achieved by our new lexical chain fe...

This paper reviews research on decision-making behavior of both goalkeeper and penalty taker during penalty kick situations in association football. Specifically, it adopts an ecological dynamics perspective on the behavior of both penalty taker and goalkeeper exemplifying how each might constrain the other’s decisions. This conceptual framework is elucidated to suggest key ideas for designing ...

After an emergency call is completed (terminated either prematurely by the emergency caller or normally by the call taker), the call taker may feel the need for further communication. For example, the call may have been dropped by accident without the call taker having sufficient information about the current state of an accident victim. A call taker may trigger a callback to the emergency call...

n an August morning in 1973, an escaped convict took four bank employees their captors. Psychologists called this newly discovered phenomenon the Stockholm Syndrome.1 A coping mechanism also known as the Survival Identification Syndrome, the Common Sense Syndrome, or, simply, transference, the Stockholm Syndrome usually consists of three components that may occur separately or in combination wi...

OBJECTIVE Background music is a common element in daily living and the workplace. Determination of whether background music affects human work concentration is a relevant concern. Studies have found background music influences human behavior, and this study attempts to understand how background music and listener fondness for types of music affects worker concentration. METHODS This study ana...