the present study was undertaken on 125 broiler farmers randomly selected from five districts, hisar, jind, fatehabad, sirsa and bhiwani of hisar division of haryana to assess extent of adoption of various scientific practices by the broiler farmers. the package of practices recommended by regional state agricultural university was adopted as the set of scientific practices. the information was...

Recent research suggests that peer-to-peer argumentation supports conceptual change in students’ knowledge structures in science and mathematics, provided that students actually juxtapose and evaluate different ideas in a critical, yet coconstructive manner. However, it is well known that this type of peer-to-peer dialogue is not easily elicited and sustained, especially on scientific topics. I...

The paper presents a simple game theoretic model of two Internet access providers who choose between peering and transit agreements. There is no regulation with regard to interconnection policies of providers, though there is a general convention that the providers peer if they perceive equal benefits from peering, and have transit arrangements otherwise. In the literature there is a debate whe...

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Historically, test method evaluation, validation and review processes and criteria have been generally region-specific, often resulting in duplicative efforts and, at times, incongruent conclusions regarding the quality and utility of a test method. In an attempt to standardize such review and evaluation processes so as to render them globally consistent, experts in these arenas from such inter...

Abstract. According to 2018 demographic data of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, seismology is among geoscience fields with lowest representation women. To understand whether this reflects more generally, we investigate women's authorship peer-reviewed publications, a key factor in career advancement. Building upon open-source tools for web-scraping, create database bibliographic info...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to ...

Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a learning methodology where a peer-leader co-ordinate a small-group of students to collaboratively solve technical problems. PLTL have been adopted for various science, engineering, technology and maths courses in several US universities. This paper proposed and evaluated a speech system for behavioral analysis of PLTL groups. It could help in identifying the b...