Perches or grids? What do rearing chickens differing in growth performance prefer for roosting?

Perches, Post-holes and Grids

The PEML project has organized and collated a substantial quantity of images, and has used this as evidence to support the hypothesis that Anglo-Saxon building construction was based on grid-like planning structures based on fixed modules or quanta of measurement. In this appendix we report on the development of some statistical contributions to the debate concerning this hypothesis. In practic...

Chickens prefer beautiful humans.

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this...

Online or Print: Which Do Students Prefer?

“Online Or Offline, What Do You Prefer?” Pre-Test of Measurement Scales for Empirical Analysis

In times of increasing globalization and the continuing growth of internet-based processes and services, it becomes necessary to study emerging phenomena such as user resistance from a novel theoretical perspective. In this paper, we develop measurement instruments to empirically analyze and test why different process participants use or do not use this process in a virtual environment, and why...

What Qualities Do Users Prefer in Diversity Rankings?

Novelty and diversity ranking aims to provide individual users or groups of users with the documents that will cover a space of information needs or different aspects of a single information need [7, 11]. Most approaches to diversity evaluation require a list of subtopics that either disambiguate a short query or give further specification of aspects of the underlying information need. Document...