The present study was designed to assess the comparative profitability of four winter vegetables namely cauliflower, cabbage, tomato and brinjal in five villages under Keranigonj Thana of Dhaka district. Four dominant winter vegetables in the study were considered. A simple purposive sampling technique was applied. Five villages were purposively selected for the collection of data. In all, 120 ...

OBJECTIVE Adverse living standards are associated with poorer child health and safety. This study investigates whether adverse housing and neighbourhood conditions contribute to explain country-level associations between a country's economic level and income inequality and child mortality, specifically injury mortality. DESIGN Ecological, cross-sectional study. SETTING/SUBJECTS Twenty-six E...

This paper examines the extent to which improved cassava varieties contribute improvement in income of smallholder farmers Northern agro-ecological zone Uganda. In order achieve objective, data was collected from PRELNOR supported farmers’ fields, other fields and baseline fields. Consequently, descriptive statistics, gross margin stochastic frontier analysis were adopted during analy...

Food security in sub-Saharan Africa is one of the major issues confronting continent. Innovative use fresh water, world’s scarcest food production resource, vital for family-run small-holder agricultural systems, which supply up to 80% food. Agriculture employs 70% Tanzania’s rural population and supplies 95% country’s The goal was measure impact smart drip irrigation kits on smallholder farmer...

background: measurement of gross , gross activities, and cosmogenic beryllium-7 (7be) concentrations were made both daily and weekly during the years 2001- 2004 from samples of atmospheric aerosols filtered from the air at tehran nuclear research center (35 41' n) and zahedan (28 29' n). materials and methods: weekly aerosol samples were collected with the high-volume air samplers on ...

OBJECTIVE The increased use of bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases requires a better understanding of the superficial temporal artery (STA) anatomy. This study is to describe the gross anatomy of STA in adult Korean population with respect to cranial surgery and to provide basic anatomic data for bypass surgery. METHODS The study evaluated retrospectively 35 p...

Purpose: This study investigates the feasibility of personalizing radiotherapy prescription schemes (treatment margins and fractional doses) for glioblastoma (GBM) patients and their potential benefits using a proliferation and invasion (PI) glioma model on phantoms. Methods and Materials: We propose a strategy to personalize radiotherapy prescription schemes by simulating the proliferation and...

Let g = ∑ c(D) qD and f = ∑ an q n be modular forms of half-integral weight k + 1/2 and integral weight 2k respectively which are associated to each other under the ShimuraKohnen correspondence. For suitable fundamental discriminants D, a theorem of Waldspurger relates the coe cient c(D) to the central critical value L(f,D, k) of the Hecke L-series of f twisted by the quadratic Dirichlet charac...

This study empirically observes the impact of corporate governance index on dividend payout policy by using the data on thirty textile firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The data cover the five-year period from 2009 to 2013. The data were gathered from financial statements of all the sample firms. Multiple regression models were used to check the impact of corporate governance on dividend ...

Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a significant negative relationship between speeding and gasoline prices. This presents a new methodology of deriving the ‘Value of Time’ (VOT) based ...