the energy efficiency, greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and carbon efficiency of paddy rice production were analysed in sari in the mazandaran province of iran during 2011–2012. data was collected through questionnaires and interviews with paddy producers. the results showed that the net energy gain was 27,932 mj ha-1 and energy efficiency was 1.83 during production. the results of the cobb-doug...

abstract rice is most important agricultural crop of guilan province sensibility to salinity and alkalinity of water and soil. in recent years, using of toxicants and fertilizers in farmlands, constructing several dams upstream, entering agricultural, homemade and industrial sewage in to a river, and drought have decreased gradually discharge of river and increased salinity of sefidrud river as...

This report presents a new use of safe Petri nets in the eld of distributed Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, with application to telecommunication network management. This study has in its long range objectives to provide a generic supervisor, which can be easily distributed on a set of sensors. Petri nets are used to provide both a model and an algorithm in fault management domain. Key features...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about how participation in internet-based behavioral interventions influences outcomes in youth with health conditions. This study describes participation in an online behavioral pain management intervention for families of adolescents with chronic pain. METHODS 26 adolescent-parent dyads were randomized to the intervention arm of a controlled trial evaluating a cogn...

This paper investigates denial, a rapport-challenging speech act. It discusses the performance of denial in review response genre – managerial responses addressing negative online comments made by dissatisfied customers. In this study, act is taken to be instantiated as Deny Problem, one moves constituting genre. The were identified qualitatively analysing total 2,577 produced hotels different ...

The Internet Paradox refers to findings that demonstrated that the increase in communications brought about by Internet usage actually had negative effects on user’s psychological well-being and social involvement. This study proposes that face-to-face contact promotes the development of rapport and thereby individuals that use the internet excessively will lack these necessary social skills. S...

This study tested the effects of narrative practice rapport building (asking open-ended questions about a neutral event) and a putative confession (telling the child an adult "told me everything that happened and he wants you to tell the truth") on 4- to 9-year-old maltreated and nonmaltreated children's reports of an interaction with a stranger who asked them to keep toy breakage a secret (n =...

Past research has indicated that rapport helps negotiators overcome interpersonal friction and find cooperative agreements. Study 1 explored differences in the behavioral dynamics evoked by e-mail versus face-to-face negotiation. Although some behavioral content categories differed in ways pointing to strengths of e-mail, the strongest pattern was that e-mail inhibited the process of exchanging...

This article draws on an extensive corpus of broadcast material to examine the performed aspects of a media personality’s talk—the host of a long-standing audience participation debate in the United Kingdom. The context of interaction in which this host engages in rapport and impression management work plays a crucial role in the analysis. It is a context that resembles some of the patterns of ...