Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to identify a tone's pitch or to produce a tone at a particular pitch without the use of an external reference pitch. AP exists in varying degrees among people generally described as AP possessors. AP possessors vary not only in the accuracy with which they can identify pitches but also in their ability to produce pitches absolutely and in their ability to ide...

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Contemporary competitive demands have forced many organizations to increase levels of flexibility and adaptability in their operations. A growing number of such organizations have explored the virtual environment as one means of achieving increased responsiveness. In particular, the use of virtual teams appears to be on the increase. However, the increased use of virtual teams has not been acco...

The 5th International Planning Competition will be colocated with ICAPS-06. This IPC edition will contain a track on nondeterministic and probabilistic planning as the continuation of the probabilistic track at IPC-4. The non-deterministic track will evaluate systems for conformant, non-deterministic and probabilistic planning under different criteria. This document describes the general goals ...

A study was undertaken in southern peninsular state of India, the Tamil Nadu State, to assess the farmers’ “Willingness to pay” (WTP) for receiving annual health care services to their dairy animals. The districts of the state were categorized as “Livestock developed” (LD) and “Livestock under developed” (LUD) based on initial base line developed. Contingent valuation (CV) approach was used to ...

We used data from the near-infrared VISTA survey of Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure proper motions (PMs) stars within Small (SMC). The analysed in this study comprise 26 VMC tiles, covering a total contiguous area on sky ~40 deg$^2$. Using multi-epoch observations Ks band over time baselines between 13 and 38 months, we calculated absolute PMs with respect ~130,000 background galaxies....