The most widely used measure of segregation is the dissimilarity index, D. It is now well understood that this measure also reflects randomness in the allocation of individuals to units; that is, it measures deviations from evenness not deviations from randomness. This leads to potentially large values of the segregation index when unit sizes and/or minority proportions are small, even if there...

Metris is a version of the Tetris game that uses a player’s musical response to control game performance. The game is driven by two factors: traditional game design and the player’s individual sense of music and sound. Metris uses tuning principles to determine relationships between pitch and the timbre of the sounds produced. These relationships are represented as bells synchronised with signi...

Color preference research has traditionally focused on summarising or explaining the color preferences of groups of people. Claims of universal patterns and trends in color preference have generally been based on group analyses, with little consideration of the individual. Initial investigation of this issue has revealed that, although patterns can be identified at the group level, individual d...

this study was done on 4 and 5 years old great sturgeon cultured in brackish water ponds in bafgh salt water fisheries research station during one year. we examined somatic growth indices and effects of different diets on blood parameters and total length and weight. diet with constant protein (%40) and different energy levels (400,425,450,475 cal/100g) were fed to 74 pieces of great sturgeons ...

â housing as the smallest element of the habitats is one of the most important urban usage and one of the major development indices of a country. the purpose of this paper is investigation of housing situation of income groups and estimation of low income groups housing using statistical techniques in housing programming. this paper attempts to investigate the housing situation of income group ...