The paper presents smallholder farmers' perceptions on attributes of bread wheat varietiesbased on primary data collected from 524 households in four major wheat growing areas ofEthiopia. The results indicated high value of attainment indices for improved varieties comparedto landraces, which shows how the demanded attributes are embodied more in improved ones.Grain yield and yellow and stem ru...

This paper addresses the intergenerational mobility question by examining the role of family structure in the transmission of educational attainment using the one percent Integrated Public Use Microsample Series (IPUMS) of the decennial Census for the decades 1970 and 1990. We first introduce mobility indices and tests which examine the proximity of the transition matrix to that which would per...

The effects of personality traits, motives, and leadership identity claims on the attainment of status in informal, social organizations were assessed in several organizations using multiple indices of status. The power motive Hope for Power was predictive of holding executive offices. Extraversion and Conscientiousness predicted peer-ratings of social influence. Extraversion, Emotional Stabili...

This two-part investigation examined associations between service in Vietnam and indices of long-term general life adjustment using a national sample of male and female members of the Vietnam generation. In Study I , we documented reasonably high levels of satisfaction and attainment among Vietnam veterans, levels that differed minimally, on average, from those who served elsewhere and those wh...

Introduction of Human Development Index (HDI) by UNDP in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. The HDI is a composite index of three indicators. Its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

Cognitive dysfunction affects half of MS patients. Although brain atrophy generally yields the most robust MRI correlations with cognition, significant variance in cognition between individual MS patients remains unexplained. Recently, markers of cognitive reserve such as premorbid intelligence have emerged as important predictors of neuropsychological performance in MS. In the present study, w...

introduction of human development index (hdi) by undp in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. the hdi is a composite index of three indicators. its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

Atkinson’s Theorem (Atkinson, 1970) is a classic result in inequality measurement. It establishes Lorenz dominance as a useful criterion for judging whether one distribution is more unequal than another, because if distribution A Lorenz dominates distribution B, then all indices in a broad class of measures must agree that A is less unequal than B. Yet recent research shows that standard inequa...

Dear Editor, The human development index (HDI) is a composite index calculated on the basis of three socioeconomic indicators that reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, educational attainment and standard of living to sufficiently capture the multidimensionality of human development. Longevity is measured by life expectancy at birth (LEB); educational attainment is mea...