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In this study energy use pattern for sugar beet production in Hamadan province of Iran was studied and the degrees of technical and scale efficiency of producers were analyzed using DEA technique. The results revealed that of the average pure technical, technical and scale efficiencies of farmers were 0.83, 0.63 and 0.74, respectively. The results also suggested that, on average, a potential 45.73% (19609 MJ ha-1) reduction in total energy input could be achieved provided that all farmers operated efficiently. Generally, it can be said the DEA approach was appropriate methods for energy optimization in sugar beet production.

4-Oxothiazolidines(1a-o) have been synthesized by cyclisation of various Schiff bases with thiolactic acid. The schiff bases are obtained by the condensation reaction of 4-methyl cinnamoyl hydrazine with different benzaldehydes. The synthesized compounds are identified on the basis of spectral and elemental analysis. All the products have been evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial activity against various strains of bacteria.

This study examines the effect of advertising on Iranian audience using the total sample of 274 Iranian male and female. The study used the t-test model to determine the significant differences between Iranian male and female attitudes on different facets of advertising if any. As the researcher found that there is a statistically significant difference between the Iranian male and female in advertisements which create needs but do not fulfill them perfectly, this type of study would help the industry to realize the need of measuring the pulse of the general consumers from time to time and fulfill their needs. Knowledge of these in different segments of society will help the industry and advertising agencies in the development of creative strategy and media planning for targeting specific groups. At the same time, the practice of advertising should be improved and its credibility has to be enhanced among its recipients. This research has tried to demonstrate that there are some people who always think the positive consequence of advertising and at the same time there may be others who think negatively the consequences of advertising, Therefore, the long-term goal of the industry should be to improve its performance over time.

This study attempted to discover whether practicing on cloze tasks could improve Iranian undergraduates' foreign language proficiency. Sixty two Iranian EFL students of Azad University in Rasht served as the EG and the CG of the study and performed on a TOEFL serving as the pre-test of the study. The statistical technique of t-test formula revealed the two groups were not statistically different in terms of their foreign language proficiency at the outset of the study. The EG received thirty cloze tasks of various types during the course. In order to learn whether this treatment was effective or to see whether there was any statistically significant difference in the EFL proficiency between EG and CG after the administration of treatment, the participants were all post-tested on another TOEFL. The statistical technique of t-test formula revealed the EG, which had been equal to the CG before receiving the treatment, came to differ from it after it received the treatment; results showed that regular practice with cloze tasks was a very effective means of improving Iranian EFL proficiency. Therefore, the null hypothesis: There is no relationship between practicing on cloze tasks and improving Iranian EFL proficiency, was rejected.

The main objective of this study is to find out if Organizational characteristics intervene in the relationship between CRM and organizational performance in the Nigerian insurance industry. Relevant literature was reviewed and a model consisting of fourteen variables was conceptualized and tested by means of empirical data collected through a questionnaire survey. A total of one hundred and eighty (180) copies of questionnaires were administered, one hundred and forty nine (149) copies were duly completed and returned. This represents a response rate of 82.78%. Partial correlation was used to test the hypothesis. Findings show that there is a positive relationship between customer focused and customer satisfaction in the Nigerian insurance industry. Findings also show that Organizational characteristics intervene in the relationship between CRM and organizational performance in the Nigerian insurance industry. The study also shows that the strength of the intervention of companies’ image is stronger than that of branch network. The study recommended that insurance companies should pay more attention to their companies’ image and pay less attention to proliferation of branches.

The purpose of this study was to find out the role that employee training and development plays on employee performance in commercial banks in Kisumu town. The research was carried out using the descriptive survey design. The population of the study were both the management and other members of staff of the 22 banks in Kisumu City who were 400 from which a sample size of 200 respondents was selected. Data was collected using questionnaires and structured interviews. The study data that was analyzed quantitatively using the SPSS Package. The presentation of data was done using tables and charts. The study established that training and development leads to the increased performance by the employee. The study findings revealed that it makes an employee more efficient in performing tasks/duties. It leads to increased task performance speed and it increases employee proficiency in handling and solving issues. It increases the capacity of an employee to offer better services reduces work related errors by employees, it enhances the employees’ willingness to help customers and provide prompt services and positive attitude while serving and performing tasks. The study therefore recommends that training and development be managed properly for it to yield better effect on employee productivity.

The main purpose of the paper exerts the relation between lineage and directed line segments of vector. This approach is an analogical analysis with directed straight line vectors. Every Sib or Lineage consists with Initial and Terminal position which indicates a straight line. The straight line is characterized with its magnitude and having direction. Length, sense and line support are important properties of vectors have not been noticed in this research. Apical ancestor and its latest generation make the straight line due to transmission of a clan and taboos on genealogy. Every lineage means maximum to minimal parental stalk is carried out on a substantial number of directed line segments. These directed line segments are proved by the triangle and parallelogram and P-system graph theory and manifested in that these several line segments propose the theory of structural continuity. Thus it has been examined that the unique direction of lineage is common from apical to latest parental stalk. This paper exercises the overview of male and female line inheritance which can be analyzed with analogical application of Directed line segments of vector and scalar quantities.

The accurate recognition of Latin-script, typewritten text is now considered largely a solved problem. Typical accuracy rates exceed 99%, although certain applications demanding even higher accuracy require human review for errors. Other areas—including recognition of hand printing, cursive handwriting, and printed text in other scripts (especially those with a very large number of characters)--are still the subject of active research. Recognition of cursive text is an active area of research, with recognition rates even lower than that of hand-printed text. Higher rates of recognition of general cursive script will likely not be possible without the use of contextual or grammatical information. For example, recognizing entire words from a dictionary is easier than trying to parse individual characters from script. Reading the Amount line of a cheque (which is always a written-out number) is an example where using a smaller dictionary can increase recognition rates greatly. Knowledge of the grammar of the language being scanned can also help determine if a word is likely to be a verb or a noun, for example, allowing greater accuracy. The shapes of individual cursive characters themselves simply do not contain enough information to recognize all handwritten cursive script accurately (greater than 98%). It is necessary to understand that OCR technology is a basic technology also used in advanced scanning applications. Due to this, an advanced scanning solution can be unique and patented and not easily copied despite being based on this basic OCR technology. In this paper, an intelligent system for “OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGINITION” using Artificial Neural Network based approach and a Feature Extraction algorithm before an ANN can be applied for classification of characters which promises to provide increased efficiency for the character recognition is proposed.

Depression is highly variable in terms of presentation of symptoms and the duration of these symptoms. It is characterised by a loss of positive affect and interest in activities and can be differentiated from depressed or sad mood by being more persistent and intense and by being accompanied with cognitive, behavioural and physiological changes as well as functional and social impairment (NICE, 2004) Some of the symptoms a client with depression may experience are lack of joy (anhedonia), loss of feelings (apathy) a feeling of hopelessness, social withdrawal social withdrawal lowered or heightened appetite, sleeping difficulties, pessimistic or negative thoughts and lowered self-esteem (Megna & Simionescu,2006)psychotic symptoms as such delusions or hallucinations may occur in severely depressed clients. The results gleaned from the study done on 30 depressed young women with the age range of 20-25 years afflicted with depression showed that a combination of pleasant and exuberating practices in proportion to patients and medication therapy (re-absorption inhibitors of serotonin (5 HT) and re-absorption inhibitors of Dopamine (5HT) can be very beneficial to the treatment and control of depression disease. So the test group tended from severe depression to mild depression and the control group tended from severe depression to moderate (mild) depression. Although, medication therapy has some moderate effects of treatment process, it cannot be successful in the treatment and control of depression.

In mathematics or its applications, a functional equation is an equation in terms of independent variables, and also unknown functions, which are to be solved for. Many properties of functions can be determined by studying the types of functional equations they satisfy. Usually the term functional equation is reserved for equations that are not in some simple sense reducible to algebraic equations, often because two or more known functions of the variables are substituted as arguments into an unknown function to be solved for. For example: The commutative and associative laws are functional equations. When the associative law is expressed in its familiar form, one lets some symbol between two variables represent a binary operation, thus: (a * b) * c = a * (b * c) But if we write f (a, b) instead of a * b, then the associative law looks more like what one conventionally thinks of as a functional equation: f (f(a, b), c) = f(a, f(b, c))We study generalized quadratic functional equations on quasigroups. These are equations s = t, where each variable appears exactly twice in s = t and each Operational symbol is assumed to be a quasigroup operation on a (fixed) set. A fundamental problem in this class of equations is to investigate their structure and classify them accordingly.