Background and objective: Choice of a marketing outlet is one of the key ingredients to successful marketing of both agricultural and non-agricultural products. The aim of the study was to show determinants of coffee farmers’ preference of coffee market outlet in Southwest Ethiopia/Jimma zone. Methodology: Cross-sectional data was collected from 156 randomly selected rural households of three Districts. Structured questionnaire prepared for household heads were filled by the help of selected and well trained enumerators. The study used multinomial logistic regression model to determine factors determining coffee market outlet preference.

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is standout amongst the most rich research fields in the area of computer vision & significant advancement has been made throughout the decade. CBIR is an image search methodology that changed the traditional text-based retrieval of images by utilizing various visual features, for example, color, texture, & shape, as criteria of search. In the area of medical, images, particularly digital images, are generated in constantly increasing quantities & utilized for diagnostics & therapy. Content based approaches into medical images to support in making clinical decision has been suggested that would simplify the management of clinical data & scenarios to incorporate the content-based approaches. As, the total quantity of data generated in diagnostic centers has increased, it leads to the utilization of CBIR in the daily routine of hospitals & clinics. In this article, we recognized and talked about some of the issues exist in the area as numerous proposals for systems are made from the medical domain and research models are made in the department of computer science by utilizing medical datasets. Still, there are a small number of systems that appear to be utilized as a part of clinical practice. There is a needs to be expressed that the objective is not to change the text-based retrieval techniques as they exist right now but to enhance them with visual search tools. This article will provide a summary of available literature in the area of content based access to medical image data and on the method used in the area.

Up to the present time a lot of interesting hypotheses of Multiverses have been offered. However, their common shortcoming is the fact that even in the distant future they will not be able to obtain experimental confirmation. They can not be refuted either. In other words, they are unverifiable. I.e. they are in fact non-existent for us. As opposed to them, the hypothesis of the hidden Multiverse considered in the article is completely verifiable, because its physical reality can be confirmed experimentally already now. This hypothesis is based on the principle of physical reality of imaginary numbers repeatedly proven by the author, which has allowed establishing a number of fundamental errors in the generally accepted version of the special relativity theory. Eliminating these errors allowed to offer a corrected relativistic formula, based on which the hidden Multiverse hypothesis was created, named in such a way because all the parallel universes included in it are mutually invisible. The reason for their invisibility is explained. It is established that such invisible universes are dark matter and dark energy. It is shown where in the hidden Multiverse the different types of antimatter are located. The data obtained by WMAP and Planck spacecrafts allowed to determine the parameters and structure of the hidden Multiverse, which proved to be a quaternion.

In paleolimnology, downcore assemblages are taken to be representative of the plankton that were living at some moment in the past. To evaluate the fidelity of the deposited diatom assemblage to that of the living plankton, a twentyyear series of whole-water plankton samples was compared to surface-sediment diatoms. When standardized and pooled, the 81 quarterly plankton samples were composed of Aulacoseira (51%), Cyclostephanos and other discoid diatoms (28%), Asterionella (9%), and Fragilaria (8%). In the deposited assemblage, however, the rank of the two most-common taxa was reversed: Cyclostephanos+ outnumbered Aulacoseira (47 and 34%, respectively). Some littoral taxa were overrepresented in sediments (e.g. Encyonema) while others were under-represented (e.g. Gyrosigma). The reasons for these differences appear unrelated to frustule dissolution, but may insteadrelate to sampling frequency, sampling depth, and lake-specific characteristics.

The research topic for this paper presented hereby is on the topic titled ‘The effects of violent video/ computer games. My research paper basically focuses on the effects of playing violent video or computer games. For my research I also gathered primary and secondary data which shows the positive and negative effects of playing violent computer games.

It is against the background of the emerging trends in internally displacement of persons within the country and its associated camping needs that this study evaluates the realities of IDP camps with a view to proffering recommendation from urban planning perspective. This study is an explorative one hence it benefits solely from secondary data which were obtained from existing literature and relevant governmental as well as non-governmental data banks. It was however discovered that there is an increase in the number of IDPs from 868,335 in 2014 to 2,151,979 in 2015 which is caused by unfunded arguments in religious belief, under development and poverty as well as unequal wealth among others. Meanwhile the escalated number of IDPs has also been factored around increase in Boko Haram’s terror act in recent years.

This paper applies the Markov switching heteroscedasticity model to stock return for India. The Markov switching model in our study takes into account the chance of regime shift, a possibility outside the purview of the GARCH model. Our finding tells us that the high variance of the transitory component tends to be short lived.

Non-linear analysis is a useful technique in a medical field specially in cardiac cases. Statistics tools & Non-linear parameters have shown potentiality to the identification of diseases, especially in the analysis of biomedical signals like electrocardiogram (ECG). In this work, premature ventricular contraction (i.e abnormality) in ECG signals has been analysed using various non-linear techniques. First, the ECG signal is processed through a series of steps to extract the QRS complex. From this extracted feature, bit-to-bit interval (BBI) and instantaneous heart rate (IHR) have been calculated.

Background: Involving men and obtaining their support and commitment to family planning is of crucial for family planning service utilization. But the information available on male involvement in family planning use is limited in study area. Objective: To assess male involvement in family planning use and associated factors in Loka Abaya woreda sidama zone, Ethiopia. Method: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in Loka Abaya district, from Sep 2014 to June in 2015. Systematic random sampling was used to select the study subjects. Married men were interviewed to assess the status of male’s involvement status in family planning method utilization; by using semi-structured interviews. Finally, data was coded, cleaned, entered using EPI-info7 software and analyzed using SPSS version 20.

The present assignment aims at: 1) critically approaching the skill of listening as it is taught in the Greek State Secondary Education in the framework of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in state Junior High Schools. This critical study of the skill of listening is of particular interest since EFL books for use in State Junior High Schools have only been recently introduced by the Greek Pedagogical Institute in Greek Secondary Education and 2) creating an authentic-in nature listening input followed by original tasks made by a teacher of EFL in a State Junior High School so as to be consistent with the criteria that are applicable to the skill of listening in modern Applied Linguistics.