OBJECTIVE An experiment was conducted to investigate the environment of the deep litter system and provided theoretical basis for production. METHODS The bedding samples were obtained from a pig breeding farm and series measurements associated with gases concentrations and the bacterial diversity as well as the quantity of Escherichia coli, Lactobacilli, Methanogens were performed in this pap...

background: biostimulants are amino acids and organic components, which can play main role in the plant growth and dry matter accumulation. objective: determine the influence of foliar application of active amino acids on quality and quantity yield of melissa officinalis l. methods: this study was conducted in a research farm at the institute of medicinal plants on the base of randomized comple...

In many areas across Siberia, the reindeer herding economy of the native people went into a deep recession during the post-Soviet transition of the 1990s. However, as a larger cross-section of data indicates, the reindeer stock decline is not a universal phenomenon. Nor is the present-day crisis in native Siberian herding economies an unprecedented event, as pastoralists did suffer tremendously...

Aim North America harbours the most diverse freshwater mussel fauna on Earth. This fauna has high endemism at the continental scale and within individual river systems. Previous faunal classifications for North America were based on intuitive, subjective assessments of species distributions, primarily the occurrence of endemic species, and do not portray continent-wide patterns of faunal simila...

Here, I address two other problems raised by this article. A review of published experimental results led the authors to conclude that “diversity enhanced ecosystem stability”, where this is defined as “the ability to withstand recurrent perturbations”. This curious statement reverses modern theory of ecological diversity in the ocean as discussed, for instance, by Ramón Margalef. Ecosystems of...

Relations and relation matrices are important concepts in set theory and intelligent computation. Some general uncertainty measures for fuzzy relations are proposed by generalizing Shannon’s information entropy. Then, the proposed measures are used to calculate the diversity quantity of multiple classifier systems and the granularity of granulated problem spaces, respectively. As a diversity me...