Consider the following line of thinking. For islands that are small and isolated, extinction is an authentic element of their biological integrity. A critical purpose of a park is to protect biological integrity. From those two points it would be best to refrain from conserving wolf predation as an ecological process in Isle Royale National Park and allow Isle Royale wolves to go extinct—if tha...

A data warehouse stores materialized views over data from one or more sources in order to provide fast access to the integrated data, regardless of the availability of the data sources. Warehouse views need to be maintained in response to changes to the base data in the sources. Except for very simple views, maintaining a warehouse view requires access to data that is not available in the view ...

The ability to classify the biological condition of unsurveyed streams accurately would be an asset to the conservation and management of streams. We compared the ability of 5 modeling methods (classification and regression trees, conditional inference trees, random forests [RF], conditional random forests [cRF], and ordinal logistic regression) to predict stream biological condition (very poor...

Biological evidence with forensic interest may be found in several cases of assault, being particularly relevant if sexually related. Sexual assault cases are characterized by low rates of disclosure, reporting, prosecution, and conviction. Biological evidence is sometimes the only way to prove the occurrence of sexual contact and to identify the perpetrator. The major focus of this review is t...

Many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including toughness, binding number, rate of disruption, neighbor-connectivity, integrity, mean integrity, edgeconnectivity vector, l-connectivity and tenacity. In this paper we discuss Integrity and its properties in vulnerability calculation. The integrity of a graph G, I(G), is defined t...

brown spot disease caused by alternaria alternata (fr.: fr.) keissl is a serious problem forproduction of tangerines and tangerine hybrids in iran. the tangerine pathotype causes brownspot disease on young leaves and immature fruits of limited varieties of mandarins and tangerines(citrus. reticulata blanco). specificity in the interaction between tangerine and the pathogen isdetermined by a hos...

A convenient and gentle procedure was used for in vitro radioisotopic labeling the proteins of Newcastle disease virus. This method, which utilizes [14C]formaldehyde and sodium borohydride, labels all the proteins of purified Newcastle disease virus. Virions labeled in this manner retained biological and biopysical integrity

1. Transferrin-bound iron was released by a cell-free solution prepared from Rana catesbeiana immature erythrocytes, showing that cellular integrity is not necessarily a requirement for this process as previously thought. 2. The biological molecule(s) involved in the removal of iron from transferrin is relatively small.

background: exposure to arsenic is associated with impairment of male reproductive function by inducing oxidative stress. silymarin with an antioxidant property scavenges free radicals. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate if silymarin can prevent the adverse effects of sodium arsenite on ram sperm plasma membrane and acrosome integrity. materials and methods: ram epidydimal sper...