This study provides a baseline measure of pelagic fish species diversity around fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Western Indian Ocean. Using data from visual censuses made by SCUBA divers around drifting FADs we (1) analysed 11 diversity indices describing 4 main components of pelagic diversity: number of species, evenness, taxonomic diversity and rarity and (2) discussed the viability of...

UNLABELLED Aims/Introduction:  Type 2 diabetes is progressive in that therapy must be altered over time, which is partly as a result of the progressive loss of pancreatic β-cell function. To elucidate the relationship between residual endogenous insulin secretion and the necessity of insulin therapy to achieve good glycemic control, indices using serum C-peptide immunoreactivity (CPR) were anal...

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause for cancer incidence in male. Although this high incidence is due to prostate specific antigen screening, other risk-factors, such as diet, might also be involved. The results of previous studies on the association between prostate cancer risk and individual dietary components have been conflicting. Thus, evaluation by dietary pattern analysis rather ...

BACKGROUND Infectious diseases are often studied by characterising the population structure of the pathogen using genetic markers. An unresolved problem is the effective quantification of the extent of transmission using genetic variation data from such pathogen isolates. METHODS It is important that transmission indices reflect the growth of the infectious population as well as account for t...

function f: G  , with this property that f(G1) = f(G2) if G1 and G2 are isomorphic. There are several vertex distance-based and degree-based indices which introduced to analyze the chemical properties of molecule graph. For instance: Wiener index, PI index, Szeged index, geometric-arithmetic index, atom-bond connectivity index and general sum connectivity index are introduced to test the perf...

background: knowledge of existing situation in each region plays great role in order to prevent oral and dental diseases in people. meanwhile, dmft index is one of the best epidemiological indices in dentistry representing oral hygiene situation in society. so, this study was conducted in order to evaluate dmft index in 12- years-old students of zarand city at 2011. methods: this descriptive st...

BACKGROUND The quantitative study of the publication output (bibliometrics) deeply influences how scientific work is perceived (bibliometric visibility). Recently, new bibliometric indices and databases have been established, which may change the visibility of disciplines, institutions and individuals. This study examines the effects of the new indices on the visibility of Medical Informatics. ...

– The Hirsch index or h-index is widely used to quantify the impact of an individual’s scientific research output, determining the highest number h of a scientist’s papers that received at least h citations. Several variants of the index have been proposed in order to give more or less preference to highly cited papers. I analyse the citation records of 26 physicists discussing various suggesti...

The purpose of this short write-up is simply to present a new concept of time, which giving us naturally Lorentz expression in a simple way with simple mathematics and also can be extended for 7-dimensional space-time continuum. In this write-up especially particular attention is given to the seven dimensional metric μν g . In metric or line element we introduced (3+4) dimensions where 3 usual ...