In many fisheries, some component of the catch is usually released. Quantifying the effects of capture and release on fish survival is critical for determining which practices are sustainable, particularly for threatened species. Using a standardized fishing technique, we studied sublethal (blood physiology and reflex impairment assessment) and lethal (post-release mortality with satellite tags...

India is home to approximately 60 per cent of the world's remaining wild tigers, a species that has declined in the last few centuries to occupy less than 7 per cent of its former geographical range. While Indian tiger numbers have somewhat stabilized in recent years, they remain low and populations are highly fragmented. Therefore, the application of evidence-based demographic and genetic mana...

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is classiŽ ed as endangered and populations continue to decline. This paper presents a formal economic analysis of the two most imminent threats to the survival of wild tigers: poaching tigers and hunting their prey. A model is developed to examine interactions between tigers and farm households living in and around tiger habitats. The analysis extends the existing l...

In fish, light (photoperiod, intensity and spectra) is main regulator in many physiological actions includinggrowth. We investigate the effect of light spectra on the somatic growth and growth-related gene expression in the rearing tiger puffer. Fish was reared under different light spectra (blue, green and red) for 8 weeks. Fish body weight and total length were promoted when reared under gree...

he Chinese tiger frog Hoplobatrachus rugulosus is widely distributed in southern China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is listed in Appendix II of CITES as the only Class II nationally-protected frog in China. The bred tiger frog known as the Thailand tiger frog, is also identified as H. rugulosus. Our analysis of the Cyt b gene showed high genetic divergence (13.8%) between wild ...

We present a method for generating three-dimensional (3-D) unstructured tetrahedral meshes of solids whose boundary is a smooth surface. The method uses a background grid (bodycentered-cubic (BCC) lattice) from which to build the final conforming 3-D mesh. The algorithm is fast and robust and provides useful guaranteed dihedral angle bounds for the output tetrahedra. The dihedral angles are bou...

We describe a collision-finding attack on 16 rounds of the Tiger hash function requiring the time for about 2 compression function invocations. This extends to a collision-finding attack on 17 rounds of the Tiger hash function in time of about 2 compression function invocations. Another attack generates circular near-collisions, for 20 rounds of Tiger with work less than that of 2 compression f...

Interspecific androgenetic rosy barb (Puntius conchonius) was generated using its cadaveric (-20 degrees C) or fresh sperm to activate nuclear genome inactivated oocytes of gray tiger barb (Puntius tetrazona). UV irradiation was used to inactivate nuclear genome of tiger barb oocytes. Thermal shock restored diploidy of rosy barb in the oocytes of tiger barb. Survival of androgenotes was 14% or ...

Tiger Shark is a parallel file system for IBM’s AIX operating system. It is designed to support interactive multimedia, particularly large-scale systems such as interactive television (ITV). Tiger Shark scales across the entire RS/ 6000 product line, from small desktop machines to the SP2 parallel supercomputer. Tiger Shark’s primary features are support for continuoustime data, scalability, hi...