in the early 90’s, donkeys were in danger of extinction as species. in italy, there were counted few heads of many breeds but, unfortunately, others had already been extinct. with the donkey in danger, there was a risk of disappearance of a part of ecosystem, a biodiversity particularly significant as it represents humans’ history. all countries around the mediterranean sea, countries of southe...

pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. the importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that american...

At the start of the 2000s Australia was derided by some for being an ‘old economy’. It lacked a substantial information and communications technology sector and was seen to be overly dependent on the extraction of resources, an activity that was not going to be enriching due to the declining relative value of commodities and weak potential productivity gains. However, by the end of the 2000s Au...

Most studies of the so-called Proportion Problem seek to understand how lexical and structural properties of sentences containing adverbial quanti ers give rise to various proportional readings. This paper explores a related but distinct problem: given a use of a particular sentence in context, why do only some of the expected proportional readings seem to be available? That is, why do some sen...

In the present study, we describe an interspecific kleptoparasitic interaction between two sympatric mammalian carnivores in high altitudinal Trans-Himalaya region of Himachal Pradesh, India. The study was based on inferences drawn from circumstantial evidence (direct and indirect) noticed area Pin Valley National Park. analysis suggested a Snow Leopard Panthera uncia, Red Fox Vulpes vulpes, do...

the aims of this study were to compare the promoter sequence of the mannose-binding lectin (cmbl) gene in iranian native and commercial chicken strains; as well as to compare the cmbl gene expression in crossbred and inbred chickens. in total 79 native (western azerbaijan native fowls, wanf) and 49 commercial (arian commercial strain, acs) birds were reared as parents under same management prac...

Three Iranian native strains and three Japanese commercial lines of the silkworm Bombyx mori were analyzed using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. A set of ten PstI/TaqI primer combinations amplified a total of 322 bands out of which 251 (%78) were polymorphic. Estimates of Nei’s gene diversity for all loci in individual strains and commercial lines indicated a higher degre...

Abstract Brain samples were collected from 33 animals of different species, including buffalo, cattle, dog, donkey, fox and wolf, that had been suspected to be infected by rabies virus (RABV) in geographical regions Aswan Luxor governorates Egypt. The submitted for histopathological examination the presence nucleic acid antigens RABV was tested RT-PCR indirect fluorescent antibody technique (IF...