The banking sector mirrors the larger economy – its linkages to all sectors make it a proxy for what is happening in the economy as a whole. Efficient functioning of banking sector is required for the growth of overall economy. Banking plays a silent, yet crucial role in our day-to-day lives. The banks work as financial intermediaries, pooling savings and channelizing them into investment, help...

—Pocket gophers have the potential to alter the dynamics of grasslands by creating mounds that bury existing vegetation and locally reset succession. Gopher mounds may provide safe sites for less competitive species, potentially increasing both species diversity and vegetation heterogeneity (spatial variation in species composition). We compared species composition, diversity and heterogeneity ...

to compare the effects of different weed management methods on seed bank of weeds grown in sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.), a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, during 2006, 2007 and 2008. the experiment designed as a complete randomized block with three replications. the treatments including: disk+ fhenmedifham, disk+ fhenme...

Vegetation growing on the surface of a streambank has been shown to alter the shear stresses applied to the boundary, but basic questions remain regarding the influence of vegetation and streambank configurations on near-bank hydraulics. In the present study, Froudescaled flume experiments were used to investigate how changes in vegetation density (ratio of frontal area to channel area, includi...