mineral contents of camel meat were investigated during different periods of fattening. 12 camels (camelus dromedarius), at 12 months of age, were fattened with the same diet during six and nine month periods. feed compositions included 25% alfalfa, 25% straw and 50% concentrate (55% barley, 20% bran, 15% beet pulp, 8% cottonseed meal and 2% salt) were fed under the same conditions. completely ...

A leading idea about how disturbances and other environmental fluctuations affect species diversity is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). The IDH states that diversity of competing species is, or should be expected to be, maximized at intermediate frequencies and/or intensities of disturbance or environmental change. I argue that the IDH has been refuted on both empirical and theore...

Parasitic diseases of camels are major causes of impaired milk and meat production, decreases in performance or even death. Some camel parasites also represent a threat to human health. About 171,500 one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius) and 100-300 two-humped camels (Camelus bactrianus) live in Iran. Knowledge of the biodiversity of their parasites is still limited. The present review covers...

We show that the variance of the profiles (number of nodes at each level) of random binary search trees exhibits asymptotically four phase transitions and a bimodal or “two-humped” behavior, in contrast to the unimodality of the mean value of the profiles. Precise asymptotic approximations are derived. The same types of phenomena also hold for the profiles of random recursive trees.