four mature stallions were used to study the effect of enzymatic antioxidant catalase on freezability of turkmen stallion's sperm. collected semen from stallions were processed and pooled before being divided treatments (200×106  sperm/ml) and diluted with extenders supplemented with different levels of catalase [0 (control), 100 u/ml (cat100), 150u/ml (cat150) and 200u/ml (cat200)]. exten...

Distinguished hosts, colleagues, Crawford Fund Chairman Tim Fischer, Professor Derek Tribe, and Tim Besley, President of ATSE, I am honored to speak with you today on the occasion of receiving the first Derek Tribe Award from the Crawford Fund. My own institution, CIMMYT (the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), and the farmers for whom CIMMYT works, are greatly indebted to Profes...

Fruit structure of Apiaceae was studied in 19 species representing the 10 genera of the tribe Heteromorpheae. Our results indicate this group has a woody habit, simple leaves, heteromorphic mericarps with lateral wings. fruits with bottleshaped or bulging epidermal cells which have thickened and cutinized outer wall, regular vittae (one in furrow and two in commissure) and irregular vittae (sho...

Discovering the influencers in the new social network is very important for the promotion of products and the supervision of public opinion. Most of the previous research was based on the method of mining influential individuals, while the tribe-leaders were neglected. In this paper, a new method of mining tribeleaders is proposed based on the frequent pattern of propagation. First, a method of...

Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward C...

In previous work, authors have proposed two new aggregation operators for a class of LR fuzzy numbers known as triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs) in which the Land Rapex angles of the piecewise continuous linear membership function of the composite or resultant or aggregate TFN are the arithmetic means [1] and the geometric means [2] of the Land Rapex angles of the individual TFNs. In another pape...

In recent work authors have proposed four new aggregation operators based on the arithmetic and geometric means of the Land Ror right side and left side apex angles for triangular [1] [2] and trapezoidal [3] [4] fuzzy numbers respectively. In this paper authors propose a new aggregation operator for TFNs in which the Land Rmembership function lines of the aggregate TFN have slopes which are the...

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non-scheduled households. By combining regression estimates for the ratio of per capita expenditure to the poverty line and an Oaxaca-typ...

In this paper we introduce a new sequential sampling plan based on sequential probability ratio test for fuzzy hypotheses testing. In order to deal with uncertainty happened, the triangular fuzzy number (TFN) is used to express the fuzzy phenomenon of the sampling plan’s parameters. In this plan the acceptable quality level (AQL) and the lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) are TFN. For such ...

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by the Mandal Commission established by the Indian government in 1979. We examine why OBC have lower livin...