Aims The Iberian oak wood-pastures are unique agroforestry systems supporting high levels of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Small rocky outcrops geological features commonly found in these constitute reservoirs, protecting sensitive species from grazing farming activities. We aimed to assess the relevance including outcrop conservation within increase biodiversity. To achieve this goal, w...

Quantitative study of species diversity across different land use units and districts is important to document status of local plant biodiversity, to evaluate impact of management and for planning future management. This study aimed at determining impacts of land use units on species diversity and spatial distribution of species in two districts of Borana zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. Stratification ...

background: &beta-glucans; are glucose polymers with a variety of stimulatory effects on the immune system. the objective of this study was to evaluate the immune-enhancing activities of low molecular weight gamma irradiated &beta-glucan; (i&beta-g;) extracted from pleurotus ostreatus in response to pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in rats. materials and methods: &beta-glucan; (&beta-g;) powder...

introduction : the encapsulation of nutraceuticals in lipid based carriers, such as liposomes, can lead to increasing of bio-active ingredients bioavailability and controlled release, maintaining their stability in different environmental conditions and increasing solubility of hydrophobic active ingredients in aqueous conditions. food grade liposomes are being increasingly used in food industr...

Entropies such as the Shannon /Wiener and Gini /Simpson indices are not themselves diversities. Conversion of these to effective number of species is the key to a unified and intuitive interpretation of diversity. Effective numbers of species derived from standard diversity indices share a common set of intuitive mathematical properties and behave as one would expect of a diversity, while raw i...

let $f$ be a locally univalent function on the unit disk $u$. we consider the normalized extensions of $f$ to the euclidean unit ball $b^nsubseteqmathbb{c}^n$ given by$$phi_{n,gamma}(f)(z)=left(f(z_1),(f'(z_1))^gammahat{z}right),$$ where $gammain[0,1/2]$, $z=(z_1,hat{z})in b^n$ and$$psi_{n,beta}(f)(z)=left(f(z_1),(frac{f(z_1)}{z_1})^betahat{z}right),$$in which $betain[0,1]$, $f(z_1)neq 0$ and $...

begin{abstract} the relations between the spectrum of the matrix $q+r$ and the spectra of the matrices $(gamma + delta)q+(alpha + beta)r-qr-rq$, $qr-rq$, $alpha beta r-qrq$, $alpha rqr-(qr)^{2}$, and $beta r-qr$ have been given on condition that the matrix $q+r$ is diagonalizable, where $q$, $r$ are ${alpha, beta}$-quadratic matrix and ${gamma, delta}$-quadratic matrix, respectively, of order $...