Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population in their historic ranges is critically endangered owing to habitat destructions, ruthless poaching and retaliatory killing. The tiger population now remains in few thousands located in about 150 fragments in 13 countries (Karanth and Gopal, 2005). However, declination is also associated with health related problems such as nutritional deficiencies and i...

A 3-week-old female white Bengal Tiger cub (Panthera tigris tigris) presented with acute onset tachypnoea, cyanosis and hypothermia. The cub was severely hypoxaemic with a mixed acid-base disturbance. Echocardiography revealed severe pulmonic stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, high membranous ventricular septal defect and an overriding aorta. Additionally, an atrial septal defect was foun...

garra rufa , a bottom dwelling freshwater fish and native to the middle east, is distributed in the southwestern of iran and the tigris basin. considering the importance of length-weight relationships data of a species in different habitats, the length-weight relationship of g. rufa from 13 rivers in the persian gulf and the tigris basins was explored. the value of exponent b ranged from 2.74 t...

The project appraisal method in the Netherlands distinguishes direct effects, indirect distribution effects and indirect generative effects. In general transport models are available for calculating the benefits of transport projects to travellers as part of the direct effects. The TIGRIS XL model, a Land-Use and Transport Interaction model, adds indirect distribution effects for the housing an...

A Geographic Information System (GIS) requires both interactive edit/query, and power-ful spatial analysis capabilities -for large volumes o-f geographic data. This spatial analysis requirement has led to the investigation o-f the mathematical -field o-f topology. The major problems o-f previous topological systems have been the construction o-f a logically consistent topological structure and ...

This paper provides information on the geographic distributions of two cyprinid species: Hemiculter leucisculus (Basilewsky, 1855) and Alburnus caeruleus Heckel, 1843, in the world and the entire drainage systems in Iran. The new distribution records were taken from Maroon River (Jarrahi River system) and Chardaval River (Karkheh river system), both in Tigris River basin showing wide and narrow...

Leptopoma is a species rich genus with approximately 100 species documented. Species-level identification in this group has been based on shell morphology and colouration, as well as some anatomical features based on small sample sizes. However, the implications of the inter- and intra-species variations in shell form to the taxonomy of Leptopoma species and the congruency of its current shell ...

We report on observations of chameleons endemic to the Cameroon highlands between May 2003 and December 2005. Six species already known from this range were observed in the course of fieldwork. Our records extend the known range of Chamaeleo montium, C. pfefferi, and C. w. wiedersheimi to Koano and the Mbulu Hills. The later was also recorded on Mount Mbam. The species exhibit varied and overla...

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In 1998, Ericsson acquired ACC as part of its plan to reshape the company to meet the communication challenges of the next millennium. ACC has had a long history in the early pioneering development of the Arpanet—the prolog to the Internet. Santa Barbara (ACC’s headquarters) was the site of one of the first of four nodes to be knitted together, in 1969, to provide the world’s first packet-switc...