background and objectives: in december 2010 four, lions and one tiger died at the tehran zoo.  out of all samples, burkholderia mallei (causative agent of glanders) was isolated just from ulcer sample of the tiger which was imported to iran from russia. materials and methods: one nasal swab from a tiger and fifteen blood samples with anticoagulant belonging to one tiger and fourteen lions (four...

This paper presents the lubrication characteristics between a bush and a blade of a swing compressor that was developed for a new type of compressor for an air conditioner using alternative refrigerants. The mixed lubrication analysis that simultaneously solved the motion equations of the bush and the blade, the lubrication equation and the rough surface contact equation was performed. Moreover...

This paper evaluates the preimage resistance of the Tiger hash function. We will propose a pseudo-preimage attack on its compression function up to 23 steps with a complexity of 2, which can be converted to a preimage attack on 23-step Tiger hash function with a complexity of 2. The memory requirement of these attacks is 2 words. Our pseudo-preimage attack on the Tiger compression function adop...

Use of herbal remedies from medicinal plants (bush medicines) was studied in 622 people with diabetes mellitus attending 17 government health centers on the island of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. Bush medicines were used by 42% of patients surveyed and were used for diabetes by 24%. Bush medicine use was more frequent in Afro-Trinidadians and in those of mixed ethnicity than in Indo-Trinidadi...

Tiger is a cryptographic hash function proposed by Anderson and Biham in 1996 and produces a 192-bit hash value. Recently, weaknesses have been shown in round-reduced variants of the Tiger hash function. Collision attacks have been presented for Tiger reduced to 16 and 19 (out of 24) rounds at FSE 2006 and Indocrypt 2006. Furthermore, Mendel and Rijmen presented a 1-bit pseudo-near-collision fo...

Department of Natural Resources. The form and content of this report and the interpretations of the data are the responsibility of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey and not the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. References Tables Figures Evaluation of muskellunge and tiger muskellunge stocking program. Executive Summary Size specific survival of muskellun...

Increasing Australian bush-fire frequencies over the last decade has indicated a major climatic change in coming future. Understanding such climatic change for Australian bush-fire is limited and there is an urgent need of scientific research, which is capable enough to contribute to Australian society. Frequency of bush-fire carries information on spatial, temporal and climatic aspects of bush...

The tiger is one of the most iconic extant animals, and its origin and evolution have been intensely debated. Fossils attributable to extant pantherine species-lineages are less than 2 MYA and the earliest tiger fossils are from the Calabrian, Lower Pleistocene. Molecular studies predict a much younger age for the divergence of modern tiger subspecies at <100 KYA, although their cranial morphol...

Conservation investment, particularly for charismatic and wide-ranging large mammal species, needs to be evidence-based. Despite the prevalence of this theme within the literature, examples of robust data being generated to guide conservation policy and funding decisions are rare. We present the first published case-study of tiger conservation in Indochina, from a site where an evidence-based a...