In this paper we discuss the construction, features and intended uses of the TiGer DB. The TiGer DB is a dependency bank derived from the TiGer Treebank containing predicate-argument relations and several grammatical features which can be considered as semantically meaningful. It is produced semi-automatically by the conversion of the TiGer treebank into an LFG f-structure bank, which then in t...

Although there is extensive evidence for impaired endocrine function in fishes exposed to environmental chemicals, information is currently lacking on reproductive endocrine effects of other environmental stressors such as hypoxia. The effects of ten weeks exposure to low dissolved oxygen (DO: 2.7 ppm and 1.7 ppm) on reproductive morphometric and endocrine responses in female Atlantic croaker (...

Thirty-four microsatellite loci were isolated from three reef fish species; golden snapper Lutjanus johnii, blackspotted croaker Protonibea diacanthus and grass emperor Lethrinus laticaudis using a next generation sequencing approach. Both IonTorrent single reads and Illumina MiSeq paired-end reads were used, with the latter demonstrating a higher quality of reads than the IonTorrent. From the ...

AIMS Human-tiger conflict (HTC) is a serious public health issue in Sundarban Reserve Forest, India. HTC is a continued concern for the significant mortality and morbidity of both human and tiger population. This is the first comprehensive report on Sundarban tiger-human conflicts and its impact on widows whose husbands were killed by tigers. The study attempts to explore the situation analysis...

Although significantly more money is spent on the conservation of tigers than on any other threatened species, today only 3200 to 3600 tigers roam the forests of Asia, occupying only 7% of their historical range. Despite the global significance of and interest in tiger conservation, global approaches to plan tiger recovery are partly impeded by the lack of a consensus on the number of tiger sub...

The cryptanalysis of the cryptographic hash function Tiger has, until now, focussed on finding collisions. In this paper we describe a preimage attack on the compression function of Tiger-12, i.e., Tiger reduced to 12 rounds out of 24, with a complexity of 2 compression function evaluations. We show how this can be used to construct second preimages with complexity 2 and first preimages with co...

Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) play important roles in downregulating IGF activity and growth and development in vertebrates under hypoxic stress. However, the mechanisms of hypoxia regulation of IGFBPs in teleost fishes are unknown. The involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) in hypoxia upregulation of IGFBPs in Atlantic croaker w...

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has a central role in the adaptive immune system by presenting foreign peptide to the T-cell receptor. In order to study the molecular function and genomic characteristic of class II genes in teleost, the full lengths of MHC class IIA and IIB cDNA and genomic sequence were cloned from miiuy croaker (Miichthys miiuy). As in other teleost, four exons and thr...

INTRODUCTION Transradial coronary angiography (TRC) can be performed with a one-catheter approach for the right and left coronary ostium (R/LCO). We investigated the performance of a special diagnostic catheter widely used for the one-catheter-approach, the Tiger (Tiger II, TerumoTM). METHODS In a dual center registry we analyzed 1412 TRC-procedures exclusively performed by experienced TRC-op...

Tiger is a cryptographic hash function with a 192-bit hash value which was proposed by Anderson and Biham in 1996. At FSE 2006, Kelsey and Lucks presented a collision attack on Tiger reduced to 16 (out of 24) rounds with complexity of about 2. Furthermore, they showed that a pseudo-near-collision can be found for a variant of Tiger with 20 rounds with complexity of about 2. In this article, we ...