biodiversity refers to all forms of living animals, plants and microorganisms and agro-biodiversity is a component of biodiversity that represents diversity in arable lands. the aim of this study was to determine the biodiversity status of agro-ecosystems of shahr-e-rey city located in south of tehran, through calculating species richness index using rarefaction method. to the collect required ...

The farmers in the Bow River Basin (BRB), Canada, have adopted water conservation strategies to reduce needs. This reduction, however, encouraged expansion of irrigation, which may rebound agricultural demands. paradox requires an understanding human adaptation drought by mapping individual farmers’ decisions dynamics basin-wide demand. We develop agent-based demand (ABAD) model, simulating beh...

StudentResearcher:AdamRosen,MiamiPalmettoSeniorHigh,Miami,Florida Mentors: Ishmael Sharpe, MBA; Jeff Rosen, MD; Michelle Doddard, MD; Mary Abad, Center for Haitian Studies, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Background. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugars and disturbances of carbohydrate and fat metabolism. Haitian...

The problem of incomplete end replication of DNA was originally raised by the Russian scientist Aleksey Olovnikov (Olovnikov, 1971, 1973). The main function of telomeric DNA is the compensation of end degradation. In most eukaryotes, telomeric DNA is maintained by the action of telomerase, which is responsible for the synthesis of short 6-9 nucleotide repeats using an RNA component as a templat...

Y. M A L H I *, M . S I L M A N w , N . S A L I N A S z, M . B U S H § , P. M E I R } and S . S A AT C H I k *Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK, wDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA, zUniversidad San Antonio Abad, Cusco, Peru, §School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, ...