Fertility corresponds to additive component of the growth of a population. Human fertility is determined by all customs, morals and habits of social groups with regard to marital obligation and life. The main objective of this paper is to examine the causes of fertility among Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Tea-Tribes communities of Dibrugarh District, Assam. Does the extent of fertility ...

Family Pentatomidae is represented by four subfamilies (Asopinae, Pentatominae, Phyllocephalinae and Podopinae) and 86 genera in south India. Pentatominae are the dominant group represented by 29 tribes and 72 genera. An illustrated key including the habitus of majority of genera as well as illustrations of important diagnostic features are given for the subfamilies, tribes and genera occurring...

Phylogenies produced by Yang et al. 2015 provide reasonably well-supported hypotheses of relationships among 11 proposed tribes of cyprinine fishes and present an interesting hypothesis about the origin of a number of polyploid cyprinine lineages. However, support for relationships within some of the tribes is equivocal. Herein we address the treatment of African diploid and tetraploid cyprinin...

This paper based on the metaphor of specialization and cooperation in steppe tribes of the human society, tribe glowworm swarm optimization (TGSO) algorithm was presented to solve the problem of low precision and easy to fall into local optimization of the glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm. In the proposed tribe glowworm swarm optimization approach, all glowworms are divided into a ce...

In connection with the current national campaign against narcotics, there has been some propaganda to declare illegal the peyote used by many Indian tribes. We are professional anthropologists who have made extensive studies of Peyotism in various tribes. We have participated in the rites and partaken of the sacramental peyote. We therefore feel it our duty to protest against a campaign which o...

We determined the distribution of a chloroplast DNA inversion among 80 species representing 16 tribes of the Asteraceae and 10 putatively related families. Filter hybridizations using cloned chloroplast DNA restriction fragments of lettuce and petunia revealed that this 22-kilobase-pair inversion is shared by 57 genera, representing all tribes of the Asteraceae, but is absent from the subtribe ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for Native Americans. For several decades, the American population has fallen victim to poor nutritional habits, where healthy, natural foods have been replaced with unwholesome foods prepared with too much sugar, saturated fat and artificial additives. American Indian and Alaska Native populations have fared no better. Being forced onto rese...

Molecular phylogenies provide a framework to discuss relationships in the vast temperate herbaceous radiation of papilionoid legumes comprised of tribes Galegeae, Carmichaelieae, Cicereae, Hedysareae, Trifolieae, Vicieae, as well as among some members of the tropical tribe Millettieae (Callerya, Wisteria, and related genera). The taxa form a monophyletic group marked by the loss of the chloropl...

Result: Of the 654 subjects tested, 368 (56.2%) were of blood group O, 139 (21.3%) were blood group B, while 116 (17.7%) and 31 (4.7%) were group A and AB respectively. 577 (88.32%) were Rhesus D positive while 77 (11.79%) were Rhesus D negative. When comparing ABO blood group distribution among tribes, O blood group was higher among the Kilba tribe (4.74%) at P<0.05 compare to other tribes. Bu...

Abstract Let $A \subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ be a set of size $2^{n-1}$ , and let $\phi \,:\, \{0,1\}^{n-1} \to A$ bijection. We define the average stretch $\phi$ as \begin{equation*} {\sf avgStretch}(\phi ) = {\mathbb E}[{{\sf dist}}(\phi (x),\phi (x'))], \end{equation*} where expectation is taken over uniformly random $x,x' \in \{0,1\}^{n-1}$ that differ in exactly one coordinate. In this paper, we c...