Gujarat is a leading maritime state in the production of marine finfish and cephalopods India. The are one major fishery resources along region having good domestic export demand. These exploited majorly by bottom trawls region. Sepia pharaonis contributes nearly 20 % to cephalopod landings Gujarat. However, reproductive biology cephalopod, poorly known from specimens for biological analysis wi...

Arefeh Kazemi 1,*, Antonio Toral 2, Andy Way 3, Amirhassan Monadjemi 1,* and Mohammadali Nematbakhsh 1 1 Department of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran; [email protected] 2 Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen 9712 EK, The Netherlands; [email protected] 3 ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Du...

We motivate our contribution to the shared MT task as a first step towards an integrated architecture that combines advantages of statistical and knowledge-based approaches. Translations were generated using the Pharaoh decoder with tables derived from the provided alignments for all four languages, and for three of them using web-based and locally installed commercial systems. We then applied ...

In this study, the functional morphology of the mandibular glands of pharaoh ant queens is investigated through histological and behavioural observations. The mandibular glands of queens of different age stages and mating status were examined at the light microscopical as well as the ultrastructural level. The results clearly show a high activity of the gland at the time of hatching, followed b...

Many ants use pheromone trails to organize collective foraging. This study investigated the rate at which a well-established Pharaoh’s ant, Monomorium pharaonis (L.), trail breaks down on two substrates (polycarbonate plastic, newspaper). Workers were allowed to feed on sucrose solution from a feeder 30 cm from the nest. Between the nest and the feeder, the trail had a Y-shaped bifurcation. Ini...

Many social insects use pheromones to communicate and coordinate their activities. Investigation of intraspecific differences in pheromone use is a new area of social insect research. For example, interindividual variation in alarm pheromone content has been found in physical castes of polymorphic ants. Many ant species use multiple trail pheromones. Here we present novel research into trail ph...

Viruses can suffer 'life-history' trade-offs that prevent simultaneous improvement in fitness traits, such as improved intrahost reproduction at the expense of reduced extrahost survival. Here we examine reproduction-survival trade-offs and other trait compromises, highlighting that experimental evolution can reveal trade-offs and their associated mechanisms. Whereas 'curse of the pharaoh' (hig...

An investigation of Vemo Herb® additive on the forage consumption rate in Japanese quail (Pharaoh breed) has been conducted. The experiment was carried out for 10 weeks with 52 female and 16 male sexually matured Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) distributed in four groups: control group (without additive), first experimental group 4 mg*kg of live weight for 10 weeks; second experime...

This paper presents our study of exploiting morpho-syntactic information for phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT). For morphological transformation, we use hand-crafted transformational rules. For syntactic transformation, we propose a transformational model based on Bayes’ formula. The model is trained using a bilingual corpus and a broad coverage parser of the source language. T...