Metals are the major pollutants in aquatic environment. A lot of research literature is available globally about accumulation of heavy metals in aquatic ecosystems as well as in different body organs of aquatic animals, especially fish. Heavy metals mainly generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in aquatic animals that lead to oxidative stress production. ROS cause oxidative damage to different ...

Isolated adrenocorticotropin deficiency (IAD) is characterized by low or absent adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) production. IAD is presumed to be caused in part by an autoimmune mechanism, and several lines of evidence have suggested the presence of anti-pituitary antibodies in IAD. However, the exact autoantigens remain unknown. The present study was designed to identify the autoantigen(s) ...

This paper gives the comparison of performance of full adder design in terms of area, power and delay in different logic styles. Full adder design achieves low power using the Transmission Gate logic compared to all other topologies such as Basic CMOS, Pass Transistor and GDI techniques but it make use of more number of transistors compared to GDI. GDI occupies less area compared to all other l...

This paper aims to analyze agronomic drought in a highly anthropogenic, semiarid region, the western Mediterranean region. The proposed study is based on Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) satellite data describing dynamics of vegetation cover soil water content through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Soil Water (SWI). Two indi...

Warming sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) have implications for the climate-sensitive Caribbean region, including potential impacts on precipitation. SSTs been shown to influence deep convection and rainfall, thus understanding of warming is important predicting regional hydrometeorological conditions. This study investigates long-term annual seasonal trends in using Galvez-Davison Index (GDI) tr...

selection of genotypes based on high value of heritability and forecasted genetic conditions would be an effective method for improvement of wheat cultivars. the present investigation was carried out to estimate the genetic variability of agro-physiological characters using biometrical genetic techniques in 20 bread wheat genotypes under irrigated condition. for this purpose an experiment was c...

by identifying the damage index of a structure, in addition to a correct understanding from real behavior of the structure, the required criterion for strengthening would be given. researchers have given many relations for determination of damage index but such relations have been based upon laboratory methods which challenge their usage in a broad term. in this paper two new methods are given ...

Ecosystem services (ESs) and their transformations in northern China play a crucial role in regional sustainability. During the past several decades, grassland degradation has become one of the most important ecological and economic issues in this region. Therefore, understanding the impacts of grassland degradation and restoration on ESs is essential for maintaining ecological resilience and s...