Body mass and body condition are often tightly linked to animal health and fitness in the wild and thus are key measures for ecophysiologists and behavioral ecologists. In some animals, such as large seabird species, obtaining indexes of structural size is relatively easy, whereas measuring body mass under specific field circumstances may be more of a challenge. Here, we suggest an alternative,...

OBJECTIVE We developed a new surgical model of penile girth enhancement in dog, with minimal damage, fewer complications, and high success rate, to enable the experimental investigation of penile implants. METHODS We obtained materials for penile girth enhancement by processing the pericardium and blood vessel wall collected from pigs. Incisions were made at the penile bulb for the implantati...

In this paper we give lower bounds on the size of (a, b) elementary trapping sets (ETSs) belonging to variable-regular LDPC codes with any girth, g, and irregular ones with girth 8, where a is the size, b is the number of degree-one check nodes and satisfy the inequality b a < 1. Our proposed lower bounds are analytical, rather than exhaustive search-based, and based on graph theories. The nume...

Welding quality control is an important parameter for safe operation of oil and gas pipes, especially for high-strength steel pipes. Size control of welding defect is a bottleneck problem for current pipe construction. As a key part of construction procedure for butt-welding of pipes, pore defects in girth weld is difficult to ignore. A three-dimensional non-linear finite element numerical mode...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $I$ proper ideal of $R$. In this paper we introduce the ideal-based quasi zero divisor graph $Q\Gamma_{I}(R)$ respect to which is an undirected vertex set $V=\{a\in R\backslash\sqrt{I}:$ $ab\in I$ for some $b\in R\backslash\sqrt{I}\}$ two distinct vertices $a$ $b$ are adjacent if only I$. We study basic properties such as diameter, girth, dominato...

The intersection ideal graph Γ(S) of a semigroup S is simple undirected whose vertices are all nontrivial left ideals and two distinct I, J adjacent if only their nontrivial. In this paper, we investigate the connectedness Γ(S). We show that connected, then diameter at most two. Further, classify semigroups in terms such obtain domination number, independence girth strong metric dimension have ...

We prove the Girth Alternative for finitely generated subgroups of PLo(I). We also prove that a finitely generated subgroup of Homeo+(I) which is sufficiently rich with hyperbolic-like elements has infinite girth.

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $mathbb{A}(R)$ be the set   of ideals of $R$ with non-zero annihilators. In this paper, we first introduce and investigate the principal ideal subgraph of the annihilating-ideal graph of $R$, denoted by $mathbb{AG}_P(R)$. It is a (undirected) graph with vertices $mathbb{A}_P(R)=mathbb{A}(R)cap mathbb{P}(R)setminus {(0)}$, where   $mathbb{P}(R)$ is...

Let $\mathcal C_{n}$ be the Catalan monoid on $X_{n}=\{1,\ldots ,n\}$ under its natural order. In this paper, we describe sets of left zero-divisors, right zero-divisors and two sided C_{n}$; their numbers. For $n \geq 4$, define an undirected graph $\Gamma(\mathcal C_{n})$ associated with whose vertices are excluding zero element $\theta$ distinct $\alpha$ $\beta$ joined by edge in case $\alph...