Introduction: Addiction is one of the most important psychosocial injuries in our country. Estimation of number of addicts in communities have always been a difficult and and controversies. The aim of the present was to estimation of number of addicts to drug abuse addicts by using capture-recapture method in Ilam city.  Materials & methods: Data were collected by using questionnaire based on ...

Determining population viability of rare insects depends on precise, unbiased estimates of population size and other demographic parameters. We used data on the endangered St. Francis' satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii francisci) to evaluate 2 approaches (mark-recapture and transect counts) for population analysis of rare butterflies. Mark-recapture analysis provided by far the greatest amo...

A female's reproductive output (size and number of o¡spring) may say little about her reproductive success; the `quality' of her progeny and the time that they are produced may be more important in this respect. We marked and released 1224 hatchling water pythons (Liasis fuscus) from 116 clutches of laboratory-incubated eggs, in a study site in tropical Australia. Clutches varied widely in the ...

The use of noninvasive genetic sampling to identify individual animals for capture-recapture studies has become widespread in the past decade. Strong emphasis has been placed on the field protocols and genetic analyses with fruitful results. Little attention has been paid to the capture-recapture application for this specific type of data beyond stating the effects of assumption violations. Her...

En France, on compte environ 5,5 millions de Français souffrant d’épisodes dépressifs majeurs, soit 8 % de la population française. L’objectif pharmacologique pour l’ensemble des antidépresseurs proposés à ce jour aux cliniciens était d’augmenter la concentration cérébrale en monoamines. Pour ce faire, trois mécanismes principaux sont recherchés : un mécanisme d’inhibition enzymatique de la dég...