The distribution of dissolved and particulate forms of 49 elements was investigated along transect of the Tigris River (one of the major rivers of the world) within Baghdad city and in its major tributary (Diyala River) from 11 to 28 July 2011. SF-ICP-MS was used to measure total and filterable elements at 17 locations along the Tigris River transect, two samples from the Diyala River, and in o...

With fewer than 200 tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) left in Nepal, that are generally confined to five protected areas across the Terai Arc Landscape, genetic studies are needed to provide crucial information on diversity and connectivity for devising an effective country-wide tiger conservation strategy. As part of the Nepal Tiger Genome Project, we studied landscape change, genetic variation,...

The highly contested and complex issue of transboundary water governance calls for rethinking fairness and equity in the allocation of water between sovereign nation-states. This paper provokes ideas about the problem of allocation and access as it is stated in the Earth System Governance Project. It starts out arguing that the problem of allocation in the Middle East is framed by both upstream...

Due to increasing water use, diversion and salinization, along with subsidence sea-level rise, deltas in arid regions are shrinking worldwide. Some of the most ecologically important include Colorado, Indus, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates. The primary stressors vary globally, but these threatened by increased storage diversion, eutrophication, wetland loss. In order make sustainable over time, some flo...

We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations, implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load across the cluster as a whole, shielding applications from asymmetries in CPU, I/O, and network performance. This is accomplished through the use of a data ow programming model coupled with a workbalancing distributued queue....

the iranian persian chub is an endemic species of the family cyprinidae known only from few localities in drainages of southern iran. it was originally described in the genus pseudophoxinus as (pseudophoxinus persidis) and then petroleuciscus (as petroleuciscus persidis). in this study, we examined phylogenetic relationships of the iranian persian chubwith other relatives in the family cyprinid...

The PROCLEIX West Nile virus assay (WNV assay) is a qualitative nucleic acid test based on transcription-mediated amplification (TMA). The assay was used under an investigational protocol in the United States to screen blood donations for West Nile virus (WNV) RNA starting in the summer of 2003, and was licensed by the FDA in December 2005 for use on the PROCLEIX System, also known as the enhan...

Potansiyel evapotranspirasyon (PET) değerlerindeki eğilimlerin belirlenmesi, iklim değişikliği ve kuraklık yönetimi, tarımsal su kaynaklarının daha verimli yönetimi sulama planlamasının optimal tasarımı konuları açısından büyük öneme sahiptir. Bu çalışmada Dicle havzasında bulunan Batman, Cizre, Diyarbakır Hakkâri meteoroloji istasyonları için, 1964-2017 yılları arasında hesaplanan mevsimsel yı...