The latest tiger census conducted in India during the year 2014 shows that it harbors 57% of the global tiger population in 7% of their historic global range. At the same time, India has 1.25 billion people growing at a rate of 1.7% per year. Protected tiger habitats in India are geographically isolated and collectively holds this tiger population under tremendous anthropogenic pressure. These ...

Widespread basaltic volcanism occurred in the region of the West Siberian Basin in central Russia during Permo-Triassic times. New 40Ar/39Ar age determinations on plagioclase grains from deep boreholes in the basin reveal that the basalts were erupted 249.4 +/- 0.5 million years ago. This is synchronous with the bulk of the Siberian Traps, erupted further east on the Siberian Platform. The age ...

Tiger Shark is a scalable, parallel file system designed to support interactive multimedia applications, particularly large-scale ones such as interactive television (ITV). Tiger Shark runs under the IBM AIX@ operating system, on machines ranging from RS/6000'" desktop workstations to the SP2@ parallel supercomputer. In addition to supporting continuous-time data, Tiger Shark provides scalabili...

Habitat loss is one of the key factors underlying the decline of many waterbird species, including Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus), a threatened species worldwide. Wetlands are the primary stopover for many waterbirds and restoration of these wetlands involves both hydrological restoration and water resource management. To protect the stopover sites of Siberian Cranes, we collected Siberian ...

Wild life: The elusive fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is the top predator in the dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, but very little was known about its biology until the 1990s. The presence of volunteer groups studying its role in the forest’s ecology has also helped to protect its habitat. (Photo: Earthwatch/ Luke Dollar.) The world’s latest national park has just been created in the east of Russ...

This paper presents quantitative estimates of the strain rates for southern part Siberian craton derived from GPS data. The obtained results confirmed theoretical concept low (10 –9 ×year –1 ) in intra-platform areas. is based on raw measurement data open sources, previously reported displacement velocities, and Laboratory Recent Geodynamics Institute Earth's Crust SB RAS. It shown that 5 menti...

In this paper we discuss the construction, features and intended uses of the TiGer DB. The TiGer DB is a dependency bank derived from the TiGer Treebank containing predicate-argument relations and several grammatical features which can be considered as semantically meaningful. It is produced semi-automatically by the conversion of the TiGer treebank into an LFG f-structure bank, which then in t...