This study was undertaken to survey impacts of bottom trawling on distribution and diversity of gastropods of the Bahrakan Fishing Area (BFA), of the northwestern coasts of the Persian Gulf. Gastropod samples were collected from depths of 6m and 10m at 18 randomly selected stations in three occasions, right before the opening of shrimp trawling seasonand two weeks and 3 months after the fish...

The leverage of large volumes web videos paired with the query (short phrase for searching video) or surrounding text (long textual description, e.g., video title) offers an economic and extensible alternative to supervised representation learning. Nevertheless, modeling such weakly visual-textual connection is not trivial due polysemy (i.e., many possible meanings a query) isomorphism same syn...

Energy is the key mover for any country’s development. In today’s era, demand energy rapidly increasing and cost of power also due to lack fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil). To overcome worst crises non-renewable resources, present solution move towards renewable energy. Sindh a province Pakistan that has immense capability prospect neat green production. The major locations resources are found in ...

Pseudoponera stigma (F.) and Pseudoponera gilberti (Kempf) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are closely related Neotropical ants, often misidentified due to their morphological similarities. These species also share behavioral and ecological characters. In this study, we examined cytogenetic approaches as a tool to aid identification of P. stigma and P. gilberti. Both numerical and morphological karyo...

The cosmological QCD transition affects primordial density perturbations. If the QCD transition is first order, the sound speed vanishes during the transition and density perturbations fall freely. For scales below the Hubble radius at the transition the primordial Harrison-Zel’dovich spectrum of density fluctuations develops large peaks and dips. These peaks grow with wave number for both the ...

If the unexpectedly high frequency of quasar pairs with very different component redshifts is due to the lensing of a population of background quasars by the foreground quasar, typical lens masses must be ∼ 10M⊙ and the sum of all such quasar lenses would have to contain ∼ 0.005 times the closure density of the Universe. It then seems plausible that a very high fraction of all ∼ 10M⊙ gravitatio...

GRB 990123 may have radiated more than one solar mass equivalent in just its gamma emissions. Though this may be within the upper limit of the binding energies available from neutron stars in the Schwarzschild metric, it is difficult to imagine a process with the required efficiency of conversion to gamma rays. Neutron stars of ∼ 10M⊙ are permitted in the Yilmaz metric. A merger of two neutron ...