Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank Philip Candelas for his invaluable help throughout my four years in Oxford. I also owe special thanks to Bogdan Florea, Marcos Mariño and Harald Skarke for stimulating and enjoyable collaborations on the research topics discussed in this thesis. many others for interesting mathematical physics discussions. Many thanks to my parents, who...

Momordica cymbalaria is an underutilized, non-cultivated cucurbit often seen as a weed. A study to record diversity of pollinators in M. was conducted during September November, 2021 Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu). total 26 species (18 hymenopterans, 5 dipterans, 2 coleopterans and 1 hemipteran) were found pollinators. Hymenopterans the predominant (69.23%; 38.47% solitary bees 15.38% each social an...

The “Silicon Valley” of India, Bengaluru is one the fastest growing cities, with many middle-class residents fruits and vegetables in their private spaces. This kind Localized food systems (LFS) has been considered not only for obtaining mental pleasure health consciousness, but also home consumption. outlook study examined honey bee diversity possibilities integrating different bees urban agri...

We construct the topological partition function of local nontoric del Pezzo surfaces using the ruled vertex formalism. ∗[email protected] †[email protected]

Glutathione S-transferases (GST) play an important role in the detoxification of many substances including organic pollutants and plant secondary metabolites. We compared the GST of two syrphid species, the aphidophagous Syrphus ribesii and the saprophagous Myathropa florea to assess the relation between feeding type and GST patterns. Differences between the GST of the hoverfly species were obs...

Vartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Barbara Weinhardt, Jane Raeside, Nicholas P. Tucker, Catalina-Diana Florea, Kevin G. Pollock, and Paul A. Hoskisson Author affiliations: Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland UK (V. Sangal, L. Nieminen, N.P. Tucker, P.A. Hoskisson); Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcas...