during ornithological expedition to four provinces in the northeast and north of iran in june 2009, a total of 117 bird species belonging to 14 orders and 40 families were recorded. based on these records, eight bird species were found outside their presumed breeding range according to the available distribution maps covering iran, suggesting that updating of the distribution maps should be pro...

More than 40 years ago Leo Moser [7] (reprinted in W. Moser [8]) asked for the set of least area in the plane that can cover every planar arc of unit length. A great variety of similar problems can be formulated by restricting the covering set to be convex, or of prescribed shape (e.g., triangular, etc.), by seeking to minimize the perimeter, or thickness, or some other geometric measure, or by...

The objective of this study was to identify the quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting carcass traits on chromosome 1 in Japanese quail. The populations comprised of 422 progeny in 9 half-sib families. Phenotypic data on carcass weight, carcass parts, and the internal organs were collected on 422 progeny. Nine half-sib families were genotyped for 8 microsatellite markers covering chromosomes 1...

The ability to build accurate protein families is a fundamental operation in bioinformatics that influences comparative analyses, genome annotation, and metabolic modeling. For several years we have been maintaining protein families for all microbial genomes in the PATRIC database (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center, patricbrc.org) in order to drive many of the comparative analysis tools ...

Constructions of nonlinear covering codes are given. Using any nonlinear starting code of covering radius R 2 these constructions form an infinite family of codes with the same covering radius. A nonlinear code is treated as a union of cosets of a linear code. New infinite families of nonlinear covering codes are obtained. Concepts of R; l-objects, R; l-partitions, and R; l-length are described...

We construct finitely generated groups with strong fixed point properties. Let Xac be the class of Hausdorff spaces of finite covering dimension which are mod-p acyclic for at least one prime p. We produce the first examples of infinite finitely generated groups Q with the property that for any action of Q on any X ∈ Xac, there is a global fixed point. Moreover, Q may be chosen to be simple and...

The scalar version of the pathway model of Mathai (2005) is shown to be associated with a large number of probability models used in physics. Different families of densities are listed here, which are all connected through the pathway parameter α, generating a distributional pathway. The idea is to switch from one functional form to another through this parameter and it is shown that one can pr...