A Computational Approach for Designing Tiger Corridors in India

Wildlife corridors are components of landscapes, which facilitate the movement of organisms and processes between intact habitat areas, and thus provide connectivity between the habitats within the landscapes. Corridors are thus regions within a given landscape that connect fragmented habitat patches within the landscape. The major concern of designing corridors as a conservation strategy is primarily to counter, and to the extent possible, mitigate the effects of habitat fragmentation and loss on the biodiversity of the landscape, as well as support continuance of land use for essential local and global economic activities in the region of reference. In this paper, we use game theory, graph theory, membership functions and chain code algorithm to model and design a set of wildlife corridors with tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) as the focal species. We identify the parameters which would affect the tiger population in a landscape complex and using the presence of these identified parameters construct a graph using the habitat patches supporting tiger presence in the landscape complex as vertices and the possible paths between them as edges. The passage of tigers through the possible paths have been modelled as an Assurance game, with tigers as an individual player. The game is played recursively as the tiger passes through each grid considered for the model. The iteration causes the tiger to choose the most suitable path signifying the emergence of adaptability. As a formal explanation of the game, we model this interaction of tiger with the parameters as deterministic finite automata, whose transition function is obtained by the game payoff.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables, NGCT conference 201

Sufficient optimality conditions and duality for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems via higher order strong convexity

In this paper, we define some new generalizations of strongly convex functions of order m for locally Lipschitz functions using Clarke subdifferential. Suitable examples illustrating the non emptiness of the newly defined classes of functions and their relationships with classical notions of pseudoconvexity and quasiconvexity are provided. These generalizations are then employed to establish sufficient optimality conditions for a nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problem involving support functions of compact convex sets. Furthermore, we formulate a mixed type dual model for the primal problem and establish weak and strong duality theorems using the notion of strict efficiency of order m. The results presented in this paper extend and unify several known results from the literature to a more general class of functions as well as optimization problems

<span style="font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt" lang="EN-US">A new cyclopentane derivative from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Ficus</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pomifera </i>Wall. and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Curcuma leucorrhiza </i>Roxb. </span>

114-118Two new compounds 1 and 2 have been isolated along with a known compound 3 from both Ficus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">pomifera Wall and Curcuma leucorrhiza Roxb. The compound 1 is a cyclopentane derivative, 5-(3,4,5,6-tetrahydroxyhexan-2-ylidene)cyclopentane-1,2,3,4-tetraol; compound 2 is a natural polymer compound and compound 3 is β-sitosterol glucoside. The similarity of compound 1 has been studied by Reversed Phase-High Performance Liquid Chromatography (RP-HPLC). The compounds 2 and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">3 have further been identified by comparison with spectral data. The compound 1 has been tested for anti-microbial and antioxidant activities. The isolation of compound 1, 2 and 3<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> have been reported from different plants of different families-Moraceae and Zingiberaceae for the first time. </span

The Basoph8 mice enable an unbiased detection and a conditional depletion of basophils.

Basophils are granulocytes involved in parasite immunity and allergic diseases, known for their potent secretion of type 2 cytokines. Identifying their functions has proven to be controversial due to their relative rarity and their complex lineage phenotype. Here, we show that the expression of basophils lineage markers CD200R3 and FcεRIα is highly variable in inflammatory settings and hinders basophils identification by flow cytometry across multiple disease states or tissues. Fluorophore-conjugated antibody staining of these lineage markers strongly activates basophil type 2 cytokine expression, and represents a potential bias for coculture or in vivo transfer experiments. The Basoph8 is a mouse model where basophils specifically express a strong fluorescent reporter and the Cre recombinase. Basophils can be identified and FACS sorted unambiguously by their expression of the enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (eYFP) in these mice. We show that the expression of the eYFP is robust in vivo during inflammation, and in vitro on living basophils for at least 72 h, including during the induction of anaphylactoid degranulation. We bred and characterized the Basoph8xiDTR mice, in which basophils specifically express eYFP and the simian diphtheria toxin receptor (DTR). This model enables basophils conditional depletion relatively specifically ex vivo and in vivo during allergic inflammation and their detection as eYFP+ cells. In conclusion, we report underappreciated benefits of the commercially available Basoph8 mice to study basophils function

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Not AvailableInformation regarding the character association is of great importance in simultaneous selection of traits for any breeding programs. However, quantification and interpretation of the correlations magnitude do not provide information on direct and indirect effects. In this context, the path analysis is considered as an alternative and viable tool for the selection process. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the phenotypic correlations between ten major horticultural traits in King chilli (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) lines and its consequences in direct and indirect effects by path analysis. The experiment was laid out in RBD with three replications. The results indicate that the correlation of fruit yield per plant with number of fruits per plant, days to 50% flowering and plant height is highly positive and significant. The number of fruits per plant and days to 50% flowering also exhibited high direct effect on fruit yield per plant. Therefore, for direct improvement of fruit yield per plant in King chilli emphasis should be given to these traits.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableThe present investigation was undertaken with the main objective of studying the influence of nutrient management practices on yield and yield attributes of garden pea varieties viz., Vivek Matar-11 and VivekMatar-12 during rabi season, 2017. The experiment consisted of seven nutrient management practices replicated thrice in factorial RBD. The results revealed that the tallest plant (99.74 cm), significantly early flowering (89.83 days), maximum number of pods per plant (16.67), number of seeds per pod (7.33) and pod yield (9.63 t/ha) was recorded in Vivek Matar-12 with 50% recommended dose of N through urea + 50% recommended dose of N through FYM + recommended dose of PK through single super phosphate (SSP) and muriate of potash (MOP) + 0.2% B. The same treatment combination also recorded second highest B: C ratio in both the evaluated varieties.Not Availabl