Life Sciences

The study was carried out in degraded lands in Central Rift Valley area of Ethiopia in 2012. The main aims of the study were to assess the woody species composition, structure, regeneration, density and diversity in the area closures and in an open area; and to assess the socioeconomic importance of area closures to the local communities. Three area closures and one open area were considered. For vegetation survey, randomized sampling technique was used to locate the sample plots in each area. A total of 60 circular sample plots of each 314 m2area were used.

Delineation of saltwater contamination zones in the groundwater, hydrogeochemical parameters  such as Ca/Mg, Cl2/CO3+HCO3,TA/TH, Base Exchange Index and Mg/Ca verses Cl2 have been used.  The area chosen for study lies between north latitudes of 16014'29'' and 16043'05'' and the east longitudes of 79035'24'' and 79050'43''.  Fifty groundwater samples were collected to analyse chemical constituents of the area under study.

This article discusses the phenomenon of violence towards architecture, mainly, the collective memory associated therewith. It addresses the relationship between architecture and identity, and its role in the formation of social, cultural, and political context in the memory of people or community. It also identifies the buildings and areas mostly targeted in the wars of memory and identity, such as heritage buildings which store large collective memory, and places and scenes that have high symbolic value.

Surface river water is seriously experiencing contamination which threatens human health, ecosystem and plants/animals life. Cluster analysis and principal component analysiswas used to evaluatethe spatial variation and contamination sources of surface water quality data sets initiated from Terengganu river basin and originated during 2003-2007 monitoring of 30 parameters at           13 sampling stations. CA grouped monitoring stations into two based on their similarity characteristics: low pollution source (LPS) and moderate pollution source (MPS).

 Although public administration is called "public" in many cases it is not. Excessive, influence of politics on public administration primarily in recruiting new members, ie. People, who have chosen to be servants (workers) in the public administration many times they been limited because they don t belong to a particular party. This problem is largely represented in the Republic of Croatia as well in other developing countries.

The Zayande River is the largest on the central plateau of Iran and is contaminated by heavy metals from industries and fertilizers and pesticides from agriculture.

Probiotics are known for their health-promoting benefits and are widely used in food and health products. However, they serve as reservoirs for antibiotic resistant genes and risks clinical complications if transferred to pathogenic strains. Antibiotic resistant probiotic strains have been reported from various food and biological sources but the antibiogram of the corresponding probiotics from health supplements have remained largely unknown.

This study examined relationships of job stress, perceived organizational politics and turnover intention among employees using a cross-sectional design. Two hundred and fifty eight (258) non-teaching staff (124 male and 134 females) from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, with a mean age of 42.07 years, SD of 9.59 participated in the study. One hundred and forty six (146) of the respondents were married while sixty four (64) were single and 48 were widows.

The study was design to investigate the effects of overrun and glycerol supplementation on physicochemical properties of probiotic frozen yogurt. Frozen yogurt was prepared containing different types of probiotics (Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis) along with yogurt starter culture (Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus). In frozen yogurt mixture glycerol in 1.5, 3 and 4.5% concentrations were supplemented and frozen with 60, 80 and 100 % overrun. Frozen yogurt was stored at -20ºC after production and hardening.

Protected Natural Areas (PNA) have represented internationally from more than 100 years ago, a strategy to preserve geographic spaces with an important biological richness, however these reservoirs have not incorporated in its design to the human element, such as an integral part in preservation activities, have dismissed the local knowledge systems, to implement a planning given by the global system.