The aim of this study was to gather information about the feeding habits of Micropterus salmoides Lac., an exotic species recently introduced into Lake Trasimeno and Esox lucius L., in order to determine the degree of overlap between the two diets. The stomachs of 179 largemouth basses and 125 pikes were examined. The index of diet overlap (α) was determined by using a Prominence Value (PV) of each food item, using Schoener's formula. The value of the diet overlap index in the whole sample was 0.79. When the sample was divided in groups based on length, the index values were high and varied from a minimum of 0.623 to a maximum of 0.925. Based on theses results, a hypothesis of food competition between the two species in Lake Trasimeno could not be rejected.

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ClassMaker is freely available from http://www.agr.unipg.it/cardinali/index.html, where a list of the URLs from which programs of image analysis, statistics and phylogenetics can be freely downloaded.

Abstract:In cloud computing, the replication management system has been well adopted in cloud storage applications. To provide the availability and reliability, the replication system replicates the files and can be stored in different server. The system led some complicated issues such as high memory consumption, incurred high storage cost and to access the file is more complicated issues in recent cloud storage applications. In the existing technique, File Accessing Frequency based Ranking (FAFR) Algorithm and Dynamically Reduced Replica for Rarely Accessed files (DRRRA) algorithm work jointly and identify the rarely accessed files and retain the replica in two server other replicated files are deleted. To provide access to more request with 2 or 3-replica is a complicated issue. Thus, this paper proposes a Dynamic replica Creation for Availability enhanced Storage (DRCAES) algorithm which jointly work with FAFR algorithm to predict most frequently accessed files and automatically replicated to other server based on server memory. The aim of this proposed approach is to enhance the availability, thereby reducing the request-response delay time. Thus the proposed approach optimizes the number of replicas, occupied space, and cost.

Variability of HXT2 at the protein and gene level was investigated among Saccharomyces sensu stricto and other yeast species. Results showed that the HXT2 gene is probably present in yeast genera other than Saccharomyces, suggesting that this gene is widely distributed in the yeast world. Chromosomal analyses indicated the stable location of HXT2 on the same chromosome and with the same copy number throughout the entire sensu stricto group. Results of the immunoblotting assay demonstrated that all strains tested (with the exception of S. cerevisiae DBVPG 6042) exhibited a lower level of Hxt2p expression than that shown by laboratory wild-type. Moreover, Hxt2p expression seems to reinforce the taxonomical differences between the two pairs of species (S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus vs. S. pastorianus and S. bayanus) within the sensu stricto group of the genus of Saccharomyces that also reflect their different ecological niche.

In India the practice of mergers and acquisition has attained considerable significance in the contemporary corporate scenario which is broadly used for reorganizing the business entities. The online delivery platforms are expanding by choice and convenience allowing customers to order from a wide array of restaurants with the single tap in their mobile phones is currently undergoing a rapid change as new online platforms race to capture the local markets. India's food delivery industry, brimming again with funds, will need to do just more to survive in the long-run than just amalgamated. After an initial hype and a slump that followed, the last 18 months has been significant increase in mergers and acquisition (M&A) in the space. This paper aims to focus on to study and understand how mergers and acquisition helps in the growth of acquiring business and studies the operational efficiency of the acquiring business before merge r and predict the future viability of the business. The data for the research has been collected from secondary sources. Through this paper an attempt is has been made to understand the not only factors that govern both acquired as well as acquiring business but also determines the dominant factors which is unique in each company. The various tools and techniques have been used to analyze the efficiency of the acquiring business.

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