In this study, the linear structural relationship model’s slope parameter is determined by using the proposed robust nonparametric method based on trimmed mean. This method is an upgrade to the nonparametric method that was put forward by Al-Nasser and Ebrahem (2005) by employing trimmed mean for all likely paired slopes rather than median slopes. Simulation study and real data were used to compare the proposed method’s performance versus the traditional maximum likelihood method. In the simulation study, based on both methods’ mean square error, it was inferred that the MLE method breaks down due to the presence of outliers even though its functioning was not affected when there was no outlier in the data set. Based on the real life example, it can be concluded that the performance of our proposed method was quite well in determining slope parameter
Amel Saad Alshargawi, (1-2022)

Environmental toxicants such as chemicals, heavy metals, and pesticides have been shown to promote transgenerational inheritance of abnormal phenotypes and/or diseases to multiple subsequent generations following parental and/ or ancestral exposures. This study was designed to examine the potential transgenerational action of the environmental toxicant trichloroethane (TCE) on transmission of liver abnormality, and to elucidate the molecular etiology of hepatocyte cell damage. A total of thirty two healthy immature female albino mice were randomly divided into three equal groups as follows: a sham group, which did not receive any treatment; a vehicle group, which received corn oil alone, and TCE treated group (3 weeks, 100 μg/kg i.p., every 4th day). The F0 and F1 generation control and TCE populations were sacrificed at the age of four months, and various abnormalities histpathologically investigated. Cell death and oxidative stress indices were also measured. The present study provides experimental evidence for the inheritance of environmentally induced liver abnormalities in mice. The results of this study show that exposure to the TCE promoted adult onset liver abnormalities in F0 female mice as well as unexposed F1 generation offspring. It is the first study to report a transgenerational liver abnormalities in the F1 generation mice through maternal line prior to gestation. This finding was based on careful evaluation of liver histopathological abnormalities, apoptosis of hepatocytes, and measurements of oxidative stress biomarkers (lipid peroxidation, protein carbonylation, and nitric oxide) in control and TCE populations. There was an increase in liver histopathological abnormalities, cell death, and oxidative lipid damage in F0 and F1 hepatic tissues of TCE treated group. In conclusion, this study showed that the biological and health impacts of environmental toxicant TCE do not end in maternal adults, but are passed on to offspring generations. Hence, linking observed liver abnormality in the offspring to environmental exposure of their parental line. This study also illustrated that oxidative stress and apoptosis appear to be a molecular component of the hepatocyte cell injury.
Mohamed A. Al-Griw , Soad A. Treesh, Rabia O. Alghazeer, Sassia O. Regeai (7-2017)

Abstract Biological studies of Nezara viridula (L.) (Heteroptera:Pentatomidae) and its parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Wollaston)(Scelionidae: Hymenoptera) collected from Libya were conducted in a rearing room at 25 ± 5°C, 65 ± 10 % R.H. and 16:8 LD photoperiod.During the course of rearing of N. viridula the eggs incubation periodvaried between 4-7 days. The newly emerged nymphs and the 5th stage had the highest mortality in comparison with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4thstages .studies on T. basalis included: SEM, development time, parasitoid mating behavior and oviposition behavior, functionalresponse and fecundity. The development time was 4 to 10 days underthe laboratory condition. Adult males lived longer than females.Mating time took from 12.2 to 19.5 seconds. In case of ovipositionbehavior serial of behaviors were observed and recorded. The egg selection period was 0: 00: 08 - 0: 00: 25 min, oviposition period was 0: 01: 04 - 0: 01: 41 min. Egg marking period was 0: 00: 11 - 0: 00: 25 min. The longest period was the oviposition period followed by egg marking period followed by egg selection period.In functional response study was found a highly positive correlation ( r = 0.974 ) number of egg masses exposed and the number of parasitoid emerged. Fecundity experiments showed that the daily ii production of progeny by female of T. basalis during 6-10 dayslifetime showed that female progeny production was higher than male progeny production. The maximum period offspring production was 6-10 days. There was a highly negative correlation ( r = - 0.900 ) between the number of eggs parasitized and parasitoid age . Also there is a highly signifcant difference between the fecundity of T. basalis newly emerged of 24 h and after 7 days after emergence from N. viridula eggs. The number of mature eggs in the ovary were less in 24h aged female and the fecundity increased over the next 7 days.
عايدة عادل عبد الرحيم بادي (2008)