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Control of insect vectors and plant viruses in protected crops by novel pyrethroid-treated nets.
Pest Management Science, 2015 BACKGROUND Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLITNs) constitute a novel alternative that combines physical and chemical tactics to prevent insect access and the spread of insect-transmitted plant viruses in protected enclosures.
Beatriz Dáder +7 more
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On the use of Traveling Waves for Pest/Vector elimination using the Sterile Insect Technique [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The development of sustainable vector/pest control methods is of utmost importance to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases and pest damages on crops. Among them, the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a very promising one. In this paper, using diffusion operators, we extend a temporal SIT model, developed in a recent paper, into a partially ...
arxiv
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Strain gauges are attached to biomimetic flapping wings to investigate how wing strain sensors detect wind directions. A convolutional neural network model for wind direction classification is developed through experiments. The results reveal that wind classification is possible with strain data of only 0.2 flapping cycles, and the use of biomimetic ...
Kenta Kubota, Hiroto Tanaka
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Enhancing Honey Bee Health: Evaluating Pollen Substitute Diets in Field and Cage Experiments
InsectsHoney bees (Apis mellifera L.) play vital roles as agricultural pollinators and honey producers. However, global colony losses are increasing due to multiple stressors, including malnutrition.
Hyunjee Kim +3 more
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Insect cyborgs: Bio-mimetic feature generators improve machine learning accuracy on limited data [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Machine learning (ML) classifiers always benefit from more informative input features. We seek to auto-generate stronger feature sets in order to address the difficulty that ML methods often experience given limited training data. A wide range of biological neural nets (BNNs) excel at fast learning, implying that they are adept at extracting ...
arxiv
Spring and Power in Hovering Ornithopters
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Only small ornithopters can hover, longest at the hummingbird size. This article reviews the drive and power of these hovering machines, focusing on elastic energy and thrust boosters. Unlike two‐winged designs, X‐winged and multiple‐V‐winged ornithopters benefit from lower disk loading and slower, smaller wingbeats, and the clap‐and‐fling effect ...
Gih‐Keong Lau +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Yellow fever virus (YFV) causing a deadly viral disease is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. In Brazil, YFV is restricted to a forest cycle maintained between non-human primates and forest-canopy mosquitoes, where humans can be tangentially
Dinair Couto-Lima +9 more
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Xylella fastidiosa and its insect vectors
, 2018 Slide of the Euphresco project 2016-F-221 'Xylella fastidiosa and its insect vectors'
Richard Gottsberger +16 more
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Deep Learning Methods in Soft Robotics: Architectures and Applications
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Soft robotics has seen intense research over the past two decades and offers a promising approach for future robotic applications. However, standard industrial methods may be challenging to apply to soft robots. Recent advances in deep learning provide powerful tools to analyze and design complex soft machines that can operate in unstructured ...
Tomáš Čakurda +3 more
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Destabilization of mutated human PUS3 protein causes intellectual disability
Human Mutation, Volume 43, Issue 12, Page 2063-2078, December 2022., 2022 The homodimer of pseudouridine synthase 3 converts uridines at position 39 in tRNAs to pseudouridine (ψ), which affects tRNA stability and regulates RNA–protein interactions. Several patient‐derived variants of PUS3 have been associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
Ting‐Yu Lin +17 more
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