The antifeedant and antimolting effects of azadirachtins A and B, and of a synthetic derivative, 7-acetyl-azadirachtin A were examined. Given through a blood meal, the effective dose (ED50) for the antifeedant effect ranged from 25 to 30 ng/ml of blood for the three compounds. ATP, a phagostimulant, also given orally, reversed the antifeedant action of azadirachtin A. The ED50 values for molt i...

in this article, we survey the asymptotic stability analysis of fractional differential systems with the prabhakar fractional derivatives. we present the stability regions for these types of fractional differential systems. a brief comparison with the stability aspects of fractional differential systems in the sense of riemann-liouville fractional derivatives is also given.

in this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness results to the random fractional functional differential equations under assumptions more general than the lipschitz type condition. moreover, the distance between exact solution and appropriate solution, and the existence extremal solution of the problem is also considered.

and Applied Analysis 3 Let Γ(⋅) denote the gamma function. For any positive integer n and real number θ (n − 1 < θ < n), there are different definitions of fractional derivatives with order θ in [8]. During this paper, we consider the left, (right) Caputo derivative and left (right) Riemann-Liouville derivative defined as follows: (i) the left Caputo derivative: C 0 D θ t V (t) = 1 Γ (n − θ) ∫ ...

We compare univariateL1 interpolating splines calculated on 5-point windows, on 7-point windows and on global data sets using four different spline functionals, namely, ones based on the second derivative, the first derivative, the function value and the antiderivative. Computational results indicate that second-derivative-based 5-point-window L1 splines preserve shape as well as or better than...

Antioxidant compounds in food play an important role as a healthprotecting factor. Scientific evidence suggests that antioxidants reduce the risk for chronic diseases including cancer and heart disease. Primary sources of naturally occurring antioxidants are whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Plant sourced food antioxidants like vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenes, phenolic acids, phytate and phy...