There are several types of spider mites, some which specialized to feed on certain crops, and they a major nuisance in agriculture. Predatory insects such as golden-eyes, semi-hardwings, cockroaches, predatory can successfully reduce the number mites. The type crop particular mite species have an impact how successful these predators are. Spider mites frequently encountered agricultural pest, t...

Planetary exploration missions include an entry-descent-landing phase, where the spacecraft descends on a relatively steep trajectory to the surface. In order to minimize the loads during landing, a deceleration system is employed, consisting essentially of some or a combination of parachutes, retrorockets and airbags. Due to the communication round-trip delay time between spacecraft and ground...

Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is an effective, reproducible, and dependable method for evaluating targeting expression of genes. It very important to normalize according stably expressed housekeeping genes in order facilitating gene studies acquire exact meaningful results. The purpose this study was identify validate six (GADPH, RPS18, α-TUB, EF1α, ArgK...

There is no doubt that the coming decades will see a continued increase in the application of robotics in our daily lives. It is vital that we encourage more young people to pursue careers in STEM fields and in particular, robotics. Universities can play their part by running events that allow participants to explore the field of robotics through hands-on projects. In this paper our experiences...

The mutualistic interspecific relationships of trophobiosis between trophobiont planthoppers (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha) providing food to the host called xenobiont, are reviewed. degree these symbionts varies from occasional or short time duration (a few hours a days) longer ones, with trophobionts left free escape (optobiotic type) by maintained enclosed in nests ant shelters (cryptobiotic typ...

b a ckground: cockroaches are among the medically important pests found within the human habitations that cause serious public health problems. they may harbor a number of pathogenic bacteria on the external surface with anti- biotic resistance. hence, they are regarded as major microbial vectors. this study investigates the prevalence and antibiotic resistance of gram-negative pathogenic bacte...

Evolutionary robotics can be a powerful tool in studies on the evolutionary origins of self-organising behaviours in biological systems. However, these studies are viable only when the behaviour of the evolved artificial system closely corresponds to the one observed in biology, as described by available models. In this paper, we compare the behaviour evolved in a robotic system with the colleg...