Pest suppression from combinations of tactics is fundamental to pest management and eradication. Interactions may occur among tactical combinations and affect suppression. The best case is synergistic, where suppression from a combination is greater than the sum of effects from single tactics (AB >> A+B). We explored how mating disruption and insecticide interacted at field scale, additively or...

The steady improvements in the networking infrastructure and ever increasing broadband penetration has fueled the resurgence of voice-over-IP (VoIP). One of the important contributors to this growth has also been the development and wide acceptance of the session initiation protocol (SIP). However, the current usage of SIP requires a per-application deployment (each application using its own SI...

The article investigates the structure and physical properties of multicomponent high-entropy alloy CoCr0.8Cu0.64FeNi in cast quenched state. composition under study is analyzed using criteria available literature for predicting phase alloys. These parameters are based on calculations entropy enthalpy mixing also include concentration valence electrons, thermodynamic parameter Ω, which takes in...

Grape root borer, Vitacea polistiformis (Harris) (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), is an important pest of cultivated grapes (Vitis spp.) in the eastern United States from Michigan to Florida. There are few registered insecticides for control of this pest, and their efficacy is limited. Pheromone-based mating disruption is a potential alternative to insecticides for management of V. polistiformis. Wax-b...

The Hopkins partially coherent imaging equation is expanded by eigenfunctions into a sum of coherent systems (SOCS). The result is a bank of linear systems whose outputs are squared, scaled and summed. This technique is useful because of the partial linearity of the resulting system approximation. The eigenfunction expansion can be accomplished by computer using the SVD algorithm. To solve this...

A novel hybrid level-of-detail (LOD) algorithm is introduced. We combine point-based, line-based, and splat-based rendering to synthesize large-scale urban city images. We first extract lines and points from the input and provide their simplification encoded in a data structure that allows for a quick and automatic LOD selection. A screen-space projected area is used as the LOD selector. The al...