One hundred and twenty-nine Chinese species of Spathius Nees, 1819 are recognized, of which thirty-five species are described as new to science: S. aciculatus sp. nov., S. albithorax sp. nov., S. angustalatus sp. nov., S. aspratiloides sp. nov., S. basalis sp. nov., S. beatoides sp. nov., S. cephalus sp. nov., S. clavator sp. nov., S. daweiensis sp. nov., S. ferrugineus sp. nov., S. flavicorpus...

This work has been funded by Palarq Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (42-T002018042853 170-T002019038589), Direction Cultural Heritage (Ministry Communication, Morocco), Faculty Sciences (Mohamed 1r University Oujda, INSAP (Institut National des de l’Archeologie et du Patrimoine), Agencia Estatal Investigacion (Spanish Science, Innovation Universities: CGL2016-76431-P, CGL2016-...

In this work, we present a new framework for innovation modelling. Deriving from models using fitness landscapes for that task, we extend this idea to using multiple landscapes to represent different facets and stylized facts about artifacts. By using different landscapes, we are able to keep modularity and ease of modelling, by representing different aspects by different landscapes and by comb...

Biometric devices (such as fingerprint sensors, iris scanners, face recognition systems etc.) are becoming more and more popular in areas where personal identification is required migration control, physical access, online banking etc. Nowadays the most used biometric sensor is a fingerprint scanner which provides a good combination of accuracy, size and price. However, fingerprint recognition ...

The whiteflies Bemisia tabaci Gennadius and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) are two of the main pests in tomato crops. Their biological control in Mediterranean IPM systems is based on the predators Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur) and Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae), as well as on the parasitoids Eretmocerus mundus (Mercet) and Encarsia pergandiella H...

Based on previous research on super-resolution and colour correction by example, the present project employs such techniques towards a high-quality reclamation of lost art. The aim is to produce high-quality images of nowadays destroyed or missing paintings using the correspondence between similar artworks available in both low and high quality images. Several approaches for both super-resoluti...

Intracellular symbionts of arthropods have diverse influences on their hosts, and their functions generally appear to be associated with their localization within the host. The effect of localization pattern on the role of a particular symbiont cannot normally be tested since the localization pattern within hosts is generally invariant. However, in Israel, the secondary symbiont Rickettsia is u...