To formulate an efficient and eco-friendly strategy for the management of cotton seedling disease complex, pot experiments were conducted and the efficiency of eight Bacillus strains against seven fungi involved in the disease were determined. A greenhouse evaluation of the interaction between fungal isolates and Bacillus strains was carried out. The evaluation revealed a very highly significan...

This paper highlights the need for adaptive resource management within the endsystem, in addition to the provision of basic QoS guarantees, in order to maximize the users’ perceived performance of their applications at any given time within the limits of the physical resources available. A prototype system developed within the Nemesis multimedia operating system [7] is described. The system pro...

Information system security and network security are topics of increasing importance in the information society. They are also topics where the adequate education of professionals requires the use of specific laboratory environments where the practical aspects of the discipline may be addressed. However, most approaches currently used are excessively static and lack the flexibility that the edu...

Th e development of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in insect populations in agriculture not only depends on the level of resistance conferred by a selected resistance mechanism, but also on the fi tness cost associated with the resistance mechanism under specifi c ecological and environmental conditions. Bt resistance in the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), which was identifi ed by ...

Standing in the dock at the OldBailey in 1833, Noah Pease Folger, Captain of the Sophia, seemed the soul of propriety. "No man was more kind hearted and human . . .", testified another ship's captain, who saw Folger three weeks before he attempted to kill Mr Mellish, the owner of the Sophia. Certainly "kind hearted and human" persons, if brought to the point of rage, had been known to commit ac...