Repositories of large software systems have become commonplace. This massive expansion has resulted in the emergence various problems these platforms including identification (i) bug-prone packages, (ii) critical bugs, and (iii) severity bugs. One important goals would be to mine bugs recommend them developers resolve them. The first step this is that one accurately detect extent In paper, we t...

BACKGROUND Horizontal transfer of insecticide occurs when insects contact or ingest an insecticide, return to an aggregation or a nest, and transfer the insecticide to other conspecific insects through contact. This phenomenon has been reported in a number of insects including social insects, however it has not been reported in bed bugs. Since horizontal transfer can facilitate the spread of in...

Recent research suggests that the resurgence of bed bugs in the U.S. has occurred at an alarming rate. Assumptions have been made that socioeconomic status is not associated with the prevalence of bed bug infestations. Little information is available at the local level, however, about the prevalence of bed bugs in private homes. The authors' pilot study aimed to identify prevalence, knowledge, ...

We observed that teneral adults (<1 h post-molt) of Cimex lectularius L. appeared more adept at climbing a smooth surface compared to sclerotized adults. Differences in climbing ability on a smooth surface based on sclerotization status were quantified by measuring the height to which bed bugs climbed when confined within a glass vial. The average maximum height climbed by teneral (T) bed bugs ...

The cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, Vieillot) could potentially play an important role in the transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) because of its breeding ecology, reservoir competence status, and potentially high natural exposure rates. These birds nest in colonies and their nests are occupied year round by swallow bugs (Oeciacus vicarius, Hovarth), hematophagus ectoparasites that fe...

Fuzzing is a process where random, almost valid, input streams are automatically generated and fed into computer systems in order to test the robustness of userexposed interfaces. We fuzz the Linux kernel system call interface; unlike previous work that attempts to generically fuzz all of an operating system’s system calls, we explore the effectiveness of using specific domain knowledge and foc...

Populations of the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, have recently undergone explosive growth. Bed bugs share many important traits with triatomine insects, but it remains unclear whether these similarities include the ability to transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease. Here, we show efficient and bidirectional transmission of T. cruzi between hosts and bed bugs in a ...

Undetected software bugs frequently result in service disruptions, productivity losses, and in some instances significant threat to human life. One way to prevent such bugs is to engage customers in acceptance testing prior to the production software release, yet there is a considerable lack of empirical examination of the release process from the customer’s perspective. To address this researc...

Ubiquitous computing applications are frequently long-running and highly distributed, leading to bugs that only become apparent far from and long after their original point of appearance. Such bugs are hard to find. This paper describes the Interaction Analyzer, a debugging tool for ubiquitous computing applications that addresses this problem. The Interaction Analyzer uses protocol definitions...

To date, few studies have evaluated chitin synthesis inhibitors against bed bugs, although they would provide an alternative mode of action to circumvent insecticide resistance. Acute and sublethal effects of lufenuron were evaluated against two strains of the common bed bug. Combined acute and sublethal effects were used to calculate effective doses. The dose that was effective against 50% of ...