Fluon PTFE is a fluoropolymer dispersion applied as a surface conditioner to cross-vane panel traps to enhance trap efficiency for cerambycid beetles. We describe the results of three experiments to further optimize cerambycid traps of different designs and to test the effect of Fluon over time. We tested Fluon with Lindgren funnel and panel traps fitted with either wet or dry collection cups o...

Unlike humans, many fish grab their food by sucking up the water that surrounds it. Once sucked into fish's mouth, then gets swallowed up. What of carried it there? The simplest way for to exit is across gills, but if just followed suit, would be inhaling and spewing out through gill slits. Pauline Provini, from Département Adaptations du Vivant, Paris, France, wasn't convinced this most elegan...

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SiZer is an exploratory graphical method for ...nding structure in data. When the structure is a jump in the underlying curve, a “jump funnel” is created in the SiZer map. The shape of this funnel is analyzed. The result is the basis of a proposed variation of SiZer that is specially tuned to ...nding jumps. Acknowledgement 1 Research of C. S. Kim was supported by a Cheju National University Re...

Silicon light funnels are three-dimensional subwavelength structures in the shape of inverted cones with respect to the incoming illumination. Light funnel (LF) arrays can serve as efficient absorbing layers on account of their light trapping capabilities, which are associated with the presence of high-density complex Mie modes. Specifically, light funnel arrays exhibit broadband absorption enh...

The lightest neutralino is a compelling candidate to account for cold dark matter in the universe in supersymmetric theories with R–parity. In the CP–invariant theory, the neutralino relic density can be found in accord with recent WMAP data if neutralino annihilation in the early universe occurs via the s–channel A funnel. In contrast, in the CP–noninvariant theory two heavy neutral Higgs boso...

Like protein folding and crystallization, the self-assembly of complexes is a fundamental form of biomolecular organization. While the number of methods for creating synthetic complexes is growing rapidly, most require empirical tuning of assembly conditions and/or produce low yields. We use coarse-grained simulations of the assembly kinetics of complexes to identify generic limitations on yiel...