A series of field experiments was conducted in cranberry bogs in 2006e2010 to determine adult attraction of the two most economically important leafhopper pests of cultivated Vaccinium spp. in the northeast USA, the blunt-nosed leafhopper, Limotettix vaccinii (Van Duzee), and the sharp-nosed leafhopper, Scaphytopius magdalensis (Provancher), to colored (yellow, green, red, blue, white, and clea...

Software performance is critical for how end-users perceive the quality of software products. Performance bugs—programming errors that cause performance degradation—lead to poor user experience and low system throughput. Despite advances in profiling techniques, performance bugs still escape in production runs. There are two key reasons why performance bugs are not effectively detected during i...

We investigated differential susceptibility of lady beetles to entomopathogenic nematodes, for two reasons: (1) to estimate potential nontarget effects on natural lady beetle populations, (2) to compare the susceptibility of exotic versus native lady beetle species. We hypothesize that successful establishment of some exotically introduced arthropods may be due, in part, to a lower susceptibili...

Sensor nodes have significant power constraints (battery life). Thus, power-aware approaches must be employed to prolong the network lifetime. However, most of the literature considers only routing-based approaches to prolong it. In this paper, we propose an index-based approach that provides a new way for reducing the energy consumption. The idea behind this new proposed approach is having an ...