The interaction of feeding by a grass bug, Ir"bisia pacifica (Uhler), and drought stress on growth of Great Basin wildrye, Leymus cinereus (Scrih. & Merr.) Love, and intermediate wheatgrass, Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkw. & D. R. Dewey, was studied in the greenhouse. At peak production, control plants of Great Basin wildrye had more than twice as much green leaf area per tiller than bug-i...

We tested a threshold-based bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) management approach with the goal of achieving elimination with minimal or no insecticide application. Thirty-two bed bug infested apartments were identified. These apartments were divided into four treatment groups based on apartment size and initial bed bug count, obtained through a combination of visual inspection and bed bug monitor...

In recent years, the Pirate Party of Sweden, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Debian project, the “Software in the Public Interest” project, the Gentoo project, and many other private organizations adopted a new single-winner election method for internal elections and referendums. In this paper, we will introduce this method, demonstrate that it satisfies e.g. resolvability, Condorcet, Pareto, rev...

In the context of secure content distribution, the content is encrypted and then broadcasted in a public channel, each legitimate user is provided a decoder and a secret key for decrypting the received signals. One of the main threat for such a system is that the decoder can be cloned and then sold out with the pirate secret keys. Traitor tracing allows the authority to identify the malicious u...

There are many schemes in the literature for protecting digital data from piracy by the use of digital fingerprinting, such as frameproof codes, which prevent traitorous users from colluding to frame an innocent user, and traitortracing schemes, which enable the identification of users involved in piracy. The concept of traitor tracing has been applied to a digital broadcast setting in the form...

The cost and effectiveness of two bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) integrated pest management (IPM) programs were evaluated for 10 wk. Sixteen bed bug-infested apartments were chosen from a high-rise low-income apartment building. The apartments were randomly divided into two treatment groups: diatomaceous earth dust-based IPM (D-IPM) and chlorfenapyr spray-based IPM (S-IPM). The initial median (...

In recent years, buffalograss, Buchloë dactyloides (Nuttall) Engelmann has gained popularity as a turfgrass because of its low maintenance requirement, drought tolerance, and limited pests and diseases. Within the last decade, however, the western chinch bug Blissus occiduus Barber has emerged as important pest of buffalograss. Considerable progress has been made toward identifying buffalograss...

This report describes a bug in the fragmentation code of the Madwifi driver for the Atheros chipset under the Linux kernel. The bug is due to incorrect locking of a data structure. Techniques for Linux kernel debugging are described, and a fix for the bug is presented.

Despite significant progress in software-engineering practices, software utilized for desktop and mobile computing remains insecure. At the same time, the consumer and business information handled by these programs is growing in its richness and monetization potential, which triggers significant privacy and security concerns. In response to these challenges, companies are increasingly harvestin...

An unpublished short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It fancifully elaborates the of Acts 4 and 5 Hamlet , starting on board ship taking to England after killing Polonius. The begins before Danish vessel’s encounter with a pirate Hamlet’s capture pirates, imagines circumstances which he returns Denmark in changed state mind we meet him Act 5.