The leafminer, Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), is a global pest of citrus and contributes to the incidence and severity of citrus bacterial canker. SPLAT CLM (ISCA Technologies, Riverside, CA) is an emulsified wax that provides sustained release of (Z,Z,E)-7,11,13-hexadecatrienal, the major component of P. citrella sex pheromone. Trials in commercial orchards demo...

Continuous scatterplots and parallel coordinates are used to visualize multivariate data defined on a continuous domain. With the existing techniques, rendering such plots becomes prohibitively slow, especially for large scientific datasets. This paper presents a scalable and progressive rendering algorithm for continuous data plots that allows exploratory analysis of large datasets at interact...

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 Two macro-roughness patterns namely spiral grooving and diamond knurling were performed on an AISI/SAE 1045 cylindrical steel bar. Al2O3 + 13 wt.-% TiO2 powder was deposited by utilizing a multi-pass torch. Microstructure, microhardness wear resistance analyzed. The presence of both γ-Al2O3 α-Al2O3 throughout the coating promoted partially melted un-melted particles; howev...

The best calculation of concentration profiles, isoconcentration surfaces or Gibbsian interfacial excesses from three-dimensional atom-probe microscopy data requires a compromise between spatial positioning error and statistical sampling error. For example, sampling from larger spatial regions decreases the statistical error, but increases the error in spatial positioning. Finding the appropria...

We report on the solidification of Au49, Ag5.5, Pd2.3, Cu26.9, Si16.3 bulk metallic glass under various strain rates. Using a copper mold casting technique with a low strain rate during solidification, this alloy is capable of forming glassy rods of at least 5 mm in diameter. Surprisingly, when the liquid alloy is splat cooled at much higher cooling rates and large strain rates, the solidified ...

A full-season mating disruption trial was conducted in 5–23-acre plots on five farms, to assess the efficacy of two different pheromone dispensing systems against codling moth (CM), oriental fruit moth (OFM), lesser appleworm (LAW), and obliquebanded leafroller (OBLR): Checkmate Puffers (against CM, OFM, and LAW), and SPLAT (against CM, OFM, LAW and OBLR). Pheromone treatments were used as a co...

We present the design and implementation of Splat, a tool for managing network edge switch ports and port-to-host configurations. We discuss the need for such a tool as part of a major network upgrade, and our discovery that most existing tools ignore this area or approach it from a core network point of view. Important design considerations include the current procedures and habits of our syst...

Sodium bisulphite treatment of DNA combined with next generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful combination for the interrogation of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles. Library preparation for whole genome bisulphite sequencing (WGBS) is challenging due to side effects of the bisulphite treatment, which leads to extensive DNA damage. Recently, a new generation of methods for bisulphite sequen...