The spray behaviour and droplet trajectories in realistic conditions are of crucial importance many industrial, agricultural chemical applications. Droplet characteristics trajectory applications (e. g. flue gas scrubbing, CO2 capture column) determine the amount mass involved scrubbing process, trapped by flow or attached to walls. Knowledge can improve a nozzle design scaling, increase proces...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are very successful platforms that rely on large configuration memories to store the circuit functions required by users. Faults affecting such memories are a major dependability threat for these devices, and the applicability of FPGAs on critical systems depends on efficient means to mitigate their effects. The usual means to effectively remove such fault...

Vector management is the primary method for reducing and preventing nonindigenous species (NIS) invasions and their ecological and economic consequences. This study was the first to examine the efficacy of in-water scrubbing using a submersible cleaning and maintenance platform (SCAMP) to prevent invertebrate species transfers from a heavily fouled obsolete vessel. Initially, prior to treatment...

Questions: Are calorimeters and pyrometers accurate and reliable for describing fire parameters in large-scale ecological projects, and can data from them predict data derived from thermocouples? Do mechanical pre-treatments in Florida scrub areas alter fire properties? Location: Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, USA. Methods: We deployed thermocouples attached to digital dataloggers, copper and lacqu...

Scrub typhus is an infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, which has significant prevalence in eastern and Southeast Asia, such as Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and China. Scrub typhus is a public health issue in Asia, where one billion people may be at risk from the disease. In Guangzhou, the biggest city in south China, located in the southern subtropical region, scrub typhus is becoming...

—Most scrub–shrub bird species are declining in the northeastern United States, and these declines are largely attributed to regional declines in habitat availability. American Beaver (Castor canadensis; hereafter “beaver”) populations have been increasing in the Northeast in recent decades, and beavers create scrub–shrub habitat through their dam-building and foraging activities. Few systemati...

The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, was found established in New Zealand in 1990. During summer 2001/2002 the spread of Argentine ants from urban environments into native habitats was investigated. During an initial large-scale survey around the northern cities of Auckland and Whangarei, Argentine ants were observed at 35 of 211 sites. Eight sites in Auckland were subsequently surveyed in gr...