Knowledge of the distribution and abundance resident parasitoid species Drosophila flies constitutes an important base for developing implementing a biological control program suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), invasive pest that attacks ripening thin-skinned wild cultivated berries stone fruits. For this purpose, field survey was conducted to identify community associated with D. in...

Superparasitism, a strategy in which a female lays eggs in/on a previously parasitized host, was attributed in the past to the inability of females to discriminate between parasitized and non-parasitized hosts. However, superparasitism is now accepted as an adaptive strategy under specific conditions. In fruit fly parasitoids, superparasitism has mainly been studied as concerns the new associat...

Many augmentative communication systems employ word prediction to help minimize the number of user actions needed to construct messages. Statistical prediction techniques rely upon a database (model) of word frequencies and inter-word correlations derived from a large text corpus. One potential means to improve prediction is to create a set of models derived from domain-specific corpora, dynami...

User Centred Design is accepted as being essential to good software design, only by involving the users throughout the development process can the developers understand what the end users really want (Sharp et al., 2007). One area which has in the past had little experience of User Centred Design is Assistive Technology, and in particular Augmentative and Alternative Communication software (Wal...