very little information exists in regards to the control options available for potato flea beetles, epitrix spp. this short review covers both chemical and ecological options currently available for control of epitrix spp. synthetic pyrethroids are the weapon of choice for the beetles. however, the impetus in integrated pest management is to do timely (early-season) applications with something ...

introduction weed infestation causes an extremely reduction of crops yield. on the other hand, increasing the diversity of crops in agro-ecosystems will change the biomass distribution of weeds community, thereby reducing the number and density of different weed species. weed management in the past few decades has been in conflict with ecological principles and sustainability of the production ...

The concept of affordances, with its emphasis to the interactions between the robot and the environment, is highly relevant for epigenetic robotics. However, the use of the concept in robotics has been rather rudimentary, mostly confined to an inspiration source. In this paper, we present a new formalization of the concept, based partially on the recent formalizations proposed in Ecological Psy...

Predictions made by the self-control strength model were tested in a sample of underage social drinkers using ecological momentary assessment methodology. On days that participants experienced more self-control demands than average, they were more likely to violate their self-imposed drinking limit after controlling for mood and urge to drink. There was no relationship between self-control dema...

Very little information exists in regards to the control options available for potato flea beetles, Epitrix spp. This short review covers both chemical and ecological options currently available for control of Epitrix spp. Synthetic pyrethroids are the weapon of choice for the beetles. However, the impetus in integrated pest management is to do timely (early-season) applicatio...

Previous neuroimaging work has shown that increased reward-related activity following exposure to food cues is predictive of self-control failure. The balance model suggests that self-regulation failures result from an imbalance in reward and executive control mechanisms. However, an open question is whether the relative balance of activity in brain systems associated with executive control (vs...

We introduce a new approach to behaviour change called ‘Evo-Eco’ because of its intellectual roots in evolutionary biology and ecological psychology. This approach is based on the inference that brains evolved to provide adaptive behavioural responses to rapidly changing or complex environmental conditions. From this foundation, we develop a model with three basic components: the environment, w...

Introduction Advanced biological brains are by nature open-ended opportunistic controllers. Such controllers compute, pretty much on a moment-tomoment basis, what problem-solving resources are readily available and recruit them into temporary problem-solving wholes. Neural

Giulia Cencetti,1, 2 Franco Bagnoli,3, 2 Giorgio Battistelli,1 Luigi Chisci,1 and Duccio Fanelli3, 2 1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Firenze, Via S. Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy 2INFN Sezione di Firenze, via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italia 3Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and CSDC, via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto F...

A representational approach to ecological psychology is presented. This paper identifies a computational-level commonality in ecological psychology research related to passability of apertures. It is argued that a cognitive mechanism capable of comparing the geometric properties of an environment and the geometric properties of the agent can be used to support judgments for action in space.