We assessed the relative effectiveness of pitfal ls , s ingle-ended, and double-ended funnel traps at 12 replicate sites in sand pine scrub using drift fence arrays. Pitfalls captured fewer species but yielded more individuals of many species and higher average species r ichness than funnel traps. Pit fal ls and funnel traps exhibited differential capture bias probably due to differences in beh...

Structures for lossless ion manipulations (SLIM) have recently demonstrated the ability for near lossless ion focusing, transfer, and trapping in subatmospheric pressure regions. While lossless ion manipulations are advantageously applied to the applications of ion mobility separations and gas phase reactions, ion introduction through ring electrode ion funnels or more conventional ion optics t...

Fluon PTFE is a fluoropolymer dispersion applied as a surface conditioner to cross-vane panel traps to enhance trap efficiency for cerambycid beetles. We describe the results of three experiments to further optimize cerambycid traps of different designs and to test the effect of Fluon over time. We tested Fluon with Lindgren funnel and panel traps fitted with either wet or dry collection cups o...

Unlike humans, many fish grab their food by sucking up the water that surrounds it. Once sucked into fish's mouth, then gets swallowed up. What of carried it there? The simplest way for to exit is across gills, but if just followed suit, would be inhaling and spewing out through gill slits. Pauline Provini, from Département Adaptations du Vivant, Paris, France, wasn't convinced this most elegan...

Recently, there has been growing interest in using silicon-based integrated circuits at high microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies. The high level of integration offered by silicon enables numerous new topologies and architectures for low-cost reliable SoC applications at microwave and millimeter-wave bands, such as broadband wireless access (e.g., WiMax), vehicular radars at 24GHz and 77GH...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. ABSTRACT Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are growing substantially in numbers, and also in interest from the educational community. MOOCs offer particu...

SiZer is an exploratory graphical method for ...nding structure in data. When the structure is a jump in the underlying curve, a “jump funnel” is created in the SiZer map. The shape of this funnel is analyzed. The result is the basis of a proposed variation of SiZer that is specially tuned to ...nding jumps. Acknowledgement 1 Research of C. S. Kim was supported by a Cheju National University Re...