Urbanization can alter the organization of ant communities and affect populations of urban pest ants. In this study, we sampled ant communities in urban and suburban yards to understand the habitat factors that shape these communities and influence the abundance of a common pest species, Tapinoma sessile (Say). We used pitfall traps to sample ant communities and a combination of pitfall traps ...

It took eight games, but the Albany State football team finally showed how unstoppable a wishbone offense can be when all the parts are working. Rushing for a season-high 383. yards, the Danes powered past Buffalo University, 33-10, solidifying their chances Of avoiding a second-straight losing season. The 4-5 Danes host Marist this Saturday, a hapless team Albany has outscored 96-7 in their la...

The mobile database is using SQL Server CE mobile database engine. Data conversion layer provides backup restore function (fully backup and restore, table with import and export) of SQL Server CE' local database, and to provide similar interface functions of storage procedure (it include: function of operating local database, function of remote upload and download, function of operation remote ...

The daytime biting mosquito Aedes albopictus is a nuisance pest commonly found in suburban yards. The recommended course of treatment for Ae. albopictus is to keep yards free of water-holding containers; however, infestations may require additional control methods such as residual pesticide applications to vegetation. Five plants commonly found in yards or in uncultivated areas in Gainesville, ...

In a study at Helena; Arkansas, sprinkling hardwood logs during summer storage greatly reduced degrade caused by stain and insects. Logs of four Southern species were stored for 16 weeks starting July 18, 1962. The study was conducted cooperatively by the Southern Hardwoods Laboratory and the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. While Western softwood and Northern hardwood mills have been using thi...

RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data. We have developed Sesame, an architecture for efficient storage and expressive querying of large quantities of metadata in RDF and RDF Schema. Sesame’s design and implementation are independent from any specific storage device. Thus, Sesame can be deployed on top of a variety of storage d...

The CMS experiment along with other major LHC experiments produces enormous amounts of data that need to be managed at the level of storage systems and distributed computing resources. Physics Experiment Data Export (PhEDEx) has been developed as a data management system for the CMS experiment and handled the assigned tasks very well so far. We present a short overview of this system pointing o...

Fuel cell power for locomotives combines the environmental benefits of a catenaryelectric locomotive with the higher overall energy efficiency and lower infrastructure costs of a diesel-electric. A North American consortium, a public-private partnership, is developing a prototype hydrogen-fueled fuel cell-battery hybrid switcher locomotive for urban and military-base rail applications. Switcher...

13C labeling experiments in aerobic glucose limited cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at four different growth rates (0.054; 0.101, 0.207, 0.307 h-1) are used for calculating fluxes that include intracellular cycles (e.g., storage carbohydrate cycles, exchange fluxes with amino acids), which are rearranged depending on the growth rate. At low growth rates the impact of the storage carbohydra...

abstract having no exact knowledge of most appropriate harvesting time in kiwifruit grown in different regions of guilan province, as well as the low storage longevity of the fruits are the most important factors causing considerable reduction in both marketability and export affairs. in this study, the influence of fruit quality in term of harvesting time on the postharvest quality and food va...