Predatory potential and performance of the predaceous heteropterans, Geocoris punctipes (Say), G. uliginosus (Say) (Geocoridae), and Orius insidiosus (Say) (Anthocoridae), were evaluated using fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), as prey on different turfgrass taxa (resistant zoysiagrasses, 'Cavalier' and 'Palisades'; moderately resistant Bermuda grass, 'TifSport'; and susceptibl...

The Brill{Hartle gravitational geon construct as a spherical shell of small amplitude, high frequency gravitational waves is reviewed and critically analyzed. The Regge{Wheeler formalism is used to represent gravitational wave perturbations of the spherical background as a superposition of tensor spherical harmonics and an attempt is made to build a non{singular solution to meet the requirement...

Abstract Smart healthcare systems have received increasing attention in recent years; however, a bibliometric analysis of the research on smart for elderly is lacking. This study aimed to identify scientific results and emerging themes related older adults. Articles reviews adults, published between 2013 2022, were obtained from Web Science Core Collection database using keyword search. Data co...

rocks of the Stuhuni and King Salmon Groups; a pre-.Middlm: Triassic unconformity is found througbmt the North American Cordillera (Read and Okulitch, 1977, Siberling, 1973:. In the Stikine Terrane, late Triassic volcanic rocks ar: dominantly fragmental andcommonly alkalic. Based on bul:: rock chemistry, both extensional, ba:k-arc, and Fore-ar: tectonic settings have been suggested tor these r...

Outline shape carries a substantial part of the information present in an object view, and is more economical than classical representations such as geon-structural-descriptions or multiple-views. We demonstrate the utility of silhouette representations for a variety of visual tasks, ranging from basic-level categorization to nding the best view of an object. All these tasks necessitate the com...

New upper and lower bounds are presented for a multi-dimensional generalization of bin pa king alled box pa king. Several variants of this problem, in luding bounded spa e box pa king, square pa king, variable sized box pa king and resour e augmented box pa king are also studied. The main results, stated for d = 2, are as follows: A new upper bound of 2.66013 for online box pa king, a new 14=9 ...

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Mifepristone (RU-486) is the first antiprogesterone drug used for the termination of early pregnancies (6 to 8 weeks pregnancies), a steroid synthesized in the laboratory. It has higher affinity for the progesterone receptor. It also has other potential applications as anticancer and glucocorticoid antagonist. It is desirable to increase its antiprogestational potency and eliminate the antigluc...