The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme for brassicas in many countries of south-east Asia follows a generic model whose basic components are: (i) Regular scouting of pests, namely the diamondback moth (DBM) and its major natural enemies to ascertain their population levels to justify insecticidal treatments; (ii) Use of pre-determined economic threshold levels (ETLs) and (iii) Incorpora...

This study compared an integrated pest management (IPM) program with conventional, calendar-based pest control in nine North Carolina elementary schools. Both programs primarily targeted the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). The IPM program relied heavily on monitoring and baiting, whereas the conventional approach used baseboard and crack-and-crevice sprays of insecticides. Within th...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess molecular interactions between several anticancer drugs and an iodinated contrast medium by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and ultravioletvisible spectroscopy (UV-Vis). Materials and Methods: Iopamidol (IPM) was used as an iodinated contrast medium, and mitomycin C (MMC), epirubicin hydrochloride (EPI), cisplatin (CDDP), 5-fluorou...

Worldwide, the theory and practice of agricultural extension system have been dominated for almost half a century by Rogers' "diffusion of innovation theory". In particular, the success of integrated pest management (IPM) extension programs depends on the effectiveness of IPM information diffusion from trained farmers to other farmers, an important assumption which underpins funding from develo...

We study a distributed training of a linear classifier in which the data is separated into many shards and each worker only has access to its own shard. The goal of this distributed training is to utilize the data of all shards to obtain a wellperforming linear classifier. The iterative parameter mixture (IPM) framework (Mann et al., 2009) is a state-of-the-art distributed learning framework th...

Grape growers in California utilize a variety of biological, cultural, and chemical approaches for the management of insect and mite pests in vineyards. This combination of strategies falls within the integrated pest management (IPM) framework, which is considered to be the dominant pest management paradigm in vineyards. While the adoption of IPM has led to notable and significant reductions in...

In the mid 1980’s, management of Diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), in brassica vegetable crops was at crisis level with spray failures prevalent across the industry in Southern Queensland. Insecticide resistance to synthetic pyrethroids was identified in 1986, and resistance monitoring between 1988 and 1992 showed that problems also existed with carbamates, ...

BACKGROUND Infectious by Pseudomonas aeruginosa has spread worldwide and metallo-beta-lactamases (MBL) are being reported with increasing frequency. The aim of this study was to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility and distribution of blaVIM and blaIMP genes in P. aeruginosa isolates from Zanjan Province of Iran. METHODS A total of 70 P. aeruginosa isolates were identified from patients ...

Integrated pest management (IPM) is widely promoted as the most sensible method of sustainable control of important agricultural pests. However, IPM is not widely practiced in commercial crops where this technology could be utilized. In crops where IPM is used, the sophistication of programmes with respect to the numbers of species, types of pests, and variety of control tactics simultaneously ...

This study aimed to identify the factors influencing adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technologies by paddy farmers in Sari County of Iran. A sample of 260 farmers who selected randomly, participated in this study through a survey questionnaire. Findings of the study revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between adoption of IPM technologies and farmers’ participa...