The root borer, Oryctes agamemnon Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), has become a serious pest of date palm trees in southwest Tunisia. Under natural conditions, mated females lay eggs in different parts of palm tree: between the hairy roots, all along the stem at the leaf axils and at the base of cut branches. Larvae bore into targeted places of the plant and were never seen outside. Pupat...

Abstract We search for optical transient sources with durations of ∼0.1 to ∼1.3 s using a data set obtained in the Organized Autotelescopes Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES) observation campaign. Since OASES observations were carried out two independent wide-field and high-cadence systems monitored same field simultaneously, provides unique opportunity develop robust detection method subsecond...

Despite providing important ecosystem services and having a unique ecological value, the fog oases scattered around City of Lima, face various human-imposed threats, with informal urbanisation land-trafficking being main drivers environmental degradation biodiversity loss. As response, local communities organise themselves to protect their by means promoting ecotourism. The paper adopts an urba...

Yanfang Wang, Yanjun Shen,* Yaning Chen and Ying Guo 1 Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water-Saving, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China 2 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 10049, China 3 State Key Laborato...

Case-based approaches predict the behaviour of dynamic systems by analysing a given experimental setting in the context of others. To select similar cases and to control adaptation of cases, they employ general knowledge. If that is neither available nor inductively derivable, the knowledge implicit in cases can be utilized for a case-based ranking and adaptation of similar cases. We introduce ...

Book details Willemijn Wilms Floet URBAN OASES Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems . nai010 publishers, 2021. ISBN 978-94-6208-660-9. € 39.95, paperback (Also available in and e-book English Dutch). pp. 208, with illustrations (220 full color).