Abstract Rough-strip energy dissipators (R-SEDs) can be arranged at the bend bottom of curved spillways to dissipate and divert flow for flow. Using entropy weight TOPSIS methods, a multi-criteria evaluation system was established comprehensive dissipation diversion effects R-SEDs. Orthogonal tests numerical simulation were conducted analyze factors affecting these (average R-SED height, angle,...

Nutritional regulatory responses were compared for the cryptic 'solitarious' and the conspicuously coloured, aggregating 'gregarious' phases of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria. The desert locust has the genetic potential to exist in either phase, changing between them within a lifetime and epigenetically across generations. Our aim was to compare final-instar nymphs of the two phases wi...