The navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is a key pest of almond, pistachio, and walnut tree crops in California. Understanding dispersal of adults between orchards is important to improving management options. Laboratory flight behavior of unmated navel orangeworm of ages 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 d posteclosion was examined using flight mills. As a group, females ...

The kinetics of RNase H promoted cleavage of the RNA strand in the antisense oligonucleotide (AON)–RNA hybrid duplexes, with the 3 -end of the AON strand tethered with cholic acid (2), its triacetate (3), cholesterol (4) or dipyridophenazine (5), have been investigated by changing the concentration of both the AON and the RNA strands, while keeping the enzyme and the buffer concentration consta...

BACKGROUND Different movement efficiency in overweight children may affect accelerometer output data. The purpose was to investigate the ability of accelerometers to assess physical activity intensity and number of steps in normal-weight compared with overweight children. METHODS Eleven normal-weight and 14 overweight African American children walked at 2, 4, 5, and 6 km/h on a treadmill wear...

A micro-pulse lidar at eye-safe wavelength is constructed based on an upconversion single-photon detector. The ultralow-noise detector enables using integration technique to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the atmospheric backscattering even at daytime. With pulse energy of 110 μJ, pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz, optical antenna diameter of 100 mm and integration time of 5 min, a horizont...

In this study, we evaluated the ability of Numerical Tools for Hurricane Forecast (NTHF) system, operational at Department Meteorology Higher Institute Technologies and Applied Sciences, University Havana, Cuba, forecasting intensity trajectory North Atlantic (NATL) tropical cyclones (TCs). To assess NTHF system in first five years (2016–2020) runs, used best tracks from National Center HURDAT2...

Background: The extent to which homeostatically regulated physiological processes (including cardiorespiratory fitness expressed as VO2max) are involved in response physical stressors (which include acclimatization and marching) has not been studied,, we intended make this assessment based on measured cortisol levels blood lactate subjects exposed summer winter marching.
 Methods: Two grou...