Taking Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters students as exemplifications of the intensification mobility in educational trajectories, this article considers their modes belonging super-mobility. Their experiences take place within a consortium universities, necessitating intensive and routinized collective movement to multiple locations. This novel way practising higher education calls for new frames d...

Studies were conducted to examine the spatial distribution of immature Bemisia argentifolii Bellows & Perring and immature Eretmocerus eremicus Rose & Zolnerowich on cantaloupe vines and to develop efÞcient sampling plans. More B. argentifolii eggs were found on the 3rd leaf from the terminal of a cantaloupe vine than on any other leaf. The density of whiteßy nymphs peaked at leaf position 8, w...

Community structure is an important aspect of network analysis, with a variety of reallife applications. Local community detection algorithms, which are relatively new in literature, provide the opportunity to analyze community structure in large networks without needing global information. We focus our work on a state-of-the-art algorithm developed by Yang and Leskovec and evaluate it on three...

Under commercial poinsettia production conditions we compared two patterns of parasitoid release for the aphelinid whitefly parasitoid Eretmocerus eremicus Rose and Zolnerowich. We compared the currently used pattern of a fixed weekly release number (3 females per plant per week) to an experimental pattern in which more parasitoids were released early in the crop (wks 1-8), followed by a lower ...

The way an invasion progresses through space is a theme of interest common to invasion ecology and biological pest control. Models and mark-release studies of arthropods have been used extensively to extend and inform invasion processes of establishment and spread. However, the extremely common single-scale approach of monitoring initial spread leads to misinterpretation of rate and mode. Using...

A large-scale study was conducted in 1996 to evaluate and demonstrate strategies for pest management of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) in cotton involving different insecticide regimes, application methods, and action thresholds. Here we examined the effects of the various management systems on the abundance and activity of native natural enemies. Population densities of 18 out of 20 taxa of arthro...

Modelling the Spatial Spread of Wolbachia Bacteria in Mosquitoes Minsu Kim Erasmus Mundus Masters in Complex Systems University of Warwick Wolbachia is a maternally inherited, intracellular bacteria that causes a number of abnormalities in their host’s reproductive system. Recent studies show that infecting mosquito populations with Wolbachia is a promising new strategy for controlling diseases...

In register based drug research time dependent drug exposure is evaluated based on information available from the prescription register. In Finland the exact daily dosage information is not available and thus has to be estimated from the total amount purchased and the purchase patterns. The aim of this master thesis project is to develop a new algorithm, named Time Dependent Adaptive Learning P...