Abstract Olfaction and chemical ecology in phytophagous ladybird beetles have been largely ignored so far. The present paper describes for the first time basiconic, grooved, trichoid porous olfactory sensilla on antennae of Chnootriba elaterii (Epilacnini) demonstrates sensitivity to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from host plants, belonging common less Cucurbitaceae crops wild species ( Cit...

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness and demand for global sustainability, as well mandate the use of renewable environmentally sustainable materials processes. Due to which, massive efforts are being made develop nurture next generation composite that energy efficient, friendly, biodegradable. Light weight, lower coefficient thermal expansion, comparable tensile strength exhibit...

This research aims to study the possible improvement of methylene blue (MB) removal from aqueous solution by hybrid adsorbent-catalysts (AdsCats) prepared through incorporation activated carbon derived Luffa cylindrica fibers (LAC) TiO2 photocatalysts. LAC with a specific surface area 1170 m2/g was chemical activation phosphoric acid at 500 °C. TiO2/LAC composites 70 and 90 wt.% Degussa P25 tit...

In the present paper the systematic enumeration of Cucurbit germplasm of Bihar State has been described. The three genera recorded from field were Luffa, Momordica and Trichosanthes. Three species of Luffa, five species of Momordica and three species of Trichosanthes were collected and described in detail.

Indifferentiability is currently considered to be an important security notion for a cryptographic hash function to instantiate Random Oracles in different security proofs. In this paper, we prove indifferentiability of Fugue and Luffa, two SHA3 second round candidates. We also analyze the indifferentiability of a modified Luffa mode replacing multiple small permutations by a single large permu...

Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, herbal medicines which formed the basis of health care throughout the world since the earliest days of mankind are still widely used. Luffa acutangula is widely growing vegetative climber and is used traditionally in folklore medicines for ailments including jaundice, diabetes, liver diseases, skin diseases, wounds etc. Taking...

Luffa is a new hash algorithm that has been accepted for round two of the NIST hash function competition SHA-3. Computational efficiency is the second most important evaluation criteria used to compare candidate algorithms. In this paper, we describe a fast software implementation of the Luffa hash algorithm for the Intel Core 2 Duo platform. We explore the use of the perfect shuffle operation ...