For successful application of the sterile insect technique (SIT), wild female insects should not be more receptive to remating after mating with a mass-reared sterile male than after to mating with a wild fertile male. The remating frequencies of melon fly Bactrocera cucurbitae Coquillett (Diptera: Tephritidae) females were assessed in field cages with male melon flies from: (1) a male-only gen...

Group support systems (GSS) have been the subject of many investigations and meta-analyses over the past decade. This study presents, summarizes, and analyzes the results of 145 experiments that used communication mode as an independent variable. The results show that the modal outcome for GSSs compared to Face-to-Face (FtF) methods is ‘‘no difference,’’ while the overall percentage of positive...

The last dozen years have seen a considerable investment of resources into the research and development of Group Support Systems (GSS) technology. This paper describes how a GSS was used to support a process improvement project in a Hong Kong accounting firm. Although the project encountered many difficulties, the application of action research facilitated the adaptation of the GSS to the shift...

This paper proposes a method based on key parameter monitoring and backpropagation neural network to standardize LIBS spectra, named KPBP. By the laser output energy plasma flame morphology using algorithm fit spectral intensity, KPBP standardizes segments containing characteristic lines. study first conducted experiments spectra of pure aluminium, monocrystalline silicon, zinc optimize model t...

Renewable energy resources (wind, solar) are unpredictable, so it is wise to store the electricity they generate in an carrier X. Various PtX (power useful energy-intensive raw material such as hydrogen, synthetic natural gas, fuel) applications have been proposed. At heart of our work widely used idea convert residual CO2 from biogas plant into higher hydrocarbons using renewables (e.g., sun, ...

Infrared (IR) small target detection, especially in a complex background, continues to present challenges the low false alarm rate and high robustness. In this paper, background subtraction local contrast measure (BSLCM) Gaussian structural similarity (GSS) integrated model is proposed detect IR target. model, BSLCM used suppress enhance GSS calculation conducted eliminate high-brightened resid...

today, with rapid growth of the world wide web and creation of internet sites and online text resources, text summarization issue is highly attended by various researchers. extractive-based text summarization is an important summarization method which is included of selecting the top representative sentences from the input document. when, we are facing into large data volume documents, the extr...

The bacterial flagellar hook connects the helical flagellar filament to the rotary motor at its base. Bending flexibility of the hook allows the helical filaments to form a bundle behind the cell body to produce thrust for bacterial motility. The hook protein FlgE shows considerable sequence and structural similarities to the distal rod protein FlgG; however, the hook is supercoiled and flexibl...

In this work a modification was made on the algorithm of Artificial Neural Networks (NN) Training of the Multilayer Perceptron type (MLP) based on multi-objective optimization (MOBJ), to increase its computational efficiency. Usually, the number of efficient solutions to be generated is a parameter that must be provided by the user. In this work, this number is automatically determined by an al...