Effects of wood vinegar on the activity of various insecticides were determined by measuring the mortality of two species of rice planthoppers, Nilaparvata lugens and Laodelphax striatellus. Wood vinegar itself did not show insecticidal activity on planthoppers. When the planthoppers were treated with wood vinegar mixed with one of insecticides such as BPMC, dinotefuran, imidacloprid, carbosulf...

Using scanning tunneling microscopy and temperature programmed desorption we investigate the Pt(110) surface under strongly oxidizing conditions involving either high-pressure O2 or atomic oxygen exposure. At low temperatures, only disordered Pt oxide structures are observed. After annealing ordered surface oxide islands are observed to coexist with a highly stable reconstructed (12x2)-O chemis...

Creative insight and mystical union differ as to depth of withdrawal, which is a way of saying how closely they are bound to the phenomenal world. The difference between the creative and the mystical reflects disparities in the descent. The similarities reflect the common process through which descent is achieved. Neuropsychology is critical in revealing the imaginal undersurface of veridical o...

We study two-player take-away games whose outcomes emulate two-state one-dimensional cellular automata, such as Wolfram’s rules 60 and 110. Given an initial string consisting of a central data pattern and periodic left and right patterns, the rule 110 cellular automaton was recently proved Turing-complete by Matthew Cook. Hence, many questions regarding its behavior are algorithmically undecida...

Ratiometric Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Thermometry is applied for temperature measurements in a ‘T’ junction, using microscale visualization methods. Rhodamine B (RhB) and Rhodamine 110 (Rh110) are used as the temperature-dependent and temperature-independent dye, respectively. The temperature responses of the two dyes were carefully measured for different concentrations. A novel normaliz...

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) rule 9 and rule 74, members of Wolfram’s class II, could generate a host of gliders and complicated glider collisions by introducing the hybrid mechanism, which are much richer than those generated by ECA rule 110. A systematic analysis is carried out to show the simulation results.

For a matrix A = [aij ] m,n i,j=1 ∈ Fm×n, the transpose of A is the matrix A> = [aji] n,m j,i=1 ∈ Fn×m. A square matrix A ∈ Rn×n is called symmetric if aji = aij for all i, j ∈ {1, . . . , n} and is called skew-symmetric or anti-symmetric if aji = −aij for all i, j ∈ {1, . . . , n}. A basis will be denoted B = {u1,u2, . . . ,un} when the ordering of the basis vectors is not important and B = [u...