Devices/Applications/Reliability 6111 Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS V (Tanner/Ramesham) 6112 Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems IV (Papautsky/Wang/Vauchier) 6113 MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications III (Olivier/Tadigadapa/Henning) 6114 MOEMS, Display, Imaging, and Miniaturized Microsystems IV (Ürey/Dickensheets/Gogoi) Founding Chair M...

The mermithid parasite Heleidomermis magnapapula was maintained in larvae of the midge Culicoides variipennis for 20 months in enamel pans containing nutrient-rich water and polyester pads as a substrate. Inseminated female mermithids were introduced to the pad surface when the host was in the late second or early third-instar. Host larvae were harvested from the pans 9 days after exposure and ...

Merino sheep in Thornveld, Dorper sheep and Angora goats in inland Valley Bushveld, Angora goats and Boer goats in Valley Bushveld on the coastal plateau, and springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis, and black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, in Karroid Mountainveld, all in the Eastern Cape Province, were examined for the larvae of nasal bot flies. The sheep and goats were infested with the larvae of O...

With my colleague Jean-Claude Kader, who unfortunately prematurely passed away in July 2018, we edited 18 issues of Advances Botanical Research , including 10 eclectic and 8 thematic volumes. The topics discussed these articles are briefly described recent advances various fields reviewed. main concerned developmental biology, cell biology metabolism, plant-microorganism interactions, environme...

introduction spatial studies as the main tools for the detailed study of all tangible and intangible aspects of regions have special ranks among all kinds of planning. the conformity of this organization with physical environment forms the spatial structure of which is usually observed as a distributed and isotropic spatial structure, focus and polar, unbalanced and haphazard, random and balanc...

Many crustaceans detect odors from distant sources using chemosensory sensilla (aesthetascs) on their antennules. The greater the flow of water through arrays of aesthetascs, the faster the access of odorant to receptors inside the aesthetascs. Stomatopods facilitate odorant access by flicking their antennules, thus increasing the relative velocity of the water reaching their aesthetascs. We us...

Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...

Several methods to improve the parton-shower description of hard processes by an injection of matrix-element-based information have been presented over the years. In this article we study (re)weighting schemes for the first/hardest emission. One objective is to provide a consistent matching of the POWHEG next-to-leading order generator to the Pythia shower algorithms. Another is to correct the ...