Growth and development of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), were compared in two laboratory trials between individuals oered transgenic maize seedlings, conventional maize seedlings, or artificial diet. Transgenic maize seedlings in the first and second trials expressed Cry9C (Event CBH 351) and Cry1A(b) (Event MON 810) Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) (Bt) endotoxin genes, r...

The present paper proposes a fast numerical method for the linear Volterra integral equations withregular and weakly singular kernels having smooth solutions. This method is based on the approx-imation of the kernel, to simplify the integral operator and then discretization of the simpliedoperator using a forward dierence formula. To analyze and verify the accuracy of the method, weexamine samp...

Title Part Symbols d mean temperature dierence, K, (see eq. (1)) m sample size p pressure, hPa (or 100 Pa) s sample standard deviation, K, (see eq. (2)) T temperature, K t Student's t-test statistic (see eq. (3)) x station temperature value from single sounding, K Z geopotential height, km z geometric altitude, km Subscripts: j pair number (see eq. (1)) m sample size (see eq. (3)) 1 satellite (...

Folic acid and folate binding protein (FABP) concentrations were determined in 208 pregnant women as well as in 50 non-pregnant women. Serum folate levels in pregnant women were significantly lower than those of the non-pregnant group. Anaemic pregnant women also had lower serum folate concentrations than those of the non-anaemic pregnant women. Ninetyeight of 208 (47.1%) pregnant women had ser...

Aggregation operators (AOs) have been studied by many schol- ars. As many AOs are proposed, there is still lacking approach to classify the categories of AO, and to select the appropriate AO within the AO candidates. In this research, each AO can be regarded as a cognitive style or individual dierence. A Cognitive Style and Aggregation Operator (CSAO) model is pro- posed to analyze the mapping ...