The population of M. incognita, the root knot nematode (RKN) was found infesting five different host plants (okra, banana, sunflower, bottle gourd, and brinjal) out of 24 examined from four districts of Punjab, India (Gurdaspur, Ludhiana, Patiala, and Hoshiarpur). Morphological and morphometrical characterization indicated that in the case of mature female, the characters of body length and wid...

Seladonia (Pachyceble) henanensis sp. n., is described from Henan Province, the eastern-central part of China. This species is separated from its allied species by a combination of the following morphological characters: head broad in female, inner hind tibial spur of female with 7-8 slender teeth, T1 basolaterally with appressed hair tuft in both sexes, and genitalia with long and large lower ...

Gynandromorphs are abnormal individuals showing varying degrees of mixed sexual characters. They are known for several insect groups, but are most oftendromorphs may occur through the failure of genetic sex determining mechanisms or through hormonal or other influences during development. In the extreme case, one half of such an insect is female, the other half male. Some of the tissues are gen...

The 150 top-selling video games sold in the U.S. across nine platforms were content analyzed to study representations of female bodies. All human females in the games were captured via screenshot and body parts measured. These measurements were then compared to actual anthropometric data drawn from a representative sample of 3,000 American women. The results show that female video game characte...

Using handwritten characters we address two questions (i) what is the group identification performance of different alphabets (upper and lower case) and (ii) what are the best characters for the verification task (same writer/different writer discrimination) knowing demographic information about the writer such as age,sex or country of birth. The Bhattacharya distance is used to rank different ...

In addition to the obvious role reproductive traits play in mating-system evolution, reproductive characters can also have critical ecological or life history consequences. In this study we examine the ecological consequences of mating for female cactophilic Drosophila to test different hypotheses about the processes driving divergence in reproductive characters. Comparisons between intra- and ...

The purpose of this project was to determine the gender of characters in Shakespeare’s plays by applying machine learning algorithms to the characters’ word usage. In particular, a naive Bayes model and support vector machine model were implemented on a corpus consisting of the words spoken by 198 characters – 99 male and 99 female. Both models achieved reasonably good classification accuracy, ...