Riptortus pedestris (Fabricius) and Halyomorpha halys (Stål) cause injury to soybeans by piercing and sucking pods and seeds. Growers believe that new damage decreases near to harvest despite the occurrence of these bugs at that time. As this question has never been assessed, we evaluated two diets: a) mature soybean pods (dried shell + dried soybean seeds) and b) dried soybean seeds for the tw...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a worldwide public health issue, reaching epidemic condition in developing countries associated to chronic diseases. Oxidative damage is another side effect of obesity. Antioxidant activity from plant components regulates at some extent this imbalance. Main goal of the present study was to determine the antioxidant activity and protection against oxidative-induced damage o...

The Asian Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratoria L.) is a pest that continuously threatens crops in the Amudarya River delta near the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Its development coincides with the growing period of its main food plant, a tall reed grass (Phragmites australis), which represents the predominant vegetation in the delta and which cover vast areas of the former Ar...

This paper presents the design, implementation and performance evaluation of Locust, a distributed shared virtual memory system that uses compile-time data dependency information to improve performance. The thesis of the Locust project is that the distributed shared memory program performance can closely approximate message passing program performance if compiler-generated data dependency infor...

The anti-infective. anti-inflammatory, stimulant and carminative actions of the decoction of bark, tender leaves and pods of Acacia farnesiana are enlisted (2,3). The essential oil obtained from the unripe pods was found to have prolonged hypotensive action in dogs (6). This report describes smooth muscle relaxant and anti-inflammatory effect of glycosidal fraction obtained from unripe pods of ...

Locust outbreaks occur on all continents except Antarctica and can affect the livelihoods of one in 10 people on Earth. To prevent economic and environmental losses, locust breeding areas should be periodically monitored, and an early detection-early response strategy should be in place. Traditional, ground survey methods are inefficient to adequately address the large spatial scale of the locu...