Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is a malacopathogenic nematode that can kill several species of pestiferous slugs and snails (Wilson et al., 1993). It has been formulated as biological control agent (Nemaslug®) used broadly throughout Europe (Rae 2007). isolated outside in Egypt (Genena 2011), Chile (France & Gerding, 2000), the USA (Tandingan De Ley 2014) New Zealand 2012).When P. applied to soi...

This paper describes a system for detecting and estimating the properties of multiple travel lanes in an urban road network from calibrated video imagery and laser range data acquired by a moving vehicle. The system operates in real-time in several stages on multiple processors, fusing detected road markings, obstacles, and curbs into a stable non-parametric estimate of nearby travel lanes. The...

There seems to be something in the air: democratic societies around the world have had a rough time recently. Some, such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland, appear to be moving towards what Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, calls an “illiberal democracy,” soft authoritarianism veiled in the trappings of traditional democracies. The United Kingdom votes to Brexit from the European Union, leadin...