A field test carried out in an industrial greenhouse in Lithuania revealed the attractiveness of synthetic methyl salicylate (MeSa) towards an economically important leafmining tomato pest, Liriomyza bryoniae (Kaltenbach) (Diptera, Agromyzidae). The behavioural reaction of the flies depended very much on the simultaneous presence of both olfactory and visual stimuli. The attractiveness depended...

Due to their small footprint and flexible siting, rechargeable batteries are attractive for energy storage systems. A super-valent battery based on aluminium ion intercalation and deintercalation is proposed in this work with VO2 as cathode and high-purity Al foil as anode. First-principles calculations are also employed to theoretically investigate the crystal structure change and the insertio...

AIMS All materials added to teeth should present an adequate radiopacity to allow the detection of secondary caries. Usually, in extensive cavities, base materials like calcium hydroxide cement are used for the purpose of protecting the pulp. In an attempt to improve the efficiency of radiographic detection of this material, this study aimed to determine the radiopacity of three calcium hydroxi...

Materials: Dipentaerythitol penta-acrylate (5Acl), branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI, MW~ 25000), propylamine, hexylamine, octylamine, decylamine, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and Nile red (Technical grade, Sigma-N3013) were aquired from Sigma Aldrich, Bangalore, India. . n-butylamine was bought from Spectrochem Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India. HCl and Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were obtained from Fisch...

Nanocontainers have great potentials in targeted drug delivery and nanospace-confined reactions. However, the previous synthetic approaches exhibited limited control over the morphology, size and materials of the nanocontainers, which are crucial in practical applications. Here, we present a synthetic approach to multi-segment linear-shaped nanopores with pre-designed morphologies inside anodic...

Latent fingermarks are invisible to the naked eye and normally require the application of a chemical developer followed by an optical imaging step in order to visualize the ridge detail. If the finger deposition is poor, or the fingermark is aged, it can sometimes be difficult to produce an image of sufficient quality for identification. In this work, we show for the first time how mass spectro...

Original scientific paper One of the most important features in lithography is the stability of the printing plates during the printing process. The offset printing plates are mainly built of aluminium foil which is processed to obtain surface structure needed for printing process requirements. Printing plate is during printing process under mechanical and chemical influence of the machine part...

We carried out a study on the effect of low-level direct current on cancer by using it to treat a woman who had a large malignant squamous cell carcinoma of the sinus cavity. We used a device that produced low-level direct current and passed the current through the tumour via a 4 × 4 cm flat aluminium foil and a needle electrode that was insulated along its entire length except for the portion ...

The shelf-life of the product need to be evaluated according commercialization product. Shelf-life assessment can done using acceleration method (Accelerated Testing) with critical moisture content approach. This research used predict expired date energy bar based banana. required data such as initial water content, solid weight product, surface area packaging, permeability vapor saturated pres...

A peristaltic micropump was fabricated and characterized. The micropump was fabricated using soft lithography, and actuated using piezoelectric bimorph cantilevers. The micropump channel was formed by bonding two layers of PDMS, mixed at 5:1 and 30:1 ratios. The channel was fabricated in the 5:1 layer using replica molding (REM), where a very simple and inexpensive template was made by straddli...