Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) Hermetia illucens have shown some promising signs in their ability to rapidly process organic waste into a usable frass input. However, little is known about the effectiveness of frass, when compared biofertilizers produced by other consumers, such as, red wiggler worms (RW) Eisenia fetida. This study consumption rate, compost nutrient concentration, and applicat...

We study the properties of the Higgs and Supersymmetric particle spectrum, associated with the infrared fixed point solution of the top quark mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We concentrate on the possible detection of these particles, analysing the deviations from the Standard Model predictions for the leptonic and hadronic variables measured at LEP and for the b → sγ decay r...

Plant defense against insect herbivores is mediated in part by enzymes that impair digestive processes in the insect gut. Little is known about the evolutionary origins of these enzymes, their distribution in the plant kingdom, or the mechanisms by which they act in the protease-rich environment of the animal digestive tract. One example of such an enzyme is threonine (Thr) deaminase (TD), whic...

We analyze supersymmetry breaking by anti-self-dual flux in the deformed conifold. This theory has been argued to be a dual realization of susy breaking by antibranes. As such, one might expect it to lead to a hierarchically small breaking scale, but only if the warp factor is taken into account. We verify this by explicitly computing the warp-modified moduli space metric. This leads to a new t...

Abstract Soils naturally low in organic matter need to be amended with recycled materials that would boost soil health. In this work, we tested insect frass, the excrements of yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor , as a novel amendment spinach cultivation. 60-day pot experiment ( Spinacia oleracea ), added frass at rates 0, 0.25, 0.5, and 1%, well an inorganic nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK) f...

The infrared quasi fixed point solution for the top quark mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model explains in a natural way large values of the top quark mass and appears as a prediction in many interesting theoretical schemes. Moreover, as has been recently pointed out, for moderate values of tan β, in order to achieve gauge and bottom-tau Yukawa coupling unification, the top quark m...

Shortly after Kangas et al. (1) reported that a-terpineol was the major component of a primary host attractant for Blastophagus piniperda L., Silverstein, Rodin, and Wood (2) revealed the identity of three other terpene alcohols that play a role in the orientation of bark beetles. However, Silverstein et al. concluded, from laboratory bioassay, that a mixture of the three terpene alcohols they ...