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Karolína Bílá
We attempt here to review recent studies focusing on droughts and hydrology in the ?umava Mts. The main question is can bark beetles affect water regimes in forest and what kind of measures might be taken ? if any ? to prevent bark beetle attacks. We com...
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Jeffrey M. Hegstad, Hua Mo, Adam P. Gaspar and Dwain Rule
Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most important oilseed crops grown in North America and a key contributor to the global protein supply. Insect feeding by a major soybean pest, the bean leaf beetle (BLB; Cerotoma trifurcata), can result in economic yi...
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Emilia Ludwiczak, Mariusz Nietupski, Agnieszka Laszczak-Dawid, Beata Gabrys, Bozena Kordan and Cezary Purwin
Owing to its wealth of nutritional values and low cultivation requirements, millet can become a key crop in global food systems. Thus, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declared that 2023 is the International Year of Millet. The introduction of...
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Andrea Bonifazi, Simone Galli, Maria Flavia Gravina and Daniele Ventura
Within the framework of hypersaline environments, the Saline di Tarquinia salterns (Latium, Italy) represent an interesting case study from ecological, naturalistic, and conservationist perspectives. We studied macrozoobenthic community zonation related ...
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Samuel Pallis, Andrei Alyokhin, Brian Manley, Thais B. Rodrigues, Ethann Barnes and Kenneth Narva
The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is an insect defoliator of the potato, Solanum tuberosum L. This species thrives in agricultural environments because of its flexible and complex life history, as wel...
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Eva Hrudová, Marek Seidenglanz, Pavel Tóth, Jana Poslu?ná, Pavel Kolarík and Jirí Havel
Oilseed rape is frequently damaged by insect pests. Much attention is paid to the protection of oilseed rape against Brassicogethes aeneus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), which is one of the most significant pests of spring and winter oilseed rape. The presen...
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Edmond Maican, Adrian Iosif and Sanda Maican
Using neural networks on low-power mobile systems can aid in controlling pests while preserving beneficial species for crops. However, low-power devices require simplified neural networks, which may lead to reduced performance. This study was focused on ...
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Runze Zhang, Yujie Zhu, Zhongshen Liu, Guohong Feng, Pengfei Diao, Hongen Wang, Shenghong Fu, Shuo Lv and Chen Zhang
(1) Background: Traditional kinetic-based shelf-life prediction models have low fitting accuracy and inaccurate prediction results for blueberries. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a blueberry shelf-life prediction method based on a back propagatio...
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Rui Li, Dongdong Ye, Qiukun Zhang, Jianfei Xu and Jiabao Pan
Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) play a crucial role in safeguarding aero-engine blades from high-temperature environments and enhancing their performance and durability. Accurate evaluation of TBCs? porosity is of paramount importance for aerospace mater...
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Jian Ni, Jing Tang and Rui Wang
The beetle antenna search algorithm (BAS) converges rapidly and runs in a short time, but it is prone to yielding values corresponding to local extrema when dealing with high-dimensional problems, and its optimization result is unstable. The artificial f...
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