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Lisemelo Francina Motholo, Marde Booyse, Justin Louis Hatting, Toi John Tsilo, Makhotso Lekhooa and Oriel Thekisoe
The Russian wheat aphid (RWA), Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov), is one of the main pests of small-grain cereal crops, including bread wheat, Triticum aestivum (Poaceae). In a series of glasshouse experiments, we evaluated the systemic effect of endophytic Be...
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Juan F. Guerra, Ramon Garcia-Hernandez, Miguel A. Llama and Victor Santibañez
This work presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of four prominent swarm intelligence (SI) optimization algorithms: Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO), Bat Algorithm (BA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), and Moth Flame Optimization (MFO). When compared under the...
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Hongwei Sun, Yiran Li, Wei Tang, Huanhuan Chang, Cuizhong Chen and Chenjian Cai
To investigate the effect of free ammonia (FA) on the nitrogen removal performance, extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs), and physicochemical properties of activated sludge, four laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) were operated at FA ...
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Doudou Miao and Nan Zhang
COVID-19 has threatened human lives. Countries have implemented various interventions such as vaccination, mask-wearing, body temperature screening, and isolation. However, the effectiveness of single and combined interventions has not yet been accuratel...
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Xin-Yue Tian, Yu Gao, Muhammad Yasir Ali, Xiao-Hua Li, Ying-Lu Hu, Wen-Bo Li, Zi-Jie Wang, Shu-Sen Shi and Jin-Ping Zhang
Riptortus pedestris Fabricius (Hemiptera: Alydidae) is an economically important pest of soybean that causes serious damage in the Huang-Huai-Hai region of China, which is the main soybean-producing area. However, the basic biological and ecological attr...
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Zhuo-Kun Liu, Xue-Lin Li, Xiao-Feng Tan, Mao-Fa Yang, Atif Idrees, Jian-Feng Liu, Sai-Jie Song and Jian Shen
Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a highly invasive polyphagous pest that causes great economic losses to agricultural production. Emamectin benzoate (EMB) is one of the most popular biopesticides with high antipest,...
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Lucio Bonaccorsi, Andrea Donato, Antonio Fotia, Patrizia Frontera and Andrea Gnisci
During the phenomenon of food degradation, several volatile organic compounds are generally released. In particular, due to lipid oxidation in stored and packed meat, hexanal is formed as a typical decomposition product. Therefore, its detection can prov...
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Md Zahid Hossain Khan, Suhana Koting, Herda Yati Binti Katman, Mohd Rasdan Ibrahim, Ali Mohammed Babalghaith and Obada Asqool
The utilisation of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) as a suitable substitute for natural aggregate and binder offers an energy-saving and cost-effective approach to enhance the performance of asphalt mix. Realising the potential use of RAP as a promising...
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Sharif Noor Zisad, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Mohammed Sazzad Hossain and Karl Andersson
A novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which has become a great concern for the world, was identified first in Wuhan city in China. The rapid spread throughout the world was accompanied by an alarming number of infected patients and increasing number of deaths ...
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João Sequeira, Jorge Louçã, António M. Mendes and Pedro G. Lind
Using an agent-based model of malaria, we present numerical evidence that in communities of individuals having an affinity varying within a broad range of values, disease transmission may increase up to 300%. Moreover, our findings provide new insight in...
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