Morphology, biometry and distribution of Difflugia biwae Kawamura, 1918 (Protozoa : Rhizopoda)

The freshwater testate amoeba Difflugia biwae Kawamura, 1918, isolated from Mulan Lake, Hubei Province, China is investigated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The morphology, biometry and distribution of this little known species are supplied. After careful comparison with three other similar species, including D. delicatula Gauthier-Livre et Thomas, D. elegans Penard and D. oblonga caudata Stepanek, we believe that the characteristics of smooth fusiform shell, conspicuous great collar flare (always larger than body-width) around the aperture, constriction behind the aperture and a somewhat curved aboral horn set D. biwae apart from all other Difflugia species. This species shows a great diversity in total length, collar height and aboral horn length which have high variability (CV between 11.76 and 24.52). However, body width, collar diameter, neck width, body length and aperture diameter are fairly constant with low variability (CV between 5.34 and 8.79) which shows a remarkable uniformity of D. biwae. Also, the size frequency distributions of both body width and body length yield bell-shaped (normally distributed) curves and indicate that D. biwae is a size-monomorphic species, characterized by a main-size class and a small size range. D. biwae is probably endemic to East Asia (China and Japan) because it has such a large size (165-306 mu m) that it would have been easily found in Europe and North America, if it were there. Consequently, D. biwae must have a restricted geographical distribution, disproving the old hypothesis that microscopic organisms are cosmopolitan.

Smith预估器在纳米操作系统中的应用

针对纳米操作系统中存在的滞后性质,提出了带Smith预估器的PID控制方法。从理论上解决了纳米操作系统中由于纯滞后性质而引起的系统超调或振荡。从而保证了纳米操作中观测的精度和准确性。

Manejo da resistência de insetos-praga a inseticidas, com ênfase em Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith).

Detecção da resistência; Mecanismos da resistência de insetos a inseticidas; Base genética da resistência; Perspectiva genética no manejo da resistência; Aumento da dose do inseticida até que a resistência seja recessiva ou neutralizada; Uso de compostos que confiram menores níveis de resistência; Tratamento visando os estágios de vida do insetos mais vulneráveis; Uso de sinergismo para suprimir os mecanismos de resistência; Utilização de misturas de inseticidas; Decréscimo na dose de aplicação utilizando uma que mata a maioria dos insetos suscetíveis; Aplicação menos freqüente de inseticidas, de tal modo que os insetos suscetíveis tenham a oportunidade de reproduzir-se e, portanto, diluir a resistência pelo cruzamento com indivíduos resistentes; Uso de produtos químicos de curto período residual, evitando uso de formulações de liberações controladas dos ingredientes ativos, de modo que somente a população-alvo seja eliminada; ou seja, evitar que os colonizadores subseqüentes sejam afetados; Propiciar refúgios para o escape dos indivíduos suscetíveis; Fazer rotação dos pesticidas de modo que nem todas as gerações sejam expostas ao mesmo produto, evitando, porém, o tratamento espacial (em mosaico); Manejo da resistência de Spodoptera frugiperda a inseticidas; Táticas de manejo.

Efeito do inseticida Match e sua interação com os inimigos naturais no controle de Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797), na cultura do milho.

2005

Milho Bt: avaliação preliminar da resistência de híbridos comerciais à lagarta-do-cartucho, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith 1797).

2008

Viabilidade do uso de hospedeiros alternativos como área de refúgio para o manejo da resistência da lagarta-do-cartucho, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) no cultivo do milho-Bt.

2008

Levantamento dos danos causados pela infestação de Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) em lavouras comerciais de milho Bt na Região Central de Minas Gerais.

2009

Monitoramento de parasitoides de lagartas de Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) em municípios de Minas Gerais, Brasil.

2009

SIR: A Computer Program for Semantic Information Retrieval

SIR is a computer system, programmed in the LISP language, which accepts information and answers questions expressed in a restricted form of English. This system demonstrates what can reasonably be called an ability to "understand" semantic information. SIR's semantic and deductive ability is based on the construction of an internal model, which uses word associations and property lists, for the relational information normally conveyed in conversational statements. A format-matching procedure extracts semantic content from English sentences. If an input sentence is declarative, the system adds appropriate information to the model. If an input sentence is a question, the system searches the model until it either finds the answer or determines why it cannot find the answer. In all cases SIR reports its conclusions. The system has some capacity to recognize exceptions to general rules, resolve certain semantic ambiguities, and modify its model structure in order to save computer memory space. Judging from its conversational ability, SIR, is a first step toward intelligent man-machine communication. The author proposes a next step by describing how to construct a more general system which is less complex and yet more powerful than SIR. This proposed system contains a generalized version of the SIR model, a formal logical system called SIR1, and a computer program for testing the truth of SIR1 statements with respect to the generalized model by using partial proof procedures in the predicate calculus. The thesis also describes the formal properties of SIR1 and how they relate to the logical structure of SIR.

Informações sobre duas espécies de timbó Derris urucu (Killip et Smith) Macbr e Derris nicou (Killip et Smith) Macbr., como plantas inseticidas.

1987

'You say a minority, sir, we say a nation': The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960-62) and Wales.

Medhurst, J. (2004). 'You say a minority, sir, we say a nation': The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960-62) and Wales. Welsh History Review. 22(2), pp.109-136. RAE2008

Conservatism and Revolution: The All-Russian Union of Landowners, 1916-1918

Rendle, Matthew, 'Conservatism and Revolution: The All-Russian Union of Landowners, 1916-1918', Slavonic and East European Review (2006) 84(3) pp.481-507 RAE2008

Zionism and the Jewish People, 1918-1960: From Minority to Hegemony

Rubinstein, W. (2001). Zionism and the Jewish People, 1918-1960: From Minority to Hegemony. The Jewish Journal of Sociology. 43(1-2), pp.5-36. RAE2008

Polskie Wojska Lotnicze w okresie walk o granice państwa polskiego (1918-1921)

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