SHORT COMMUNICATION: LABORATORY APPROACH TO THE USE OF SULPHUR AND KAOLIN AS PREVENTIVE CONTROL AGAINST DROSOPHILA SUZUKII

Short communication: Laboratory approach to the use of sulphur and kaolin as preventive control against Drosophila suzukii

Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura, 1931) is an invasive pest from South East Asia that was detected for the first time in Southern Europe in 2008.This species can damage a wide range of soft-skinned fruits crops affecting ripening fruits and causing important economic losses.Since the exclusive use of chemical insecticides for controlling D.suzukii eye

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Analysis of vehicle stability loss due to strong crosswind gusts using web services in the route planning process

Weather conditions play a significant role in road safety.One of its component is a Drafting Stools wind influence, which may be affected the moving vehicle from different angles.The final result of such action can take typical kinds of behavior like overturn, slideslip and rotation.Accordingly, vehicles with high side profile are particularly vuln

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dot-app: a Graphviz-Cytoscape conversion plug-in [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

dot-app is a Cytoscape 3 app that allows Cytoscape to import and export Graphviz (*.dot, *.gv) files, also known as DOT files due to the *.dot extension and their conformance to the DOT language syntax.The DOT format was originally created in the early 2000s to represent graph topologies, layouts and formatting.DOT-encoded files are produced and co

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