using cultural practices to enhance insect pest control by natural enemies

... are © 2000 by CRC Press LLC USING CULTURAL PRACTICES TO ENHANCE INSECT PEST CONTROL 17 necessary to complete the links from cultural practices to cultural control, and to develop a framework and ... Fitton, T Huddleston, and H Dawah 1993 Flower-visiting by hymenopteran parasitoids Journal of Natural History 27:-67-105 © 2000 by CRC Press LLC USING CULTURAL PRACTICES TO ENHANCE INSECT PEST CONTROL ... occidentalis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) for managing spider mites in cotton Biological Control 1:188-196 © 2000 by CRC Press LLC USING CULTURAL PRACTICES TO ENHANCE INSECT PEST CONTROL 19 Corbett, A...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2015, 17:28

... according to level of development The composite indices together with socio-economic characteristics were used to demarcate the administrative districts into development regions according to Friedmann’s ... countries The territorial approach is a bottom-up approach The neo-populist development is participatory, bottom-up, process-led, appropriate, sustainable and flexible The top-down approach (modernisation ... by official, expert led knowledge which induces rural people to adopt officially sponsored innovations (Blaike, 1997:10) Since the bottom-up approach or the territorial approach is oriented towards...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... values into DpH values according to this calibration procedure, the initial rate of DpH formation resulted to be higher in the wild-type with respect to the mutant chromatophores by a factor of ... increased to a few seconds by decreasing the reaction temperature to 13 °C, and the transition was carried out manually by rapidly injecting the acidic chromatophores suspension into the luminometer ... varied up to 3.8 units by decreasing the internal pH at constant external pH Rb capsulatus chromatophores had been shown to catalyze, by this technique, rates of ATP synthesis comparable to those...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... of SOD was measured spectrophotometrically by its inhibitory action on the superoxidedependent reduction of cytochrome c by xanthine-xanthine oxidase as described by McCord and Fridovich [39] ... Interestingly, replacement of this residue by Glu had little effect but replacement by Lys yielded an enzyme too unstable to purify [30] In E coli, MnSOD mutation of Q146 to Glu generated an apoprotein only, ... relevant to this study The corresponding sites in MnSOD are occupied by G77 and Q146, respectively (not shown) Superposition was calculated using the combinatorial extension method to maximize...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

... property o f the concept to the right - - l.e because ".closer to the axis" is in some sense a better way tO r e a l i z e to the right Even I f one grants some usefulness to the semantic/pragmatic ... sense, to the right is b e t t e r r e a l i z e d the c l o s e r the located object i s to the " r i g h t axis" Thus, i f I said put the ckair to the righ! of tke desk, I would expect you to put ... stone I s a s l m i l a t e d to a point I n to tie ~gkt of tle char, the base axes may be s p e c i f i e d a s those intrinsic t o the c h a i r -o I e by reference to a typical user The point...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... represent an answer to this question We have demonstrated that, in addition to the well-known calpain modulators, HSP90 is directly involved in this regulatory process This chaperone binds to calpain ... Endothelial nitric oxide synthase and its negative regulator caveolin-1 localize to distinct perinuclear organelles J Histochem Cytochem 50, 779– 788 Gratton J, Fontana J & O’Connor D, Garcia-Cardena G, ... protective effect exerted by HSP90 is due to the recruitment of calpain in a complex form in which the chaperone protein becomes resistant to proteolysis, and also due to a concomitant decrease...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... the demosaicked color images [11] This value is computed by using the ratio of the perceptual color errors to the magnitude of the pixel vector of the original image in the CIE Lab color space A ... B01 , B11 } By considering the sampling rate of the green channel, the proposed method first interpolates the missing green channels, than the red and blue channels are interpolated by using the ... and υver (i, j) are determined as the same way in (11) by changing {υw , υe } to {υs , υn } The edge direction is clearly determined owing to the group with smaller variations, since the maximum...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... denoted by DG , is uniquely determined by DGi i ∈ V (G) The degree sequence of a vertex i, denoted by DG,i , is the list of the degrees of its neigbours in ascending order It is easy to show ... Hamiltonian’ Choose a large even number n Let G be a cubic hypohamiltonian graph (which exist for all large even orders) All the vertex-deleted subgraphs of both G and G are Hamiltonian (for G, by ... high enough to imply it), yet G is not Hamiltonian For the second graph, take H = G Again all the vertex-deleted subgraphs of both H and H are Hamiltonian, yet this time H is also Hamiltonian.”...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20

... partial spreads in polar spaces as cliques with respect to the oppositeness relation on generators, and then use inequalities involving eigenvalues to obtain an upper bound In general, the calculation ... notation 2.1 Polar spaces We refer to [8] for definitions and properties of polar spaces If P is a polar space, we will denote by d the dimension of its generators The parameter ǫ is defined as: ... electronic journal of combinatorics 16 (2009), #N13 5 Concluding remarks It is in fact possible to calculate in general all eigenvalues of the oppositeness relation between generators in polar spaces...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21

... under controlled light environment [5] Plant morphogenetical responses are mediated by the perception of the light quality variations by two families of photoreceptors, cryptochrome and phytochrome ... cryptochrome shows relatively low variations [21] It was therefore assumed not to depend on wavelength, so that the blue photoreceptor would 501 Spatial distribution of MAR respond to photon ... Smith H., Holmes M.G., The function of phytochrome in natural environment – III Measurement and calculation of 511 phytochrome photoequilibria, Photochem Photobiol 25 (1977) 547-550 [26] Varlet-Grancher...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... moved together owing to a sole located on one of them Forty holes were made regularly every 10 cm on the side of one rail An induction sensor was placed on the trolley, causing the motor to stop ... trolley allowed us to record 760 (40 x 19) data on 16-m area to describe the spatial distribution of light A measurement cycle took 15 The datalogger memory made it possible to store the data of ... of MSEP in the total area is18% This difference is mainly due to the large fraction of the sunlit area (up to 87% of the area) which is well simulated in the total area leading to a decrease of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... according to the manufacturer’s protocol First-strand cDNA synthesis was performed with μg of total RNA using a cDNA synthesis kit (Gibco, Munich, Germany) following the manufacturer’s protocol at ... positive control; No.1-13: gastric carcinoma tissue samples “Negative"; 20%-50% “Decreased"; 50-75% “Moderate"; 75% and more “Positive” Immunohistochemistry Immunohistochemistry was performed by using ... lightly counterstained with Mayer’s hematoxylin Tissue sections from a normal human tonsil (from patient who underwent tonsilectomy) were used as positive controls Interpretation of immunostaining...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... follows: = 91 to 100% damage; = 71 to 90%; = 61 to 70%; = 51 to 60%; = 41 to 50%; = 25 to 40%; = 11 to 24%; = to 10%, and = without damage The stems of these plants were split into two longitudinal ... WP: Anatomical characteristics of maize resistant to leaf feeding by southwestern corn borer and fall armyworm J Agric Entomol 1995, 12:55-65 16 Bergvinson DJ, Arnason JT, Hamilton RI: Phytochemical ... and reduced to dryness using a Speed Vac (Savant Instruments, Holbrook, NY) The final extract was dissolved in 1.5 mL methanol and stored at -20°C prior to HPLC analysis according to the method...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... about half (55.6%) went to the clinic by walking and 30.2% by cycling, so they did not need to pay for their daily trip A minority (14.3%) had to pay for the transportation Using one-way ANOVA, ... 10 minutes or less for going to the clinic Over 75% spent only 15 minutes for the trip by various transportation mode The maximum amount of time spent on travelling to the clinic was 60 minutes ... closer to the clinic than those coming by cycling Public transport mode (including bus and mini-bus) gave a mean centre further away from the clinic Efficiency of walking was reduced by distance...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... equivalent to the culture infected with the shRNAcontrol virus (Fig 4A) We observed no increase in spontaneous apoptosis in cells infected with either lentiviral vectors as determined by caspase-3 ... cells infected with either the shRNA -control or shRNA-CycT1 vector aggregated more than uninfected MM6 cultures prior to PMA treatment, with the shRNA -control vector displaying slightly greater aggregation ... up-regulated >2-fold by PMA treatment and were also repressed >2-fold by shRNACycT1 were selected for further analysis by real-time RTPCR assays: colony stimulating factor receptor (CSF1-R), oxidised...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... relegated to second or third-line therapy due to adverse effects, including hyperlacatemia, arrhythmias, and decrease in splanchnic circulation In porcine models, epinephrine has been shown to cause ... had been performed Annane and colleagues conducted a double-blind randomized controlled trial to compare epinephrine to norepinephrine and dobutamine (whenever needed) in septic shock [1] Theirs ... enrolled, thereby limiting the generalizability of the study Third, by design, all subjects Page of had some exposure to vasopressors prior to enrollment, including >15 μg/kg/min of dopamine or any dose...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... reducing the probability of fishing by 0.22 and reducing effort by 0.12 relative to 2006 but increasing catch by 0.13 and increasing loge (CPUE) by 0.30 relative to 2006, all on the scale of the ... models [GAMs]) to explore the localized effect of bottom DO concentration and other factors on the harvest of Gulf Menhaden in the northern GOM Our objectives were to determine the extent to which ... regression models to examine the effects of bottom DO concentration, spatial location, depth, week, and year on four response variables: probability of fishing, total Gulf Menhaden catch, total fishery...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 08:12

... Arabian Gulf for distance of 60km, bordered by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south and west, Jordan and Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north and Iran to the east Iraq area is 435 052 km2 (Figure ... help to find the impact of geological units on the wind erosion for finding dust storm sources in regions of western parts of Iran [7] The researchers in reference [8] have calculated the dust storm ... reached (-2.48) according to the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) Sandstorms significantly increase in repetition and intensity which is reached unfamiliar number (32) storms and 71 days of thick...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:17

... cool place over ice and transported to laboratories for analysis Total organic carbon (TOC) was measured by oxidation, followed by IR gas measurements [1] Total nitrogen (TN) was measured colorimetrically ... among the indicators To achieve a smaller factor structure that can be meaningfully interpreted by the researcher, factor rotation can be utilized to identify the most plausible factor solution ... technique of factor analysis is suitable [19] The major objectives of factor analysis are to use the computed correlation matrix to identify the smallest number of common factors that best explain...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2016, 11:28

... Institute of Medicine: To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System Edited by Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2000 Andrews LB, Stocking C, Krizek T, ... care and leads to strategies to reduce them Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References 10 11 12 13 14 15 Iyengar A, Baxter A, Forster AJ: Using Medical ... Baxter A, Forster AJ: Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events Crit Care 2009, 13:R126-R130 Baker GR, Norton PG, Flintoft V, Blais R, Brown A, Cox J, Etchells E, Ghali...

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