Abstract Background The invasive barnacle scale, Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstock (Hemiptera: Coccidae), is Sacroiliac Support a pest native to South America and the Caribbean islands that has recently emerged as a serious threat to agricultural, horticultural, ornamental, medicinal, and aromatic plants.Finding indigenous natural enemies to con

MOOCs are re-operationalising traditional concepts in education.While they draw on elements of Dryer Duct Hose existing educational and learning models, they represent a new approach to instruction and learning.The challenges MOOCs present to traditional education models have important implications for approaching and assessing quality.This paper f

The home landscape is a place where there is a great opportunity for people to adopt irrigation practices and technologies that conserve water.However, a large portion of residents lack the required knowledge and skills to adopt some of those practices.This 3-page Thermals fact sheet discusses using innovative evaluation approaches to demonstrate t

A new type of solar neutron Gloves detector (FIB) was launched on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 16, 2009, and began collecting data at the International Space Station (ISS) on August 25, 2009.This paper summarizes the three years of observations obtained by the solar neutron detector FIB until the end of July 2012.The solar neutron dete

To guarantee the security and high-efficiency of image transmission, a novel triple-image encryption scheme based on chaotic system, S-box and image compressing is proposed in this paper.Firstly, the combination process is performed by compressing three plain images to 25% and combining the compressed images with a stochastic matrix generated by th