Pest Management Perceptions and Practices for Equine Farms in North and Central Florida by Erika T. Machtinger, Norman C. Leppla, Cindy Saunders

“…In Florida, homes on small equine farms are generally located in close proximity to pastures, stalls or run-in sheds, manure piles, and other fly breeding habitats. So, homeowners have a high risk of exposure to pathogens that can be transmitted by filth flies to humans. …”
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Forced-Use Dust Bags for Management of External Parasites by Phillip E. Kaufman, Edwin R. Burgess, Emma N. I. Weeks

“…Dust bags are an effective method of horn fly and louse control. However, dust bags are only effective when hung in places where cattle are forced to use them. …”
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Pest Management Perceptions and Practices for Equine Farms in North and Central Florida by Erika T. Machtinger, Norman C. Leppla, Cindy Saunders

“…In Florida, homes on small equine farms are generally located in close proximity to pastures, stalls or run-in sheds, manure piles, and other fly breeding habitats. So, homeowners have a high risk of exposure to pathogens that can be transmitted by filth flies to humans. …”
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Diversity of harmful and beneficial insects on faba bean, Vicia faba L. in Assiut Governorate, Northern Upper Egypt by Hend O. Mohamed, Hassan F. Dahi, Asmaa H. Mahmoud

“…The most common pest species were green leafhopper, Empoasca decipiens (42.28%), followed by bean fly, Ophiomyia phaseoli (17.16%); American serpentine leaf miner, Liriomyza trifolii (16.45%); sugar beet fly, Pegomya mixta (9.20%); campyloma bug, Campylomma sp. (7.61%); and bean seed fly, Delia sp. (3.17%). …”
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An Assessment of Reuse of Light Ash from Bayer Process Fluidized Bed Boilers in Geopolymer Synthesis at Ambient Temperature by Woshington S. Brito, André L. Mileo Ferraioli Silva, Rozineide A. A. Boca Santa, Kristoff Svensson, José Antônio da Silva Souza, Herbert Pöllmann, Humberto Gracher Riella

“…The research reported here sought to assess the possibility of reusing fly ash characteristic of the operational temperature and pressure conditions of Bayer process boilers in geopolymer synthesis. …”
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Experimental Study on Key Influencing Factors of Rubber V-belt CVT Performance by Liao Zhongwen, Wang Hailin

“…The results show that the efficiency of rubber V-belt CVT is improved by optimizing the stiffness of the spring and the mass of centrifugal fly hammers, and reasonably matching parameters. …”
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Scale-free behavior of weight distributions of connectomes by Michelle Cirunay, Géza Ódor, István Papp, Gustavo Deco

“…In this work, we investigate the weighted degree and connection length distributions of the KKI-113 and KKI-18 human connectomes, the fruit fly, and the mouse retina. We find that the node strength (weighted degree) distribution behavior differs depending on the considered scale. …”
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Urban Road Landscape Design and Digital Twin Simulation Modeling Analysis by Nan Yin, Minghui Cai

“…The MFFO (modified fruit fly optimization) method for large-scale data transfer is presented in this study. …”
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Experimental study on uniaxial tensile and compressive behavior of high toughness cementitious composite by ShiYong Jiang, Shuai Tao, Wei Fei, XueYang Li

“…Though the principle of orthogonal experimental design, the uniaxial compression experiment and uniaxial tensile experiment were carried out on nine groups of high toughness cementitious composites with different mixing ratios to study the influence of four factors, namely fly ash content, water-binder ratio, sand-binder ratio and plasticizer content on the compressive strength and ultimate tensile strain of high toughness cementitious composites. …”
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Collaborative Exploration with a Micro Aerial Vehicle: A Novel Interaction Method for Controlling a MAV with a Hand-Held Device by David Pitman, Mary L. Cummings

“…MAV-VUE employs a concept we term Perceived First-Order (PFO) control, which allows an operator to effectively “fly” a MAV with no risk to the vehicle. PFO control utilizes a position feedback control loop to fly the MAV while presenting rate feedback to the operator. …”
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Natural History of the Ant Pheidole desertorum Wheeler in a Desert Grassland Habitat by Ken R. Helms

“…Mating season begins following summer rainfall, Males and gynes fly prior to sunrise; males form aerial swarms which gynes enter. …”
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Damage and Degradation of Concrete under Coupling Action of Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Sulfate Attack by Wei Tian, Fangfang Gao

“…Results showed that, during the coupling action of freeze-thaw cycles and sodium sulfate solution, concrete containing 10% fly ash exposed in 5% sodium sulfate solution exhibited better freeze-thaw resistance. …”
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Micropore Structures in Cenosphere-Containing Cementitious Materials Using Micro-CT by Seyoon Yoon, Inhwan Park

“…Accordingly, the present study prepared Portland cement paste, alkali-activated fly ash/silica fume, and alkali-activated fly ash with 60% weight replacement by cenospheres and reconstructed their micropore structures using micro-CT. …”
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A Lectin from Dioclea violacea Interacts with Midgut Surface of Lutzomyia migonei, Unlike Its Homologues, Cratylia floribunda Lectin and Canavalia gladiata Lectin by Juliana Montezuma Barbosa Monteiro Tínel, Melina Fechine Costa Benevides, Mércia Sindeaux Frutuoso, Camila Farias Rocha, Francisco Vassiliepe Sousa Arruda, Mayron Alves Vasconcelos, Francisco Nascimento Pereira-Junior, João Batista Cajazeiras, Kyria Santiago do Nascimento, Jorge Luiz Martins, Edson Holanda Teixeira, Benildo Sousa Cavada, Ricardo Pires dos Santos, Margarida Maria Lima Pompeu

“…Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease transmitted by phlebotomine sand fly. Susceptibility and refractoriness to Leishmania depend on the outcome of multiple interactions that take place within the sand fly gut. …”
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The effect of travertine waste on the strength and insulation properties of foam concrete by Huseyin Guven, Mehmet Inel

“…The obtained results show that foam concrete with fly ash additive tends to have higher compressive strength and thermal conductivity than foam concrete with travertine waste. …”
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Effect of Curing Time on the Surface Permeability of Concrete with a Large Amount of Mineral Admixtures by Zhenguo Liu, Guorong Liu, Guosheng Zhang

“…In order to explore the influence of curing time on the surface permeability of concrete, 10 groups of high content fly ash and slag concrete with two kinds of water-binder ratio were designed. …”
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Giant Water Bugs, Electric Light Bugs, Lethocerus, Abedus, Belostoma (Insecta: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) by Paul M. Choate

“…During mating season they fly from pond to pond or pool of water. It is during these flights that these insects fly to lights in large numbers, earning their other common name, "electric light bugs". …”
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Investigation on Mechanical Behaviour of LM6 Aluminum Alloy Hybrid Composites Processed Using Stir Casting Process by S. Suresh Pungaiah, Kuldip Kumar Sahu, R. Yuvaraja, G. Jayahari Prabhu, R. Raja Sudharsan, P. Thamizhvalavan, Kiran Ramaswamy

“…The stir casting process produces boron nitride (B4N) and fly ash-based LM6 metal matrix composites. This hybrid composite was fabricated by varying fly ash from 3% to 15% with an increase of 3%. …”
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Retour au travail après une lésion professionnelle : étude de cas sur les effets du droit sur l’expérience des justiciables by Katherine Lippel, Camille Lanthier-Riopel

“…It first provides a detailed account of the return-to-work experiences of three workers: a fly-in, fly-out health care worker and two employees of temporary employment agencies. …”
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THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON CUTTING PROCESSING OF AUTOMOBILE 6061 ALUMINUM ALLOY MATERIALS by WANG YunXia, QI XiaoMin

“…Automobile 6061 aluminum alloy materials has been taken as the research object,the samples have been obtained by the metallurgical technology by adding reinforcing phase fly ash,the cutting theory model under different process parameters have been established based on the grey multi response optimization theory,at the same time the cutting experiments under different process parameters have been conducted,the effects of different process parameters on the cutting of the automobile 6061 aluminum alloy materials have been studied by the theory and experimental methods. …”
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