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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A Multiple Power Reachable Sliding Mode Control Approach for Guidance of Miniature Laser Beam Riding Steered Munition by Jun-Fang Fan, Shi-Wei Chen

“…For a two-stage launch miniature shoulder munition steered with a laser beam riding system, the laser beam points to the target with a limited field radius and approximate straight-line spatial path; thus, the munition could not fly into the laser information field after the powered flight. …”
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Predicting Pumpability and Shootability of Crushed Aggregate Wet-Mix Shotcrete Based on Rheological Properties by Kyong-Ku Yun, Pangil Choi, Jung Heum Yeon

“…This study aims to estimate the pumpability and shootability of wet-mix shotcrete (WMS) made with crushed aggregates and various admixtures such as silica fume, fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), metakaolin, and steel fiber based on rheological properties. …”
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Temperature Effect on Lime Powder-Added Geopolymer Concrete by Sandeep L. Hake, R. M. Damgir, S. V. Patankar

“…Consequently, there is a need to discover new binding material with cementing properties. Fly ash debris is wastage of thermal power plants and acquires hectares of land for the dumping reason. …”
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Research on Freeze-thaw Resistance of High-strength Porous Concrete by NIE Qingnian, YANG Yongmin, LIU Xiaofei, LI Haibo, LYU Kai

“…Because porous concrete is feature with a large pore structure and porosity,the freezing of water enriched in the pores in winter will have a greater impact on the performance of porous concrete.This paper puts forward the test method and evaluation index of the freeze-thaw resistance of porous concrete with reference to those of ordinary concrete,and systematically studies the effect of fly ash,slag,silica fume,fine sand and crack-resistant fiber on the freeze-thaw resistance of porous concrete.The results show that:The compressive strength of the prepared porous concrete is about 30.2~35.6 MPa for 28 days.The addition of fly ash,fine sand and fiber alone has no effect on the freeze-thaw resistance of porous concrete.Silica fume is beneficial to improve the freeze-thaw resistance.After adding 10% silica fume,when the number of cycles reaches 60,the dynamic elastic modulus can reach 66.8%,the mass loss rate is only 0.35%,and the freeze-thaw resistance index is 12.58.The porous concrete contains more connected pores,but it may still be damaged by volume expansion after water freezes.However,after adding silica fume,the freeze-thaw resistance of slurry is improved by increasing the amount of C-S-H gel,enhancing the adhesion between the interface and strengthening the interface.…”
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Carbonation Resistance of Reinforced Concrete under Bending Load by Yan Liu, Jun Ren, Qiuli Gao, Shengli Zhao

“…Fly ash has been used more and more often to take the place of cement as the admixture of concrete in the construction of concrete buildings. …”
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Cementitious Spray Dryer Ash-Tire Fiber Material for Maximizing Waste Diversion by Charles E. Riley, Rebecca A. Atadero, John W. van de Lindt, Paul R. Heyliger

“…Spray dryer absorber (SDA) material, also known as spray dryer ash, is a byproduct of coal combustion and flue gas scrubbing processes that has self-cementing properties similar to those of class C fly ash. SDA material does not usually meet the existing standards for use as a pozzolan in Portland cement concrete due to its characteristically high sulfur content, and thus unlike fly ash, it is rarely put to beneficial use. …”
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An Obstacle Avoidance Scheme Maintaining Connectivity for Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Hyo Hyun Choi, HyunSoo Choi, Myungwhan Choi, Taeshik Shon, ByoungSeob Park

“…To achieve this goal, directly after the UAVs avoid the obstacle at a raised altitude above it, they fly at a higher altitude for a while and then descend to their original height. …”
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Experimental Research on Longitudinal Steel Bar Bond Properties in Modified Recycled Aggregate Concrete Beam-Column Interior Joint under Cyclic Loading by Jia-Li Fu, Bing-Kang Liu, Jun-Wei Ma

“…Three recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) beam-column interior-joint specimens (including two modified recycled aggregate concrete interior joints with replacement of fly ash ratio of 15%) were tested under cyclic loading in order to study the bond behavior of the longitudinal steel bar at RAC joint. …”
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Mix Design of Recycled Coarse Aggregate Self-Compacting Concrete Based on Orthogonal Test and Analysis of Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry by Songpu Gao, Qing Liu, Fengxia Han, Yu Fu

“…The influence of four factors (water-binder ratio, recycled coarse aggregate replacement rate, fly ash substitution rate, and superplasticizer content) on the workabilities and mechanical properties of recycled coarse aggregate self-compacting concrete (RCASCC) was studied using the orthogonal test method. …”
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A review of vegetable waste bio-processing techniques in rural areas by Noorafizah Murshid, Junidah Lamaming, Sariah Saalah, Mariani Rajin, Abu Zahrim Yaser

“…This review evaluates four bioprocessing techniques for this purpose: anaerobic digestion (AD), vermicomposting (VC), black soldier fly composting (BSFC), and composting. Method: A systematic search involved databases from Scopus using keywords like “vegetable waste; anaerobic digestion; composting; vermicomposting; black soldier fly”. …”
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Novel Hybrid Radial-Based Neural Network Model for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Long-Term HPC Concrete by Hanlie Cheng, Shiela Kitchen, Graciela Daniels

“…Additive usage like micro silica (MS) and fly ash (FA) through partial substitution of cohesive materials in concrete design has positive impacts on the concrete’s mechanical properties, reducing concrete production costs and declining environmental pollution. …”
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Influence Factors on the Properties of Ultrahigh-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Cured under the Condition of Room Temperature by Pu Zhang, Yiliang Huang, Yongqi Li, Jun Zhao, Hengqian Dong, Tao Chen

“…UHPFRC with high compressive strength and good workability was developed by changing the water-binder ratios, by adding ground-granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) or fly ash, and by changing the bauxite content of different particle sizes. …”
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Effects of Sodium Sulfate Attack on Concrete Incorporated with Drying-Wetting Cycles by Fang Liu, Zhanping You, Rui Xiong, Xu Yang

“…The impact factors, including water-binder ratio, solution concentration of sodium sulfate, fly ash content, curing time, and drying-wetting cycle system, were observed to influence the sodium sulfate attack by the mass loss rate and damage degree at regular time intervals. …”
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Deformation Analysis of Reinforced Retaining Wall Using Separate Finite Element by Xingli Jia, Jinliang Xu, Yuhai Sun

“…The silty clay is not suitable as filler, and lime soil is slightly better than fly ash. The spacing between geogrids is 20 cm ~ 60 cm, which has less effect on wall deformation, but the horizontal deformation rapidly increases after the spacing increases to 80 cm, and other grid performance influencing factors also have the characteristic, where there exists a threshold. …”
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Neurophysiology of Drosophila Models of Parkinson’s Disease by Ryan J. H. West, Rebecca Furmston, Charles A. C. Williams, Christopher J. H. Elliott

“…Given the neurological impact of disease causing mutations within these same genes in humans the phenotypes observed in fly are of significant interest. As such we observe four unique opportunities provided by fly nervous system models of Parkinson’s disease. …”
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On n’attrape pas les mouches avec du vinaigre by Nicolas Césard, Anie Montigny

“…The question is old and serious: how to get rid of flies? Several objects in the ethnobiology collection attempt to answer it through different methods that we shall hereby present. …”
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Efficiency of Rice Husk Ash as Cementitious Material in High-Strength Cement-Admixed Clay by Pornkasem Jongpradist, Watee Homtragoon, Raksiri Sukkarak, Warat Kongkitkul, Pitthaya Jamsawang

“…The optimum condition for high-strength mixture is achieved when RHA is added to the 20% cement content mixture. When compared with fly ash of similar grain size, the efficiency of RHA is higher when the content to be added is greater than 15%. …”
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The circadian clock gene period regulates the composition and daily bacterial load of the gut microbiome in Drosophila melanogaster by Matteo Battistolli, Irene Varponi, Ottavia Romoli, Federica Sandrelli

“…Here, we examined the composition and abundance of the gut microbiota in wild-type and arrhythmic per 01 flies, under 12 h:12 h light: dark (12:12 LD) and constant darkness (DD) conditions. …”
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Towards new modes of knowledge exchange for sustainability transformations: an exploration of multi-sited dialogue as conferencing practice by Blane Harvey, Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, Bruce Goldstein, Nick Graham

“…Second, we see a growing recognition that fly-in, fly-out conferencing practices are an insufficient and unsustainable model for learning, boundary crossing and collaboration towards sustainability transformations. …”
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