HYPHOMYCETE LECANICILLIUM LECANII FOR PLANT PROTECTION FROM SUCKING PESTS AND PHYTOPATHOGENS UNDER GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS by USM ADMIN

“… The hyphomycete Lecanicillium lecanii CNMN-FE-03 (2T20) exhibits high insecticidal activity against melon aphids and acaricidal activity against common spider mites in greenhouse conditions. The mortality rate of melon aphids on the 12th day at a working suspension concentration of 2×106 spores/ml was 87,1%, and at a concentration of 1×107 spores/ml – 91,1%. …”
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Weaving Lao Silk Into Indigo Nights by Melody Kemp

“…A black sheet of pin-straight hair fell over her face, hiding the claret birthmark shaped just like a spider, that crept over her right cheek, one leg disappearing into the fine hairs of her temple.The coarse ivory silk recently spooled from the cocoons gathered in her garden pushed back against her hand.She felt the fizz of anticipation low in her belly as she gathered all the many shuttles holding the weft silk and dumped them into an old blackened basket. …”
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Huuneh : incantation maya (lacandon) contre « la flèche de Kisin » by Didier Boremanse

“…According to Lacandon beliefs, each person’s soul has a double which lives in the forest of the underworld in the shape of a spider-monkey. As Lacandon did in the past, Kisin hunts monkeys; and when his arrow pierces the arm, leg or chest of a monkey, the person whose soul’s double is that particular monkey feels the pain in the same part of her/his body. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of prompt engineering for knowledge graph question answering by Catherine Kosten, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Kurt Stockinger

“…We evaluate these six prompting methods on the newly created Spider4SPARQL benchmark, as it is the most complex SPARQL-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) benchmark to date. …”
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A Technique for Observing the Behaviour of Small Animals Under Field Conditions by Michael H. Robinson, Nicholas D. E. Smythe

“…Recently, however, one of us (M.H.R.) studied the behaviour of Drosophila-sized flies that associate with orb-web spiders and spend long periods standing on the spider’s body. …”
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Study on Impact Mechanical Properties of Reentrant Bionic Automotive Energy Absorbing Box by Zhi-xin Liu, Wei-dong Liu

“…The improved bionic structures with curvature are designed according to the spider web: honeycomb structure (HS), arc-honeycomb structure (AHS), negative Poisson structure (PS), and arc negative Poisson structure (APS). …”
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A Modular Cage System Design for Continuous Medium to Large Scale In Vivo Rearing of Predatory Mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) by Juan Alfredo Morales-Ramos, Maria Guadalupe Rojas

“…The system consists of cage units that are filled with lima beans,  Phaseolus lunatus, or red beans, P. vulgaris, leaves infested with high levels of the two-spotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae. The cage units connect with each other through a connection cup, which also serves for monitoring and collection. …”
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Variation in the Stabilimenta of Cyclosa fililineata Hingston, 1932, and Cyclosa morretes Levi, 1999 (Araneae: Araneidae), in Southeastern Brazil by Marcelo O. Gonzaga, João Vasconcellos-Neto

“…The hypothesis that stabilimenta constitute defensive devices was indirectly corroborated by the observation that spider’s body width and length were, respectively, strongly correlated with the width and length of the stabilimenta.…”
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On the Taxonomy of Acanthoscurria Ausserer from Southeastern Brazil with Data on the Natural History of A. gomesiana Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) by Hector M. O. Gonzalez-Filho, Sylvia M. Lucas, Felipe dos S. Paula, Rafael P. Indicatti, Antonio D. Brescovit

“…The study of type material and specimens of A. gomesiana of several Brazilian spider collections offered us the possibility to redescribe this species and consider synonyms of the first one of the following: A. violacea, A. pugnax, and A. aurita. …”
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Synergistic grasp analysis: A cross-sectional exploration using a multi-sensory data glove by Subhash Pratap, Kazuaki Ito, Shyamanta M. Hazarika

“…The findings, depicted through spider charts and correlation coefficients, reveal significant patterns of cooperative finger behavior. …”
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Histomorphologic and Immunohistochemical Characterization of a Cardiac Purkinjeoma in a Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) by G. Krafsur, E. J. Ehrhart, J. Ramos-Vara, G. Mason, F. Sarren, B. Adams, C. Hanns, T. Spraker, C. Duncan

“…Microscopic findings included cytoplasmic vacuolization with formation of spider cells, glycogen vacuoles, and striated myofibrils. …”
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Bioacaricides in Crop Protection—What Is the State of Play? by Dejan Marčić, Ismail Döker, Haralabos Tsolakis

“…This review presents the current status of bioacaricides, defined as commercial biopesticide products based on microorganisms (microbial acaricides) and biologically active substances of microbial, plant or animal origin (biochemicals and semiochemicals) used in crop protection against spider mites (Tetranychidae) and other plant-feeding mites. …”
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Enhancing Torque Smoothness in BLDC Motors with Built-in DC-DC Converter via Bitterling Fish Optimization Algorithm by K. Balamurugan, B Sri Revathi

“…The proposed method is implemented using the MATLAB working environment and compared with various existing methods like Spider Web Algorithm (SWA), Improved Tunicate Swarm Optimization Algorithm (ITSA), and Harris Hawks Optimizer with Black Widow Optimization (HHO-BWO). …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences by M.I. Egorov, D.G. Smirnov, N.V. Shulaev, V.R. Saitov, А.A. Zaripov, A.S. Gridneva, A.R. Fattakhova

“…Bats were captured with spider nets. Results. Sixty-two individuals of 7 species of bats were captured during the work conducted at four locations: Myotis nattereri, M. brandtii, M. daubentonii, M. dasycneme, Nyctalus. …”

From deadly to life-saving effects: antimicrobial and antibiofilm effects of tarantula cubensis extract on bacterial and fungal pathogens by Elif AYDIN

“…In this study, Tarantula cubensis spider venom was investigated to produce new antimicrobial agents effective against Gram (+) and Gram (-) bacteria and Candida species. …”
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Clinicopathological features of two ultra-rare cases of malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) involving the uterus with recent updates by Bharat Rekhi, Santosh Menon

“…The second tumor revealed rhabdoid-like and vacuolated cells along with “spider-like” giant cells. Immunohistochemically, both the tumors were positive for HMB45 and desmin, while negative for epithelial markers. …”
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Optimized Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Sustainable Electric Vehicle Charging: Integration of Photovoltaic and Wind Power With Advanced Control Strategies by R. Tharwin Kumar, C. Christober Asir Rajan

“…To optimize power extraction, the system employs an advanced Social Spider Optimization Algorithm (SSOA)-assisted Fuzzy controller for precise Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), ensuring superior converter performance and maximal energy harvesting. …”
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Interdisciplinary Approaches in Doctoral and Higher Research Education: An Integrative Scoping Review by Kritika Rana, Sarah J. Aitken, Ritesh Chimoriya

“…Eligibility criteria were based on the SPIDER tool (Sample, Phenomenon of Interest, Design, Evaluation, Research Type). …”
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In Vitro Bioaccessibility of the Vitamin B Series from Thermally Processed Leafy African Indigenous Vegetables by Zipporah M. Onyambu, Mildred P. Nawiri, Hudson N. Nyambaka, Naumih M. Noah

“…The vitamin B series in fresh LAIVs ranged from 0.73 ± 0.01 mg/100 g (B9; spider plant) to 174.16 ± 3.50 mg/100 g (B2; vine spinach) and had both significant increase (ranging from +8.71% to +446.84%) and decrease (ranging from −0.44% to −100.00%) with thermal processing (p<0.001). …”
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A comprehensive image dataset for the identification of lemon leaf diseases and computer vision applicationsMendeley Data by A K M Fazlul Kobir Siam, Prayma Bishshash, Md. Asraful Sharker Nirob, Sajib Bin Mamun, Md Assaduzzaman, Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

“…All images were labelled in the nine prefixed categories: anthracnose, bacterial blight, citrus canker, curl virus, deficiency leaf, dry leaf, healthy leaf, sooty mould, and spider mites. In the present study, a DenseNet-121 architecture was used, where 20 % of the dataset was kept for validation and the remaining 80 % for training. …”
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