Insect Management for Sweet Corn by Gregg S. Nuessly, Susan E. Webb

“…The most important pests of sweet corn in Florida are the fall armyworm, corn earworm, lesser cornstalk borer, cutworms, corn silk fly, cucumber beetles, aphids, and wireworms. …”
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Par-dessus l’épaule du maître. Approche matérielle de l’adaptabilité artisanale médiévale : l’exemple des « brocarts appliqués » savoyards by Ariane Pinto

“…Dated from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, they display « tin-relief applied brocades » attempting to mimic precious silk fabrics enhanced with gold or silver threads and highly pursued by medieval elites. …”
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Effect of exposure time of pregnant females guppies, Poecilia reticulata Peters, in 17a-methyltestosterone solution on sex ratio of their offsprings by M. Zairin Junior, A. Yunianti, R.R.S.P.S. Dewi, Kusman Sumawidjaja

“…During the rearing period, the babies were fed with artemia nauplius and silkworm until identification for male and female.  …”
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Osmanlı Öncesi İpekçiliğe Dair İzler ve Osmanlı Dönemi Edirne İpekçiliği by Hüsnü YÜCEKAYA

“…In the second quarter of the 19th century, it is observed that the silk output of Edirne came close to one-third of the total silk output of the entire Ottoman Empire. …”
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Periodic Solution of the Hematopoiesis Equation by Ji-Huan He

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Spatiotemporal dynamics and prevention strategies of cervical cancer incidence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: an ecological study by Mathewos Assefa, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Teferi Gedif Fenta, Tariku Shimels

“…A statistical significance threshold was set at p<0.05.Results Between 2012 and 2021, a total of 2435 new cervical cancer cases were recorded in the Addis Ababa City Population-based Cancer Registry, with significant spatial clustering observed in Nifas Silk Lafto, Bole, Kirkos as well as parts of Gulele and Yeka sub cities (z score>1.96) in 2018. …”
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“Does the Response to Morning Medication Predict the ADL-Level of the Day in Parkinson’s Disease?” by Trine Hørmann Thomsen, Troels Wesenberg Kjær, Lene Bastrup Jørgensen, Anita Haahr, Kristian Winge

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Atlantic mackerel population structure does not support genetically distinct spawning components [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Imanol Aguirre-Sarabia, Alice Manuzzi, Dorte Bekkevold, Natalia Díaz-Arce, Jessica Gomez-Garrido, Teunis Jansen, Marta Gut, Tyler S. Alioto, Sonia Sanchez-Maroño, Martin Castonguay, Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Paula Álvarez

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Brassinosteroid Enhances Cucumber Stress Tolerance to NaHCO₃ by Modulating Nitrogen Metabolism, Ionic Balance and Phytohormonal Response by Wenjing Nie, Biao Gong, Dan Wen, Peng Qiao, Hongen Guo, Qinghua Shi

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Suaires de papier : Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Interventions et recouvrance by Liliane Louvel

“…Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a French contemporary artist whose technique consists in printing his (black and white pencils, pen and ink) drawings after great masters (particularly Baroque ones like Caravaggio, but not only) and to stick them up at night on city walls. Thus he left his silkscreen drawings on the walls of Naples, Paris, Soweto, Charleroi, as so many posters meant to shock and make the inhabitants react to some social concern. …”
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Buck moth Hemileuca maia (Drury) by Clare Scott, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…It describes this moth in the giant silkworm family, the larvae of which has stinging spines — synonymy, distribution, description, life cycle, hosts, and medical importance. …”
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Machine learning-based analysis of sea fog’s spatial and temporal impact on near-miss ship collisions using remote sensing and AIS data by Dan Liu, Ling Ke, Zhe Zeng, Zhe Zeng, Shuo Zhang, Shanwei Liu, Shanwei Liu

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Power Struggle between China and the United States: Lessons of History by L. Estachy

“…For the United States, it is about challenging the development of China’s influence in the world, in particular along the new maritime Silk Roads.…”
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Electrochemical Application of Structured Color Nanotextile Materials in Garment Design by Zekai Zhang

“…The reactive dye/PSt photonic crystal chromogenic electrochemical structure constructed on the surface of white silk fabric has a regular and orderly arrangement of microspheres, showing bright structural color.…”
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PROSPECTS FOR EXPORT DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SERVICES OF RUSSIA by D. I. Tkachenko

“…The issue of increasing the volume of transport services through the development of the Northern sea route and the implementation of the Silk Road Economic Belt project has been considered.…”
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Anthropological view of plague epidemics in the his­torical past by T.F. Khaydarov, D.A. Dolbin

“…The analysis of the historical sources showed that the scale and speed of the spread of plague epidemics in new territories directly depended on the degree of inclusion of cities and regions of the Afro-Eurasian space in the economic system of the Great Silk Road, the proximity to various epidemic centers of plague. …”
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Vespiform Thrips Franklinothrips vespiformis Crawford (Insecta:Thysanoptera: Aeolothripidae) by Runqian Mao, Yingfang Xiao, Steven P. Arthurs

“…In addition to being easily mistaken for an ant, this beneficial thrips is unusual in that it constructs a silken cocoon within which it pupates. Males of this species are rare. …”
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Agro-Morphological Characterization and Estimation of Genetic Parameters of Spring Maize Hybrids in the Inner Plains of Far-West Nepal by Prachi Bista, Sandesh Thapa, Sara Rawal, Deependra Dhakal, Darbin Joshi

“…High PCV and GCV values were found in the anthesis silking interval, ear aspect and grain yield and low values in the anthesis days and silking days. …”
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Aggravating Effects of Psychological Stress on Ligature-Induced Periodontitis via the Involvement of Local Oxidative Damage and NF-κB Activation by Qiang Li, Yajuan Zhao, Daokun Deng, Jiuhui Yang, Yongjin Chen, Jia Liu, Min Zhang

“…Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) was used to establish psychological stress, and silk ligature was used to induce experimental periodontitis. …”
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Fast 3D printing of fine, continuous, and soft fibers via embedded solvent exchange by Wonsik Eom, Mohammad Tanver Hossain, Vidush Parasramka, Jeongmin Kim, Ryan W. Y. Siu, Kate A. Sanders, Dakota Piorkowski, Andrew Lowe, Hyun Gi Koh, Michael F. L. De Volder, Douglas S. Fudge, Randy H. Ewoldt, Sameh H. Tawfick

“…Abstract Nature uses fibrous structures for sensing and structural functions as observed in hairs, whiskers, stereocilia, spider silks, and hagfish slime thread skeins. Here, we demonstrate multi-nozzle printing of 3D hair arrays having freeform trajectories at a very high rate, with fiber diameters as fine as 1.5 µm, continuous lengths reaching tens of centimeters, and a wide range of materials with elastic moduli from 5 MPa to 3500 MPa. …”
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