COLORADO POTATO BEETLE, LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA (SAY) AND FALSE POTATO BEETLE, LEPTINOTARSA JUNCTA (GERMAR) (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE)

Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) and False Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa juncta (Germar) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

True "potato beetles" are members Seat Roller of the beetle genus Leptinotarsa, with 32 species in North America, including Mexico; 10 species in the continental United States, including two species in Florida.The most notable is the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), found in Florida and most of the United States, and introdu

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Analysis and Determination of the Lateral Distance Parameters of Vehicles When Overtaking an Electric Bicycle from the Point of View of Road Safety

Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of electric bicycles on the roads and a rise in the number of road crashes involving e-bicyclists.There are various causes of road crashes involving e-bicyclists.Out of the total number of fatalities in traffic, bicyclists account for 9% in the Republic of Serbia.Road crashes occurring when motor veh

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Final-note expectancy and humor: an empirical investigation

Abstract Background Melodic expectations were manipulated to investigate the nature of tonally incongruent melodic final notes that may elicit humor in listeners.To our knowledge, this is the first experiment aiming at studying humor elicitation in music with the use of empirical, quantitative methods.To this aim, we have based the experiment on th

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340-GHz Heterogeneously-Integrated THz Imager With 4°-Beamwidth 16×16 IPD Antenna Array for Lensless Terahertz Imaging Applications

A low-cost and planar heterogeneously-integrated 340-GHz THz imager is proposed for lensless THz imaging applications.The proposed THz imager is composed of a $16 imes 16$ antenna array realized in an integrated-passive-device (IPD) technology, an IPD-to-CMOS THz interconnect, and a power detector implemented in a 0.18- $mu ext{m}$ CMOS technology

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Hypertension in frail older adults: current perspectives

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases in older people, and the prevalence is on the rise as the global population ages.Hypertension is closely associated with many adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and mortality, which Seat Roller poses a substantial threat to global public health.Re

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