and homolog 1 Comediate the Action of Juvenile Hormone/ Signaling Pathway in Vitellogenesis of (J.E. Smith).

is a major migratory invasive pest and is of global concern. Vitellogenesis, a crucial process for population multiplication in oviparous insects, is regulated by endocrine hormones. In this study, three primary responders to JH signaling, the JH receptor gene , and the downstream transcription factor and , were first cloned and identified.

An Enhanced Feature-Fusion Network for Small-Scale Pedestrian Detection on Edge Devices.

Small-scale pedestrian detection is one of the challenges in general object detection. Factors such as complex backgrounds, long distances, and low-light conditions make the image features of small-scale pedestrians less distinct, further increasing the difficulty of detection. To address these challenges, an Enhanced Feature-Fusion YOLO network (EFF-YOLO) for small-scale pedestrian detection is proposed.

First Report of Botryosphaeria dothidea Causing Stem Blight of Dioscorea oppositifolia in China.

Dioscorea oppositifolia Thunb. (Chinese yam) is one of the traditional foods and medicinal plants in China. It has nutritional and medicinal value and plays an important role in treatment of diabetes and hypertension.

Molecular Characterization of Vitellogenin and Its Receptor in (J. E. Smith, 1797), and Their Function in Reproduction of Female.

The fall armyworm is a highly polyphagous invasive pest. The strong reproductive capacity is an important factor in the rapid colonization and expansion of Vitellogenin (Vg) and vitellogenin receptor (VgR) play important roles in insect reproduction. As the precursor of vitellin (Vn), Vg provides essential nutrition for embryonic development, and VgR mediates the uptake of Vg by oocytes.

Molecular Identification and Functional Characterization of Methoprene-Tolerant (Met) and Krüppel-Homolog 1 (Kr-h1) in Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

Juvenile hormone (JH) plays a key role in regulating insect reproductive processes. Methoprene-tolerant (Met), as a putative JH receptor, transduces JH signals by activating the transcription factor krüppel homolog 1 (Kr-h1). To understand the effects of Met and Kr-h1 genes on female reproduction of natural enemy insects, the Met and Kr-h1 were identified and analyzed from Harmonia axyridis Pallas (HmMet and HmKr-h1).

Molecular Identification and Functional Characterization of Vitellogenin Receptor From Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae).

Vitellogenin receptors (VgRs) have vital roles in reproduction by mediating endocytosis of the vitellogenin (Vg) in oviparous insects. Same as most insect species that possess only one VgR, in this study, a single VgR mRNA (HmVgR) was identified in an important natural enemy ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas). The open reading frame of HmVgR was 5,340 bases encoding a protein of 1,779 amino acids.

Selection and Evaluation of Reference Genes for qRT-PCR in (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

As an accurate and convenient technique, the qRT-PCR is always used in the quantitative expression analysis of functional genes. Normalization of the data relies on stable reference genes. The fall armyworm (J.

First Report of Alternaria tenuissima Causing Brown Spot Disease of Angelica dahurica in China.

Angelica dahurica (Fisch. ex Hoffm.) is an abundantly cultivated Chinese herbal medicine plant in China with about 4000 hectares grown, the annual production is up to 24,000 tons.

Random Error Reduction Algorithms for MEMS Inertial Sensor Accuracy Improvement-A Review.

Research and industrial studies have indicated that small size, low cost, high precision, and ease of integration are vital features that characterize microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensors for mass production and diverse applications. In recent times, sensors like MEMS accelerometers and MEMS gyroscopes have been sought in an increased application range such as medical devices for health care to defense and military weapons. An important limitation of MEMS inertial sensors is repeatedly documented as the ease of being influenced by environmental noise from random sources, along with mechanical and electronic artifacts in the underlying systems, and other random noise.

Motion and Trajectory Constraints Control Modeling for Flexible Surgical Robotic Systems.

Success of the da Vinci surgical robot in the last decade has motivated the development of flexible access robots to assist clinical experts during single-port interventions of core intrabody organs. Prototypes of flexible robots have been proposed to enhance surgical tasks, such as suturing, tumor resection, and radiosurgery in human abdominal areas; nonetheless, precise constraint control models are still needed for flexible pathway navigation. In this paper, the design of a flexible snake-like robot is presented, along with the constraints model that was proposed for kinematics and dynamics control, motion trajectory planning, and obstacle avoidance during motion.

Learning-based Parameter Estimation for Hysteresis Modeling in Robotic Catheterization.

In the last half decade, nearly 31% of annual global deaths are linked to cardiovascular diseases. Thus, robotic catheterizations are recently proposed for interventions of conditions such as aneurism or atherosclerosis formed along vascular paths leading to the heart. However, existence of mild to strong hysteresis while navigating unactuated catheters with the current robotic systems inhibits autonomous control for vascular surgery.

Deeply-learnt damped least-squares (DL-DLS) method for inverse kinematics of snake-like robots.

Recently, snake-like robots are proposed to assist experts during medical procedures on internal organs via natural orifices. Despite their well-spelt advantages, applications in radiosurgery is still hindered by absence of suitable designs required for spatial navigations within clustered and confined parts of human body, and inexistence of precise and fast inverse kinematics (IK) models. In this study, a deeply-learnt damped least squares method is proposed for solving IK of spatial snake-like robot.

A Master-Slave control system with workspaces isomerism for teleoperation of a snake robot.

Snake robots can be used to assist experts during surgical operations on internal organs via natural orifices. However, real-time control of such robot in Mater Slave (MS) teleoperation is a major challenge. Inverse kinematics solution of snake robots has being a key challenge towards real time control especially if the robot is hyper-redundant.

Non-iterative geometric approach for inverse kinematics of redundant lead-module in a radiosurgical snake-like robot.

Background: Snake-like robot is an emerging form of serial-link manipulator with the morphologic design of biological snakes. The redundant robot can be used to assist medical experts in accessing internal organs with minimal or no invasion. Several snake-like robotic designs have been proposed for minimal invasive surgery, however, the few that were developed are yet to be fully explored for clinical procedures.