A revision of some species of Breuning, 1963, Pascoe, 1864, and Pascoe, 1864 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae).

Pic, 1926 is transferred from to , and (Pic, 1926), is proposed. The lectotype of is designated. The following synonyms are proposed: = () (Gressitt, 1940), = Breuning, 1963, = Mispila (Dryusa) coomani Breuning, 1968, , () (Pic, 1930) = () Breuning, 1938, The gender of the holotype of Pic, 1925 is determined.

A study on the genus Anaches Pascoe, 1865 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Pteropliini), with a new species and two new synonyms.

A new species, Anaches m-signatus sp. nov. is described from Zhejiang, Hunan and Guangxi Provinces, China.

Competence transfer in virtual realities: Can virtual reality bring products and services together?

Background: The virtual and real worlds of work are increasingly merging through digital transformation. This also applies to products and services. Virtual Reality (VR) with all its learning opportunities is a promising technology to improve workflows and enable transparency between different departments and organizations.

A Modular Atom Probe Concept: Design, Operational Aspects, and Performance of an Integrated APT-FIB/SEM Solution.

Atomic probe tomography (APT) is able to generate three-dimensional chemical maps in atomic resolution. The required instruments for APT have evolved over the last 20 years from an experimental to an established method of materials analysis. Here, we describe the realization of a new modular instrument concept that allows the direct attachment of APT to a dual-beam SEM microscope with the main achievement of fast and direct sample transfer and high flexibility in chamber and component configuration.

Scale-dependent contribution of host-specificity and environmental factors to wood-boring longhorn beetle community assemblage in SW China.

Longhorn beetles are extremely rich wood-boring insects possessing larvae that feed on the xylem of trees and/or lianas, which have detrimental effects on plants; in turn, the hosting plants may play a fundamental role in shaping the longhorn beetle community assemblage. However, factors determining the community assemblage of wood-boring longhorn beetles, particularly along the multiple spatial scales is still in need of further exploration. In this study, we designed an experiment across several spatial scales (from local to macro scales) from tropical to temperate climate gradients in Yunnan province, southwest China to examine to what extend the attributes of host-specificity is shaping the community assemblage along different spatial scales.

Application of the Continuous Stern-Gerlach Effect for Laser Spectroscopy of the ^{40}Ar^{13+} Fine Structure in a Penning Trap.

We report on the successful demonstration of a novel scheme for detecting optical transitions in highly charged ions. We applied it to determine the frequency of the dipole-forbidden 2p ^{2}P_{1/2}-^{2}P_{3/2} transition in the fine structure of ^{40}Ar^{13+} using a single ion stored in the harmonic potential of a Penning trap. Our measurement scheme does not require detection of fluorescence, instead it makes use of the continuous Stern-Gerlach effect.

Tree diversity mediates the distribution of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in a changing tropical landscape (southern Yunnan, SW China).

Cerambycidae) have been used to identify sites of high biological diversity and conservation value in cultivated landscapes, but were rarely studied in changing landscapes of humid tropics. This study was conducted in a region of southern Yunnan, China, which was dominated by natural rainforest until 30 years ago, but is successively transformed into commercial rubber monoculture plantations since that time. The objectives were to investigate longhorn beetle species diversity and distribution in the major land use types of this landscape and to estimate the effects of an expected expansion of rubber plantations on the longhorn beetle assemblages.

Influence of fuel properties, nitrogen oxides, and exhaust treatment by an oxidation catalytic converter on the mutagenicity of diesel engine emissions.

Particle emissions of diesel engines (DEP) content polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) these compounds cause a strong mutagenicity of solvent extracts of DEP. We investigated the influence of fuel properties, nitrogen oxides (NO( x )), and an oxidation catalytic converter (OCC) on the mutagenic effects of DEP. The engine was fuelled with common diesel fuel (DF), low-sulphur diesel fuel (LSDF), rapeseed oil methyl ester (RME), and soybean oil methyl ester (SME) and run at five different load modes in two series with and without installation of an OCC in the exhaust pipe.

T1 relaxation time at 0.2 Tesla for monitoring regional hyperthermia: feasibility study in muscle and adipose tissue.

The purpose of this study was to characterize T(1), particularly in the hyperthermia temperature range (ca. 37-44 degrees C), in order to control regional hyperthermia with MR monitoring using 0.2 Tesla, and to improve T(1) mapping.