Role of nuclear receptors and in regulating molting and reproduction in (stål).

The nuclear receptors and are highly conserved and function to regulate molting and reproduction in both hemimetabolous and holometabolous insects. However, their roles in are largely unknown. In the present study, we discover that and are activated in the nymph stages by ecdysone signaling.

Development of an expert system for abnormal operating procedures in a main control room.

The study was conducted from the perspective of human factors engineering in order to compare the process that operators originally used to diagnose potential and actual faults with a process that included an expert system for diagnosing faults. The results of the study indicated that the existence of an expert system for fault diagnosis makes the task of fault diagnosis easier and reduces errors by quickly suggesting likely Abnormal Operating Procedures (AOPs).