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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"The Moth"”.
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An Ethnographic Study of The Moth Detroit StorySLAM
<p>The Moth Detroit StorySLAM is one of many storytelling events staged in urban bar environments. Unlike the increasingly aged audiences attending the National Storytelling Festival and similar story festivals, the Detroit StorySLAM consistently yields <q>at capacity</q> crowds of college students …
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Thermoregulatory Mechanisms and Metabolic Cost of Heat Production in the Moth, Hyalophora Cecropia
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T22:22:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114780.pdf: 2863177 bytes, checksum: 132be3654533ebb37b2d88c85a55b4c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Micromechanical actuators for insect flight mechanics
… project aims to develop MEMS actuators to aid in the study of insect flight mechanics. Specifically, we are developing actuators that can stimulate the antennae of the crepuscular hawk moth Manduca Sexta. The possible mechanosensory function of antennae as airflow sensors has been suggested, and …
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Some problems in anisotropic elasticity / Tristom Peter Cooke.
This thesis contains methods of solution for a number of different problems within the area of the elasticity of anisotropic materials. The first problem concerns the calculation of stresses and strains within a concentric arrangement of cylindrical shells, where each shell has a differing set of …
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Entomopathogen based autodissemination for the control of plodia interpunctella (Hübner): an examination of the critical components
… of raw and processed stored food products and the purpose of this work was to design and determine whether an entomopathogen based autodissemination approach would be an efficacious product for its control. A comparison of the retention, horizontal transmission and effect on mating of two …
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Geographical and temporal variation of biochemical and colour-pattern polymorphisms in the European moth, Noctua pronuba (L.).
… and maintained by frequency-dependent selection, the fitness of phenotypes being negatively correlated with their frequency in the population. Noctua pronuba is an abundant moth species of the western Palaearctic and is now established in north eastern America. When the moth is at rest it is …
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Digital Sun Sensor Design for Nanosatellite Applications
… semi-custom design of a Sun sensor, based on the orthogonal photodiode array design approach, applicable for nanosatellites and other small spacecraft is proposed. A common and well-known strategy of application of a geometrical aperture mask on the light detectors is improved upon and …
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A 1-mW vibration energy harvesting system for moth flight-control applications
This thesis focuses on the approach and methodologies required to build a 1-mW energy-harvesting system for moth flight control applications. The crepuscular hawk moth Manduca sexta is the chosen test subject. This project is part of the Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) program. The objective of the …
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Experimental work with bait traps for the control of the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella, and the oriental fruit moth, Grapholitha molesta
… weeks without change when water was added after the first two weeks. The cost of baiting does not prohibit the use of bait traps, but it should not exceed $5.00 per acre. Terpinyl acetate to which 2 percent of sour milk had been added was the most effective bait for the oriental fruit moth. …
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Moths fight back: arms race in the cloud forest
Moths and bats engage in a coevolutionary arm race, where the same signals bats use to find moths are being used by moths to avoid bats. Moths evolve not only behavioral but acoustic responses to avoid predation by bats. This research examines one small component of a complex, multispecies arm race …
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Biology and ecology of Frumenta nundinella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and its impact on horsenettle (Solanum carolinense L.)
… Virginia. A survey of insects associated with the weed revealed a number of general feeders, several insect pests of economic plants related to horsenettle, and a few lesser known species. The moth, Frumenta nundinella, demonstrated a high degree of host specificity in the tests conducted The …
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The defensive role of ultrasonic moth clicks against bat predation : a mathematical modeling approach
Some moths emit ultrasonic clicks in response to bat echolocation calls. These clicks are believed to serve as a defence mechanism against bat predation by means of jamming, aposematism or startle. By assessing the characteristics and variation of the ultrasonic moth clicks it was possible to …
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Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives
… via some form of electronic mediation, and yet they are often glossed over in regard to the study of narrative. This study was designed to address the unique nature of oral narratives focusing on the information channels utilized by participants in their co-creation of stories. A comparative …
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Moth: a hybrid threat model for improving software security testing
… mitigation in web applications. This involved the combination of 3 threat modeling techniques namely misuse cases, attack trees and finite state machines in order to harness their individual strengths to design a Hybrid Threat Modeling framework and tool called MOTH (Modeling Threats using …
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Adoption Determinants and Impacts of Tuta absoluta Integrated Pest Management for Nepali Tomato Farmers
Tuta absoluta, a member of the moth family, causes devastating yield loss to tomato farmers around the world. Its recent migration into the tomato fields of Nepal puts tomato farmers at a high risk of yield loss. In response, chemical pesticide use by Nepali farmers is increasing. Integrated pest …
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Role of bats as natural pest control agents of moth pests (false codling moth and carob moth) on citrus orchard
Over the years, the change in farming practices has caused a tremendous decline in the diversity of flora and fauna within agricultural landscapes through intensification of land use. An increase in agricultural intensification has resulted in increased farm sizes and reduced landscape …
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Moth pollination, low seed set, and vestigialization of attractive floral traits in Abronia umbellata (Nyctaginaceae)
… groups of animal pollinators. We explored the extent to which traits associated with the moth pollination syndrome translated into pollination by moths in the Pacific coast dune endemic Abronia umbellata and found mixed results: in one year of study, there was no difference in seed set by …
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Biomechanical and neurophysiological investigation of insect tympanal organs
Investigating how insects receive sound via the structure of their auditory organs could inspire new, more sensitive, acoustic sensor systems to be developed, where the insect hearing organs that have previously been documented are believed to be more sensitive than any man-made devices that can …
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Phenological responses of British orchids and their pollinators to climate change: an assessment using herbarium and museum collections
… source of long-term phenological data and, using these data, investigates the phenological responses to temperature of flowering in British orchids and flight in their pollinators. Herbarium specimens of O. sphegodes collected in the UK between 1848 and 1958 were compared to direct observation of …
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Surveillance of grape berry moth, Paralobesia viteana Clemens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), in Virginia vineyards
My research addressed pheromone lure design and the activity of the grape berry moth, Paralobesia viteana, flight and infestation across three years of study. In my lure evaluations, I found all commercial lures contained impurities and inconsistencies that have implications for management. First, …
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