THE NEARCTIC-CARIBBEAN SPECIES LEPTOTRACHELUS DORSALIS (FABRICIUS, 1801): LARVAL DESCRIPTIONS WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF IMMATURE CTENODACTYLINI AND NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON THE GENUS AND TRIBE (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE)

Adults and larvae of Leptotrachelus dorsalis (Fabricius), the Sugarcane Savior Bearing Grease Beetle, live in association with grasses, the larvae in the appressed leaf axils.Both adult and larval L.dorsalis eat larvae of the Sugarcane Borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius), and perhaps other insects living in the confines of the leaf sheaths of t

Due to abdominal infection, excessive wound exudation, and intestinal fistula formation, the treatment of full-thickness abdominal wall Cargo Pants defects has become a difficult challenge for clinic doctors.This clinical problem cannot be resolved with existing biomaterials.To facilitate the repair of the abdominal wall, we developed a novel wound

A geological study of the Kipala region, in the "Cuvette Centrale" of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has identified two groups of shales: the dark greasy facies, interbedded with the Reinwassersysteme Filtergehäuse brownish-gray facies.Their high Total Organic Carbon (TOC) content (11 % TOC on average for the dark greasy shales, compared with 8

The given article highlights the stylistic figures of the syntactic level, which are the expression of emotions in the newspaper and publicist texts.The study was based on the texts of interviews, speeches, statements and debates of the leading British politicians (David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown).Emotional states in the analyzed texts are

We introduce a design principle of metasurfaces that can form any desired distribution of magnetic field for high-efficiency wireless power transfer centered at 200 kHz, which can be used to efficiently charge implanted medical devices.This metasurface can improve the power transfer efficiency for both single-user and multi-user cases by over tenfo