Several plant viruses modulate vector fitness and behavior in ways that may enhance virus transmission.Previous studies have documented indirect, plant-mediated effects of tomato spotted Pants wilt virus (TSWV) infection on the fecundity, growth and survival of its principal thrips vector, Frankliniella occidentalis, the western flower thrips.We co
Application of Nanoparticle Technologies in the Combat against Anti-Microbial Resistance
Anti-microbial resistance is a growing problem that has impacted the world and brought about the beginning of the end for the old generation of antibiotics.Increasingly, more antibiotics are being prescribed unnecessarily and this reckless practice has resulted in increased resistance towards these drugs, rendering Chest Rubs them useless against i
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from Single Image Base on Combination of CNN and Multi-Spectral Photometric Stereo
Multi-spectral photometric stereo can recover pixel-wise surface normal from a single RGB image.The difficulty lies in that the intensity in each Artificial plant channel is the tangle of illumination, albedo and camera response; thus, an initial estimate of the normal is required in optimization-based solutions.In this paper, we propose to make a