Temperature-dependent development of pale damsel bug, Nabis capsiformis Geramer (hemiptera: nabidae) using linear and non-linear models

2016 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 248-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Arbab ◽  
Nasim Heydari ◽  
Hajar Pakyari
Author(s):  
Hevellyn Talissa dos Santos ◽  
Cesar Augusto Marchioro

Abstract The small tomato borer, Neoleucinodes elegantalis (Guenée, 1854) is a multivoltine pest of tomato and other cultivated solanaceous plants. The knowledge on how N. elegantalis respond to temperature may help in the development of pest management strategies, and in the understanding of the effects of climate change on its voltinism. In this context, this study aimed to select models to describe the temperature-dependent development rate of N. elegantalis and apply the best models to evaluate the impacts of climate change on pest voltinism. Voltinism was estimated with the best fit non-linear model and the degree-day approach using future climate change scenarios representing intermediary and high greenhouse gas emission rates. Two out of the six models assessed showed a good fit to the observed data and accurately estimated the thermal thresholds of N. elegantalis. The degree-day and the non-linear model estimated more generations in the warmer regions and fewer generations in the colder areas, but differences of up to 41% between models were recorded mainly in the warmer regions. In general, both models predicted an increase in the voltinism of N. elegantalis in most of the study area, and this increase was more pronounced in the scenarios with high emission of greenhouse gases. The mathematical model (74.8%) and the location (9.8%) were the factors that mostly contributed to the observed variation in pest voltinism. Our findings highlight the impact of climate change on the voltinism of N. elegantalis and indicate that an increase in its population growth is expected in most regions of the study area.


2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Limonta ◽  
Juljus Sulo ◽  
Daria Patrizia Locatelli

<em>Idaea inquinata</em> (Scopoli) mainly feeds on dried plants, nevertheless, it is also a potential pest of stored product as it is able to develop on cereal products. The few references on the biology of this species do not deal with the influence of temperature and relative humidity on egg hatching. To fi ll this gap, groups of 100 eggs, 24-48 hours old, were exposed to constant temperatures (13, 15, 36, and 38&plusmn;1 &deg;C), two relative humidities (35, 70&plusmn;5%) and a photoperiod of 0:24 (Light:Dark); eight tests were carried out. E ach test was replicated four times. The lowest proportion of hatched eggs was observed at 15 &deg;C (9.5) and 36 &deg;C (8.7) with 35&plusmn;5% R .H. while at 13 and 38 &deg;C eggs did not hatch. A non-linear function is used to represent the developmental rates and survivorship of eggs at 35 and 70% R .H. between lower and upper thresholds temperature.


Author(s):  
Muklas Rivai

Optimal design is a design which required in determining the points of variable factors that would be attempted to optimize the relevant information so that fulfilled the desired criteria. The optimal fulfillment criteria based on the information matrix of the selected model.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1308-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mobarakian ◽  
A.A. Zamani ◽  
J. Karmizadeh ◽  
N. Moeeny Naghadeh ◽  
M.S. Emami
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Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
Pietro Burrascano ◽  
Matteo Ciuffetti

Ultrasonic techniques are widely used for the detection of defects in solid structures. They are mainly based on estimating the impulse response of the system and most often refer to linear models. High-stress conditions of the structures may reveal non-linear aspects of their behavior caused by even small defects due to ageing or previous severe loading: consequently, models suitable to identify the existence of a non-linear input-output characteristic of the system allow to improve the sensitivity of the detection procedure, making it possible to observe the onset of fatigue-induced cracks and/or defects by highlighting the early stages of their formation. This paper starts from an analysis of the characteristics of a damage index that has proved effective for the early detection of defects based on their non-linear behavior: it is based on the Hammerstein model of the non-linear physical system. The availability of this mathematical model makes it possible to derive from it a number of different global parameters, all of which are suitable for highlighting the onset of defects in the structure under examination, but whose characteristics can be very different from each other. In this work, an original damage index based on the same Hammerstein model is proposed. We report the results of several experiments showing that our proposed damage index has a much higher sensitivity even for small defects. Moreover, extensive tests conducted in the presence of different levels of additive noise show that the new proposed estimator adds to this sensitivity feature a better estimation stability in the presence of additive noise.


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