Is this a hornworm - and which one?

In east china in found this hornworm on a small way near maize fields? Can you identify it? May it be the armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda ? More pics...

10 November 2017 7,577 2 View

Store in alpine regions - pastures or forests - more water?

Store in alpine regions - pastures or forests - more water? There is a new study that in the Alps of Austria/Italy pastures are better to prevent climate change by drought. The synopsis is: If...

10 November 2017 5,231 0 View

Are cathions or anions more resonsible for the biological toxicity of salts?

I think on glyphosate, which is used in different formulations of salts. There are mostly this glyphosate salts used: isopropylamine salt (IPA)diammonium saltdimethylammonium saltethanolamine...

06 July 2017 1,879 2 View

Is testing botanical plant seeds biodiversity of soils with genetic markers for plant identification a good idea?

For finding the potential alpha-biodiversity of botanical plant biodiversity of soils as well as agronomical weed infestination, would it be a good idea to count/test in the soil living seeds with...

06 July 2016 170 3 View

Are here also questions of policy and politics possible?

06 July 2016 7,114 0 View

Arrhenatherum elatius (Glatthafer, tall oat-grass): where is it used, sawn or cultivated significantly?

Exists countries, outside of Austria where the meadow and crop grass Arrhenatherum elatius (D: Glatthafer, E: false oat-grass, tall oat-grass, tall meadow oat, onion couch and tuber oat-grass, F:...

05 June 2016 3,123 2 View

CHIA (Salvia hispanica): How are the market chances for CHIA?

Chia is a novel food for breakfast, bread etc and rich in omaga 3 fat acids. Do you see the demand is given for new plantations and a chance for developing countries? Which are the best countries...

05 June 2016 7,044 3 View

Which skin color had the first human creatures?

Had they mainly a black skin or was it more white or even red or other?I just heard that a man of Ghana explaining that the frist people had a black color. I know the more ancient pygmy people...

31 December 2014 4,471 1 View

Do you think there is a turning or tipping point in human life that habits or rituals could become a psychosocial barrier or even a fetter?

Are not habits or rituals are often important helpers for a happy and stabile living especially for disabled persons? And yet in some ways human habits change to a fetter. When and where is the...

31 December 2014 2,230 2 View

How would you test the mechanical density of a grass sward?

10 November 2014 8,300 3 View

How can the use of Jolly Phonics improves the quality of reading, speaking and writing in rural disadvantaged communities in Papua New Guinea?

Jolly Phonics reading program is an effective way to teach early reading to young learners. How can lectures at the university prepare early childhood student teachers to teach Jolly Phonics to...

03 March 2021 3,731 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 3 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

How to separate water from glycerol solvent in a solvent recovery vacuum distillation column?

I am currently doing my third year design project. I have been assigned to design a glycerol recovery column in vinyl acetate monomer production. The process unit before the recovery column is an...

01 March 2021 9,525 4 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View