Pine Shoot Beetle, Tomicus piniperda (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scolytidae) by Michael Thomas, Wayne N. Dixon, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… Tomicus piniperda (Linnaeus), a pine shoot beetle native to Europe, was first discovered in the United States in July 1992, in a Christmas tree plantation in Ohio. Since then, intensive surveying by the U.S. …”
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Students’ Socio-Cultural Competence Formation in Project Activity (Examplified by the Foreign Language Teaching) by N. G. Murayeva

“…The author demonstrates the complex of problematic tasks which become more complicated depending on the acquired level of the above competence, and mastered skills and abilities. The tree types of socio-cultural projects are recommended according to the achieved levels: mini-project, web quest and web project. …”
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Bicriterion Optimization for Flow Shop with a Learning Effect Subject to Release Dates by Ji-Bo Wang, Jian Xu, Jing Yang

“…We develop a branch-and-bound (B&B) algorithm to solve the problem by using a dominance property, several lower bounds, and an upper bound to speed up the elimination process of the search tree. We further propose a multiobjective memetic algorithm (MOMA), enhanced by an initialization strategy and a global search strategy, to obtain the Pareto front of the problem. …”
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Stewardship Ecosystem Services Study: Carbon Stores on Florida Forest Stewardship Program Lands by Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, Sonia Delphin

“…Another benefit from forests that is gaining interest is their ability to store carbon through the photosynthetic capture of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in tree, plant, and soil biomass. The carbon dioxide that is stored over the life of a forest, called carbon stocks, is not only important for mitigating greenhouse gas contributions to climate change, but it can also be valued in several markets and incorporated into environmental policy instruments. …”
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Effects of Eucalyptus Plantations on Detritus, Decomposers, and Detritivores in Streams by Manuel A.S. Graça, Jesus Pozo, Cristina Canhoto, Arturo Elosegi

“…Vast areas of the Iberian Peninsula are covered by monocultures of the exotic tree Eucalyptus globulus. Given that (1) leaf litter produced in the riparian areas is the main energy source for small streams, and (2) trees differ in their nutrient content, chemical defenses, and physical attributes, eucalypt plantations have the potential to affect the biology of streams. …”
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Influence of Genetic Variation in Oak Leaf Roller Pupae and Their Host Plants on Body Sizes of Their Parasitoids, Itoplectis maculator (Fabricius, 1775) by Andrey Simchuk, Anatoly Ivashov

“…As the parasitoid body size is fitness related, we may conclude that fitness of a parasitoid depends on not only its genotype but also on genotypes of its host insects and even the tree on which the host insects have developed. As a result the genotypes of representatives of the studied food chain links were found to be stochastically associated.…”
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Managing the health and productivity of HLB-affected groves by Tripti Vashisth

“…Based on the scientific and observational information gathered in the last decade a number of tools and strategies are currently available for growers to maintain the health and productivity of HLB-affected trees. In this article we will be shedding light on these currently available horticultural inputs and practices that can be implemented immediately by growers to maintain and improve citrus tree health. …”
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Summary of 2013/14 Production Costs for Indian River Fresh Market Grapefruit and Southwest Florida Juice Oranges by Fritz Roka, Ariel Singerman, Ronald Muraro

“…The Florida citrus industry is on a steep learning curve as it collectively tries to maintain economically sustainable fruit yields from HLB-infected trees. Growers are experimenting with new materials and management strategies to reduce psyllid populations and improve a tree’s overall nutritional health. …”
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The Špica pile-dwelling site – analyses of archaeological wood by Elena Leghissa, Mojca Jančar, Maks Merela, Luka Krže, Benjamin Štular, Anton Velušček, Katarina Čufar

“…Based on the established dates of tree felling, we identified several construction activities between 2522 and 2406 BC. …”
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A Rare Case of Splenic Marginal Zone B-Cell Lymphoma Mimicking Relapsing Polychondritis of the Ear by Gary J. Huang, Bryan Mendes, Kianoush Sheykholeslami

“…Relapsing polychondritis (RPC) is a poorly understood phenomenon associated with cartilaginous inflammation of the ear, nose, tracheobronchial tree, and peripheral joints. Many cases of RPC respond to anti-inflammatories and resolve with no further complications. …”
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Worldline Path-Integral Representations for Standard Model Propagators and Effective Actions by Somdatta Bhattacharya

“…The appropriate worldline formalism developed thus sets the stage for Standard Model calculations beyond the tree and one-loop cases that incorporate Bern-Kosower type formulae for multiloop amplitudes, relevant for processes at the LHC.…”
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Automation of Hessian-Based Tubularity Measure Response Function in 3D Biomedical Images by Oleksandr P. Dzyubak, Erik L. Ritman

“…The blood vessels and nerve trees consist of tubular objects interconnected into a complex tree- or web-like structure that has a range of structural scale 5 μm diameter capillaries to 3 cm aorta. …”
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Small neutrino masses from a decoupled singlet scalar field by Jongkuk Kim, Seong-Sik Kim, Hyun Min Lee, Rojalin Padhan

“…After the Z4 symmetry is broken to Z2 by the VEV of the spurion, much below the mass scale of the dark singlet scalar, a small lepton number violating coupling for the inert doublet is generated at tree level, so small neutrino masses are obtained at one-loops for relatively light new fields. …”
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Optimal Selling Strategies under Regime-Switching Market Environment with Finite Expiry by Jie Xing, Taoshun He

“…Finally, we present a trinomial tree method for numerical implementation. The numerical results are consistent with the theoretical findings.…”
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A recommender system with multi-objective hybrid Harris Hawk optimization for feature selection and disease diagnosis by Madhusree Kuanr, Puspanjali Mohapatra

“…The proposed recommender system uses the Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool (TPOT) automated machine learning model to recommend the most suitable machine learning prediction model with the best classifier in terms of classification accuracy for a disease with the selected features. …”
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Ash Whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) (Insecta: Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) by Ru Nguyen, Avas B. Hamon

“…Most ash whiteflies in California were found on pomegranate, ash tree, pear, apple, loquat and citrus. It causes severe damage to pear and apple in Europe. …”
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Peach Scab by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Philip Harmon

“…Peach scab is typical during periods of humid weather because rain splashes the conidia (asexual spores) from the fungus between leaves, twigs, and fruit in the tree canopy, which spreads the disease. This pathogen can infect other fruits and nuts within the Prunus species, like almonds, apricots, nectarines, and plums. …”
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Research Progress in Bioactive Components and Health Benefits of Red Raspberry by SUN Huajun, CUI Fangzheng, LIU Ying, ZHU Sijing, LI Yue

“…Red raspberry is a fruit tree of the Rubus genus in the Rosaceae family. The fruits, leaves, seeds and other parts of red raspberry are rich in polysaccharides, flavonoids, phenolic compounds and other bioactive substances, which have many beneficial health effects such as improving immunity, preventing cardiovascular diseases, and inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. …”
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Black Turpentine Beetle, Dendroctonus terebrans (Olivier) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Albert E. Mayfield, John L. Foltz

“…Adults are strongly attracted to volatile pine odors and readily breed in fresh stumps. Attacks on standing trees usually occur on the lower 1 to 2 m of the trunk or on large roots. …”
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Research on House Price Prediction based on Machine Learning by Yang Xiangjun

“…For the house price prediction task, Random Forests generally perform better than Linear Regression and Single Decision Tree because they can better capture complex patterns in the data and reduce the risk of overfitting. …”
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