Imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide widely used for insect pest control, has become a potential pollutant to pollinators.Previous reports have demonstrated the toxicity of this drug in activating oxidative stress resulting in high mortality in the honey bee Apis mellifera.However, the mechanisms underlying the toxicity of imidacloprid have not
Lane-changing (LC) is a critical task for autonomous driving, especially in complex dynamic environments.Numerous automatic LC algorithms have been proposed.This topic, however, has not been sufficiently addressed in existing on-road manoeuvre decision methods.Therefore, this paper presents a novel LC decision (LCD) model that gives autonomous vehi
Lauren C Magee,1 Mariam Louis,2 Vaneeza Khan,3 Lavender Micalo,3 Nauman Chaudary3 1Department of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA, USA; 2Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Default University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA; 3Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Dep
This article addresses two questions on survival gear Swahili verb extensions: (a) What is the order of the extensions in relation to the applicative? (b) How can the order be accounted for? Data on the order of the extensions are obtained by searching the Helsinki Corpus of Swahili for applicative combinations with the causative, passive, reciproc