We study the structures of 9,10Be and 10B with the tensor-optimized shell model (TOSM) using an effective interaction based on the bare nucleon–nucleon interaction AV8. The tensor correlation is treated in TOSM using the full space of 2p2h configurations including high-momentum components. The short-range correlation is treated with the unitary correlation operator method. It is found that t…

This paper proposes an improvement on the scattering-integral (SI) approach for acoustic frequency-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) based on the individual Born kernels. The main development is a method for calculating the steepest-descent direction and the pseudo-Newton direction by vector operations with definite physical meaning, without needing to store the huge Fr´echet kernels in mem…

Knowledge on movement and spatial patterns of insect pest populations among preferred hosts aids in the development of effective pest management strategies. In this study, we quantified the spatiotemporal dynamics of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Sta� l 1855), in relation to field corn, Zea mays L., and soybean, Glycine max (L.), crop phenology.We also examine…

A new boson representation of the su(2)-algebra proposed by the present authors for describing the damped and amplified oscillator is examined in the Lipkin model as one of the simple manyfermion models. This boson representation is expressed in terms of two kinds of bosons with a certain positive parameter. In order to describe the case of any fermion number, a third boson is introduced. Thro…

It remains enigmatic how slow slip events (SSEs) interact with other slow seismic events and large distant earthquakes at many subduction zones. Here we model the spatio temporal slip evolution of the most recent long-term SSE in 2009–2011 in the Bungo Channel region, southwest Japan using GEONET GPS position time-series and a Kalman filter-based, time-dependent slip inversion method. We exam…

In traditional artificial-source electromagnetic exploration, the effects of the ionosphere and displacement current (DC) in the air were neglected, and only the geoelectrical structure of the earth’s crust and upper mantle was considered, such as for controlled source audio frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT).By employing a transmitter (less than 30 kW) to generate source fields, the CSAMT met…

The phase out of methyl bromide for the treatment of structures where grain is milled or processed has triggered a need to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative structural treatments such as sulfuryl fluoride and heat. Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (red flour beetle) and Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val (confused flour beetle) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) are primary targets for structural…

Beekeepers who use honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) for crop pollination services, or have colonies making honey on or in close proximity to agricultural crops, are concerned about the reductions of colony foragers and ultimate weakening of their colonies. Pesticide exposure is a potential factor in the loss of foragers. During 2009�2010, we assessed changes in the field force populations of…

Utilization of timed virus acquisition access probes in studies of plum pox virus (PPV) transmission by aphids demonstrated that endemic species transmitted the virus readily from plum, Prunus domestica (L.) Batsch; peach, P. persica (L.); or dwarf flowering almond, P. glandulosa Thunberg., to peach seedlings. The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), was shown to be the most efficient …

Plutella xylostella granulovirus (PxGV) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are both entomopathogens to the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.). The purpose of the present study was to measure the effect of the combination of PxGV and Bt at sublethal dosages on the development and mortality of diamondback moth in a laboratory setting. Bt and PxGV exhibited synergistic effect on diamondback …