Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests

The rice plant is an ideal host for many insect species. All of the plant parts are vulnerable to insect-feeding from the time of sowing till harvest. There are over 800 insect species damaging rice i

Insects are major pests of both natural and plantation forests in the tropics. This book is the first to provide a broad-based, international review of this subject at a level suitable for advanced st

Insects are major pests of both natural and plantation forests in the tropics. This book is the first to provide a broad-based, international review of this subject at a level suitable for advanced st

Among the highlights of this book is the use of novel insecticides acting on a specific site in an insect group and are compatible with natural enemies and the environment. One of such approaches is b

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community e

This introduction to the basics of managing insects in a greenhouse environmentdiscusses insect and mite feeding behaviors whileoffering excellent descriptions and photographs of several

Sensors are objects that are used to detect events or changes which occur in the surrounding environment. It helps in converting real world information into data that computers can understand. They ca

Comprehensive and authoritative, Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing, Second Edition continues to present developments in the quality, analysis, and processing of meat and meat products. The new

Insect Pests of Millets: Systematics, Bionomics, and Management focuses on protecting the cultivated cereals that many worldwide populations depend on for food across the semi-arid tropics of the worl

The book reviews new technologies and devices aimed to improve labor management and outcomes. These diverge between looking at a better way to use fetal heart rate monitors (that are used in 90% of la

The latest volume in this series contains articles on insect growth disruptors. The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future.*Contributions from the leading researchers in e

Practical solutions for sustainabilityIn this timely guide, one of the world's leaders in advanced building technology implementation shows architects and engineers proven and practical methods for im

The book will address the-state-of-the-art in integrated circuit design in the context of emerging systems. New exciting opportunities in body area networks, wireless communications, data networking,

Pantano (U. of Calabria, Italy) and Timmermans (architecture, building and planning, Eindhoven U. of Technology, the Netherlands) assemble researchers in marketing, management, technology, psychology

Emerging technologies such as the Internet and biotechnology have the potential to create new industries and transform existing ones. Incumbent firms, despite their superior resources, often lose out to smaller rivals in developing emerging technologies. Why do these incumbents have so much difficulty with disruptive technologies? How can they anticipate and overcome their handicaps? Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies presents insights, tools, and frameworks from leading busi-ness thinkers based on the research of Wharton's Emerging Technologies Management Research Program. This pioneering industry-academic partnership, established in 1994, is one of the longest and broadest initiatives on the management of emerging technologies. For the first time, this book distills the insights from the program into a single volume for managers, covering a wide range of issues related to the successful management of emerging technologies. The editors contend that managing emerging technologie