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The European spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar ) (ESM) is a non-native insect pest withlarvae that feeds on leaves of over 300 broad-leaved species including forest shade ornamentaland fruit trees as well as shrubs. The spongy moth defoliated over 98 million acres of U.S.forests from 1924 to 2018. Current biological insecticides used in spongy moth control have notbeen efficacious enough and ch ...

AgIntel a spinoff company of the University of Florida (UF) has licensed two novel technologiesfrom UF: Agroview and AgroSense. Agroview a digital twin of an agricultural field can deliveraccurate zone-based fertility and prescription maps for precision nutrient applications. Agrosensecan convert a traditional fertilizer applicator (sprayer or spreader) to a smart machine for precisionnutrient app ...

Huanglongbingdisease("HLB")causedbythebacteriumCandidatusLiberibacterasiaticus ("CLas")haskilledmillionsofcitrustreesandreducedaverageyieldinFloridaby50%costing billionsinlostrevenue. CRISPRisthemostpowerfultoolforrapidbreedingofnewHLB-resistantcitrustreesbut hastobeprecededbyidentifyingspecificgene-editingtargets.Theidentificationoftargetgeneshas beenchallengingbecauseofpoorunderstandingoftheHLBp ...

Food deserts are among the major contributing factors to food insecurity. There are more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the U.S., home to 23.5 million Americans. Rural food deserts are more than 10 miles from the nearest grocery store, and this distance poses extraordinary challenges for those who do not have a vehicle or cannot drive. In urban food deserts, people's grocery store inaccessibilit ...

Curing concrete properly is essential for strength gain and durability. While the importance of curing is widely known, all too often curing is not properly executed in practice. This proposal outlines a sensing system that will have three functions: · to record the weather conditions during the concrete placement. · to document how the implemented curing impacts a known concrete system. · to p ...

This Phase II STTR is a collaboration between Truventic and the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop polarization-sensitive single-photon detectors for the mm-wave and THz bands. These detectors will be based upon antenna-coupled superconducting magic-angle twisted multilayer graphene Josephson-junctions. Phase I theoretically demonstrated the potential for single photon detection, devel ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

BamCore is a small and growing business that utilizes nature’s strongest and fastest growing structural fiber–timber bamboo–to deliver a prefabricated, code-compliant wall system that turns low-rise buildings into carbon sinks, while also lowering operating carbon. BamCore’s patented Prime Wall system is a bamboo-based studless wall that is stronger, greener, thermally superior, healthier, ...

To support Next Generation Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Situational Awareness applied research goals, Certus Group proposes the deployment of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in a meshed configuration to enable collaborative autonomous sensing on littoral targets of strategic interest in a GPS denied environment. In order to develop this capability, a number of tec ...