Successful Completion of an International Project of the Department of Natural Sciences at New Bulgarian University

The paper presents the results of a successfully completed international project of the Department of Natural Sciences titled “Monitoring and identification of the entomopathogenic fungus Entomophaga maimaiga in Lymantria dispar populations” and funded by the National Research Fund in 2017-2019. Investigating the distribution of E. maimaiga in Austria and Bulgaria in 2018-2019 shows that the pathogen has expanded its range to the west and reached Lower Austria. E. maimaiga has been identified in Bulgaria as well and has become part of the natural enemy complex of L. dispar.

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Biological control of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) by the entomopathogenic fungus Entomophaga maimaiga in Bulgaria in 2021

Silva Balcanica ◽

10.3897/silvabalcanica.22.e78600 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 17-27

Author(s):

Georgi Georgiev ◽

Plamen Mirchev ◽

Margarita Georgieva ◽

Mihail Kechev ◽

Sevdalin Belilov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Gypsy Moth ◽

Lymantria Dispar ◽

Entomopathogenic Fungus ◽

Control Programme ◽

Egg Mass ◽

Moth Population ◽

Entomophaga Maimaiga ◽

Forest Enterprises ◽

Gipsy Moth

In 2021, biological control programme against gipsy moth (Lymantria dispar) populations was carried out by introduction of the entomopathogenic fungus Entomophaga maimaiga on the territory of four State Forest Enterprises: Municipal Enterprise (ME) ‘Management of Municipal Forests, Agriculture and Forestry’, Nessebar; State Game Enterprises (SGE) Nessebar and Balchik; State Forestry (SF) Vidin. The pathogen was introduced during the period 15-26.03.2021 in 34 localities - five in ME Nessebar, eight in SGE Nessebar, ten in SGE Balchik and eleven in SF Vidin. The average number of gypsy moth population density in the locations of introduction was relatively high, ranging between 0.4-15.9 egg mass/tree in the area of SGE Balchik and 11.9-65.0 egg mass/tree in the area of ME Nessebar. The average mortality of young gypsy moth caterpillars (first-third instar) due to E. maimaiga varied between 2.6% (SGE Balchik) and 13.0% (SF Vidin), and of caterpillars in later fourth-sixth instar - between 20.7% (SF Vidin) and 52.4% (ME Nessebar). The overall mortality of the gipsy moth caterpillars due to E. maimaiga was lowest in the region of SGE Balchik (26.1%), followed by SF Vidin (33.7%), SGE Nessebar (48.5%) and ME Nessebar (55.9%). As a result of the introduction, gipsy moth severe outbreaks in the region of Nessebar was significantly suppressed. The high number of E. maimaiga resting spores persists in the surface layers of the soil in the other two areas (Vidin and Balchik) has the potential to suppress L. dispar attacks in next years.

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From Decline of the West to Dawn of Day

Janus Head ◽

10.5840/jh20201815 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 53-66

Author(s):

Hub Zwart ◽

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Computer Science ◽

Science And Religion ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

The Novel ◽

Human Beings ◽

Cultural Significance ◽

Religion And Science ◽

The West ◽

Smart Technologies

This paper subjects Dan Brown’s most recent novel Origin to a philosophical reading. Origin is regarded as a literary window into contemporary technoscience, inviting us to explore its transformative momentum and disruptive impact, focusing on the cultural significance of artificial intelligence and computer science: on the way in which established world-views are challenged by the incessant wave of scientific discoveries made possible by super-computation. While initially focusing on the tension between science and religion, the novel’s attention gradually shifts to the increased dependence of human beings on smart technologies and artificial (or even “synthetic”) intelligence. Origin’s message, I will argue, reverberates with Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, which aims to outline a morphology of world civilizations. Although the novel starts with a series of oppositions, most notably between religion and science, the eventual tendency is towards convergence, synthesis and sublation, exemplified by Sagrada Família as a monumental symptom of this transition. Three instances of convergence will be highlighted, namely the convergence between science and religion, between humanity and technology and between the natural sciences and the humanities.

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The AIDOS Project

Al-Raida Journal ◽

10.32380/alrj.v0i0.743 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 10

Author(s):

Lebanese American University

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Rights ◽

Arab World ◽

West Bank ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Mediterranean Area ◽

International Project ◽

Information Network ◽

The West ◽

West Bank And Gaza ◽

The Mediterranean

The AIDOS Project: The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, (IWSAW) was selected to take part in an international project aimed at establishing four documentation centers -specialized in women's human, civic, labor and reproductive rights- in fourArab countries: Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The main objective of the project is to create an information network of women's organizations throughout the Mediterranean area.

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The Relationship of Cambridge GCE Results with the Jamaican Graduate Output from UWI

Caribbean Journal of Education ◽

10.46425/c30202x3906 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 101-118

Author(s):

Marlene Hamilton

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

The West ◽

Main Interest ◽

The University ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

This paper seeks to investigate possible links between Cambridge examination results in the General Certificate of Education "O" and "A" level examinations over the years, and the annual Jamaican graduate output from the University of the West Indies. Although all faculties are considered, the main interest lies in numbers of graduates from the faculties of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine, linked with passes gained in science subjects at both "O" and "A" level GCE examinations.

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19. Conclusion: Politics in the Age of Globalization

Politics ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198787983.003.0019 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Ferdinand ◽

Robert Garner ◽

Stephanie Lawson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Political Philosophy ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Policy Making ◽

The United States ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

The West ◽

Political Analysis ◽

Methodological Nationalism ◽

Political Studies

This concluding chapter summarizes some of the major themes and the threads of various arguments discussed throughout the book. It first emphasizes the complexity of the field and the ways in which political philosophy and the empirical study of politics are intertwined, arguing that the study of politics cannot be neatly separated from the study of other disciplines such as philosophy, law, economics, history, sociology, and psychology — and the fact that policy-making typically involves the natural sciences. The chapter proceeds by analysing how globalization influences political studies and highlights the limits of ‘methodological nationalism’ in political analysis. Finally, it considers Eurocentrism in the study of politics and contends that we cannot automatically assume the pre-eminence of Europe and the United States, or the West more generally, noting the apparent inevitability of the rise of other centres of power.

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Genetic evidence of broad spreading of Lymantria dispar in the West Siberian Plain

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0220954 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

pp. e0220954 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Vyacheslav Martemyanov ◽

Roman Bykov ◽

Marya Demenkova ◽

Yuri Gninenko ◽

Sergei Romancev ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Lymantria Dispar ◽

Genetic Evidence ◽

West Siberian Plain ◽

The West

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Resolving the publication date of J.W. Randall’s Catalogue of Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, and an updated checklist of the Decapoda described therein (Crustacea: Achelata, Anomura, Astacidea, Brachyura, Caridea, Dendrobranchiata)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3493.1.7 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3493 (1) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

MARTYN E. Y. LOW

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

West Coast ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Publication Date ◽

The West ◽

Academy Of Natural Sciences

John Witt Randall (b. 1813, d. 1892; Anonymous 1892: 316) published a Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands … (hereafter the Catalogue), in the first part of the eighth volume of the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Randall 1840).

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