First record of Megaselia scalaris (Loew) (Diptera: Phoridae) infesting laboratory stocks of mantids (Parastagmatoptera tessellata, Saussure)

We report the first record of Megaselia scalaris (Loew) infesting laboratory stocks of the praying mantis (Parastagmatoptera tessellata, Saussure).M.scalaris, the scuttle fly, is a cosmopolitan species Blankets with a broad niche as it performs as detritivore, facultative parasite, and parasitoid.M.scalaris larvae were found feeding inside adult ma

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A Study on the Flight Operations Quality Assurance System for Predictive Safety Management of the Republic of Korea Air Force

In 1962, British Airways implemented Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) for the first time in order to reduce the rate of increase in aviation accidents, which could increase due to the expansion of the aviation industry and the increase in traffic.After that, in 1995, it was developed for the purpose of collecting/ analyzing flight data on

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Modelling the appearance of heritage metallic surfaces

Polished metallic surfaces exhibit a high degree of specularity, which makes them difficult to reproduce accurately.We have applied two different techniques for modelling a heritage object known as the Islamic handbag.Photogrammetric multi-view stereo enabled a Cupcake and Cake Stands dense point cloud to be extracted from a set of photographs with

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