An analysis of traditional and integrated basic skills and the effect on student retention rates at MATC-Milwaukee

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Oviposition Decisions by Indianmeal Moth

The Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella,is a pest in the United States of stored grains. The larvae feed on grains, grain products, dried fruits, nuts, cereals and a variety of processed food products. Indianmeal moths can detect where other Indianmeal moths have laid eggs but it is unknown if they know where other species have been and laid eggs. So, does the colonization of flour by other species affect where an Indianmeal moth will lay her eggs? Our results showed there was no preference for colonized or uncolonized flour by the moths. The average number of eggs laid in both patches of flour was even. This data shows us that the moths do not have a preference where they lay their eggs, potentially increasing competition among species in food patches

Red Flour Beetle Response to Traps with Prior Captures

The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a major pest of food facilities such as flour mills and is often monitored using pitfall type traps with a food oil and pheromone attractant. Previous research had indicated that prior captures of beetles could increase beetle behavior captures in a trap. Here we used a more realistic bioassay to evaluate how the number of beetles previously captured include beetle captures in traps. Results showed no significant impact of prior captures on the number of red flour beetles captured in a trap. There were some trends suggested in the results that warrant further study to investigate, perhaps by focusing on individual beetle behavior at traps rather then using groups of beetles

Oviposition Decisions by Red Flour Beetle [Tribolium castaneum]

The red flour beetle [Tribolium castaneum] and the confused flour beetle [Tribolium confusum] are very important flour pest. We tested if the red flour beetle can discriminate between flour infested by the same species or congeneric species and lay different number of eggs. Results of the choice tests were inconclusive, because oviposition across all the treatments was very low. Future research will be needed manipulating the female age and the length of time in the arenas to be able to address the proposed question. With this future research, it will hopefully help us better understand how these beetles exploit flour patches and improve management in flour mills

Scaffolding students\u27 learning in EME150 introduction to learners and learning theory : on looking back

This is a reflective article on the importance scaffolding in the EME 150 unit taught in collaboration with Deakin University Australia. Being the first unit introduced in the second semester of the first academic year, students were given a lot of support to enhance their understanding and learning since this curriculum was solely developed by Deakin University and introduced for the first time in teachers education curriculum. The scaffolding tools discussed in this article enabled students to a) establish deep learning of the theory. b) engage in collaborative and engaged learning which established good ethical relations between students c) transfer learning by applying theory into practice.<br /

Specifying attracting cycles for Newton maps of polynomials

We show that for any set of n distinct points in the complex plane, there exists a polynomial p of degree at most n+1 so that the corresponding Newton map, or even the relaxed Newton map, for p has the given points as a super-attracting cycle. This improves the result due to Plaza and Romero (2011), which shows how to find such a polynomial of degree 2n. Moreover we show that in general one cannot improve upon degree n+1. Our methods allow us to give a simple, constructive proof of the known result that for each cycle length n at least 2 and degree d at least 3, there exists a polynomial of degree d whose Newton map has a super-attracting cycle of length n.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figure