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Hierarchical design of silkworm silk for functional composites.

Chemical Society reviews
Silk-reinforced composites (SRCs) manifest the unique properties of silkworm silk fibers, offering enhanced mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. These composites present an eco-friendly alternative to conventional synthetic ma...

Model updating strategy study about sex identification of silkworm pupae using transfer learning and NIR spectroscopy.

Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
This paper proposes a novel model updating strategy named SilkwormNet for the first time to address the sex discrimination problem of silkworm pupae with new species. SilkwormNet integrates a ResNet block, a multi-head attention mechanism, and a Sche...

A novel method for online sex sorting of silkworm pupae (Bombyx mori) using computer vision combined with deep learning.

Journal of the science of food and agriculture
BACKGROUND: Silkworm pupae (SP), the pupal stage of an edible insect, have strong potential in the food, medicine, and cosmetic industries. Sex sorting is essential to enhance nutritional content and genetic traits in SP crossbreeding but it remains ...

Advanced Spore Identification: Single-Cell Raman Spectroscopy Combined with Self-Attention Mechanism-Guided Deep Learning.

Analytical chemistry
(Nb) has been considered a dangerous pathogen, which can spread rapidly through free spores. Nowadays, pebrine disease caused by Nb spores is a serious threat to silkworms, causing huge economic losses in both the silk industry and agriculture every...

A comprehensive prediction system for silkworm acute toxicity assessment of environmental and in-silico pesticides.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
The excessive application and loss of pesticides poses a great risk to the ecosystem, and the environmental safety assessment of pesticides is time-consuming and expensive using traditional animal toxicity tests. In this work, a pesticide acute toxic...

Robust Moth-Inspired Algorithm for Odor Source Localization Using Multimodal Information.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Odor-source localization, by which one finds the source of an odor by detecting the odor itself, is an important ability to possess in order to search for leaking gases, explosives, and disaster survivors. Although many animals possess this ability, ...

Pebrine diagnosis using quantitative phase imaging and machine learning.

Journal of biophotonics
Pebrine is the most dreaded infectious disease of the silkworm and has devastated sericulture in Europe during the 18th century. Thereafter, if it is detected, the crop is burned to prevent further dissemination. The conventional microscopic examinat...

Insect-machine hybrid robot.

Current opinion in insect science
Recently, insect-machine hybrid robots have been developed that incorporate insects into robots or incorporate machines into insects. Most previous studies were motivated to use the function of insects for robots, but this technology can also prove t...

A Multi-Sensor System for Silkworm Cocoon Gender Classification via Image Processing and Support Vector Machine.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sericulture is traditionally a labor-intensive rural-based industry. In modern contexts, the development of process automation faces new challenges related to quality and efficiency. During the silkworm farming life cycle, a common issue is represent...

Using insects to drive mobile robots - hybrid robots bridge the gap between biological and artificial systems.

Arthropod structure & development
The use of mobile robots is an effective method of validating sensory-motor models of animals in a real environment. The well-identified insect sensory-motor systems have been the major targets for modeling. Furthermore, mobile robots implemented wit...