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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,735 Views
22 Pages

Extraction and Analysis of Grasshopper Potential Habitat in Hulunbuir Based on the Maximum Entropy Model

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Yingying Dong,
  • Wenjiang Huang,
  • Jing Guo,
  • Ning Wang and
  • Xiaolong Ding

21 February 2024

Grasshoppers have profound effects on both grassland ecosystems and livestock production. Despite commendable efforts made by China in grasshopper control, completely eradicating or preventing them still remains a distant prospect. This study aims to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,070 Views
19 Pages

Impacts of Livestock Production on Grassland Grasshopper Disasters

  • Sibo Liu,
  • Meimei Chen,
  • Ping Li,
  • Taogetao Baoyin,
  • Xiangyang Hou and
  • Guomei Yin

15 April 2024

Grasshopper disasters threaten grassland animal husbandry, and overgrazing is widely recognized as one of the main causes of locust infestation in grassland regions. However, the impact of overgrazing on grasshopper disasters remains unclear. To addr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,530 Views
12 Pages

8 April 2021

Effective locust and grasshopper control is crucial as locust invasions have seriously threatened crops and food security since ancient times. However, the preponderance of chemical insecticides, effective and widely used today, is increasingly criti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,225 Views
18 Pages

Improved Binary Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm for Feature Selection Problem

  • Gui-Ling Wang,
  • Shu-Chuan Chu,
  • Ai-Qing Tian,
  • Tao Liu and
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan

31 May 2022

The migration and predation of grasshoppers inspire the grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA). It can be applied to practical problems. The binary grasshopper optimization algorithm (BGOA) is used for binary problems. To improve the algorithm&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,487 Views
17 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Grassland Grasshopper Habitat Suitability and Its Main Influencing Factors

  • Bobo Du,
  • Jun Wei,
  • Kejian Lin,
  • Longhui Lu,
  • Xiaolong Ding,
  • Huichun Ye,
  • Wenjiang Huang and
  • Ning Wang

12 August 2022

Grasshoppers are highly destructive pests, and their outbreak can directly damage livestock development. Grasshopper outbreaks can be monitored and forecasted through dynamic analysis of their potential geographic distribution and main influencing fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,882 Views
23 Pages

Grasshopper Algorithmic Modelling: Parametric Design for Product Platform Customisation

  • Amanda Martín-Mariscal,
  • Juan Francisco Fernández-Rodríguez,
  • Alberto Picardo and
  • Estela Peralta

1 June 2025

Recent advances in visual programming tools for algorithmic modelling have significantly expanded the possibilities for designing industrial products. This study analyses the capacity and adaptability of Grasshopper, a graphical algorithm editor inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,772 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Environmental Factors on the Diversity of Grasshopper Communities along Altitude Gradients in Xizang, China

  • Yonghui Li,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Xiaoming Zhang,
  • Benyong Mao,
  • Guohui Yang,
  • Fuming Shi,
  • Jingui Bi,
  • Zhibin Ma and
  • Guowen Tang

4 September 2024

To determine the grasshopper species composition, altitudinal distribution patterns, and their main drivers, we conducted a study in Xizang using 33 sample plots ranging from 600 to 4100 m. Grasshoppers were collected from August to October during 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,794 Views
11 Pages

An RNA Virome Analysis of the Pink-Winged Grasshopper Atractomorpha sinensis

  • Yu-Juan He,
  • Zhuang-Xin Ye,
  • Chuan-Xi Zhang,
  • Jun-Min Li,
  • Jian-Ping Chen and
  • Gang Lu

22 December 2022

A large number of RNA viruses have been discovered in most insect orders using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and advanced bioinformatics methods. In this study, an RNA virome of the grasshopper was systematically identified in Atractomorpha sinens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,127 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2023

The recognition of hand signs is essential for several applications. Due to the variation of possible signals and the complexity of sensor-based systems for hand gesture recognition, a new artificial neural network algorithm providing high accuracy w...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,624 Views
6 Pages

Microsatellite Markers for the Chameleon Grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis) (Orthoptera: Acrididae), an Australian Alpine Specialist

  • Kate D. L. Umbers,
  • Siobhan Dennison,
  • Czarina A. Manahan,
  • Laurence Blondin,
  • Christine Pagés,
  • Ange-Marie Risterucci and
  • Marie-Pierre Chapuis

24 September 2012

A set of polymorphic loci was characterised using an enrichment library for the Australian alpine specialist, the chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis), an atypical grasshopper known for its remarkable temperature-controlled colour change. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,619 Views
17 Pages

Changes in the Range of Four Advantageous Grasshopper Habitats in the Hexi Corridor under Future Climate Conditions

  • Donghong Li,
  • Huilin Gan,
  • Xiaopeng Li,
  • Huili Zhou,
  • Hang Zhang,
  • Yaomeng Liu,
  • Rui Dong,
  • Limin Hua and
  • Guixin Hu

30 March 2024

Angaracris rhodopa (Fischer et Walheim), Calliptamus abbreviatus (Ikonnikov), Myrmeleotettix palpalis (Zubowsky), and Oedaleus decorus asiaticus (Bey-Bienko) are the main grasshoppers that harm the natural grassland in the Hexi Corridor in Gansu, nor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,766 Views
13 Pages

Physicochemical and Sensory Characteristics of Sausages Made with Grasshopper (Sphenarium purpurascens) Flour

  • Salvador O. Cruz-López,
  • Yenizey M. Álvarez-Cisneros,
  • Julieta Domínguez-Soberanes,
  • Héctor B. Escalona-Buendía and
  • Claudia N. Sánchez

27 February 2022

Insects are currently of interest due to their high nutritional value, in particular for the high concentration of quality protein. Moreover, it can also be used as an extender or binder in meat products. The objective was to evaluate grasshopper flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,266 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2020

In this paper, an application of the recently developed Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA) for calculation of switching angles for Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) PWM in low-frequency voltage source inverter is proposed. The algorithm is b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,962 Views
17 Pages

X Chromosome Inactivation during Grasshopper Spermatogenesis

  • Alberto Viera,
  • María Teresa Parra,
  • Sara Arévalo,
  • Carlos García de la Vega,
  • Juan Luis Santos and
  • Jesús Page

23 November 2021

Regulation of transcriptional activity during meiosis depends on the interrelated processes of recombination and synapsis. In eutherian mammal spermatocytes, transcription levels change during prophase-I, being low at the onset of meiosis but highly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,847 Views
15 Pages

Detecting Key Factors of Grasshopper Occurrence in Typical Steppe and Meadow Steppe by Integrating Machine Learning Model and Remote Sensing Data

  • Longhui Lu,
  • Weiping Kong,
  • Eerdengqimuge,
  • Huichun Ye,
  • Zhongxiang Sun,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Bobo Du,
  • Yantao Zhou,
  • Weijun and
  • Wenjiang Huang

30 September 2022

Grasshoppers mainly threaten natural grassland vegetation and crops. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the relationship between environmental factors and grasshopper occurrence. This paper studies the spatial distribution and key f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,125 Views
23 Pages

22 May 2025

Edible insects are a significant component of traditional diets in Madagascar, where food insecurity and malnutrition persist. This study examines the production parameters and nutritional composition of four laboratory-farmed edible grasshopper spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,139 Views
17 Pages

Spatiotemporal Distribution and Main Influencing Factors of Grasshopper Potential Habitats in Two Steppe Types of Inner Mongolia, China

  • Jing Guo,
  • Longhui Lu,
  • Yingying Dong,
  • Wenjiang Huang,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Bobo Du,
  • Chao Ding,
  • Huichun Ye,
  • Kun Wang and
  • Ning Wang
  • + 3 authors

3 February 2023

Grasshoppers can greatly interfere with agriculture and husbandry, and they will breed and grow rapidly in suitable habitats. Therefore, it is necessary to extract the distribution of the grasshopper potential habitat (GPH), analyze the spatial-tempo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,385 Views
38 Pages

Feature selection aims to select crucial features to improve classification accuracy in machine learning and data mining. In this paper, a new binary grasshopper optimization algorithm using time-varying Gaussian transfer functions (BGOA-TVG) is prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,863 Views
13 Pages

Gradual Distance Dispersal Shapes the Genetic Structure in an Alpine Grasshopper

  • Juan Carlos Illera,
  • Miguel Arenas,
  • Carlos A. López-Sánchez,
  • José Ramón Obeso and
  • Paola Laiolo

5 August 2019

The location of the high mountains of southern Europe has been crucial in the phylogeography of most European species, but how extrinsic (topography of sky islands) and intrinsic features (dispersal dynamics) have interacted to shape the genetic stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,687 Views
19 Pages

27 January 2022

Climate change is expected to alter prevailing temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, and humidity this century, thereby modifying insect demographic processes and possibly increasing the frequency and intensity of rangeland and crop impacts by pes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,686 Views
17 Pages

A Grasshopper Plugin for Finite Element Analysis with Solid Elements and Its Application on Gridshell Nodes

  • Sverre Magnus Haakonsen,
  • Steinar Hillersøy Dyvik,
  • Marcin Luczkowski and
  • Anders Rønnquist

14 June 2022

Linking architectural models to structural analyses can be demanding and time-consuming, especially when the architectural models cannot be accurately analysed using readily available one- or two-dimensional finite elements. This paper presents a too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
403 Views
26 Pages

Integrating Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Degree-Day Models for Predicting Grasshopper Habitat Suitability in Temperate Grasslands

  • Raza Ahmed,
  • Wenjiang Huang,
  • Yingying Dong,
  • Zeenat Dildar,
  • Hafiz Adnan Ashraf,
  • Zahid Ur Rahman and
  • Alua Rysbekova

7 December 2025

China’s extensive grasslands are ecologically and economically vital but are increasingly degraded by grasshopper outbreaks. Traditional monitoring approaches are too limited for large-scale management. This study developed an advanced monitori...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,342 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2024

World’s Best Practice management of locusts and grasshoppers requires accurate forecasting that helps determine where and when surveys are preferentially conducted so that infestations can be found quickly as part of ensuring early intervention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,564 Views
20 Pages

B Chromosome Transcriptional Inactivation in the Spermatogenesis of the Grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans

  • Juan Luis Santos,
  • María Teresa Parra,
  • Sara Arévalo,
  • Andrea Guajardo-Grence,
  • Jesús Page,
  • José Ángel Suja,
  • Carlos García de la Vega and
  • Alberto Viera

25 November 2024

Background/Objectives: We analyzed the relationship between synapsis, recombination, and transcription during the spermatogenesis of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans carrying B chromosomes (type B1). Methods: The progression of synapsis was inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,989 Views
26 Pages

Automating Microclimate Evaluation and Optimization during Urban Design: A Rhino–Grasshopper Workflow

  • Komi Bernard Bedra,
  • Jian Zheng,
  • Jiayu Li,
  • Zhaoqian Sun and
  • Bohong Zheng

6 December 2023

Though building-scale energy demand and indoor thermal comfort have been extensively covered by recent studies, the automation of middle- and larger-scale outdoor microclimate evaluation in parametric design is less covered. The relatively slow compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,119 Views
20 Pages

A Hybrid Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm Applied to the Open Vehicle Routing Problem

  • Valeria Soto-Mendoza,
  • Irma García-Calvillo,
  • Efraín Ruiz-y-Ruiz and
  • Jaime Pérez-Terrazas

16 April 2020

This paper presents a hybrid grasshopper optimization algorithm using a novel decoder and local search to solve instances of the open vehicle routing problem with capacity and distance constraints. The algorithm’s decoder first defines the number of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,173 Views
24 Pages

In this paper, the analysis of the design of the single-cylinder steam engine of the Grasshopper beam designed by Henry Muncaster in 1912 is shown. This engine was incorporated into ships and railways and it was published in the Model Engineer journa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,599 Views
14 Pages

Colon Disease Diagnosis with Convolutional Neural Network and Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm

  • Amna Ali A. Mohamed,
  • Aybaba Hançerlioğullari,
  • Javad Rahebi,
  • Mayukh K. Ray and
  • Sudipta Roy

This paper presents a robust colon cancer diagnosis method based on the feature selection method. The proposed method for colon disease diagnosis can be divided into three steps. In the first step, the images’ features were extracted based on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,876 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2020

A microgrid is a group of distributed energy resources and interconnected loads that may be operated either in isolated mode or connected mode with the main utility within electrical boundaries. Microgrids may consist of different types of renewable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,785 Views
26 Pages

12 May 2019

An efficient satellite image segmentation method based on a hybrid grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) and minimum cross entropy (MCE) is proposed in this paper. The proposal is known as GOA–jDE, and it merges GOA with self-adaptive differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
751 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2025

Accurate SOH prediction provides a reliable reference for lithium-ion battery maintenance. However, novel algorithms are still needed because few studies have considered the correlations between monitored parameters in Euclidean space and non-Euclide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
958 Views
22 Pages

The Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm (GOA) has attracted significant attention due to its simplicity and effective search capabilities. However, its performance deteriorates when dealing with high-dimensional or complex optimization tasks. To addre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
23 Pages

24 September 2025

In recent years, significant advancements have been made in the field of design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). These advancements have focused on key aspects such as topology optimization (TO), generative design (GD), lattice structures, and AI-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,739 Views
24 Pages

23 August 2023

Currently, video and digital images possess extensive utility, ranging from recreational and social media purposes to verification, military operations, legal proceedings, and penalization. The enhancement mechanisms of this medium have undergone sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
6,224 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Voltage and Frequency Control of an Islanded Microgrid Using Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm

  • Touqeer Ahmed Jumani,
  • Mohd Wazir Mustafa,
  • Madihah Md Rasid,
  • Nayyar Hussain Mirjat,
  • Zohaib Hussain Leghari and
  • M. Salman Saeed

17 November 2018

Due to the lack of inertia and uncertainty in the selection of optimal Proportional Integral (PI) controller gains, the voltage and frequency variations are higher in the islanded mode of the operation of a Microgrid (MG) compared to the grid-connect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,213 Views
16 Pages

Aiming at the characteristics of high computational cost, implicit expression and high nonlinearity of performance functions corresponding to large and complex structures, this paper proposes a support-vector-machine- (SVM) based grasshopper optimiza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,166 Views
19 Pages

A Maximum Power Point Tracking Method Based on a Modified Grasshopper Algorithm Combined with Incremental Conductance

  • Bustani Hadi Wijaya,
  • Ramadhani Kurniawan Subroto,
  • Kuo Lung Lian and
  • Nanang Hariyanto

20 August 2020

The partial shading of photovoltaic (PV) modules due to clouds or blocking objects, such as buildings or tree leaves, is a common problem for photovoltaic systems. To address this, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is implemented to find the global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,565 Views
18 Pages

Spiral Search Grasshopper Features Selection with VGG19-ResNet50 for Remote Sensing Object Detection

  • Andrzej Stateczny,
  • Goru Uday Kiran,
  • Garikapati Bindu,
  • Kanegonda Ravi Chythanya and
  • Kondru Ayyappa Swamy

27 October 2022

Remote sensing object detection plays a major role in satellite imaging and is required in various scenarios such as transportation, forestry, and the ocean. Deep learning techniques provide efficient performance in remote sensing object detection. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,895 Views
21 Pages

Non-probabilistic reliability analysis has great developmental potential in the field of structural reliability analysis, as it is often difficult to obtain enough samples to construct an accurate probability distribution function of random variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,408 Views
21 Pages

Optimal Power Flow Controller for Grid-Connected Microgrids using Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm

  • Touqeer Ahmed Jumani,
  • Mohd Wazir Mustafa,
  • Madihah Md Rasid,
  • Nayyar Hussain Mirjat,
  • Mazhar Hussain Baloch and
  • Sani Salisu

Despite the vast benefits of integrating renewable energy sources (RES) with the utility grid, they pose stability and power quality problems when interconnected with the existing power system. This is due to the production of high voltages and curre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,897 Views
26 Pages

27 June 2020

The training machine learning algorithm from an imbalanced data set is an inherently challenging task. It becomes more demanding with limited samples but with a massive number of features (high dimensionality). The high dimensional and imbalanced dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
314 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2025

The proliferation of free-form architecture necessitates efficient detailing methods for complex spatially bending-torsion steel members. Current approaches suffer from low modeling efficiency, inaccurate surface fitting, and limited capabilities for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,657 Views
12 Pages

Assessment on Potential Suitable Habitats of the Grasshopper Oedaleus decorus asiaticus in North China based on MaxEnt Modeling and Remote Sensing Data

  • Zhongxiang Sun,
  • Huichun Ye,
  • Wenjiang Huang,
  • Erden Qimuge,
  • Huiqing Bai,
  • Chaojia Nie,
  • Longhui Lu,
  • Binxiang Qian and
  • Bo Wu

29 January 2023

Grasshopper populations can quickly grow to catastrophic levels, causing a huge amount of damage in a short time. Oedaleus decorus asiaticus (Bey-Bienko) (O. d. asiaticus) is the most serious species in Xilingol League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
30 Pages

Use of Parametric Digital Tools in Grasshopper and Python for Optimization of CNC Prefabrication Process in WikiHouse Prototype Construction

  • Doris Esenarro Vargas,
  • Emerson Porras,
  • Jesica Vilchez Cairo,
  • Abigail Ortiz Curinambe,
  • Vanessa Raymundo,
  • Lidia Chang,
  • Jesus Peña,
  • Ramiro Torrico and
  • Santiago Paz Nakura

28 October 2025

The high material waste, long execution times, and lack of adoption of technological solutions hinder the construction process in the building sector. In response, this project proposes the development and validation of parametric digital tools to op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,305 Views
15 Pages

Industries are consuming more than 27% of the total generated energy in the world, out of which 50% is used by different machines for processing, producing, and assembling various goods. Energy shortage is a major issue of this biosphere. To overcome...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,290 Views
18 Pages

Control of Pest Grasshoppers in North America

  • Wahid H. Dakhel,
  • Stefan T. Jaronski and
  • Scott Schell

24 August 2020

Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) frequently inflict damage on millions of hectares of western rangelands and crops. The main method of controlling grasshopper outbreaks consists of covering their infestations with chemical insecticides. Although...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,307 Views
27 Pages

12 July 2019

Most of the architectural design problems are basically real-parameter optimization problems. So, any type of evolutionary and swarm algorithms can be used in this field. However, there is a little attention on using optimization methods within the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,325 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2024

Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch (ORPD) is a power system optimization tool that modifies system control variables such as bus voltage and transformer tap settings, and it compensates devices’ Volt Ampere Reactive (VAR) output. It is used to dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,321 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Intestinal Microbial Diversity of Four Species of Grasshoppers and Determination of Cellulose Digestibility

  • Jing Bai,
  • Yao Ling,
  • Wen-Jing Li,
  • Li Wang,
  • Xiao-Bao Xue,
  • Yuan-Yi Gao,
  • Fei-Fei Li and
  • Xin-Jiang Li

Grasshoppers (Insecta, Orthoptera, Acridoidea) are a large group of agricultural and animal husbandry pests. They have a large food intake with high utilization of plants fibers. However, the composition of the grasshopper gut microbial community, es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
3,899 Views
14 Pages

Dynamic Route Discovery Using Modified Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm in Wireless Ad-Hoc Visible Light Communication Network

  • Sharmila Vadivel,
  • Srinivas Konda,
  • Kavitha Rani Balmuri,
  • Andrzej Stateczny and
  • B. D. Parameshachari

In recent times, visible light communication is an emerging technology that supports high speed data communication for wireless communication systems. However, the performance of the visible light communication system is impaired by inter symbol inte...

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