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A retractable barb needle for drug darts

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1973
The mechanism and action of a new retractable barbneedle for drug darts are described. This dart needle is particularly successful in obviating unnecessary flight reactions andtrauma in darted animals, and facilitates the complete injection of the drug ...
G.L. van Rooyen, P.J. de Beer
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The Optimum Flight Speeds of Flying Animals

Journal of Avian Biology, 1998
Conventional models of bird flight combine metabolic, mechanical, and aerodynamic components to calculate the rate of fuel consumption and power required for flight, from which we may derive the optimal speeds flying animals should use in different situations.
Adrian L. R. Thomas, Anders Hedenstrom
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Fullerene‐Mediated Iodine Immobilization at Buried Interfaces in Sn–Pb Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Indene‐C60 bisadduct (ICBA) accumulates at the buried interface of inverted tin‐lead perovskite solar cells, limiting undesired electron extraction while maintaining efficient hole transport. ICBA simultaneously scavenges molecular iodine, mitigating Sn2+ oxidation and interfacial recombination. This coupled electronic‐chemical regulation delivers 22.7%
Chi‐Jing Huang, Yi‐Sheng Lin, Matyas Daboczi, Yueyao Dong, Anuj Kumar Singh, Luis Lanzetta, Yun‐Shan Li, Chang‐Hao Wang, Huan‐Wei Lin, Wei‐Jia Qiu, Yi‐Ting He, Chun‐Fu Chang, Sanjayan Sathasivam, Derya Baran, Thomas J. Macdonald, Chieh‐Ting Lin   +15 more
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Engineering Local Polar Frustration in Lead‐Free Dielectric Ceramics for Ultrahigh Normalized Energy Storage Performance

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Local polar frustration is engineered to stabilize an ergodic relaxer through nanoscale multiphase coexistence, suppressing long‐range ferroelectric order while preserving high polarization. This strategy delivers ultrahigh low‐field normalized energy density (Wa >0.020 mC cm−2), exceptional thermal stability, and a transferable design principle for ...
Hareem Zubairi, Muhammad Wasim, Songhao Fu, Xiaojiao Liu, Annette K Kleppe, Zhilun Lu, Antonio Feteira, Diming Xu, Joseph C.A. Prentice, Ge Wang   +9 more
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Dynamically Controlled Flight Altitudes in Robo-Pigeons via Locus Coeruleus Neurostimulation

Research
Robo-pigeons, a novel class of hybrid robotic systems developed using brain–computer interface technology, hold marked promise for search and rescue missions due to their superior load-bearing capacity and sustained flight performance.
Ke Fang, Zhouyi Wang, Yezhong Tang, Xiaofei Guo, Xing Li, Wenbo Wang, Bing Liu, Zhendong Dai   +7 more
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Microfluidic Nano‐Assembly of Red‐Blood‐Cell (RBC) Lipids and Components for Engineering Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Engineered red blood cell‐derived extracellular vesicles (eRBCEVs) are synthesized via controlled microfluidic assembly from native RBC lipids, enabling tunable encapsulation of proteins, nucleic acids, nanoparticles, and viral vectors. The platform demonstrates reproducible nanoscale architecture, preserved membrane composition, and functional cargo ...
Chiranth K. Nagaraj, Xilal Y. Rima, Kim T. Nguyen, Courtney Culkins, Nana Boateng, Jacob Doon‐Ralls, Alejandro Bresolin, Xin Huang, Hong Li, Vahedi Amid, Ajeet Pal Singh, Dharti Shantaram, Anastasiia Amari, Mangesh D. Hade, Nicholas R. Merriam, Zachary D. Schultz, Scott Q. Harper, Nizar Y. Saad, Setty M. Magaña, Willa A. Hsueh, Rachel E. Kopec, Blaise R. Kimmel, Andre F. Palmer, Eduardo Reátegui   +23 more
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Behaviour of dairy cows subjected to an aversive veterinary procedure. [PDF]

Biotemas, 2009
On small dairy farms that lack appropriate handling facilities, cows can be restrained and subjected to veterinary inspection or treatment in their milking environment, which in turn might influence the behaviour of the animals, disrupting routine ...
Maria José Hötzel, Carla Christina de Miranda Gomes, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho   +2 more
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The extent of the preserved feathers on the four-winged dinosaur Microraptor gui under ultraviolet light.

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundThe holotype of the theropod non-avian dinosaur Microraptor gui from the Early Cretaceous of China shows extensive preservation of feathers in a halo around the body and with flight feathers associated with both the fore and hindlimbs.
David W E Hone, Helmut Tischlinger, Xing Xu, Fucheng Zhang   +3 more
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Stability of Medicinal Nanoemulsions to Spaceflight: Insights From the StarMed Experiment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Chitosan‐coated melatonin nanoemulsions (MN) recovered from a sounding rocket mission preserve droplet size and controlled‐release behavior, whereas uncoated nanoemulsions show ageing‐driven droplet growth and increased accessible drug fraction. Simple polymer coatings thus enhance the flight resilience of liquid space medicines under cumulative launch
Modupe Adebowale, Nguyen Van Duc Long, Philip M. Williams, Jens Hauslage, Volker Hessel   +4 more
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The role of vortices in animal locomotion in fluids

Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2014
The aim of this paper is to show the significance of vortices in animal locomotion in fluids on two deliberately chosen examples. The first example concerns lift generation by bird and insect wings, the second example briefly mentiones swimming and ...
Dvořák R.
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