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Instances for the problem of pre-positioning emergency supplies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2019
Purpose – Despite a growing body of research on the problem of increasing disaster preparedness by pre-positioning relief supplies at strategic locations, there is a lack of a benchmark set of problem instances that hinders thorough hypotheses testing ...
Renata Turkeš, Kenneth Sörensen
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Tracking ancient beach-lines inland: 2600-year-old dentate-stamped ceramics at Hopo, Vailala River region, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Lapita expansion took Austronesian seafaring peoples with distinctive pottery eastward from the Bismarck Archipelago to western Polynesia during the late second millennium BC, marking the first stage in the settlement of Oceania.
David, Bruno O.   +3 more
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Correlation of the Nest Density and the Number of Workers in Bait Traps for Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta) in Southern China

open access: yesSociobiology, 2014
The relationship between Solenopsis invicta nest density and the number of fire ant workers in bait traps and percentages of traps capturing ants were investigated in the waste land of Wuchuan, Guangdong, South China.
Yongyue Lu   +4 more
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Using MaxEnt to Predict the Potential Distribution of the Little Fire Ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) in China

open access: yesInsects, 2022
Invasive ants are some of the most destructive species in ecosystems and can have serious ecological and socioeconomic impacts. The little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, is native to Central and South America and was listed as one of the 100 most ...
Mengfei Mao   +4 more
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Prey Status Affects Paralysis Investment in the Ponerine Ant Harpegnathos venator

open access: yesInsects, 2021
The paralysis behavior of some ponerine ants when foraging may be important for food storage and colony development. However, how workers invest in paralysis under different prey circumstances is often overlooked.
Lei Nie   +6 more
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APPLYING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM TO SOLVE GEAR BOX DESIGN [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2022
In this paper, we present the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO for short), which was used to solve gear box problem design. Biological fundamentals of ACO algorithm, as well as method explanation are presented.
Branislav Milenkovic   +2 more
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G6: A web-based library for graph visualization

open access: yesVisual Informatics, 2021
Authoring graph visualization poses great challenges to developers due to its high requirements on both domain knowledge and development skills. Although existing libraries and tools reduce the difficulty of generating graph visualization, there are ...
Yanyan Wang   +6 more
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Arboreal twig-nesting ants form dominance hierarchies over nesting resources. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Interspecific dominance hierarchies have been widely reported across animal systems. High-ranking species are expected to monopolize more resources than low-ranking species via resource monopolization. In some ant species, dominance hierarchies have been
Philpott, Stacy M, Yitbarek, Senay
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Erratum

open access: yesJournal of Business Economics and Management, 2017
"Erratum." Journal of Business Economics and Management, 18(1), p ...
Sonia Baños-Caballero   +2 more
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G-valued crystalline representations with minuscule p-adic Hodge type [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We study G-valued semi-stable Galois deformation rings where G is a reductive group. We develop a theory of Kisin modules with G-structure and use this to identify the connected components of crystalline deformation rings of minuscule p-adic Hodge type ...
Levin, Brandon
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