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Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching

Nature, 2005
Effective camouflage renders a target indistinguishable from irrelevant background objects. Two interrelated but logically distinct mechanisms for this are background pattern matching (crypsis) and disruptive coloration: in the former, the animal's colours are a random sample of the background; in the latter, bold contrasting colours on the animal's ...
Cuthill, IC, Stevens, M, Sheppard, J, Maddocks, T, Párraga, CA, Troscianko, TS   +5 more
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Transparency in the Ophthalmology Residency Match: Background, Study, and Implications [PDF]

Cureus, 2021
Background Medical students are applying to dramatically more ophthalmology residency programs than in the past, causing an increased administrative burden for programs and financial harm to students. This study considers the background of this situation and looks at how a lack of transparency surrounding potential residency match filters contributes ...
Markle, Jonathan C, Ahmed, Harris, Pandya, Kishan, Parikh, Ankur, Bolok, Youstina, Fehlman, Jared, Aitharaju, Varun, Bastian, Riley, Dey, Shreya, Chalasani, Meghana, Chanamolu, Meghana, Pedersen, Karina, Ganios, Natalie, Pham, Vincent, Mansur, Shabnam, Law, Janice C   +15 more
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Does the use of nest materials in a ground-nesting bird result from a compromise between the risk of egg overheating and camouflage?

Biology Open, 2019
Many studies addressing the use of nest materials by animals have focused on only one factor to explain its function. However, the consideration of more than one factor could explain the apparently maladaptive choice of nest materials that make nests ...
Jesús Gómez, Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano, Cristina Ramo, Macarena Castro, Alejandro Pérez-Hurtado, Juan A. Amat   +5 more
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Emulsion sheet doublets as interface trackers for the OPERA experiment [PDF]

, 2008
New methods for efficient and unambiguous interconnection between electronic counters and target units based on nuclear photographic emulsion films have been developed.
, , A Anokhina, A Ariga, A Ariga, A Badertscher, A Bertolin, A Cazes, A Chukanov, A Di Giovanni, A Dominjon, A E Ball, A Ereditato, A Garfagnini, A Ljubicic, A Longhin, A Marotta, A Meregaglia, A Paoloni, A Pastore, A Rubbia, A Russo, A Schembri, A Zghiche, B D Park, B Janutta, B Wonsak, C Bozza, C Di Troia, C Goellnitz, C Gustavino, C Hagner, C Jollet, C Lazzaro, C Pistillo, C S Yoon, C Sirignano, D Autiero, D Bick, D Di Ferdinando, D Duchesneau, D Frekers, D Golubkov, D Ossetski, D Ryzhikov, E Carrara, E Pennacchio, F Bay, F Bersani Greggio, F Dal Corso, F Di Capua, F Grianti, F Juget, F Meisel, F Pupilli, F Terranova, G Acquistapace, G Brunetti, G D'Amato, G De Lellis, G Felici, G Giacomelli, G Grella, G Gusev, G Lutter, G Mandrioli, G Rosa, G Sazhina, G Sirri, G Wilquet, H Matsuoka, H Pessard, H Shibuya, I G Park, I Kreslo, I Laktineh, I Rostovtseva, I Tezuka, J Ebert, J Favier, J Goldberg, J Janicsko Csathy, J Knuesel, J L Vuilleumier, J Lenkeit, J Marteau, J S Song, J Yoshida, K Hoshino, K Jakovcic, K Kodama, K Manai, K Morishima, K Niwa, K Pretzl, L Arrabito, L Arrabito, L Chaussard, L Consiglio, L Patrizii, L S Esposito, L Scotto Lavina, L Stanco, L Votano, M Besnier, M Chernyavsky, M Cozzi, M De Serio, M Dracos, M Giorgini, M Guler, M Hierholzer, M Ieva, M Kazuyama, M Komatsu, M Messina, M Nakamura, M Pozzato, M Sioli, M Spinetti, M Stipcevic, M T Muciaccia, M Tenti, M Vladimirov, N Chon-Sen, N D'Ambrosio, N Di Marco, N Mauri, N Naganawa, N Polukhina, N Starkov, N Ushida, O Egorov, O Ryazhskaya, O Sato, P Migliozzi, P Monacelli, P Publichenko, P Strolin, P Tolun, P Vilain, R Acquafredda, R Bailey, R Brugnera, R Enikeev, R Fini, R Zimmermann, S Aoki, S Buontempo, S Dmitrievski, S Dusini, S H Kim, S Hiramatsu, S Mikado, S Miyamoto, S Ogawa, S Simone, S Takahashi, S Tufanli, S Zemskova, T Brugiere, T Ferber, T Fukuda, T Hara, T Kawai, T Matsuo, T Naka, T Nakamura, T Nakano, T Nakano, T Roganova, T Strauss, The OPERA collaboration, The OPERA collaboration, U Kose, U Moser, V A Galkin, V Chiarella, V Cuha, V I Galkin, V Nikitina, V Osedlo, V Pilipenko, V Saveliev, V Sugonyaev, V Tioukov, V Tsarev, Y Déclais, Y Gornushkin, Y Nonoyama, Y Sato, Y Taira, Y Zaitsev   +192 more
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Can Bohmian Mechanics Be Made Background Independent? [PDF]

, 2015
The paper presents an inquiry into the question regarding the compatibility of Bohmian mechanics, intended as a non-local theory of moving point-like particles, with background independence.
Vassallo, Antonio
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3D Reconstruction Cost Function Algorithm Based on Stereo Matching in the Background of Digital Museums

IEEE Access, 2023
Stereo matching plays an important role in 3D reconstruction in the context of digital museums. At present, it has problems such as occlusion, weak texture, and discontinuous disparity, which restrict the development of binocular vision.
Peng Peng, Jun Han
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Exact isotropic cosmologies with local fractal number counts [PDF]

, 1998
We construct an exact relativistic cosmology in which an inhomogeneous but isotropic local region has fractal number counts and matches to a homogeneous background at a scale of the order of $10^2$ Mpc.
Abdalla E, Baryshev Y, Bonnor W B, Combes F, David R Matravers, Davis M, Humphreys N P, Maartens R, Maartens R, Maartens R, Maartens R, Montuori M, Mustapha N, Neil P Humphreys, Peebles P J E, Rassem M, Roy Maartens, Tolman R C, Wu K K S   +18 more
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Post-Fire Predation Risk in the Black Cicada Tibicina quadrisignata

Fire
The background modification of ecosystems affected by fire can cause black or dark colours in animals to become adaptive, providing better protection against visually oriented predators.
Pere Pons, Roger Puig-Gironès, Josep M. Bas, Carles Tobella   +3 more
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Lightweight Neural Network for Centroid Detection of Weak, Small Infrared Targets via Background Matching in Complex Scenes

Remote Sensing
In applications such as aerial object interception and ballistic estimation, it is crucial to precisely detect the centroid position of the target rather than to merely identify the position of the target bounding box or segment all pixels belonging to ...
Xiangdong Xu, Jiarong Wang, Zhichao Sha, Haitao Nie, Ming Zhu, Yu Nie   +5 more
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Cauchy-characteristic Evolution of Einstein-Klein-Gordon Systems: The Black Hole Regime

, 1996
The Cauchy+characteristic matching (CCM) problem for the scalar wave equation is investigated in the background geometry of a Schwarzschild black hole. Previously reported work developed the CCM framework for the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon system of ...
B. S. DeWitt, C. Clarke, C. Clarke, C. Gundlach, C. Gundlach, E. S. C. Ching, E. W. Leaver, M. Dubal, N. Bishop, Pablo Laguna, Philippos Papadopoulos, R. Gómez, R. Gómez, R. Gómez, R. Gómez, R. Gómez, W. Krivan   +16 more
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