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The “Vampire Bat” [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1883
DR. ROMANES, in criticising a book (“Zoological Sketches”), in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 333, says: “The writer speaks of vampire bats as those which suck the blood of sleeping persons, whereas the truth is, as Belt has remarked, ‘the vampire is the most harmless of bats.’”
openaire   +2 more sources

Optimized DeepLabV3+ for Clinical Data Analysis through Advanced Particle Swarm Optimization‐Based Channel Selection

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A novel medical image segmentation framework that integrates an enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (EE‐PSO) into DeepLabV3+ to optimize feature selection. By dynamically identifying key channels in the atrous spatial pyramid pooling module, the method improves segmentation performance, achieving mIoU gains of 2.7% on Alzheimer's and 2.8% on brain ...
Alireza Norouziazad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brief Survey of Current Oral Tobacco and Nicotine Product Use in Sweden and Denmark

open access: yesContributions to Tobacco and Nicotine Research
Exclusive use of Swedish snus is associated with a reduction in associated health risks as compared with cigarette smoking. Similar to Swedish snus but without tobacco, modern oral nicotine pouches are smokeless nicotine products with the potential to ...
Prasad Krishna, Edward Lauren
doaj   +1 more source

The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Rhinolophus pearsonii (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae)

open access: yesMitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources
Rhinolophus pearsonii, widely distributed in the valleys of India and southern China. The mitochondrial DNA of R. pearsonii is packaged in a compact 16,900-basepair (bp) circular molecule with A + T content of 55.9%.
Jinsheng Tang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stomatal distribution and post‐fire recovery: Intra‐ and interspecific variation in plants of the pyrogenic Florida scrub

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Amphistomy, the presence of stomata on both leaf surfaces, can increase photosynthesis yet is uncommon across vascular plants. The relative infrequency of amphistomy is often attributed to high costs, such as transpirational water loss.
Genevieve Triplett, Aaron S. David
wiley   +1 more source

A Finite Element Investigation into the Effect of Slope of Grain on Wood Baseball Bat Durability

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2019
Bat durability is defined as the relative bat/ball speed that results in bat breakage, i.e., the higher the speed required to initiate bat cracking, the better the durability.
Joshua Fortin-Smith   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

BAT - The Bayesian Analysis Toolkit

open access: yes, 2008
We describe the development of a new toolkit for data analysis. The analysis package is based on Bayes' Theorem, and is realized with the use of Markov Chain Monte Carlo. This gives access to the full posterior probability distribution.
Akaike   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Climate‐change‐driven shifts in C3 and C4 grass distributions and leaf traits could lead to changes in community‐level flammability

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Climate change poses challenges to grasslands, including those of the North American Great Plains Region, where shifts in species distributions and fire dynamics are expected. Our present analysis focuses on remaining grasslands within this largely developed and agricultural region. The differential responses of C4 and C3 grass species
Sarah L. Raubenheimer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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