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From innovation-as-usual towards unusual innovation: using nature as an inspiration
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2021 Innovation-as-usual employs synthetic input as the key source of inspiration to bring about innovations, whereas unusual innovation is inspired by designs in nature.
John P. Ulhøi
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, 2006 Scent Whisper is a jewellery set integrated with wireless sensor networks that offer social and therapeutic value in a desirable context. The jewellery incorporates sensors and microfluidics to initiate fragrance delivery, depending on the sensor ...
Jenkins, Gareth +2 more
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Mechanistic origins of bombardier beetle (Brachinini) explosion-induced defensive spray pulsation [PDF]
, 2014 Bombardier beetles (Brachinini) use a rapid series of discrete explosions inside their pygidial gland reaction chambers to produce a hot, pulsed, quinone-based defensive spray.
Arndt, Eric Michael +3 more
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Ground Beetles of Islands in the Western Basin of Lake Erie and the Adjacent Mainland (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Including Cicindelini) [PDF]
, 2017 We report 241 species representing 63 genera of ground beetles from the islands of the western basin of Lake Erie and selected mainland sites from a 1991-93 survey, plus specimens examined in public and private collections, and previously published ...
Horn, D. J, Purrington, F F, Will, K. W
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An Annotated Checklist of Wisconsin Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) [PDF]
, 2018 A survey of Carabidae in the state of Wisconsin, U.S.A. yielded 87 species new to the state and incorporated 34 species previously reported from the state but that were not included in an earlier catalogue, bringing the total number of species to 489 in ...
Messer, Peter W
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ZooKeys, 2009 Adults of Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini), are largely nocturnal predators and scavengers on animal and plant materials. The daily food consumption of a pair of adults is the equivalent to 1.2 - 2.3 large
Howard Frank +2 more
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Palaeontology, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 547-559, July 2019., 2019 Abstract Hatching is a pivotal moment in the life of most animals. Diverse chemical, behavioural and mechanical methods have evolved in metazoans to break the egg membranes. Among them, many arthropod and vertebrate embryos hatch using ephemeral, frequently convergent structures known as egg bursters.
Ricardo Pérez‐de la Fuente +4 more
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It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects
Advanced Materials, Volume 30, Issue 19, May 10, 2018., 2018 Insects have evolved manifold optimized solutions to everyday problems. The diversity and precision of their hierarchical material adaptations often outsmart and outperform current man‐made approaches. These materials hence provide an excellent basis for the inspiration of new technological approaches by taking design cues from nature's solutions ...
Thomas B. H. Schroeder +3 more
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Ant‐Associated Beetle Fauna in Bulgaria: A Review and New Data
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 The rich myrmecofauna in Bulgaria, comprising about 170 species, constitutes favorable settings for a diverse associated fauna. An attempt to summarize the fragmented faunal data on this ecological group in Bulgaria, together with inclusion of new data, has resulted in a comprehensive list of 121 beetle species from 14 families, obligate or facultative
Albena Lapeva-Gjonova, Alain Lenoir
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 61-69, March 2008., 2008 Abstract Many researchers use bridges as search sites to monitor freshwater otter species along watercourses. Bridges enable rapid and easy access to their habitat, but for most otter species little is known on whether these anthropogenic structures affect their distribution, their marking preferences, and consequently, the ability of such surveys to ...
Daniel Gallant +2 more
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