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Change-point models for identifying behavioral transitions in wild animals

open access: yesMovement Ecology, 2023
Animal behavior can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly to observe in the field directly. Innovative modeling methods, such as hidden Markov models (HMMs), allow researchers to infer unobserved animal behaviors from movement data, and ...
Kathleen P. Gundermann   +8 more
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Optimal Inter-Organization Control of Collaborative Advertising with Myopic and Far-Sighted Behaviors

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
This paper investigates the optimal inter-organization control of collaborative advertising considering the myopic and far-sighted behaviors. Taking a two-echelon supply chain as an example, four kinds of differential game models including myopic ...
Yinfei Xu, Yafei Zu, Hui Zhang
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Variability in prion protein genotypes by spatial unit to inform susceptibility to chronic wasting disease

open access: yesPrion, 2022
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. Certain alleles in a host’s prion protein gene are responsible for reduced susceptibility to CWD.
Alberto F. Fameli   +4 more
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Towards Transforming Game Premise: Validating an approach for Developing Cooperative Serious Games

open access: yesInternational Journal of Serious Games, 2022
The development of cooperative serious games has specific challenges related to enabling players to achieve both gaming and learning goals in a cooperative fashion. The complexity of gameplay and learning objectives leads to the lack of guidance for the
Supara Grudpan   +4 more
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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Incentive Effects for Agribiomass Power Generation Supply Chain in China

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The undersupplies of feedstock and high costs have hindered the development of China’s biomass power generation. In this paper, the noncooperative game, farmer–broker cooperative game, and broker–biomass power plant cooperative game, under government ...
Juanjuan Wu   +5 more
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Quantifying effects of snow depth on caribou winter range selection and movement in Arctic Alaska

open access: yesMovement Ecology, 2021
Background Caribou and reindeer across the Arctic spend more than two thirds of their lives moving in snow. Yet snow-specific mechanisms driving their winter ecology and potentially influencing herd health and movement patterns are not well known ...
Stine Højlund Pedersen   +7 more
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Individual differences in cooperative and competitive play strategies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionCooperation and competition are common in social interactions. It is not clear how individual differences in personality may predict performance strategies under these two contexts.
Theresa C Hauge   +2 more
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Risky movements? Natal dispersal does not decrease survival of a large herbivore

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Natal dispersal is assumed to be a particularly risky movement behavior as individuals transfer, often long distances, from birth site to site of potential first reproduction.
Eric S. Long   +4 more
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Heterogeneity in risk‐sensitive allocation of somatic reserves in a long‐lived mammal

open access: yesEcosphere, 2022
Food quality and availability, when combined with energetic demands in seasonal environments, shape resource acquisition and allocation by animals and hold consequences for life‐history strategies.
Rachel A. Smiley   +12 more
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TIMING OF SPRING WILD TURKEY HUNTING IN RELATION TO NEST INCUBATION

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2015
: State wildlife agencies are often requested to open spring wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo; hereafter, turkey) hunting seasons earlier to increase hunter satisfaction by hunters hearing more gobbling male turkeys.
Mary Jo Casalena   +4 more
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