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Electrical Stimulation of Coleopteran Muscle for Initiating Flight. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Some researchers have long been interested in reconstructing natural insects into steerable robots or vehicles. However, until recently, these so-called cyborg insects, biobots, or living machines existed only in science fiction. Owing to recent advances
Hao Yu Choo +3 more
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Oral dosing of chemical indicators for in vivo monitoring of Ca2+ dynamics in insect muscle. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 This paper proposes a remarkably facile staining protocol to visually investigate dynamic physiological events in insect tissues. We attempted to monitor Ca2+ dynamics during contraction of electrically stimulated living muscle.
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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Insects in 2020
, 2021 Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Insects maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...
Insects Editorial Office Insects Editorial Office
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Measurement + Control, 2022 Recently, the combination of electronic devices with living insects has been explored to manipulate their crawling or flying, similar to manipulable biological actuators.
Yongchang Jiang +4 more
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(Re)/(Dis)Embodying Love: The Cyborg in Metropolis and Blade Runner [PDF]
, 2023 Fritz Lang’s ground-breaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) has long held a particular fascination with film critics because of its exploration of the exploited proletariat and the dangers of human-machine interaction.
Mary-Anne Potter
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Spatial and temporal distribution of adult aquatic insects. [PDF]
, 2002 PhDMost quantitative ecological research on aquatic insects has addressed their immature stages. To understand their population dynamics, however, information on the adult stage is essential.
Peterson, Irene
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Cyborg Art: An Explorative and Critical Inquiry into Corporeal Human-Technology Convergence [PDF]
, 2009 This thesis introduces and examines the undervalued concept of corporeal human-technology interface art, or 'cyborg art', which describes literal, figural and metaphorical representations of increasing body and technology integration.
Borst, Elizabeth Margaretha
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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