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Anthropology and Humanism, 2022 This prose poem explores autobiography as a trace site for the affective encounters between life and non-life. Using my own memories of making a childhood bug collection, I attempt to answer a question Povinelli asks in Geontologies—What does life desire? —by merging it with a question raised in my own ethnographic fieldwork—What do I desire?
Wesley Brunson
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Tandem-wing interactions on aerodynamic performance inspired by dragonfly hovering
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Dragonflies possess two pairs of wings and the interactions between forewing (FW) and hindwing (HW) play an important role in dragonfly flight. The effects of tandem-wing (TW) interactions on the aerodynamic performance of dragonfly hovering have been ...
Liansong Peng +4 more
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Tough, Waterproofing, and Sustainable Bio‐Adhesive Inspired by the Dragonfly Wing [PDF]
Advanced Functional MaterialsThe development of multifunctional bio‐adhesive plays a critical role in achieving a sustainable society, where the intrinsic sensitivity to water and poor dynamics severely bottlenecks its scale‐up application.
Ying Zhou +10 more
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Parameter Estimation of the Nonlinear Muskingum Flood-Routing Model Using The new dragonfly algorithm [PDF]
مهندسی عمران شریف, 2021 Flood routing is one of the most complex problems investigated in hydrologic engineering and it can help design engineers to recognize the impacts of riverine projects. Among the different flood routing methods, the Muskingum model as the best hydrologic
S. Khalifeh +2 more
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Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2023 Tool wear is an important concern in the manufacturing sector that leads to quality loss, lower productivity, and increased downtime. In recent years, there has been a rise in the popularity of implementing TCM systems using various signal processing ...
Milind Shah +5 more
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Trait correlates of distribution trends in the Odonata of Britain and Ireland [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 A major challenge in ecology is understanding why certain species persist, while others decline, in response to environmental change. Trait-based comparative analyses are useful in this regard as they can help identify the key drivers of decline, and ...
Gary D. Powney +3 more
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Dragonflies of Moldova: an updated checklist of the Odonata fauna
Geo&Bio, 2023 The present research compiles all known records of dragonflies in Moldova, including Transnistria (from the beginning of the 20th century until present), based on all known literature and other sources, and also the personal observations of the author in
Olena Dyatlova
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Dragonfly: Higher Perceptual Quality For Continuous 360° Video Playback
Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2023 When streaming 360° video, it is possible to reduce bandwidth by 5× with approaches that spatially segment video into tiles and only stream the user's viewport.
Ehab Ghabashneh +4 more
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Natura Sloveniae, 2021 One adult male dragonfly Violet Dropwing Trithemis annulata was recorded at Lake Vogršček in the Vipava Valley (W Slovenia) during the Biological Students Research Camp – Otlica 2021.
Damjan Vinko, Ali Šalamun
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