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Optimization of Ornithopter Energy Efficiency Through Spring-Induced Harmonic Motion. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Kim J, Ryu JC.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source

Finger Unit Design for Hybrid-Driven Dexterous Hands. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Deng C, Lu W, Qian Y, Liu Y, Ning M, Zhan Z.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reduced fertilization regimes could boost biocontrol service without reducing crop yield

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Fertilization level influences pest control effectiveness in tomato crops. High fertilization increases plant growth and aphid density but reduces the performance of the parasitoid Aphidius ervi. In contrast, the predator Adalia bipunctata maintains consistent aphid suppression regardless of fertilization regime.
Ruohan Ma, Maceo Valente, Roger Boll, Peng Han, Nicolas Desneux, Anne‐Violette Lavoir   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Enhanced Dynamic Model of a Spatial Parallel Mechanism Receiving Direct Constraints from the Base at Two Point-Contact Higher Kinematic Pairs. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Cheng C, Yuan X, Li Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and experiment of a novel intelligent device suitable for automation vegetable plug seedling. [PDF]

PLoS One
Haifei Q, Zhike N, Xiandong C, Bo L, Yifan Z, Feiyang L, Jiajun Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Variable‐Rate Texture Compression: Real‐Time Rendering with JPEG

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Although variable‐rate compressed image formats such as JPEG are widely used to efficiently encode images, they have not found their way into real‐time rendering due to special requirements such as random access to individual texels. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of variable‐rate texture compression on modern GPUs using the ...
Elias Kristmann, Michael Wimmer, Markus Schütz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustained interfacial powering through self-generated mantle and siphon of a gelling droplet. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Zhou C, Liu C, Shi R, Liang H, Tan H, Zhuang K, Guo J, Tang X.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Topological data analysis has become an important tool for large scale scalar data analysis and visualization, efficiently extracting the inherent structure and features of interest of the data. However, with growing dataset sizes and complexity, it is increasingly becoming infeasible to compute topological abstractions of interest in serial ...
M. Will, J. Lukasczyk, J. Tierny, A. Gyulassy, G. H. Weber, H. Carr, C. Garth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source