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Problem-Elephant Translocation: Translocating the Problem and the Elephant?
PLoS ONE, 2012 Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Translocating "problem-elephants" is an important HEC mitigation and elephant conservation strategy across elephant range, with hundreds translocated annually.
Fernando, Prithiviraj +3 more
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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2019 We read with interest the article by Aggarwal et al on repository corticotropin injection (RCI) in the treatment of refractory polymyositis and dermatomyositis (PM and DM) published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases .1 The authors, who are well-respected researchers in the field of myositis, have done a good job in conducting a small open-label ...
Daniel M Hartung +5 more
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim +4 more
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Human‐driven habitat conversion is a more immediate threat to Amboseli elephants than climate change
Conservation Science and Practice, 2019 Global ecosystem change presents a major challenge to biodiversity conservation, which must identify and prioritize the most critical threats to species persistence given limited available funding.
Victoria L. Boult +6 more
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Gene losses did not stop the evolution of big brains
eLife, 2018 Elephants and fruit bats have evolved large brains even though they have lost a gene that is fundamental to the supply of energy to the brain when glucose is not available.
Cristian Cañestro, Vittoria Roncalli
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A unified, reusable modeling pipeline enables task‐driven design of soft robots across actuator families and task scenarios. High‐fidelity simulations are compressed into compact pseudo‐rigid‐body joint surrogates, while a design‐conditioned meta‐model generates new surrogates from geometry parameters without rerunning finite element method.
Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 Parasites can influence the fitness of individuals particularly of small populations of endangered species. An island-wide, cross sectional, coprological survey was carried out from 03 January to 30 October 2015, to determine the gastrointestinal (GI ...
Nirupama Abeysekara +2 more
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Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Masticatory muscles are composed of the temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid muscles in mammals. Each muscle has a different origin on the skull and insertion on the mandible; thus, all masticatory muscles contract in different directions. Collecting in vivo data and directly measuring the masticatory muscles anatomically in various Carnivora ...
Kai Ito +4 more
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Measuring human–wildlife conflicts: Comparing insights from different monitoring approaches
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017 Studies investigating wildlife crop‐damage have been widely documented, but methods often vary and results can be difficult to compare across national and international regions.
Anna Songhurst
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Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen +10 more
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