Fruitful outcomes without fatal costs: non-lethal alternatives show promise in alleviating human-wildlife conflict involving an island flying fox [PDF]
PeerJHuman-wildlife conflict is a growing threat to biodiversity, primarily involving damage to agricultural production. In Mauritius, the threatened Mascarene endemic Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger) has been subjected to five annual mass-culling ...
Geetika Bhanda +2 more
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Seroprevalence of Nipah virus and related paramyxoviruses in native frugivorous bats, Luzon, Philippines [PDF]
Emerging Microbes and InfectionsNipah virus (NiV) is a highly virulent zoonotic virus classified as a priority pathogen and biohazard. In 2014, an outbreak of NiV-like disease in the Province of Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Philippines resulted in a 53% case fatality rate.
Marana S. Rekedal +18 more
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Asynchronous seasonal dynamics of nycteribiid bat flies and Bartonella spp. in Australian flying foxes (Pteropus spp.) [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Bat flies are ubiquitous ectoparasites of bats, recognised as potential vectors for viral and bacterial transmission between individual bats within a roost. Despite this, little is known about the seasonal dynamics of bat flies.
Brent D. Jones +13 more
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Flying less, mobility practices, and well-being: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022 This article uses a mixed-methods design to study flight-intensive practices in Norway. It explores how practices changed as a consequence of the travel restrictions implemented to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for people’
Mònica Guillen-Royo
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Flying Less for Work and Leisure? Co-Designing a City-Wide Change Initiative in Geneva
Urban Planning, 2021 Geneva prides itself on being an international city, home to the United Nations and international organizations. The airport plays an important role in this image, tied to a quest for hypermobility in an increasingly globalized society.
Marlyne Sahakian +4 more
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Map-Less Navigation of a Flying Robot
IEEE Access, 2022 Flying robots are expected to be used in many tasks, such as aerial delivery, inspection inside dangerous areas, and rescue. However, their deployment in unstructured and highly dynamic environments has been limited.
Oualid Doukhi, Deok Jin Lee
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Real Time Implementation of Amphibious Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System for Horticulture [PDF]
International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, 2023 Automating the tasks that require manpower has been considered as an area of active research in science and technology. Challenges in designing such systems include accuracy in the parameters of performance, minimal hardware, cost-efficiency, and ...
M. Arun Kumar +3 more
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‘What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality
Geo: Geography and Environment, 2022 Geography, like many other disciplines, is reckoning with the carbon intensity of its practices and rethinking how activities such as annual meetings are held.
Michelle Bastian +5 more
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Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu, 2023 ObjectivesFor a marine 690 Vac bidirectional converter based on a three-level flying capacitor, in order to make it start stably and transition to its normal working state, the flying capacitor must be pre-charged.
Weibo LI +3 more
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In-flight detection of few electrons using a singlet-triplet spin qubit
Physical Review Research, 2022 We investigate experimentally the capacitive coupling between a two-electron singlet-triplet spin qubit and flying electrons propagating in quantum Hall edge channels.
Vivien Thiney +8 more
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