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The shared benefits of fallen fruits: A novel mechanism stabilizing a nursery pollination mutualism between Sambucus and kateretid beetles

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how cooperative interactions remain stable matters for biodiversity because many plants rely on specialist insects that can also impose reproductive costs. We studied the interaction between Sambucus sieboldiana and seed‐consuming Heterhelus beetles through detailed field observations and pollination experiments.
Suzu Kawashima, Hidehito Okada, Sadatomo Hisamatsu, Kenji Suetsugu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Corrosion Detection: Multi‐Sensor Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities for Next‐Generation Inspection

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corrosion remains a critical threat to the integrity and service life of infrastructure in industries such as oil, gas, construction, renewable energy, and transportation. Traditional inspection methods, being labor‐intensive, hazardous, and often subjective, fall short in addressing modern inspection demands.
Alhossein Alharbi, Yunes Alqudsi, Alhasan Ali Alharbi, Mohammed Basheer Mohiuddin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal movement during aerial imaging surveys

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Animals are not stationary during aerial surveys; if their movements are related to the movement of the aerial platform, then bias can be introduced into subsequent population count estimates. We sought to establish a framework for assessing the impacts of animal movement on count error and platform bias by comparing aggregated counts and relative ...
Rowan L. Converse, Christopher D. Lippitt, Steven E. Sesnie, David R. Stewart, Matthew J. Butler, Grant M. Harris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of metacomputer network agent-based applications

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион:Технические науки, 2022
Background. Despite the fact that by now new scalable architectures have been developed for distributed computing systems containing hundreds and thousands of computers, the task of creating transparent software of the “middleware” level remains urgent.
V.I. Volchikhin, N.S. Karamysheva, A.V. Gorynina, S.A. Zinkin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perfluorohexanone for Clean Fire Suppression: Mechanisms, System Design, Applications, and Future Directions

Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Driven by halon and high GWP agent phase out, perfluorohexanone is increasingly deployed in enclosures such as data centers, marine machinery spaces, and industrial process lines. This review summarizes application performance, discharge and distribution design, material compatibility, and byproduct control and maps practical gaps for large volume and ...
Zhilei Yu, Haibin Dong, Yanfeng Sheng, Xuelei Xian, Dehua Zhang, Feiran Li, Liang Liu, Junchao Zhao, Heping Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring active osprey nests with drones is more time efficient and less disturbing than conventional methods

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Drones are used to monitor bird nesting sites at less accessible locations, such as on cliffs, human infrastructure, or within the tree canopy. While there are a growing number of studies documenting avian behavioral responses to various drones, there is a continued need to monitor taxa‐specific responses to different drone models. We explored both the
Natasha K. Murphy, Jared A. Elmore, Melanie R. Boudreau, Brian S. Dorr, Scott A. Rush   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

SAFE—A Scalable and Agile Framework for Mixed Critical Event Detection

IEEE Access
Real-time video stream processing is challenging for detection of mixed critical events. Challenges lie in developing a scalable platform that not only detects multiple events according to their criticality but can also meet multi-tenancy requirements ...
Mukand Krishna, Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi, Muhammad Burhan Khan, Narmeen Zakaria Bawany, Hassan Jamil Syed   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A high‐altitude thermal infrared method for estimating moose abundance and demography in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Resource managers require accurate estimates of large herbivore abundance and demography to maintain ecological integrity. Common methods to count these species, including observations from low altitude helicopter flights, may conflict with other protected area management objectives and struggle to produce precise estimates for more cryptic species. To
Hanem G. Abouelezz, N. Thompson Hobbs
wiley   +1 more source

Function Delivery Network: A Spatial-Temporal Execution Orchestrator for Optimizing Serverless Computing

IEEE Access
We present Function Delivery Network (FDN), a novel spatial-temporal execution orchestrator designed to address key limitations in current serverless computing models.
Joel R. Corporan, Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay K. Madisetti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Field evaluations of thermal optics and tracking tunnels for small mammal surveys at airports and grass dominated habitats

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Small mammal survey tools are needed at airports to help inform aircraft strike‐risk management. We evaluated thermal optics and tracking tunnels as small mammal survey tools. We conclude that thermal optics would not be a viable survey tool for mouse‐sized mammals (19‐41 g) at airfields and other thick grass habitats unless grass height was maintained
Aaron B. Shiels, Hunter Ray, Travis L. Guerrant, Craig K. Bloomquist, Scott F. Beckerman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source