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My students and other animals. Or, a vulture, an orb weaver spider, a giant panda and 900 undergraduate business students… [PDF]

, 2009
The article describes how the library team supporting the Faculty of Organisation and Management at Sheffield Hallam University (O&M Library team) developed and delivered a new information literacy initiative for the undergraduate Business and Management
Borg, M., Stretton, E.
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Habitat Suitability Analysis and Future Distribution Prediction of Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in the Qinling Mountains, China

Diversity
Climate change has triggered a series of global problems, posing a huge threat to the distribution of many plants and animals, especially endangered species such as the giant panda.
Qi Ma, Huihui Zhang, Jiechao Liu, Yiman Guo, Kang Liu   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Giant pandas in captivity undergo short-term adaptation in nerve-related pathways

BMC Zoology
Background Behaviors in captive animals, including changes in appetite, activity level, and social interaction, are often seen as adaptive responses. However, these behaviors may become progressively maladaptive, leading to stress, anxiety, depression ...
Yan Li, Wei Xu, Juan Wang, Hong Liu, Jiawen Liu, Liang Zhang, Rong Hou, Fujun Shen, Yuliang Liu, Kailai Cai   +9 more
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Captive pandas are at risk from environmental toxins [PDF]

, 2016
Ex situ conservation efforts are the last resort for many critically endangered species, and captive breeding centers are thought to provide a safe environment for producing individuals for eventual re-introduction to the wild.
Abella, Brahmia, Christensen, Dai, Eqani, Fernandez-Rodriguez, Fiedler, Gustavson, Imamura, Li, Liu, Liu, Lohmann, Mai, Neal, Qiu, Seinfeld, Sfriso, Uddh-Soderberg, Van den Berg, Yang, Zhang, Zhu   +22 more
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Machine Learning on Systematically Curated Data Reveals Key Determinants of Magnetic Hyperthermia Performance

Small, EarlyView.
This study presents a machine‐learning (ML) framework to predict the specific absorption rate (SAR) of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) for magnetic hyperthermia. A curated dataset comprising 30 intrinsic and extrinsic features revealed strong nonlinear dependencies.
Edgar Régulo Vega‐Carrasco, Shaquib Rahman Ansari, Jiaxi Zhao, Yael del Carmen Suárez‐López, Per Larsson, Alexandra Teleki   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dietary microbiota-mediated shifts in gut microbial ecology and pathogen interactions in giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Communications Biology
The impact of dietary microorganisms on host microbiota is recognized, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study examined the effects of bamboo surface microbiota, including virulence factors, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and mobile
Zheng Yan, Ying Yao, Qin Xu, Xin He, Xinyu Zhou, Hairui Wang   +5 more
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Pseudomonas-associated bacteria play a key role in obtaining nutrition from bamboo for the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Microbiology spectrum
Gut microbiota plays a vital role in obtaining nutrition from bamboo for giant pandas. However, low cellulase activity has been observed in the panda’s gut. Besides, no specific pathway has been implicated in lignin digestion by gut microbiota of pandas.
Ruihong Ning, Caiwu Li, Maohua Xia, Yu Zhang, Yunong Gan, Yan Huang, Tianyou Zhang, Haitao Song, Siyuan Zhang, Wei Guo   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climatic–Anthropogenic Synergy Drives Escalating Minimum Area Requirements and Connectivity‐Protection Mismatch in a Karst‐Endemic Primate

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Climate change and anthropogenic activities drive antagonistic degradation of landscape connectivity for endangered François’ langur (1987–2024), causing 48.8% habitat loss, north‐south fragmentation, and centroid migration (1.2 km/yr). Despite protected areas buffering connectivity, static management fails dynamic priority habitats; we propose ...
Guangmei Yang, Heqin Cao, Tuo Shen, Jipeng Tian, Yixin Diao, Haijun Su   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The WTP for property rights for the Giant Panda: can a charismatic species be an instrument for conservation of natural habitat? [PDF]

, 2002
The paper presents the results from a stated preference study to address issues concerning the potential for using flag-ship species, such as the Giant Panda, to purchase the property rights for the conservation of natural habitat. The study finds, first,
Kontoleon, A., Swanson, T.
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Hierarchy-based Image Embeddings for Semantic Image Retrieval

, 2019
Deep neural networks trained for classification have been found to learn powerful image representations, which are also often used for other tasks such as comparing images w.r.t. their visual similarity. However, visual similarity does not imply semantic
Barz, Björn, Denzler, Joachim
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