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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Complex European invasion history of Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky): new insights in its population genomic differentiation using genotype-by-sequencing

Scientific Reports
Anthropogenic activities like trade facilitate increasing rates of biological invasions. Asian long-horned beetle (ALB), which is naturally distributed in eastern Asia (China, Korean peninsula), was introduced via wood packing materials (WPM) used in ...
Iris Haeussermann, Martin Hasselmann
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Microniche shape phytoplankton community structure in inter-connecting creeks within a mangrove ecosystem

Global Ecology and Conservation
Globally mangroves constitute an important coastal biotope and aquatic production is largely driven by phytoplankton communities within this ecosystem. Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve is a part of Sundarbans mangrove forest, the world’s largest contiguous ...
Anwesha Ghosh, Ratul Saha, Arkaprava Mandal, Chakresh Kumar, Nirupama Saini, Yash, Punyasloke Bhadury   +6 more
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Enhancing the Taxonomies Relating to Academic Integrity and Misconduct [PDF]

Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
Abstract A clear understanding of terminology is crucial in any academic field. When it is clear that complex interdisciplinary concepts are interpreted differently depending on the academic field, geographical setting or cultural values, it is time to take action. Given this, the Glossary for Academic Integrity, newly developed by the European Network
Tauginiene L., Gaizauskaite I., Razi S., Glendinning I., Sivasubramaniam S., Marino F., Cosentino M., Anohina-Naumeca A., Kravjar J.   +8 more
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Toward Perception‐Native Electronic Skin: Bio‐Inspired In‐/Near‐Sensor and Neuromorphic Computing for Humanoid Robots

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Dense tactile streams from across the humanoid body converge on collide in a central wiring and data bottleneck. By relocating computation closer to and then into the skin itself, near‐ and in‐sensor architectures, together with neuromorphic computing, chart a path toward perception‐native electronic skin, in which the conversion of stimulus into ...
Mijin Kim, Chang‐Jae Beak, Jiyoung Park, Youngdo Jung, Sunjong Oh, Sin‐Hyung Lee, Bo‐Yeon Lee   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benthic foraminiferal sedimentation in the northeast coastal Bay of Bengal using a custom designed sediment trap

Discover Oceans
The dynamics of sediment and biogenic materials are key to understanding fluxes within shallow coastal ecosystems. However, capturing these processes are particularly difficult in high-energy intertidal environments, where strong tidal currents, wave ...
Arkaprava Mandal, Punyasloke Bhadury
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Coping with arsenic stress: Adaptations of arsenite‐oxidizing bacterial membrane lipids to increasing arsenic levels

MicrobiologyOpen, 2018
Elevated levels of arsenic (As) in aquifers of South East Asia have caused diverse health problems affecting millions of people who drink As‐rich groundwater and consume various contaminated agriculture products.
Devanita Ghosh, Punyasloke Bhadury, Joyanto Routh   +2 more
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Region‐Specific Profiling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolite Landscape in Response to Dietary Intervention Using Electronics‐Free Ingestible Smart Sampling Capsules

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Region‐specific profiling of the gut microbiome is achieved non‐invasively using electronics‐free ingestible sampling capsules that activate at defined intestinal sites through stimuli‐responsive coatings. Deployed in a porcine dietary intervention model, the capsules resolve spatially distinct, fiber‐driven shifts in microbial composition and short ...
Devendra Sarnaik, Caitlyn Sullivan, Akshay Krishnakumar, Fangxin Chen, Anna Clapp Organski, Wayne W. Campbell, Jay S. Johnson, Tzu‐Wen L. Cross, Rahim Rahimi   +8 more
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The Perils of DNA Barcoding and the Need for Integrative Taxonomy [PDF]

Systematic Biology, 2005
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY that accompany this article, Will and Hebert respond to 10 questions selected by V.S. to reflect the balance of issues raised by the PEET audience (Hebert and Gregory, 2005; Will et al., 2005). Alternatively, you can follow the original debate as all 2 hours of the complete symposium are available to watch as a streaming video from ...
Will, Kipling, Mishler, Brent, Wheeler, Quentin   +2 more
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Scalable Task Planning via Large Language Models and Structured World Representations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work efficiently combines graph‐based world representations with the commonsense knowledge in Large Language Models to enhance planning techniques for the large‐scale environments that modern robots will need to face. Planning methods often struggle with computational intractability when solving task‐level problems in large‐scale environments ...
Rodrigo Pérez‐Dattari, Zhaoting Li, Robert Babuška, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source