This study explores social immunity in gregarious locusts using a groundbreaking animal–robot–pathogen interaction model. By comparing locust responses to biomimetic agents mimicking healthy and infected individuals, significant behavioral changes are revealed.
Donato Romano, Cesare Stefanini
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Photoprotective strategies in pale versus melanic boreal hair lichens: non-photochemical quenching compensates for less protective fungal pigments. [PDF]
Solhaug KA, Gauslaa Y.
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XV. The pigments of the Pieridæ: a contribution to the study of excretory substances which function in ornament [PDF]
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Autonomous Navigation of Bio‐Intelligent Cyborg Insect Based on Insect Visual Perception
The bio‐intelligent cyborg insect (BCI) introduces a noninvasive ultraviolet‐based control method, leveraging natural sensory behaviors for adaptive navigation. By integrating biological and artificial intelligence, BCI minimizes habituation and enhances locomotion in complex environments.
Chowdhury Mohammad Masum Refat+4 more
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Compositional and biochemical activity evaluation of highly polymerized tea pigments in black tea based on natural deep eutectic solvent extraction. [PDF]
Wang D+7 more
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This study introduces a data augmentation method that expands an ophthalmology dataset by 12x, enhancing robustness and reducing overfitting. A novel VNet architecture improves accuracy by 10% over the original dataset and 5% over Grand Challenge benchmarks.
Samad Azimi Abriz+3 more
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Illuminating the harvest: the regulatory effects of LEDs on pigment accumulation in various food crops. [PDF]
Yaoyuan Z, Lau NS, Subramaniam S.
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In summary, a self‐supervised end‐to‐end framework for OCT image despeckling is proposed, without access to unpaired noisy–clean images or paired noisy–noisy images for training. The despeckling performance has been evaluated on 150 subjects from five retina datasets (121 subjects) and one middle ear dataset (29 subjects). Optical coherence tomography (
Zhiyi Jiang+3 more
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Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors?
Abstract Premise Color in flowers and fruits carries multiple functions, from attracting animal partners (pollinators, dispersers) to mitigating environmental stress (cold, drought, UV‐B). With research historically focusing on biotic interactions as selective agents, however, it remains unclear whether abiotic stressors impact flower and fruit colors ...
Agnes S. Dellinger+3 more
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Insights into the antibacterial, antioxidant, and fabric colorant applications by pigment-producing actinomycetes from Sof-Umer cave rocks and sediments. [PDF]
Girma D+5 more
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