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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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Analysis and design of a capsule landing system and surface vehicle control system for Mars exploration [PDF]
A number of problems related to unmanned exploration of planets or other extraterrestrial bodies with Mars as a case in point were investigated. The design and evaluation of a prototype rover concept with emphasis on mobility, maneuverability, stability,
Frederick, D. K. +2 more
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Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured farmland and avoided forests and water bodies occupied by the invasive American mink.
Salvador Salvador +4 more
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić +8 more
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Inverse Simulation as a Tool for Fault Detection and Isolation in Planetary Rovers [PDF]
, 2017 With manned expeditions to planetary bodies beyond our own and the Moon currently intractable, the onus falls upon robotic systems to explore and analyse extraterrestrial environments such as Mars. These systems typically take the form of wheeled rovers,
Flessa, Thaleia +5 more
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.In an urban‐adjacent forested area, we investigated the spatial and temporal distribution of the wild mammal community in relation to day‐to‐day fluctuations of human presence occurring between working days and weekends. We deployed 52 camera‐traps systematically within an EU Natura 2000 area located within the metropolitan area of Florence, central ...
Ilaria Greco +6 more
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The Planetary Science JournalThe Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity each carried a thermal infrared (IR) instrument called the Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) used to determine rock and soil composition and thermophysical properties. In this work,
Benjamin D. Byron +9 more
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Compositional End Members in Gale Crater, Mars [PDF]
, 2016 Geochemical data returned from the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover over 1296 sols, has revealed a previously unforeseen martian geochemical complexity.
Bedford, C.C. +4 more
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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SensorsThis research proposes a novel approach to global path and resource planning for lunar rovers. The proposed method incorporates a range of constraints, including static, time-variant, and path-dependent factors related to environmental conditions and the
Toshiki Tanaka, Heidar Malki
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