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Strategic adjustment of parental care in tree swallows: life-history trade-offs and the role of glucocorticoids [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Life-history theory predicts that optimal strategies of parental investment will depend on ecological and social factors, such as current brood value and offspring need.
Çağlar Akçay +5 more
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Light‐Driven Quadrupedal Walking Biohybrid Robot With Antagonistic Muscle‐Rings and Inclined Joints
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a light‐driven quadrupedal walking biohybrid robot powered by antagonistic muscle‐rings that achieve alternating walking gait. Optical training improved reproducibility of cultured muscle tissues, while caffeine treatment enhanced contractile force.
Shotaro Saito +5 more
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Female song and vocal interactions with males in a Neotropical wren
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Bird song is thought to function primarily in same-sex competition, mate attraction, and reproductive stimulation of a partner. However, these conclusions are based largely on studies of the song of male birds in north-temperate species.
Michelle L Hall +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Reconfigurable self‐contact variable stiffness metamaterials based on shape memory polymers enable programmable stiffness switching. Static arrays store and encrypt information with immunity to electromagnetic interference, while asymmetric stiffness converts symmetric vibration into directional matter transport.
Huadong Qin +7 more
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An attention bias test to assess anxiety states in laying hens [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Fear is a response to a known threat, anxiety is a response to a perceived threat. Both of these affective states can be detrimental to animal welfare in modern housing environments.
Dana L.M. Campbell +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.This article implements a unified human digital twin framework that integrates cutting edge actuation, sensing, simulation, and bidirectional feedback capability. The approach includes integrating multimodal sensing, AI, and biomechanical simulation into one compact system.
Tajbeed Ahmed Chowdhury +4 more
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Dance behaviour in cockatoos: Implications for cognitive processes and welfare.
PLoS ONEParrots (Aves, Psittaciformes) in captivity have been reported to show dance behaviour in response to music, which may involve complex cognitive processes including imitation, vocal learning and entrainment.
Natasha Lubke +3 more
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Food‐solicitation displays in nestling birds: still begging for answers
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nestling begging is a key model for understanding animal communication and parent–offspring conflict. Dynamic begging displays are often interpreted as costly, honest signals of need, with honesty maintained by viability costs, as proposed in Godfray's influential signalling model.
Daniel Parejo‐Pulido, Tomás Redondo
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Modeling and Output Optimization of Triboelectric Microphone for Acoustic Energy Harvesting
ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.This work elucidates the fundamental multiphysics coupling mechanisms governing acoustic T‐phone, providing a critical theoretical foundation and a predictive design paradigm for the future engineering and deployment of next‐generation, self‐powered acoustic sensors.
Dan Liu +6 more
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
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