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In 2005, five nestling Imperial Eagles (Aquila heliaca) were fitted with battery-powered GPS Satellite Transmitters (PTTs) in Slovakia to study their behaviour after fledging, two of them in the east and the other three in the west of the country.
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg +4 more
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Critically assessing the utility of portable lead analyzers for wildlife conservation
Lead (Pb) exposure in wildlife is a widespread management and conservation concern. Quantitative determination of Pb concentrations in wildlife tissues is the foundation for estimating exposure and risk.
Garth Herring +9 more
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Nest box use by American Kestrels and other cavity-nesting birds during the nonbreeding season
Nest boxes are posted to provide breeding sites for cavity-nesting birds but less is known about their function in the nonbreeding season, when nest boxes may become important roost sites.
Caitlin M. Davis +2 more
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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ensure the lifelong production of blood cells throughout a lifetime. Latexin (Lxn) is thought to have a tumor suppressor role and endogenously down-regulate the number of HSCs via increased apoptosis.
Gokhan Pektas +3 more
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Unequal Error Protected JPEG 2000 Broadcast Scheme with Progressive Fountain Codes
This paper proposes a novel scheme, based on progressive fountain codes, for broadcasting JPEG 2000 multimedia. In such a broadcast scheme, progressive resolution levels of images/video have been unequally protected when transmitted using the proposed ...
Chen, Zhao +3 more
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Unique identification is essential for understanding population demography and often relies on capturing, tagging, and resighting or tracking known individuals.
Julia S. Polasik +2 more
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Repeated large scale loop migrations of an adult European Honey Buzzard
During migration, birds adopt flight strategies that often differ between spring and autumn. This behaviour can lead to differences in migratory paths as well as in-flight performances between seasons and may help to explain seasonal differences in the ...
Nicolantonio Agostini +3 more
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The mining of Virtual Observatories (VOs) is becoming a powerful new method for discovery in astronomy. Here we report on the development of SkyDOT (Sky Database for Objects in the Time domain), a new Virtual Observatory, which is dedicated to the study ...
Borozdin, K. +7 more
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The Troublesome Broadband Evolution of GRB 061126: Does a Grey Burst Imply Grey Dust? [PDF]
We report on observations of a gamma-ray burst (GRB 061126) with an extremely bright (R ~ 12 mag at peak) early-time optical afterglow. The optical afterglow is already fading as a power law 22 seconds after the trigger, with no detectable prompt ...
A. H. Szentgyorgyi +22 more
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Myths and Realities of Rateless Coding
Fixed-rate and rateless channel codes are generally treated separately in the related research literature and so, a novice in the field inevitably gets the impression that these channel codes are unrelated.
Bonello, Nicholas +2 more
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