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Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1998 Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. Problems associated with initialization and poor convergence to boundary concavities, however, have limited ...
Chenyang Xu, Jerry L Prince
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias. It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.
Ha Trong Dinh +13 more
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A STUDY OF THE DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS OF FREE-RANGING DEKAY’S BROWNSNAKES, STORERIA DEKAYI (HOLBROOK, 1836) [PDF]
, 2015 The defensive behaviors of free-ranging Dekay’s Brownsnakes, Storeria dekayi, were studied at a site in Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA. Twenty-nine unique sequences of defensive behavior were documented.
Gray, Brian S.
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A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2013 BackgroundThe extant squamates (>9400 known species of lizards and snakes) are one of the most diverse and conspicuous radiations of terrestrial vertebrates, but no studies have attempted to reconstruct a phylogeny for the group with large-scale taxon ...
R. A. Pyron, F. Burbrink, J. Wiens
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Snake prices and crocodile appetites: Aquatic wildlife supply and demand on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia [PDF]
, 2010 Commercial trade is a major driver of over-exploitation of wild species, but the pattern of demand and how it responds to changes in supply is poorly understood.
Berkes +45 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Caenophidian snakes include the file snake genus Acrochordus and advanced colubroidean snakes that radiated mainly during the Neogene. Although caenophidian snakes are a well-supported clade, their inferred affinities, based either on molecular or ...
H. Zaher +11 more
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The elusive scleral cartilages: Comparative anatomy and development in teleosts and avians
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The sclera of all vertebrate eyes is comprised of connective tissue, with some organisms developing cartilage within this tissue. A review of the cartilages that have been described in the vertebrate sclera and their anatomical relationships is discussed together with their potential homology.
Tamara A. Franz‐Odendaal
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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2021 Delineating species distribution comprising information on habitat suitability is vital for developing conservation strategies. Like many other snake species, Lycodon flavicollis is a poorly studied peninsular Indian endemic species known only from few ...
Sanath Krishna Muliya +7 more
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Swift-Hohenberg equation with broken reflection symmetry [PDF]
, 2009 The bistable Swift-Hohenberg equation possesses a variety of time-independent spatially localized solutions organized in the so-called snakes-and-ladders structure.
Burke, J., Houghton, S.M., Knobloch, E.
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019 Background Snakebite in India causes the highest annual rates of death (46,000) and disability (140,000) than any other country. Antivenom is the mainstay treatment of snakebite, whose manufacturing protocols, in essence, have remained unchanged for over
R. R. Senji Laxme +7 more
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