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Grzegorz Klys, Zbigniew Ziembik and Joanna Makuchowska-Fryc
This study focuses on the hibernation behavior of the western barbastelle bat (Barbastella barbastellus) in underground systems in Poland from 2006 to 2011, specifically during the peak hibernation months of December to February. The impact of climate pa...
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Pradeep Kumar, Guo-Liang Shih, Bo-Lin Guo, Siva Kumar Nagi, Yibeltal Chanie Manie, Cheng-Kai Yao, Michael Augustine Arockiyadoss and Peng-Chun Peng
Violent attacks have been one of the hot issues in recent years. In the presence of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in smart cities, there is an emerging challenge in apprehending criminals, leading to a need for innovative solutions. In this paper, t...
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Jae-Hung Han, Yu-Jeong Han, Hyeon-Ho Yang, Sang-Gil Lee and Eun-Hyuck Lee
This study focuses on the flapping mechanisms found in recently developed biometric flapping-wing air vehicles (FWAVs). FWAVs mimic the flight characteristics of flying animals, providing advantages such as maneuverability, inconspicuousness, and excelle...
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Ming-Feng Yang, Sheng-Long Kao and Raditia Yudistira Sujanto
This study delves into the offshore fishing industry in Taiwan, emphasizing the significance of the aquatic product market, supply chain development, and the maturity of cold chain technology. Taiwan?s geographical advantage of being surrounded by the se...
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Dawei Bie, Daochun Li, Huadong Li, Zi Kan and Zhan Tu
In this work, we use a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to comprehend how the two wing arrangement variables, i.e., inner/outer wing proportion and mid-stroke dihedral, affect the lift characteristic of a bat-inspired span ...
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Adrien Michez, Stéphane Broset and Philippe Lejeune
In the context of global biodiversity loss, wildlife population monitoring is a major challenge. Some innovative techniques such as the use of drones?also called unmanned aerial vehicle/system (UAV/UAS)?offer promising opportunities. The potential of UAS...
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Samuel R. Freeze, Masoud Shirazi, Nicole Abaid, Mark Ford, Alexander Silvis and Dawn Hakkenberg
Ultrasonic bat detectors are useful for research and monitoring purposes to assess occupancy and relative activity of bat communities. Environmental ?clutter? such as tree boles and foliage can affect the recording quality and identification of bat echol...
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Mohammad Sadegh Mazloomi and Philip D. Evans
Baseball is a popular and very lucrative bat-and-ball sport that uses a wooden bat to score runs. We hypothesize that new design features for baseball bats will emerge from their shape optimization using parametric modeling and genetic algorithms. We con...
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Ian MacGregor-Fors, Federico Escobar, Rafael Rueda-Hernández, Sergio Avendaño-Reyes, Martha Lucía Baena, Víctor M. Bandala, Santiago Chacón-Zapata, Antonio Guillén-Servent, Fernando González-García, Francisco Lorea-Hernández, Enrique Montes de Oca, Leticia Montoya, Eduardo Pineda, Lorena Ramírez-Restrepo, Eduardo Rivera-García and Elsa Utrera-Barrillas
Urbanization poses important environmental, social, and ecological pressures, representing a major threat to biodiversity. However, urban areas are highly heterogeneous, with some greenspaces (e.g., urban forests, parks, private gardens) providing resour...
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Duncan Tamsett, Jason McIlvenny and Andrew Watts
The backscatter response of a seabed to an incident sonar signal is dependent on the carrier wave frequency: i.e., the seabed is acoustically colourful. Colour is implemented in a prototype three-frequency sidescan sonar system deployed in the Pentland F...
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