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Michael I. Newton, Luke Chamberlain, Adam McVeigh and Martin Bencsik
Sensor technologies have sufficiently advanced to provide low-cost devices that can quantify carbon dioxide levels in honeybee hives with high temporal resolution and in a small enough package for hive deployment. Recent publications have shown that summ...
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Maryam Safavi and Maryam Khoshbakht
Utilizing integrated solar systems and renewable energy sources has the potential to not only decrease the CO2 emissions of buildings but also provide access to more affordable energy alternatives compared to fossil fuels, especially considering the rece...
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Izabela Kot, Magdalena Lisecka, Katarzyna Kmiec, Katarzyna Golan, Edyta Górska-Drabik, Tomasz Kiljanek, Beata Zimowska and Barbara Skwarylo-Bednarz
Plant species and abiotic factors including season appear to be the most important variables influencing the frequency of visits by honeybees (Apis mellifera L.). In the present study, we evaluated the activity of honeybee workers visiting runner bean (P...
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Przemyslaw Grodzicki, Joanna Bacia, Katarzyna Piatkowska and Bartosz Piechowicz
Among the honeybee subspecies, Polish beekeepers most commonly rear three of them, i.e., Apis mellifera carnica, A. m. mellifera and A. m. caucasica. They differ in morphological and physiological features. Our goal was to find a linkage between their th...
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Lixia Tian, Jun Ren, Ruxu Li, Ning Di, Xi Huang, Su Wang, Xihong Fang and Xilian Xu
The herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora Pall.) has high ornamental and nutritional value, and the seeds of P. lactiflora can be used to produce high-quality edible oil. However, low seed yield limits the application of P. lactiflora. This can be mitigat...
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Falian Xie, Haihong Song and Huina Zhang
Upon the need for sustainability and natural lighting performance simulation for high-speed railway station waiting halls in cold regions, a new prediction method was proposed for the quantitative analysis of their natural lighting performance in the ear...
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Xiaojing Zhang, Yue Hao, Qingsheng Niu, Yanping Chen, Zhenyu Xia, Zihan Xie, Yazhou Zhao, Lingjie Kong and Wenjun Peng
The division of labor is a dominant characteristic of honeybees and is accompanied by behavioral specialization and cognitive enhancement. As the central nervous system to control the labor-specific behaviors of honeybee, the brain is richest in lipid in...
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Amy-Marie Gilpin, Conrad Kobel, Laura E. Brettell, Corey O?Brien, James M. Cook and Sally A. Power
Co-flowering plants can experience an array of interactions, ranging from facilitation to competition, the direction and strength of which are often dependent on the relative abundance and diversity of the plant species involved and the foraging behavior...
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Vasiliy V. Grigoriev, Oleg Iliev and Petr N. Vabishchevich
Parameter identification is an important research topic with a variety of applications in industrial and environmental problems. Usually, a functional has to be minimized in conjunction with parameter identification; thus, there is a certain similarity b...
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Oscar E. Perez-Cham, Cesar Puente, Carlos Soubervielle-Montalvo, Gustavo Olague, Carlos A. Aguirre-Salado and Alberto S. Nuñez-Varela
Object tracking refers to the relocation of specific objects in consecutive frames of a video sequence. Presently, this visual task is still considered an open research issue, and the computer science community attempted solutions from the standpoint of ...
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