Multitemporal High-Resolution Satellite Images for the Study and Monitoring of an Ancient Mesopotamian City and its Surrounding Landscape: The Case of Ur by Giacomo Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Scardozzi

“…The acquired dataset is composed by two Gambit KH-7 (1966) and one Corona KH-4B (1968) declassified spy space photos and by few images taken by the recent satellites for civilian use QuickBird-2 (2002, 2004, 2007), Ikonos-2 (2008), and WorldView-1 (2008). …”
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GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts by Frédéric Jiguet, Asaf Mayrose, Markus Piha, Ron Efrat, Tuomas Seimola, Nir Sapir, Sami Timonen, Yohay Wasserlauf, Aurélien Besnard, Pierrick Bocher, Andrea Kölzsch, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Anne-Christine Monnet, Petr Procházka, Yoav Perlman

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High-Quality Text-to-Image Generation Using High-Detail Feature-Preserving Network by Wei-Yen Hsu, Jing-Wen Lin

“…Compared with the state of the art, experimental results obtained on the CUB-Bird and MS-COCO datasets demonstrate that the proposed HDFpNet achieves better performance and visual presentation, especially regarding high-detail images and feature preservation.…”
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Pigeon racing in South Africa: Exploring the socio-economic nature and extent of this 'unknown sport' by Cecilia MOSTERT, Ronnie DONALDSON

“…The paper categorizes fanciers into small, medium, and large groups based on bird ownership, presenting insights into their socio-demographic context and motivations. …”
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A Population Classification Evolution Algorithm for the Parameter Extraction of Solar Cell Models by Yiqun Zhang, Peijie Lin, Zhicong Chen, Shuying Cheng

“…To quickly and precisely extract the parameters for solar cell models, inspired by simplified bird mating optimizer (SBMO), a new optimization technology referred to as population classification evolution (PCE) is proposed. …”
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Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task by Ella McCallum, Rachael C. Shaw

“…We used a spatial discounting task resembling natural foraging decisions to measure self-control in wild toutouwai (Petroica longipes), a songbird endemic to New Zealand. Birds chose between a near, low-quality food item and a high-quality food item further away. …”
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Surface‐modified nanosilica–chitinase (SiNp‐Chs)‐doped nano enzyme conjugate and its synergistic pesticidal activity with plant extracts against armyworm Spodoptera litura (Fab.) (... by G. Narendrakumar, S. Karthick Raja Namasivayam

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Molecular Characterization of Chicken Anemia Virus Circulating in Chicken Flocks in Egypt by Mohammed AboElkhair, Alaa G. Abd El-Razak, Abd Elnaby Y. Metwally

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Publication metrics: Types, utility, and caveats by Durga Prasanna Misra

“…Publication metrics are useful to provide a bird's eye view of how well an individual journal or article has been cited or used. …”
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Entropic imprints on bioinformatics by Ismail Mageed

“…Undoubtedly, entropy has a great imprint, which has already changed the way we should think of Bioinformatics based on its multi-faced nature, whether being looked at from an angle of physics, information-theoretic, thermodynamical, chaotic-led approach, and a bird-eye view of a computing perspective. The flow of the current review continues by showcasing the entropic fingerprints on Bioinformatics, resulting in many exceptional discoveries that have enormously added to the existing knowledge. …”
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Pathogenic potential of ornithogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains detected in the Earth's polar regions by Batyrbek I. Aslanov, Daniil V. Azarov, Maria A. Makarova, Elizaveta G. Marysheva, Lyudmila A. Kraeva, Aleksey S. Mokhov, Ekaterina A. Lebedeva, Nikita E. Goncharov, Natalya V. Lebedeva, Dmitry A. Starikov, Victoria V. Kolodzhieva, Dmitry E. Polev, Artemy E. Goncharov

“…Pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are an important object of surveillance within the One Health concept in the wild, agriculture and human society. Migratory bird colonies and high latitude avian colonies may be points of active intraspecies and interspecies contact between different animal species, accompanied by the spread of pathogens. …”
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Social mates dynamically coordinate aggressive behavior to produce strategic territorial defense. by Nicole M Moody, Cole M Williams, Sohini Ramachandran, Matthew J Fuxjager

“…However, if simulated intruders are less threatening, residents are more likely to defend solo, where only one bird deploys defensive behaviors. Overall, our study supports the hypothesis that nonhuman animals can pattern their behavior in a strategic and coordinated manner, while demonstrating the power of systems approaches for analyzing multiagent behavioral dynamics.…”
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Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) manufacture objects relative to a mental template by Anna A. Smirnova, Leia R. Bulgakova, Maria A. Cheplakova, Sarah A. Jelbert

“…All three crows ripped paper pieces from the same colour material as the rewarded template, and, crucially, also manufactured objects that were more similar in size to previously rewarded, than unrewarded, templates, despite the birds being rewarded at random in both tests. Therefore, we found the ability to manufacture physical objects relative to a mental template in yet another bird species not specialized in using or making foraging tools in the wild, but with a high level of brain and cognitive development.…”
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Incidence and morphological study of lice infested chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nineveh governorate, Iraq by Nadia H. mohammed, Rawaa G. Mohammed, Waad K. Khalaf

“…Lice were the most common Ectoparasites in birds, especially chickens that stay in their life cycle from eggs to the adult same bird, causing poor chicken health. …”
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Caractéristiques rythmiques du chant de l'indri et nouvelles perspectives pour une évaluation comparative du rythme chez les primates non humains by Marco Gamba, Valeria Torti, Chiara De Gregorio, Teresa Raimondi, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Filippo Carugati, Walter Cristiano, Rose M. Randrianarison, Giovanna Bonadonna, Anna Zanoli, Olivier Friard, Daria Valente, Andrea Ravignani, Cristina Giacoma

“…A recent study showed that bird songs and human music share rhythmic categories when a signal's temporal intervals are distributed categorically rather than uniformly. …”
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RTAPM: A Robust Top-View Absolute Positioning Method with Visual–Inertial Assisted Joint Optimization by Pengfei Tong, Xuerong Yang, Xuanzhi Peng, Longfei Wang

“…The proposed method employs a bird’s-eye view monocular RGB camera to estimate the UAV’s moving position. …”
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Effect of innate and induced immunity on infectious bursal disease pathogenesis by A. N. Semina

“…In case of IBD, the immunosuppression is both direct consequence of specific target-cell infection and indirect consequence of the interactions occurring in the bird’s immune network. Infection with highly virulent virus strain or chicks’ infection at early age after recovery or subclinical infection results in immunosuppression with more severe consequences. …”
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‘Fission Chips’: An Activist’s View on Anti-Nuclear Activism in South Africa from the 1980s to the 21st Century by Mike Kantey

“…As we see, parliamentary democracy is a very fragile bird, and it remains to pay tribute to a very rare, courageous, and determined South African civil society that can hold their elected leaders to account. …”
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On the 160th anniversary of Ivan V. Michurin’s birth by N. P. Goncharov, N. I. Savel’ev

“…He created some new artificial interspecific hybrids such as Cerapadus (cherry and bird cherry hybrid), and others. Michurin created 132 cultivars. …”
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Prediction of Soil Water Characteristic Curve Based on Soil Water Evaporation by Gaoliang Tao, Da Lei, Lisheng Liu, Yi Li, Xueliang Zhu

“…Further, two prediction methods are developed, which are derived based on the Fredlund–Xing model and based on the Bird model, respectively. The proposed methods were validated using soil water evaporation tests of Hunan sand with six dry densities at three ambient temperatures, and the results showed that good prediction performances were achieved using these two methods.…”
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