Response of adult dragonflies to artificial prey of different size and colour. by Tammy M Duong, Ann B Gomez, Thomas N Sherratt

“…To investigate prey selection by specific predator species under field conditions, we compared the time to attack distributions of black-painted prey presented to two common dragonflies: Leucorrhinia intacta and the larger, Libellula pulchella. …”
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Die Verteilung von hochmolekularen Stoffen und von Zellfragmenten in flüssigen Phasenpaaren zur Fraktionierung by P. von Tavel

“…According to Brönsted the selectivity of fractionation by distribution must increase with the molecular weight. …”
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Communication channel preference for raising rabies awareness among dog owners in Thailand: A nationwide study by Wagee Worrawattanatam, Wongsaton Ektasaeng, Phakwat Pornsuksant, Sarin Suwanpakdee, Sith Premashthira, Anuwat Wiratsudakul

“…Village health volunteers represented the most selected channel, as identified by the mean ranking (3.32), followed by public loudspeaker (3.30) and television (2.93). …”
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Uptake of mass drug administration programme for schistosomiasis control in Koome Islands, Central Uganda. by Doreen Tuhebwe, James Bagonza, Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho, Adoke Yeka, Alison M Elliott, Fred Nuwaha

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In March 2013, we conducted a mixed methods cross sectional study in 15 randomly selected villages. We interviewed a total of 615 respondents aged 18 years and above using semi structured questionnaires and five key informants were also purposively selected. …”
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Hygric performance of new building components for vertical green gardens by Pavel Kopecký

“…Test samples differ in shape, arrangement of functional layers, water distribution means and irrigation patterns. The article presents and discusses measured data at selected test samples during growing season in year 2021. …”
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Computational Screening of Heterocyclic L-Type Calcium Channel Blockers for Potential Anti-Parkinson’s Activity by Thomas Kurian, Rani Sebastian

“…The heterocyclic compounds like 1, 4 dihydropyridines, phenyl alkyl amines, and benzodiazepines are calcium antagonists for cardiac diseases. …”
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Antimicrobial resistant Brucella spp. prevail in raw milk and animal feces of different livestock farms by Shaista Zeb, Humaira Yasmin, Imran Riaz Malik, Mohammad Abul Farah, Vivak M. Arya, Muhammad Nadeem Hassan

“…Methods The raw milk and fecal samples were collected randomly from the different livestock farms of Punjab, Pakistan. The areas were selected based on the different sociodemographic attributes like climate, land usage, number of animals, husbandry practices and operational convenience, which may influence the spatial and temporal distribution of livestock diseases. …”
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Spiders as superhosts and secondary kleptoparasites by Ingi Agnarsson, Ingi Agnarsson

“…These then pertain to a few select lineages, out of total spider diversity: 23/136 families, 86/4,427 genera, and 200/52,765 known species. …”
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Optimization of Cooling System Matching for EMU Auxiliary Power Unit by ZHANG Xiao, LIU Changqing, ZHOU Wenyong

“…With numerical simulation, taking permanent magnet EMU auxiliary power converter as a research object, the cooling system was simulated and thus realized multi-objective optimization including temperature rise of electrical component, flow distribution, air duct structure, flow resistance and fan turbine selecting and matching. …”
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The Role of Consumer Characteristics and Marketing Mix on the Waste of Agricultural Products by M. Mahmoudi, H. Mohammadi, A. Karbasi

“…Additionally, the number of people working in the family (mean parameter distribution = 0.3733) also reduces waste, likely because a higher number of working family members can lead to increased income, allowing for the purchase of higher-quality products. …”
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Investigating the hatchability and nauplii biometry of Artemia franciscana in unconventional waters of Sistan region, Southeast Iran by Hashem Khandan Barani, Abdolali Rahdari, Narjes Sanchooli, Ali Khosravanizadeh

“…Acknowledgments: The author would like to thank the helpful assistance offered by the laboratory staff in Aquatic Sciences Department of Research Institute of Zabol.…”
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Evolution of heterogeneous perceptual limits and indifference in competitive foraging. by Richard P Mann

“…This provides a individual-based evolutionary basis for models incorporating perceptual limits that have been proposed to explain observed deviations from the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) in empirical studies, while showing that the common assumption in such models that agents share identical sensory limits is likely false. …”
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Classifying carnivore tracks using dimensions that control for snow conditions by Nicholas P. McCann, Patrick A. Zollner, Jonathan H. Gilbert

“…Trees that classified sex and species were 75–89% accurate, indicating that snow‐tracking can be used to estimate sex‐specific marten and fisher habitat selection, distribution, and abundance. Controlling for snow conditions improves track classification accuracy for martens and fishers, and would likely improve classification accuracy for other carnivores. © 2017 The Wildlife Society.…”
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Data-Driven Clustering of Plantar Thermal Patterns in Healthy Individuals: An Insole-Based Approach to Foot Health Monitoring by Mark Borg, Stephen Mizzi, Robert Farrugia, Tiziana Mifsud, Anabelle Mizzi, Josef Bajada, Owen Falzon

“…This study leverages a data-driven clustering approach, independent of pre-selected foot regions or models like the angiosome concept, to explore normative thermal patterns in shod feet with insole-based sensors. …”
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Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals the Mechanisms of Cadmium Transport and Detoxification in Portuguese Oysters (<i>Crassostrea angulata</i>) by Kairui Qin, Longping Wu, Shixing Fu, Huayong Que, Bo Shi

“…Oysters are a globally distributed aquatic economic shellfish with a remarkable ability to accumulate cadmium (Cd). …”
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A retrospective study on nutrition risk assessment and nutritional management of head and neck cancer patients undergoing surgery in a tertiary care teaching hospital by Koyel Pal Chowdhury, Debasis Barman, Arunabha Sengupta

“…Malnutrition, sarcopenia, and likely unintentional weight loss during treatment are associated with compromised quality of life, inferior treatment outcomes, and increased morbidity; even in patients whose body mass index (BMI) is not a good indicator of malnutrition. …”
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Small Tails Tell Tall Tales--Intra-Individual Variation in the Stable Isotope Values of Fish Fin. by Brian Hayden, David X Soto, Tim D Jardine, Brittany S Graham, Richard A Cunjak, Atso Romakkaniemi, Tommi Linnansaari

“…Ray and membrane sections displayed longitudinal variation in 15N mirroring that of composite fin (~1‰), indicating that variation in15N values was likely related to ontogenetic variation.<h4>Conclusions</h4>To account for the effects of intra-fin variability in stable isotope analyses we suggest that researchers sampling fish fin, in increasing priority, 1) also analyse muscle (or liver) tissue from a subsample of fish to calibrate their data, or 2) standardize sampling by selecting tissue only from the extreme tip of a fin, or 3) homogenize fins prior to analysis.…”
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A novel method for camera‐trapping small mammals by Robert A. MCCleery, Christa L. Zweig, Melissa A. Desa, Rodney Hunt, Wiley M. Kitchens, H. Franklin Percival

“…However, if such data are not required, the Hunt trap design is an excellent technique to monitor species diversity, community composition, habitat selection, and distribution with efficiency and minimal effort. …”
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Planning and layout of tourism and leisure facilities based on POI big data and machine learning. by Shifeng Wu, Jiangyun Wang, Yinuo Jia, Jintian Yang, Jixiu Li

“…The predictive analysis suggests that new tourism and leisure facilities are likely to be concentrated in densely populated areas. …”
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Hydraulic effects of vessel-induced waves on early life stages of lake macrophytes by Susanne Scherbaum, Juergen Geist, Yannic Fuchs, Josef Schneider

“…Additionally, in the study lake and other fine-sediment dominated lakes, a significant fraction of sediments can be initiated to motion by small vessel-induced waves, which may indirectly affect germination by altering habitat conditions like turbidity and nutrients. However, grain size distribution showed minimal variation with depth at the same sampling sites, indicating limited sediment redistribution at the selected sampling sites by small vessel-induced waves. …”
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