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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Centipedes"”.
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The Effects of Environmental Complexity on Community Structure in Woodland Centipedes
Woodland centipedes occur in both log/fallen deadwood and leaf-litter microhabitats in temperate forests. The variation in centipede diversity among similar sites in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of eastern Tennessee and the Nantahala National Forest of western North Carolina is related …
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Non-inertial Undulatory Locomotion Across Scales
… algae (bearing four flagella), 3) centipedes on terrestrial environments, and 4) centipedes on fluid environments. For each of these systems, we study how the coordination of their many degrees of freedom leads to specific locomotive behaviors. Further, we propose hypotheses for the …
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Head and protocerebral patterning in the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum
… mandibulate arthropods (insects, crustaceans, centipedes and millipedes) around 500 million years ago, making them good models to study whether traits and mechanisms of development are ancestral or derived with respect to the arthropod common ancestor. An arachnopulmonate-arachnid, the spider …
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Gappy POD and Temporal Correspondence for Lizard Motion Estimation
… to quadruped, and even to serpentine motion of centipedes, millipedes, and snakes. Collecting optical motion capture data of such complex animal motions can be complicated for several reasons. Often there is the need to use many high-quality cameras for detailed subject tracking, and …
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Modelling and Simulation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Arrays of Coupled Filaments for Robot Walkers
… are observed in larger organisms such as centipedes and millipedes, which use it for terrestrial locomotion. While there are many studies on cilia-inspired robot locomotion, they often focus on hydrodynamic coupling or magnetic actuation. This thesis introduces a model with mechanical …
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Robust spectral representations and model inference for biological dynamics
… framework to the undulatory locomotion of worms, centipedes, robots, and snakes to distinguish between locomotion behaviors. Finally, we present an extension of the framework to the case of nonlinear dynamics when all relevant degrees of freedom are only partially observed, with applications to …
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Venom Yield, Regeneration, and Composition in the Centipede Scolopendra Polymorpha
<p>In this dissertation, I investigated yield, regeneration, and composition of centipede venom. In the first of three empirical studies, I investigated how size influenced venom volume yield and protein concentration in <em>Scolopendra polymorpha </em>and <em>S. subspinipes</em>. I also examined …