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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Swimming behaviour"”.
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The effects of dietary selenomethionine on the escape behaviours of Fathead Minnows
… of the musculature and sensory systems. Behavioural ecotoxicology, a more sensitive study of toxicity, has also provided evidence that sublethal concentrations of selenium are having measurable impacts, such as negatively affecting swimming behaviours, in real-world ecosystems. In this …
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Dynamical systems and their applications in neuroscience
… The first network was used to simulate the swimming behaviour of the tadpole and to show that to disregard some important differences in the models for different neurons, will result in breakdown of the good network output. Then we have used the individual models to study a hypothesis …
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Models of neural circuits as optimally driven dynamical systems
… they can take. When combined with neural or behavioural observations, these constraints allow to formulate unobserved inputs driving a neural population as the solution to an optimal control problem -- which here we solve using the iLQR algorithm. We first use this framework to understand …
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An investigation into the role of cannabinoid and group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors in the control of rhythmic locomotion in hatchling Xenopus Laevis
… on these previous experiments to assess the swimming behaviour of the X. laevis tadpole in vivo using slow-motion high frame rate video (400 frames per second) to determine the frequency of tail swim cycles and the angle of tail flexion achieved during these swim cycles. Using this …
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Male gamete morphology in relation to swimming velocity and fertilisation microenvironment
… is a relationship between sperm morphology and swimming velocity in terms of fertilisation success. In addition to this it is further assumed that longer sperm swim faster than shorter sperm. During competitive mating, when the ejaculate from two or more males compete to fertilise a given set of …
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Locomotor biomechanics and behaviour in the ocellate river stingray
… to constrain or preclude many of the locomotor behaviours that are employed by fishes that typically swim via undulations of the longitudinal body axis and caudal fin, and which tend to dominate descriptions of fish swimming in the literature. In contrast, stingrays exhibit a variety of …
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Application of Adverse Outcome Pathway framework in assessing nanogold exposure to Daphnia magna
… organism level (physiological changes based on swimming behaviour, heart rate, and respiration) and AO at community level (functional response and reproduction). To propose an AOP for nAu and ionic Au based on the MIE, KEs and AO, D. magna were exposed to sub lethal concentrations of CTAB capped …