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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"hive"”.
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Hive city
… Rafał Kosik and Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan. Hive City focuses on Monica, a gun-for-hire working to live up to the dream of the brother she killed, as she accepts a job to steal medical equipment from an intermediary that she doesn’t quite trust. Things go awry though when the equipment she’s …
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Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) rearing and in-hive pesticidal protein control
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
… mapped, and analyzed the waggle dances of hives in Blacksburg, Virginia before (2018-19) and after (2022) the conversion of some of their prime habitat through construction. We found that bees increased their foraging nearly four-fold on the microhabitat which were untouched by the …
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Hive : a software infrastructure for things that think
Hive is a software toolkit to facilitate the creation of distributed systems of Things That Think. Hive contains a number of features that distinguish it from comparable toolkits including an unusual organizational metaphor, a reliance upon mobile code, and a powerful description facility to allow …
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Effects of nutrition on honey bee microbiology, disease occurrence, and hive growth
… a one-year field experiment on 16 honey bee hives at two locations in eastern Washington to evaluate how nutritional supplementation impacts gut bacterial community structure and function, disease occurrence, and overall colony health. The supplementation was mixed in 1:1 sugar-water and …
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Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, the Hive, and Identity in Women's Writing
The works examined are poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorede, novels by Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee …
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Studies on the Structure and Pathogens of the Small Hive Beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
<p>The small hive beetle (Aethina tumida, SHB) is an invasive pest of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in the United States. The adult and larval beetles can ruin honey through fecal contamination and by vectoring a mutualistic yeast (Kodamaea ohmeri) that causes honey fermentation. These …
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Whose Honey, Whose Hive?: Genre and Rhetorical Agency in the U.S. Colony Collapse Disorder
<p>This dissertation analyzes the rhetoric surrounding the environmental crisis of the honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder, commonly known as CCD. Since 2007, the United States has lost on average a third of its honey bee colonies each year to CCD. The crisis has potentially serious environmental …
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Hive thinking : a theory on the evolution of cognitive specialization and applications to digital marketing
… work is to observe the evolution of a single 'hive consciousness' - a collection of individual minds acting as a single sustaining entity - with the underlying belief that it is the development of an optimal hive structure, not the development of an optimal individual mind, that results in the …
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Biomarkers of oxidative stress in atrazine-treated honey bees: A laboratory and in-hive study
… concentrations of atrazine for 24 h whereas hive experiments were conducted with bees exposed to one sub-lethal concentration of atrazine for 28 d. The overall antioxidant enzyme activities of atrazine-treated honey bees were decreased compared to the untreated honey bees in both the …
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Investigating the morphological adaptations and fungal associations of the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
The small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) (SHB) acts as a facultative hive pest of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Drawn to honey bee hives by volatiles from the yeast Kodamaea ohmeri (Ascomycota: Saccharomycotina), the beetles must avoid …
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Infrastructure for an intelligent kitchen
… This paper presents such a software system, Hive. Hive is a decentralized distributed mobile agents platform, addressing the requirements of a infrastructure for "things that think". Hive addresses the need for ways to manage highly heterogeneous sets of devices, methods for describing and …
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Improving Indian beehives and beekeeping
… for both Indian and American beekeepers. First, hive weight scale mechanisms are quantitatively analyzed, yielding design improvements to improve accuracy. Second, designs of hive entrances are tested to promote traffic flow, assist ventilation, and exclude pests. Third, recommendations for …
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Wireless sensor networks, actuation, and signal processing for apiculture
… bee health by developing state of the art in-hive monitoring systems to classify the colony status and mechanisms to influence hive conditions. Specific objectives were identified as steps to achieve this goal: to use Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) technology to monitor a honey bee colony in …
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The effects of urbanization on disease prevalence in managed honey bee hives in Hamilton County, TN
… bees. We surveyed 18 apiaries containing 53 hives for diseases and productivity from 2021-2022 in Hamilton County, Tennessee at varying levels of urbanization. Disease levels were analyzed at 1.0km intervals from 0.5-9.5 km radii from each hive. Varroa levels significantly decreased with …
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