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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"mantis"”.
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Mantis: A Predictive Driving Directions Recommendation System
<p>This thesis presents Mantis, a system designed to evaluate possible driving routes and recommend the optimal route based on current and predicted travel conditions. The system uses the Bing Maps REST service to obtain a set of routes. Traffic data from the California Department of …
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Mantis: A Screen Magnification Tool for Diagram Traversal
… entirely on the user. In this paper, we present Mantis—six prototypes of an automatic, content-aware screen magnification tool designed to aid people who have low vision in the traversal of diagrams. Each design experiments with what sorts of information might be provided to help the user retain …
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Ventilation Behavior of the Mantis Shrimp, HEMISQUILLA ENSIGERA CALIFORNIENSIS IN HYPOXIC BURROWS
<p>The burrow-dwelling mantis shrimp, <em>Hemisquilla ensigera californiensis</em>, is an environmentally challenged marine species due to the fact it inhabits burrows located beneath the surface of the sediment where oxygen pressure is low and easily depleted. This experiment revealed that burrow …
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The Aerobic Metabolism and Behavior of the Burrow-dwelling Mantis Shrimp, HEMISQUILLA ENSIGERA CALIFORNIENSIS
… three-fourths of the daily cycle. Finally, this mantis shrimp was not observed trying to actively pump oxygenated water into the burrow and often remained at the far end of the burrow with little regard for the better-oxygenated water near the entrance. This is in contrast to other known …
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The Development of Spring-Actuated Mechanisms in Mantis Shrimp (Stomatopoda) and Snapping Shrimp (Alpheidae)
… of LaMSA morphology in two systems, the mantis shrimp Gonodactylaceus falcatus (Stomatopoda) and the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis (Alpheidae). I also examine the plasticity of LaMSA development in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis. The mantis shrimp’s spring-actuated …
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Personality in Stomatopod Crustaceans
<p>Stomatopods, or mantis shrimp, are small, predatory crustaceans of tropical and subtropical waters. Mantis shrimp research has focused largely on their agonistic interactions and complex visual systems. Despite their broad behavioral repertoire, stomatopods have not yet been investigated for …
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The Origins, Evolution, and Phylogeny of the Praying Mantises (Dictyoptera: Mantodea)
… relatively small insect order Mantodea (praying mantises) is comprised of approximately 2,366 described species distributed in 436 genera. Members of the group occupy diverse habitats and are distributed across the globe, though their greatest numbers and diversity are concentrated primarily in …
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A Connection Between Life and Art Through Light and Material
… cones that any creature on earth has. The mantis shrimp has sixteen color receptive cones as compared to the three that humans have. It is impossible to fathom what visual experiences would be possible with more than five times the amount of cones that we have now. In this piece I've tried …
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Towards Morphology-Agnostic Control for Soft Robots
… This thesis discusses the development of MANTIS: a Morphology-Agnostic Controller for Soft Robots. We evaluate MANTIS against expert controllers using a soft robotic benchmarking suite (EvoGym) and demonstrate proficiency in zero-shot generalization to unseen morphologies. Importantly, …
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Review of the South African and Mozambican stomatopod fauna
Mantis shrimps or stomatopods (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) form an important component of the marine benthos and are notorious predators. Globally some 480 species have been described. However, the current taxonomic knowledge on the mantis shrimp fauna of southern Africa remains limited and outdated, …
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Message framing and physical activity: One size fits all versus a tailored approach
<p>Message framing (i.e., emphasis on gains or losses) is a communication strategy that has been used to promote physical activity (PA). Previous research has led to inconsistent results regarding the persuasive effect of gains and losses. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore whether a …
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Dinamica de arvenses y entomofauna, bajo diferentes enmiendas nutricionales en nopal (Opuntia ficus indica L.) en Carazo
… (fitófagos como Gryllus sp L. y entomófagos como Mantis sp).
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Snoek Thyrsites atun in South African waters : aspects of its biology, distribution and fishery
… handline off the Cape Peninsula were anchovy and mantis shrimp. Snoek caught in midwater trawls offshore were feeding primarily on anchovy, with pilchard, euphausiids and amphipods also important. Snoek trawled demersally had a more diverse diet, dominated by redeye roundberring, lightfish, …
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The dynamics of ultrafast motion in biological and bio-inspired systems: the case study of click beetles
… animals to locomote, hunt, or escape predators. Mantis shrimps, trap-jaw ants, fleas, and click beetles can repeatedly achieve accelerations up to 106 m/s2. These animals generate such high accelerations using complex latch and spring systems to overcome their muscle force-speed trade-offs and …
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Ανάλυση των μοτίβων ματίσματος σε γονίδια που εμπλέκονται στην πρώιμη εκδήλωση Συστηματικού Ερυθηματώδους Λύκου
Αντικείμενο της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η διερεύνηση των μοτίβων εναλλακτικoύ ματίσματος στο πλαίσιο του Συστηματικού Ερυθηματώδους Λύκου (ΣΕΛ). Ο ΣΕΛ είναι ένα αυτοάνοσο νόσημα που παρουσιάζει έντονο φυλετικό διμορφισμό, με τις γυναίκες να προσβάλλονται σε αναλογία 9:1 έναντι των ανδρών. Το …
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Fracture analysis in biomimetic Bouligand architectures
… with the Bouligand structures is the smashing Mantis Shrimp, <em>Odontodactylus Scyllarus, </em>(or stomatopod) due to its capability of generating high speed, high acceleration blows using its raptorial appendage to defeat highly armored preys. The load-bearing part of this appendage, the …
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Case Studies in Invertebrate Visual Processing: I. Spectral and Spatial Processing in the Early Visual System of Drosophila melanogaster II. Binocular Stereopsis in Sepia officinalis
… demonstrated in one invertebrate: the praying mantis. Cuttlefish require precise distance estimation during their predatory hunt when they extend two tentacles in a ballistic strike to catch their target. Using a 3D perception paradigm whereby the cuttlefish were fitted with anaglyph glasses, I …
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Ground-based hyperspectral and spectro-directional reflectance characterization of Arctic tundra vegetation communities : field spectroscopy and field spectro-goniometry of Siberian and Alaskan tundra in preparation of the EnMAP satellite mission
… ground-based Spectro-directional observations (ManTIS). The outcome of the field spectro-radiometrical measurements at the Low Arctic study sites along important environmental gradients (regional climate, soil pH, toposequence, and soil moisture) show that the different plant communities can be …
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Biomechanics of Hierarchical Elastic Systems
… scans, I quantify the morphology of the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) merus, a single structure of the raptorial appendage hypothesized to store the elastic energy that drives ultrafast strikes. Comparing the morphology among the species, I find that the merus in smashers, species that …
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Μελέτη και ανάπτυξη τεχνικών για την αποτελεσματική διαχείριση πόρων σε δίκτυα πλέγματος και υποδομές υπολογιστικών νεφών
… ενός ολοκληρωμένου εργαλείου, που ονομάζουμε Mantis, για το σχεδιασμό και τη λειτουργία των μελλοντικών ευέλικτων (flex-grid) οπτικών δικτύων που υποστηρίζει επιπλέον οπτικά δίκτυα σταθερού πλέγματος τόσο μοναδικού ρυθμού μετάδοσης όσο και πολλαπλών ρυθμών μετάδοσης. Οι χρήστες έχουν τη …