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Maneuvering of a robotic pike
A robotic mechanism is described, called Robopike. The robot has fork length equal to 82cm, and contains 5 motors, a computer and a wireless modem for communication during testing. Details of the construction and testing methods are provided. The testing covered only a small part of the extensive …
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The design of a free swimming robot pike
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Biotic Integrity and Northern Pike Ecology in Eastern South Dakota
… and diet of the important sport species northern pike Esox lucius in the wadeable perennial streams of the NGP. For IBI development, fish were sampled from 54 sites (sites span a gradient of human disturbance). Candidate metrics were sorted into metric classes and screened using a series of …
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An Assessment of Northern Pike Populations in Small South Dakota Impoundments
Populations of northern pike Esox lucius and largemouth bass MIcropterus salmoides in combination with yellow perch Perca flavescens and/or bluegill Lepomis machrochirus were studied in three small South Dakota impoundments to determine predator-prey relationships. Densities (number of fish ≥ stock …
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Evaluating Alberta’s Fall Index Netting Protocol for Assessing Northern Pike (Esox lucius) Populations
… Fall Index Netting (FIN) for monitoring Northern Pike (Esox lucius) populations, we tested five hypotheses relating FIN catches to independently measured abundance and sizes of Northern Pike, including testing the economic effectiveness of FIN monitoring. These tests used fisheries survey data on …
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Annual Food Habits of Northern Pike in an Eastern South Dakota Natural Lake
Food habits of northern pike Esox lucius were documented in Lake Thompson, a shallow, windswept, eutrophic lake in eastern South Dakota. The main food items, assessed with the Relative Importance Index, eaten by northern pike in Lake Thompson were common carp Cyprinus carpio, black crappies …
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The vascular flora of Breaks Interstate Park, Pike County, Kentucky, and Dickenson County, Virginia
<p>The vascular flora of Breaks Interstate Park was documented during two growing seasons, 2008 and 2009; with supplemental collections made in 2010 and 2011. The project area is located in eastern Kentucky and western Virginia at the northeastern terminus of Pine Mountain along the Appalachian …
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The Crater of Diamonds: A History of the Pike County, Arkansas, Diamond Field, 1906-1972
… on his farm just south of Murfreesboro in Pike County, Arkansas. Experts soon confirmed that the diamond-bearing formation on which Huddleston made his discovery was the second largest of its kind and represented 25 percent of all known diamond-bearing areas in the world. Discovery of the …
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Growth, Distribution, and Movement of Northern Pike in a South Dakota Natural Lake, With Sampling Considerations
A total of 702 northern pike Esox lucius was collected monthly on 17 occasions from July 1991 to June 1993 from Lake Thompson, South Dakota to assess seasonal variations in growth and sampling data. Mean length of male northern pike from the 1990 year class increased during the spring and autumn of …
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Trophic Ecology of Largemouth Bass and Northern Pike in Allopatric and Sympatric Assemblages of Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
… bass Micropten1s salmoides and northern pike Esox lucius from allopatric and sympatric assemblages in Voyageurs National Park (VNP), Minnesota. The study lakes were characterized as long and narrow with few coves or bays present. Littoral areas were limited in the study lakes, and steep …
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Ecological and recreational interactions of the native pike Esox lucius and the invasive pikeperch Sander lucioperca in England.
… when catch-and-release practices are widespread. Pikeperch Sander lucioperca were introduced into open waters in England in the 1960s and subsequently established populations that dispersed through many river catchments. Due to their piscivory and correspondingly high trophic positions, their …
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Diet, growth and bioenergetics of Northern Pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Oreille River, Washington
… study were to describe the growth of northern pike, describe the food habits of northern pike and using bioenergetics modeling assess the mass and total numbers of each species of forage fish the northern pike population consumed in Box Canyon Reservoir,Pend Orielle River, Washington. Northern …
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Predator-prey Interactions of Fishes in Two Nebraska Sandhill Lakes
… bass Micropterus salmoides and northern pike Esox Lucius food habit studies have been undertaken extensively throughout the United States and Europe, none have been completed for fish communities in the Nebraska Sandhill lakes. Additionally, little information exists on the seasonal food …
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Movement and Distribution of Esocids and Forage Fishes In A Power Plant Cooling Reservoir
One Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) and 2 northern pike (E. Lucius) were surgically implanted with untrasonic transmitters and tracked in a South Dakota cooling reservoir from June 1979 to June 1980. The fishes inhabited the intake area of the reservoir during the summer (temperature range, 27.5 – …
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Place names of six east central counties of Missouri
Counties: Audrain, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, and Randolph.
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Monitoring the execution of temporal plans for robotic systems
… This thesis develops a plan executive called Pike that is capable of executing and monitoring plans. The execution monitor at its core quickly and efficiently detects relevant disturbances that threaten future actions in the plan. We present a set of novel offline algorithms that extract sets …
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The Corner Market - Connecting the Past and Future Neighborhood
The Corner Market on Columbia Pike and South Walter Reed Drive in Arlington, Virginia was to stand at the intersection of yesterday and tomorrow. It would knit together a neighborhood segmented by real estate development and economics. It would fill the cerebral need to connect, interact, and …
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A comparison of growth rates of coarse fish in gravel-pit lakes in south-east England and of population structure in selected lakes
… tinca L.), perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) and pike (Esox lucius L.). There was no apparent correlation between fish growth rate and age, size or any other measured parameter of a lake. Two lakes dominated by pike and perch and four lakes dominated by roach, bream and tench were studied. Two …
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Excerpt from an Untitled Novel
… treatment of substance abuse, protagonist Steven Pike soon finds himself in a mire of violent and sexual conflicts with peers and treatment center staff.
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