Journal articles: 'Electronic nest'

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Dempsey, P., and K. Sangani. "The Teardown: Nest Protect US version." Engineering & Technology 9, no. 5 (June 1, 2014): 86–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/et.2014.0529.

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Zhang, Zitong, Qiaoyu Ma, Heng Zhou, and Na Gong. "Nested Transformers for Hyperspectral Image Classification." Journal of Sensors 2022 (July 25, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6785966.

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Substantial deep learning methods have been utilized for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification recently. Vision Transformer (ViT) is skilled in modeling the overall structure of images and has been introduced to HSI classification task. However, the fixed patch division operation in ViT may lead to insufficient feature extraction, especially the features of the edges between patches will be ignored. To address this problem, we devise a workflow for HSI classification based on the Nested Transformers (NesT). The NesT employs the block aggregation module to extract edge information between patches, which realizes cross-block communication of nonlocal information and optimizes global information extraction. In this paper, the NesT is used for HSI classification for the first time. The experiments are carried out on four widely used hyperspectral datasets: Indian Pines, Salinas, Tea Farm, and Xiongan New Area (Matiwan Village). The obtained results reveal that the NesT can provide competitive results compared to conventional machine learning and deep learning methods and achieve top accuracy on four datasets, which proves the superiority of the NesT in HSI classification with limited training samples.

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Li, Jing, Jiahui Yang, Hui Cai, Chi Jiang, Qun Jiang, Yue Xie, Zimeng Lu, Lingzhi Li, and Guanqun Sun. "The Empty-Nest Power User Management Based on Data Mining Technology." Sensors 23, no. 5 (February 23, 2023): 2485. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052485.

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With the aging of the social population structure, the number of empty-nesters is also increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to manage empty-nesters with data mining technology. This paper proposed an empty-nest power user identification and power consumption management method based on data mining. Firstly, an empty-nest user identification algorithm based on weighted random forest was proposed. Compared with similar algorithms, the results indicate that the performance of the algorithm is the best, and the identification accuracy of empty-nest users is 74.2%. Then a method for analyzing the electricity consumption behavior of empty-nest users based on fusion clustering index adaptive cosine K-means was proposed, which can adaptively select the optimal number of clusters. Compared with similar algorithms, the algorithm has the shortest running time, the smallest Sum of the Squared Error (SSE), and the largest mean distance between clusters (MDC), which are 3.4281 s, 31.6591 and 13.9513, respectively. Finally, an anomaly detection model with an Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) algorithm and an isolated forest algorithm was established. The case analysis shows that the recognition accuracy of abnormal electricity consumption for empty-nest users was 86%. The results indicate that the model can effectively detect the abnormal behavior of empty-nest power users and help the power department to better serve empty-nest users.

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Liutova, S. N. "Beyond Cuckoo’s Nest, or Composing one’s book." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (March 22, 2022): 170–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-6-170-193.

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The author reflects on her personal acquaintance and pen friendship with Zoe C. Escobar (1948–2021), an American ‘one-book writer.’ Escobar’s own biography and the writing process behind Beyond Cuckoo’s Nest: The Art and Life of William ‘Sonny’ Sampson, Jr., her book on the Muscogee Creek Indian cowboy, actor and artist, are presented in the form of lively conversations between herself and the author of the article, accompanied by depictions of the private life of Native Americans in the period spanning the second half of the 20th and the early 21st cc. The article particularly focuses on the origin of the nonproﬁt American Indian Registry for the Performing Arts in Hollywood, founded by Escobar, who also served as its ﬁrst executive director, as well as Escobar’s personal and work relationship with the actor, artist and Native Americans’ spiritual leader Will Sampson, whose most memorable role was that of Chief Bromden in M. Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The author of the article chooses the format of a case study to explore several technical aspects of the creative process and construct Z. Escobar’s and W. Sampson’s psychological portraits.

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Sarı, Fikret, and Yakup Kaska. "Loggerhead sea turtle hatchling sex ratio differences between two nesting beaches in Turkey." Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 61, no. 3-4 (May 5, 2015): 115–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15659801.2015.1047681.

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Hatchling sex ratios of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) were estimated on two main nesting beaches (Dalyan Beach and Göksu Delta) in Turkey using three methods: nest temperature, incubation period and gonad histology. The electronic temperature recorders were placed in 35 selected nests. The mean nest temperature in the middle third of the incubation period was calculated as 29.5 °C on Dalyan Beach and as 31 °C on Göksu Delta. Incubation periods on Dalyan Beach and Göksu Delta were found as 52.9 days and 50.4 days, respectively. Gonad histology method was used only on Dalyan Beach and it was determined that 235 (55.6%) hatchlings were female out of 423 histologically examined hatchlings. Using nest temperatures and incubation periods, sex ratios on Dalyan Beach were estimated as 61% and 69.3%, and on Göksu Delta as 81% and 73.1%, respectively. In light of our sex ratio results, Dalyan Beach has a relatively high proportion of male hatchlings possibly due to its relatively western location. Our findings indicate that Dalyan Beach is an important nesting beach for loggerhead sea turtles in the eastern Mediterranean not only in terms of nest numbers and hatching success but also for its high proportion of male hatchlings. As for the methods used in this study, for further studies, we can suggest that nest temperature method provides the most accurate sex ratio result compared with incubation period and gonad histology methods, if temperature-recorded nests are selected in a manner of representing temporal distribution of the total nests on study beach.

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Sealy, Spencer G. "Egg laying in inappropriate nests by the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater): acts of parasitism or emergency egg dumping?" Canadian Field-Naturalist 129, no. 1 (June 5, 2015): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v129i1.1668.

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The generalist, brood-parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) has been found to parasitize the nests of about 220 species, mostly passerine birds. Among the thousands of documented cases of parasitism are rare records of egg laying in nests in which the cowbird stands no chance of success, because its diet or developmental strategy are incompatible with those of the “host” species. Forty-four nests of 16 such inappropriate host species are reviewed: 23 nests of nine precocial species (waterbirds and shorebirds) plus 21 nests of seven altricial species (a raptor, doves, cuckoos, a hummingbird, and a woodpecker). Two hypotheses explain inappropriate egg laying. In the “normal laying” hypothesis, Brown-headed Cowbirds may lay dozens of eggs in nests they encounter, including the occasional inappropriate nest. In the “emergency laying” hypothesis, females, on discovering that a selected nest has failed, must lay or “dump” her eggs elsewhere, in nests of inappropriate hosts or already-parasitized nests of regular hosts. Support for either hypothesis will require electronic surveillance of movements of nest-searching and laying Brown-headed Cowbirds to generate fine-scale spatial data that confirm whether parasitism on inappropriate nests occurs at the usual laying time for pre-selected nests (around sunrise) or later in the day if the chosen nest has failed and emergency laying is required.

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Öz, M., A. Erdoğan, Y. Kaska, S. Düşen, A. Aslan, H. Sert, M. Yavuz, and M. R. Tunç. "Nest temperatures and sex-ratio estimates of loggerhead turtles at Patara beach on the southwestern coast of Turkey." Canadian Journal of Zoology 82, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z03-200.

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During the nesting period in 2000 and 2001 on Patara beach, total emergence and non-nesting emergence of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), nest distribution, and nest distance from the sea were recorded . The main nesting seasons for sea turtles (family Cheloniidae) were during June and July. Loggerhead turtles comprised the majority of sea turtle emergence records; only two green turtle (Chelonia mydas) emergences were recorded. The small nesting population (52 and 53 nests in 2000 and 2001, respectively) of sea turtles on Patara beach was due to low hatching success resulting from a rise in seawater levels, owing to beach erosion, and the subsequent inundation of most nests. The temperatures of four nests and sand at different distances from the sea were measured with electronic temperature loggers, which recorded mean nest temperatures of 28.8–30.7 °C, with the mean temperature in the middle third of the incubation period from 28.5 to 31.0 °C. The mean temperatures, incubation periods, temperature during the middle third of the incubation period, and percentage of hatchling sexes were evaluated with respect to sand and nest temperatures. The results showed a female-dominated sex ratio, which was probably the result of predation of nests far from the sea and the seawater inundation of nests close to the sea, as the sand temperature was different at sites close and far from the sea.

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He, Quangui, Jia Zhuang, Qiuxiang Wen, Yang Deng, Jun Yu, and Haimin Li. "Preparation and Optical Properties of TiO2 Film with a Nest-Like Structure by Three Times of Circulating Hydrothermal Method." Nano 11, no. 06 (June 2016): 1650066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793292016500661.

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An anatase TiO2 photoanode with a novel three-dimensional nest-like structure was prepared directly on a transparent conductive glass substrate through hydrothermal cycles by three times. First, an unidirectional banded structure film was prepared by a facile hydrothermal method. And then, with the time of hydrothermal cycle increased, part of nanobelts were ruptured into a lot of small polyhedrons, but they still maintained a trend of the previous connection, and some fine nanobelts were interweaved in small polyhedrons. Finally, we successfully prepared a film with a novel 3D nest-like structure, and it had all the characteristics of the hierarchitectures. It had better photoelectric properties than the film with fewer times of hydrothermal cycle. Its photoelectric conversion efficiency reached 3.81%, which is due to a large dye adsorption amount, rapid electronic transmission, and superior light scattering and more electrons transmission paths.

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LU, Yunfeng, Huaxi GU, Xiaoshan YU, and Kun WANG. "NEST: Towards Extreme Scale Computing Systems." IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems E101.D, no. 11 (November 1, 2018): 2827–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1587/transinf.2018edl8148.

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Wiebe, Karen L. "Microclimate of Tree Cavity Nests: Is it Important for Reproductive Success in Northern Flickers?" Auk 118, no. 2 (April 1, 2001): 412–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/118.2.412.

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AbstractI measured structural characteristics of 160 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) nests at Riske Creek, British Columbia, and placed electronic data-loggers in a subsample of 86 nests to record internal temperatures after the flickers completed nesting. Using multiple regression, I found that the best predictors of a variety of nest-cavity temperature variables were tree health, diameter of the tree at cavity height, and orientation of the cavity. Small and dead trees showed the most extreme (maximum and minimum) temperatures during the day, but, on average, were the coldest nests from the perspective of incubation. South-facing cavities reached the highest temperatures during the day, and the orientation of natural cavities was also biased towards the south. I predicted that cold nests would be energetically expensive for adults and nestlings, and found that clutch size was positively correlated with mean cavity temperature. However, there did not appear to be any relationship among nest temperature and hatching or fledging success.

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Shiraishi, Masashi, Takumi Odan, Osamu Yamanaka, and Hiraku Nishimori. "Influence of Labor Conditions and Interaction Among Individuals on Circadian Activity Rhythms in the Ant Camponotus Japonicus." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 33, no. 3 (June 20, 2021): 582–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2021.p0582.

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In this study, we investigated the relationship between the activity rhythms of Camponotus japonicus worker ants and their interactions. Specifically, one or two workers collected from either inside or outside the nest in a breeding colony were placed in a measurement system under a constant dark condition, and their activity rhythms were measured for 14 days. We thereby examined the relationship between the activity rhythm in the system and the experimental conditions, which consisted of four different combinations of working locations during breeding (in/outside the nest) and single/double workers (one ant / two ants) in the measurement system, over a total of 96 samples. A large number of the sampled ants (about 90% of the total) showed circadian activity rhythms. The proportion of circadian activity rhythm was lower and the dispersion of the period was larger in the circadian activity rhythm observed in single workers collected from within the nest than in the other three experimental conditions. In all four experimental conditions, the amplitude of the circadian activity rhythm decayed on an approximate 5-day scale. These results provide quantitative evidence that the activity rhythm of ants is determined by the location of labor and individual interactions during breeding.

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Ojha, Muktesh Kumar, Amrita Rai, Anshuman Prakash, Priyesh Tiwari, and Dhiraj Gupta. "Cuckoo Search Constrained Gamma Masking for MRI Image Detail Enhancement." Traitement du Signal 39, no. 4 (August 31, 2022): 1387–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ts.390433.

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Nature-inspired algorithms are widely applied in the arena of image enhancement for various optimization purposes. To address the optimization complexities in various image enhancement approaches, nature-inspired optimization algorithms play a vital role. Cuckoo search is one of the prominent nature-inspired performance algorithms that we employed in this work for the enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We proposed a wavelet-based masking technique employing a cuckoo search algorithm whose masking value is corrected by gamma function for the contrast enhancement of MRI images. The cuckoo search algorithm can inevitably fine-tune the relation of nest building using genetic operatives like adaptive cusp and alteration. The proposed contrast enhancement scheme is examined quantitatively for different types of MRI images. Extensive simulation results compared with quantitative values have revealed that the traditional nest building of cuckoo search optimization is improved by adaptive gamma correction. Comparative analysis with the existing works establishes the usefulness of the proposed methodology over the other standard approaches.

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Foss, Richard. "A self organising network model of information gathering by the honey bee swarm." Kybernetes 44, no. 3 (March 2, 2015): 353–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k-11-2014-0264.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a viable system, the honey bee swarm, gathers meaningful information about potential new nest sites in its problematic environment. Design/methodology/approach – This investigation uses a cybernetic model of a self-organising information network to analyse the findings from the last 60 years published research on swarm behaviour. Findings – Nest site scouts used a modified foraging network to carry out a very thorough survey of the swarm’s problematic environment, providing the swarm with a considerable diversity of potential nest sites for consideration. The swarm utilised a number of randomly recruited groups of scouts to obtain numerous independent opinions about potential nest sites, each privately evaluated, publicly reported and repeatedly tested by new recruits. Independent evaluation of site quality was balanced by interdependent reporting of site location. Noise was reduced by integration over a large number of individual scouts and over a period of time. The swarm was therefore able to reduce potential sources of bias, distortion and noise, providing it with comparatively reliable information for decision making. Originality/value – Information gathering by a honey bee swarm has not previously been modelled as a self-organising information network. The findings may be of value to human decision-making groups.

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Kuznetsova, Elena V. "Semantic variation in the word-building nest: linguo-geographical aspect." Neophilology, no. 22 (2020): 250–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-22-250-261.

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The research is devoted to dialect meteorological vocabulary of the Volgograd region dialects, presented on the linguistic maps of the electronic atlas. The lexemes included in the word-building nest with the roots -hmur-, -hmar-, -hmor- are studied. The methods of cartography and recartography of language material are used: structural and semantic features of dialectisms, their place in the Russian national language system, structural and semantic variation by comparing the material of several maps of the dialect atlas are analyzed. The analysis of the material is carried out taking into account the linguo-geographical landscape of the Volgograd region, which was reflected in the conclusions of the article: the map material shows the great semantic and word-building activity of the vocabulary in the late resettlement dialects of the region. We have developed a methodology for the comprehensive analysis of dialect material, which allows to realize the diagnostic capabilities of linguistic dialect maps: tracking the ranges of lexemes, word-building nests, word-building models, as well as the semantic volume of dialect lexemes. The methodology can be applied to the study of any other thematic vocabulary of any region.

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Shi, Lijuan, Zuoning Jia, Huize Sun, Mingshu Tian, and Liquan Chen. "Analysis of the factors influencing on bird nesting and its impact on railway operation." Smart and Resilient Transport 2, no. 1 (July 20, 2020): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srt-03-2020-0001.

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Purpose This paper aims to study the affecting factors on bird nesting on electronic railway catenary lines and the impact of bird nesting events on railway operation. Design/methodology/approach First, with one year’s bird nest events in the form of unstructured natural language collected from Shanghai Railway Bureau, the records were structured with the help of python software tool. Second, the method of root cause analysis (RCA) was used to identify all the possible influencing factors which are inclined to affect the probability of bird nesting. Third, the possible factors then were classified into two categories to meet subsequent analysis separately, category one was outside factors (i.e. geographic conditions related factors), the other was inside factors (i.e. railway related factors). Findings It was observed that factors of city population, geographic position affect nesting observably. Then it was demonstrated that both location and nesting on equipment part have no correlation with delay, while railway type had a significant but low correlation with delay. Originality/value This paper discloses the principle of impacts of nest events on railway operation.

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Macchi, Andrea, and Francesco Pegoraro. "Lighting up a nest for X-ray emission." Nature Photonics 17, no. 2 (February 2023): 129–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01146-0.

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Ji, Haiting, and Jianfeng Liu. "Operation Status Monitoring of Transmission Tower in Power System based on Data Fusion." International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing 16 (January 14, 2022): 543–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.46300/9106.2022.16.68.

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This paper studies the application of data fusion technology in power system to solve some difficult problems in this complex energy system. A transmission tower identification and bird nest detection method based on corner, line, color and shape features is proposed. Through LSD (Line Segment Detection) and Harris corner detection method, the straight line segment and corner point in the image are extracted respectively. Combined with triangle method, the actual tilt angle of tower is measured; According to the nesting rule of birds in transmission towers, the basic unit segmentation algorithm of transmission towers is proposed, and the basic unit segmentation of transmission towers is realized by using the local maximum of the target pixel row statistical histogram. The algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively solve the problems of on-line measurement of tilt angle of transmission tower and on-line detection of bird's nest, which will lay a theoretical foundation for on-line monitoring of transmission tower status.

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Nolan, Paul M., Andrew M. Stoehr, Geoffrey E. Hill, and Kevin J. McGraw. "The Number of Provisioning Visits by House Finches Predicts the Mass of Food Delivered." Condor 103, no. 4 (November 1, 2001): 851–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/103.4.851.

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Abstract One classic means of assessing variation in avian foraging success and provisioning effort, counting the number of trips to the nest, assumes that parents bring equal amounts of food during each trip. We tested this assumption in male House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) by using video cameras to record both the number of nest visits and the mass of food delivered as measured by an electronic balance. We compared the number of feeding visits and mass of food delivered at each of three stages in the nest cycle: incubation, young nestlings, and older nestlings. The number of provisioning trips was significantly correlated with the mass of food provided by a male to his mate or to their offspring during each stage of the nesting cycle. Furthermore, this correlation became stronger as the breeding cycle progressed. These observations support the assumption that, for this species and perhaps others that carry food in their crop, the number of provisioning visits to the nest is a reasonable predictor of the mass of food provided. El Número de las Visitas del Aprovisionamiento de Carpodacus mexicanus Predice la Masa del Alimento Entregada Resumen. Un método clásico para establecer la variación en el éxito de forrajeo y esfuerzo de aprovisionamiento en aves, que consiste en contar el número de viajes hacia el nido, asume que los padres llevan igual cantidad de alimento durante cada viaje. Probamos este supuesto en machos de Carpodacus mexicanus mediante cámaras de video que registraron tanto el número de visitas al nido como el peso del alimento entregado, este último medido mediante una balanza electrónica. Comparamos el número de visitas al nido y el peso del alimento entregado en cada uno de los tres estados del ciclo de nidificación: incubación, pichones jóvenes y pichones tardíos. El número de viajes de aprovisionamiento se correlacionó positivamente con el peso del alimento provisto por un macho a su pareja o a su progenie en cada estado del ciclo de nidificación. Además, esta correlación se hizo más fuerte a medida que el ciclo de nidificación progresó. Estas observaciones apoyan el supuesto que, al menos para esta especie y otras que transportan alimento en el buche, el número de visitas de aprovisionamiento al nido predice razonablemente bien la masa de alimento provista.

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Becot, Lorry, Nicolas Bedere, Thierry Burlot, Jenna Coton, and Pascale Le Roy. "Nest acceptance, clutch, and oviposition traits are promising selection criteria to improve egg production in cage-free system." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (May 20, 2021): e0251037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251037.

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In cage-free systems, laying hens must lay their eggs in the nests. Selecting layers based on nesting behavior would be a good strategy for improving egg production in these breeding systems. However, little is known about the genetic determinism of nest-related traits. Laying rate in the nests (LRN), clutch number (CN), oviposition traits (OT), and nest acceptance for laying (NAL) of 1,430 Rhode Island Red (RIR) hens and 1,008 White Leghorn (WL) hens were recorded in floor pens provided with individual electronic nests. Heritability and genetic and phenotypic correlations of all traits were estimated over two recording periods–the peak (24–43 weeks of age) and the middle (44–64 weeks of age) of production–by applying the restricted maximum likelihood method to an animal model. The mean oviposition time (MOT) ranged from 2 h 5 min to 3 h and from 3 h 35 min to 3 h 44 min after turning on the lights for RIR and WL hens, respectively. The mean oviposition interval ranged from 24 h 3 min to 24 h 16 min. All heritability and correlation estimates were similar for RIR and WL. Low to moderate heritability coefficients were estimated for LRN (0.04–0.25) and moderate to high heritability coefficients for CN and OT (0.27–0.68). CN and OT were negatively genetically correlated with LRN (-0.92 to -0.39) except during peak production for RIR (-0.30 to +0.43). NAL was weakly to moderately heritable (0.13–0.26). Genetic correlations between NAL and other traits were low to moderate (-0.41 to +0.44). In conclusion, CN and OT are promising selection criteria to improve egg production in cage-free systems. NAL can be also used to reduce the number of eggs laid off-nest in these breeding systems. However, variability in MOT must be maintained to limit competition for the nests.

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OTABI, Hikari. "Studies of nest building behavior in social stress model of mouse." Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho 93, no. 2 (May 25, 2022): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2508/chikusan.93.87.

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Dal Bosco, Alessandro, Alice Cartoni Mancinelli, Steffen Hoy, Melania Martino, Simona Mattioli, Elisa Cotozzolo, and Cesare Castellini. "Assessing the Preference of Rabbit Does to Social Contact or Seclusion: Results of Different Investigations." Animals 10, no. 2 (February 12, 2020): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10020286.

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The aim of this study was to verify the motivation of rabbit does to social contact or seclusion. The results of two different research activities assessed in Italy (experiment 1) and Germany (experiment 2) through the use of motivational cages are reported. In experiment 1, only the average time of occupation of the group or seclusion zone was recorded of four nulliparous does, while, in experiment 2, the group-housing system provided space for does with kits and consisted of four single areas (nest boxes with individual electronic nest box recognition systems). Experiment 1 showed that does spent a similar amount of time in seclusion or in group (49.61% vs 50.39%, respectively). On the contrary, in experiment 2, does with kits appeared to prefer spending time alone (71.90%) rather than in groups. The presence of kits probably stimulates a hierarchical and aggressive response of the dominant does, with the low-ranking does staying secluded to avoid violent interactions. In fact, in each reproductive cycle, one doe did stay in the group area whereas the other three does used this area in different percentages of time. Further researches are needed to find a good combination of the cage with the does’ physiological phases.

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Boenisch, Peter M. "coMEDIA electrONica: Performing Intermediality in Contemporary Theatre." Theatre Research International 28, no. 1 (February 17, 2003): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883303000130.

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Although the concept of ‘intermediality’ recently has gained prominence within the discourse of Theatre Studies, still various contradictory definitions of that term circulate, none of which applies insight from the field of Media Theory to theatre. Rather than clinging to the banal formula ‘theatre + media = intermedial theatre’ and thus perpetuating the idea of medial specificity, an approach to intermediality informed by Media Theory stresses underlying strategies of processing all kinds of information, including the aesthetic, within a certain period. Consequently, theatre's genuine ‘mediality’ already implies its ‘intermediality’, which in fact can be traced back all the way to classical Greek drama. Within the present transformation from McLuhan's ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ into an ‘electrONic culture’, theatre now trains its spectators in cognitive strategies of that emerging cultural paradigm. The performance Circulation Module by the Japanese group NEST reflects these significant repercussions of electrONic culture on theatrical performance at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Kaska, Y., R. Downie, R. Tippett, and R. W. Furness. "Natural temperature regimes for loggerhead and green turtle nests in the eastern Mediterranean." Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, no. 4 (April 1, 1998): 723–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-245.

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Temperatures of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nests on the beaches of northern Cyprus and Turkey were examined. Electronic continuous-temperature recorders programmed by computer were placed at the top, middle, and bottom of the nests. The sex of 3-7 hatchlings from each level was determined from gonadal histology. The maximum temperature increase during the incubation period was 9.6oC for both species. The mean temperature during the middle third of the incubation period is a good indicator of the sex ratio of the clutch. The percentage of female embryos increased with temperature, 50% being female at 29°C. The mean temperature over the entire incubation period is not a good indicator of sex ratio but can be used to predict the duration of incubation period. The temperature differences within the clutch were larger in loggerhead than in green turtle nests. Eggs at the top of the nest experienced generally warmer (up to 1.4°C) conditions than eggs at the bottom of the same nest, and this caused variation in sex ratio within nests. Over all nests, the sex ratio (percent female) of hatchlings was 91% at the top, 83% at the middle, and 69% at the bottom. There was considerable interbeach thermal variation. Marked diel cycles of up to 1.5°C were detected in loggerhead turtle nests but not in the deeper nests of green turtles.

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Foss, Richard Anthony. "A self-organising network model of decision making by the honey bee swarm." Kybernetes 45, no. 3 (March 7, 2016): 358–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k-12-2014-0290.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to carry out a detailed investigation of the mechanisms operating during decision making by the honey bee swarm, which is now considered to be one of the best examples of collective decision making outside the human domain. Design/methodology/approach – This investigation is based on a review of the last 60 years’ published literature about swarm behaviour. It introduces a different perspective to the work by utilising a cybernetic model of a self-organising information network to analyse the findings of this body of research. Findings – Scout bees evaluating potential nest sites accumulated support for their site by differential net recruitment, so the total scout numbers present at each site was a good measure of the total evidence in favour of the site and hence the relative probability of choosing it as the swarm’s new home. The accumulation of evidence continued at a number of alternative nest site locations until a critical quorum threshold was sensed at one of them. The first alternative to reach the threshold was chosen as the preferred nest site. Quorum scouts then prepared the swarm for departure and steered it to its new home. Originality/value – Swarm decision making has not been modelled as a self-organising information network before. This novel approach reveals how a combination of network modifications, self-amplification, self-attenuation, cross-inhibition, integration and quorum mechanisms together contribute towards accurate group decision making.

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Jin, Qi, Wei Wen, Zi-Xuan Wang, Run-Hui Wang, Shilie Zheng, Zhizhen Ye, and Jin-Ming Wu. "Nanoarchitectonics of nest-like MnO2/TiO2 thin film for triethylamine sensing." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 353 (February 2022): 131137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2021.131137.

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Qin, Nan, Xiaohua Wang, Qun Xiang, and Jiaqiang Xu. "A biomimetic nest-like ZnO: Controllable synthesis and enhanced ethanol response." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 191 (February 2014): 770–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2013.10.075.

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Weissenrieder, J., C. Kleber, M. Schreiner, and C. Leygraf. "In Situ Studies of Sulfate Nest Formation on Iron." Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151, no. 9 (2004): B497. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1.1775911.

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Kumari, Babita, and Hitesh Solanki. "Horseshoe Crab: A Keystone Species of Mangrove Forests of Coastal Belts of Sunderban." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT 6, no. 04 (December 30, 2020): 306–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18811/ijpen.v6i04.10.

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The mangroves within the biosphere reserve of Sundarban and Mahanadi Delta at Bhitarkanika and Kendrapara along the coastal belt of Bay of Bengal have been under considerable human impingement especially over the last few decades. Land reclamation for settlements along with agriculture and unplanned aquaculture practices, mechanized fishing in addition to non sustainable tourism activities proved deterrent to the ecosystem. It effect not to mention the additional burdens of pollution and changes in hydrological regimes that in turn causing adverse influence on subsistence dwellers in and around north-east coastal belt of Bay of Bengal. The horseshoe crabs are the creature on this earth surviving for the past 450 million years or so. Most of the biogenic activities of the horseshoe crab occur in the open ocean at a deeper zone. They specifically migrate regularly towards the shore for the purpose of breeding. Among the two Indian horseshoe crab species namely, Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, the later species prefers mangrove habitat for breeding along the north-east coast of India. However, in spite of all previous studies on T. gigas such as spawning migration, feeding behaviour, breeding biology and several other aspects, no concerted efforts have been made for C. rotundicauda to develop effective strategies in protecting and conserving both the habitat and population of this valuable species along the coastal areas of India. The depleting population and losing important biodiversity has prompted us to undertake such a novel project. The degradation and destruction of the ground in the mangrove ecosystem of this species by natural and anthropogenic activities have also resulted in mass depletion of the population of this species along the north-east coast of West Bengal and Odisha. A mature female of this species carries hundreds of eggs under its prosoma but releases only a few eggs in one spawning act in a nest on suitable muddy breeding grounds in mangrove areas. The total number of eggs laid varied from 18 to 258 in each nest. The nest of the horseshoe crab is a depression in mud made by the female for laying their gametes. After fertilization, most of the pairs migrate to their natural habitat.

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Sarkis, Y., Aguilar-Arevalo, and J. C. D’Olivo. "Lindhard integral equation with binding energy applied to light and charge yields of nuclear recoils in noble liquid detectors." Journal of Instrumentation 18, no. 03 (March 1, 2023): C03006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/03/c03006.

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Abstract We present a model of the ionization efficiency, or quenching factor, for low-energy nuclear recoils, based on a solution to Lindhard integral equation with binding energy and apply it to the calculation of the relative scintillation efficiency and charge yield for nuclear recoils in noble liquid detectors. The quenching model incorporates a constant average binding energy together with an electronic stopping power proportional to the ion velocity, and is an essential input in an analysis of charge recombination processes to predict the ionization and scintillation yields. Our results are comparable to NEST simulations of LXe and LAr and are in good agreement with available data. These studies are relevant to current and future experiments using noble liquids as targets for neutrino physics and the direct searches for dark matter.

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Ye, Jiaming, Qiming Yin, and Yongliang Zhou. "Superhydrophilicity of anodic aluminum oxide films: From “honeycomb” to “bird's nest”." Thin Solid Films 517, no. 21 (September 2009): 6012–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.04.042.

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Jong-Jy Shyu, Soo-Chang Pei, and Yun-Da Huang. "3-D FIR Cone-Shaped Filter Design by a Nest of McClellan Transformations and Its Variable Design." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers 57, no. 7 (July 2010): 1697–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcsi.2009.2033547.

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Tao, Zhenhua, Yanwei Li, Guang Sun, and Min Xiao. "Enhanced TEA sensing properties of nest-like ZnO by decoration with Au." Materials Research Express 6, no. 10 (August 30, 2019): 105910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab3d80.

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Li, Hui, Xiao-Jun Wu, and Tariq Durrani. "NestFuse: An Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Architecture Based on Nest Connection and Spatial/Channel Attention Models." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69, no. 12 (December 2020): 9645–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tim.2020.3005230.

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Gwee, Kai Li, Lai Hoong Cheng, and Kin Sam Yen. "Optimization of lighting parameters to improve visibility of impurities in edible bird’s nest." Journal of Electronic Imaging 28, no. 02 (March 18, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jei.28.2.023014.

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Chen, Guanzhen, Dongwei Xu, Ping Chen, Xiang Guo, Qi Yu, and Hongfang Qiu. "Constructing and optimizing hollow bird-nest-patterned C@Fe3O4 composites as high-performance microwave absorbers." Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 532 (August 2021): 167990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.167990.

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Ansyah, Heri, Gusti Hardiansyah, and Yeni Mariani. "JENIS BIAYA DAN PENDAPATAN PETERNAK LEBAH MADU KELULUT DI DUSUN KAYU ARA DESA KAYU ARA KECAMATAN MANDOR KABUPATEN LANDAK." JURNAL HUTAN LESTARI 11, no. 1 (March 17, 2023): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/jhl.v11i1.53670.

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Kelulut honey cultivation business is a potential business. This study aims to determine the types of costs, income, and profits as well as the feasibility of kelulut honey cultivation as well as the obstacles faced by kelulut honey entrepreneurs.The research method is carried out by surveying with census data collection techniques. Collecting data using primary data and secondary data with data collection techniques, namely observation and interview techniques. Data analysis using descriptive analysisthe business processes of the kelulut honeyare nest preparation, box nest making, colonybreakdown, feed preparation, harvesting and making cultivation racks. From the 20 respondents of bee honey entrepreneurs, the results of the study showed a fixed cost of Rp. 12.405.070/month and variable costs Rp. 218,000/month. The total cost of business is Rp. 12.623.070/month. The honey income earned by the kelulut honey business is Rp. 13,500,000/month.The profit earned is Rp. 876.930/month, and business feasibility obtained a > 1 = 1.07.Keywords: Cost of farming, Income, Feasibility, Kelulut honeyAbstrakUsaha budidaya kelulut adalah usaha yang berpotensial. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui jenis biaya, pendapatan dan keuntungan serta kelayakan dalam usaha budidaya kelulut serta kendala-kendala yang dihadapi pengusaha kelulut. Metode penelitian dilakukan dengan survei dengan teknik pengambilan data secara sensus. Pengumpulan data menggunakan data primer dan data sekunder dengan teknik pengambilan data yaitu teknik observasi dan wawancara. Analisis data menggunakan analisis deskriptif. Proses usaha kelulut yaitu penyiapan sarang, pembuatan sarang kotak, pemecahan koloni, penyiapan pakan, pemanenan dan pembutan rak budidaya. Dari 20 responden pengusaha kelulut menunjukan bahwa biaya tetap sebesar Rp. 12.405.070/bulan dan biaya tidak tetap Rp. 218.000/bulan. Total biaya usaha sebesar Rp. 12.623.070/bulan. Pendapatan madu yang di peroleh oleh usaha lebah madu kelulut yaitu Rp. 13.500.000/bulan. Keuntungan yang diperoleh sebesar Rp. 876.930, dan kelayakan usaha yang di dapatkan a >1 = 1,07.Kata kunci: Biaya usaha, Pendapatan, Kelayakan, Madu Kelulut

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Stewart, Hugh. "Feast of skinks for Nankeen Kestrels Falco cenchroides breeding on a bird-friendly farm." Australian Field Ornithology 38 (2021): 233–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo38233240.

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Nankeen Kestrels Falco cenchroides raised three fledglings each year from 2018 to 2020 in nests in hollows of remnant eucalypts on a farm near Deans Marsh in southern Victoria. Observations were made each year of the adults feeding the chicks during foraging sessions, enabling the prey items and estimated feeding and hunting rates to be assessed. Skinks (Scincidae) formed a substantial proportion of the prey items delivered to the chicks. The delivery rate of prey by the male feeding a brood of three—6.0 items/h in 2018 and 2019, and 11.2 items/h in 2020 over 1.2 h—was at the high end of rates previously reported in which vertebrates made up the bulk of the prey. The breeding success of the Kestrels at the study site (three fledglings per nest) was at the high end of results of studies elsewhere in Australia (1–4 fledglings per nest started). Farming practices on this property have been designed to encourage wildlife including skinks, and this might have contributed to the high breeding success of the Kestrels.

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Bui, Van-Tien, Jung-Hwan Oh, Jong-Nam Kim, Qitao Zhou, Dai Phu Huynh, and Il-Kwon Oh. "Nest-inspired nanosponge-Cu woven mesh hybrid for ultrastable and high-power triboelectric nanogenerator." Nano Energy 71 (May 2020): 104561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104561.

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Zhang, Jie, Zhihui Dai, Jianchun Bao, Ning Zhang, and M. Arturo López-Quintela. "Self-assembly of Co-based nanosheets into novel nest-shaped nanostructures: Synthesis and characterization." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 305, no. 2 (January 2007): 339–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2006.09.073.

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Skvortsova, A. V. "The religious subtext of A. Chekhov’s Ward No. 6 [Palata nomer shest] and K. Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest." Voprosy literatury, no. 6 (December 27, 2022): 212–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2022-6-212-228.

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The article explores the religious subtext of Chekhov’s Ward No. 6 [Palata nomer shest] and K. Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Both depict a psychiatric facility that can be regarded as a model of a society oppressive to human individuality. The author analyses the portrayals of the main characters, both of whom represent the type of a saviour. One of them, doctor Ragin, fails his ‘soteriological mission,’ whereas the other, McMurphy, succeeds. McMurphy seems to share some features with Christ, and yet others — with an anthropomorphic trickster from Hindu mythology as well as a character of the French carnival theatre, a vestige of medieval festivities partially rooted in Christianity. Both Ragin and McMurphy are tragical characters, but while the former’s death does not bring about any positive change, the latter’s demise results in a spiritual transformation of those around him. The author argues that the compared books describe two diﬀerent reactions to violence: passive submission to circumstances, followed by social and personal degradation, and active defance of abuse, which results in an improved ‘world order.’

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Tobón, Emilio, and José Luis Osorno. "Chick Growth Variability and Parental Provisioning in the Magnificent Frigatebird." Condor 108, no. 3 (August 1, 2006): 612–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/108.3.612.

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Abstract In two contrasting breeding seasons, we investigated the effects of provisioning on chick growth and survival of the Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), a socially monogamous, dimorphic seabird that rears a single chick for more than a year, shows specialized feeding techniques, and depends on unpredictable food sources. We hypothesized that chicks of this seabird would increase their chances of survival by varying their growth in relation to food availability. We estimated the amount of food ingested by a chick using electronic scales placed at the nest and recorded feeding rates, growth rate, fledging size, and fledging age. Body mass and bill and ulna lengths were also measured. Not surprisingly, provisioning and growth were higher in the year with apparently higher food availability; however, developmental variables did not show the same pattern. This work shows a clear relationship between provisioning and growth and that growth variability occurs in this species. Understanding the relationship between provisioning and growth provides insight into life histories and elucidates the influence of variation in provisioning on fitness.

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Zhang, Xiujuan, and Xiaoping Xu. "Stability analysis for the two-port networked control systems within the framework of nest algebra." Systems & Control Letters 178 (August 2023): 105569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2023.105569.

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Ari, Ado Adamou Abba, Nabila Labraoui, Blaise Omer Yenké, and Abdelhak Gueroui. "Clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks: the honeybee swarms nest-sites selection process based approach." International Journal of Sensor Networks 27, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.092101.

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Ying-Heng Yeo and Kin-Sam Yen. "Impurities Detection in Intensity Inhomogeneous Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) Using a U-Net Deep Learning Model." International Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation 11, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 135–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46604/ijeti.2021.6891.

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As an important export, cleanliness control on edible bird’s nest (EBN) is paramount. Automatic impurities detection is in urgent need to replace manual practices. However, effective impurities detection algorithm is yet to be developed due to the unresolved inhomogeneous optical properties of EBN. The objective of this work is to develop a novel U-net based algorithm for accurate impurities detection. The algorithm leveraged the convolution mechanisms of U-net for precise and localized features extraction. Output probability tensors were then generated from the deconvolution layers for impurities detection and positioning. The U-net based algorithm outperformed previous image processing-based methods with a higher impurities detection rate of 96.69% and a lower misclassification rate of 10.08%. The applicability of the algorithm was further confirmed with a reasonably high dice coefficient of more than 0.8. In conclusion, the developed U-net based algorithm successfully mitigated intensity inhomogeneity in EBN and improved the impurities detection rate.

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Sueoka, Yuichiro, Takamasa Tahara, Masato Ishikawa, and Koichi Osuka. "Statistical Exploration of Distributed Pattern Formation Based on Minimalistic Approach." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 31, no. 6 (December 20, 2019): 905–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2019.p0905.

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In this paper, we discuss the pattern formation of objects that can be stacked and transported by distributed autonomous agents. Inspired by the social behavior of termite colonies, which often build elaborate three-dimensional structures (nest towers), this paper explores the mechanism of termite-like agents through a computational and minimalistic approach. We introduce a cellular automata model (i.e., spatially discretized) for the agents and the objects they can transport, where each agent follows a “rule” determined by the assignment of fundamental actions (move/ load/ unload) based on the state of its neighboring cells. To evaluate the resulting patterns from the viewpoint of structural complexity and agent effort, we classify the patterns using the Kolmogorov dimension and higher-order local autocorrelation, two well-known statistical techniques in image processing. We find that the Kolmogorov dimension provides a good metric for the structural complexity of a pattern, whereas the higher-order local autocorrelation is an effective means of identifying particular local patterns.

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Abd ELGhany - Abd EL-Fatah, Yasmine, and Reda Abd EL Mohsen Mahmoud. "Effect of Simulative Heartbeat Nest on Improving Physiological Parameters, Comfort and Pain of Preterm Neonates at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit." Journal of Nursing Science Benha University 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 1244–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/jnsbu.2023.292105.

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Zaninelli, Mauro, Veronica Redaelli, Fabio Luzi, Malcolm Mitchell, Valentino Bontempo, Donata Cattaneo, Vittorio Dell’Orto, and Giovanni Savoini. "Development of a Machine Vision Method for the Monitoring of Laying Hens and Detection of Multiple Nest Occupations." Sensors 18, no. 2 (January 5, 2018): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010132.

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Miao, Fujun, Na Lu, Peng Zhang, Zhenyi Zhang, and Guosheng Shao. "Multidimension‐Controllable Synthesis of Ant Nest‐Structural Electrode Materials with Unique 3D Hierarchical Porous Features toward Electrochemical Applications." Advanced Functional Materials 30, no. 42 (October 2020): 2006579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006579.

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Miao, Fujun, Na Lu, Peng Zhang, Zhenyi Zhang, and Guosheng Shao. "Multidimension‐Controllable Synthesis of Ant Nest‐Structural Electrode Materials with Unique 3D Hierarchical Porous Features toward Electrochemical Applications." Advanced Functional Materials 29, no. 29 (April 26, 2019): 1808994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201808994.

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Wang, Xuhui, Na Sun, Xufeng Dong, Hao Huang, and Min Qi. "The porous spongy nest structure compressible anode fabricated by gas forming technique toward high performance lithium ions batteries." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 623 (October 2022): 584–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2022.05.067.

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