free-flight
Active control of free flight manoeuvres in a hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli
... The largest one weighed 1.22·g (including a telemeter) with a wingspan of 41·mm, while the smallest one weighed 1.10·g with a wingspan of 35·mm. The attachment of a 0.23·g transmitter is another reason for behavioural ...
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The influence of visual landscape on the free flight behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
... These free flight experiments demonstrate that flies produce fixed-amplitude saccades of approximately ±90 ° within the horizontal plane ...7). Free flight experiments in other species have ...
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WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF MUSCLE POTENTIALS DURING FREE FLIGHT OF A LOCUST
... of free flight performance, but we cannot exclude the possibility that changes in the position of the centre of gravity are monitored by the flight ...the flight motor ...
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Odor localization requires visual feedback during free flight in Drosophila melanogaster
... during flight, the object’s image on the retinae ...during free flight as well as parallel neural processes operating within the flight control ...
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The free flight response of Drosophila to motion of the visual environment
... their flight trajectories during active optomotor stimulation in a free-flight ...evaluate flight behaviour in response to a rotating visual ...environment, flight is characterized by ...
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Neuromuscular control of free flight yaw turns in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta
... asynchronous flight muscle may have only limited neuromuscular control of individual wingbeats (Heide, 1983), while bats and birds may vary neuromuscular activity within a single wingbeat (Warrick et ...
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Avian surface reconstruction in free flight with application to flight stability analysis of a barn owl and peregrine falcon
... been developed. In the first, a moving camera, multi-view stereo-photogrammetry arrangement along with a projected random dot pattern was used with automated point matching based on normalised cross-correlation. This ...
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RANKING THE INFLUENCE USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE USING AN IMPROVED TOPSIS METHOD
... Their free flight trajectories are non-linear such as parabolic motion or motion with ...blood-droplet free flight trajectory of motion with drag, which is suitable for very small droplet ...
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Tegula function during free locust flight in relation to motor pattern, flight speed and aerodynamic output
... during free flight in a manner similar to that previously reported from fixed or restrained preparations (Büschges and Pearson, 1991; Büschges et ...during free flight is insufficient to ...
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Pressure and Free Flight Time Effects on Glow Discharge Characteristics
... In this work, a model for a DC glow discharge at low pressure, used in many applications has been developed. This model allows the determination of plasma characteristics distributions in 2D geometry. The proposed ...
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Flight restriction prevents associative learning deficits but not changes in brain protein adduct formation during honeybee ageing
... demanding flight, which in houseflies ( Musca domestica ) and fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ) is associated with markers of ageing such as increased mortality and accumulation of oxidative ...of ...
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Timing of elevator muscle activity during climbing in free locust flight
... climbing flight The functional role of activating a particular wing muscle in the complex three-dimensional wing movement is difficult to ...with flight muscles that were not recorded in our study, the ...
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New experimental approaches to the biology of flight control systems
... of flight is free ...that free flight is necessarily natural flight – in most experimental situations, the subject will be trailing leadwires, carrying a load, flying in a wind tunnel, ...
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COORDINATION OF WING BEAT AND RESPIRATION IN CANADA GEESE DURING FREE FLIGHT
... during free flight using methods similar to those described by Butler and Woakes ...age, flight feathers were fully developed and flight training was ...
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Renal function and plasma levels of arginine vasotocin during free flight in pigeons
... affect flight performance ...to flight, but the birds produced relatively little urine after flight; we collected approximately 50–100 µl of urine before flight but only 20 µl subsequent to ...
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Contractile activity of the pectoralis in the zebra finch according to mode and velocity of flap bounding flight
... between free flight and wind tunnel flight at similar ...vivo flight measurements, and similar studies of bird flight should, therefore, include measurements of the extent to which ...
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Visual motion speed determines a behavioral switch from forward flight to expansion avoidance in Drosophila
... during flight along these ...forward flight in the absence of body rotations or ...forward flight with collision-avoidance is simple: (1) forward flight is maintained by orienting towards a ...
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Reducing biting rates of Aedes aegypti with metofluthrin: investigations in time and space
... Volatile pyrethroids such as metofluthrin [8], dissemi- nated from a number of point sources and surfaces, at a variety of concentrations, have demonstrated their po- tential to repel or reduce populations of Culex ...
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Reducing biting rates of Aedes aegypti with metofluthrin: investigations in time and space
... natural free-flight behaviour [16, 17], which could answer questions such as will free- flying mosquitoes remain in the metofluthrin treated area for longer than 24 h, are free-flying ...
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Gliding for a free lunch: biomechanics of foraging flight in common swifts (Apus apus)
... of flight performance over a wide range of speeds and thus inclusion of data from within each track, subsampled as described in Materials and ...gliding flight presented in Table 2 and described above, the ...
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