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Seasonal changes in flight direction of migrant butterflies in the British Isles
... SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION An examination of over a thousand records of directional flights in the British Isles, relating to six species of butterflies, shows distinct evidence of a nor[r] ...
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Kinematics analysis of selected rhytmic gymnastic leaps
... and flight time (FT). The lower variability, was observed in flight times of all four leaps ...and flight times were computed by means of a Vicon 460 motion analysis ...by flight times, and ...
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Bat flight: aerodynamics, kinematics and flight morphology
... free flight using PIV so far, have small or even indented ‘ negative ’ tail membrane and the wakes have suggested a relatively limited aerodynamic function of the body and tail (Hedenström et ...
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Succession and persistence of microbial communities and antimicrobial resistance genes associated with International Space Station environmental surfaces
... It is also evident from previous studies that microbes tend to increase virulence in microgravity [84]. In this study, we observed a continuous increase in the number of metagenomics reads associated with virulence from ...
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Quantifying interspecific variation in dispersal ability of noctuid moths using an advanced tethered flight technique
... for flight mill validation were higher for males (495 individuals) than females (122 ...in flight between males and females (Berwaerts et ...all flight trials were based only on ...in flight, ...
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Structural Design and Analysis of Mounting Structure for Flight Vehicle
... In flight, any aircraft will rotate about its center of gravity, a point which is the average location of the mass of the aircraft. We can define a three dimensional coordinate system through the center of gravity ...
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Low computational SLAM for an autonomous indoor aerial inspection vehicle
... in Figure 3.5. As the rotors are placed away from the centre of gravity, multicopters can control the pitch and roll of the aircraft by varying the total thrust from each rotor. This negates the need for a swashplate and ...
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On the development of computer code for aircraft flight dynamics analysis
... developing flight simulator, one to follow certain steps, one have to be able to evaluate the aircraft behavior in linear as well as in nonlinear of the aircraft flight of ...aircraft flight of ...
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Effects of body size on the oxygen sensitivity of dragonfly flight
... The E. simplicicollis study measured 25 individuals at each oxygen level (Harrison and Lighton, 1998); in the present study, we used species means for 11 species as our data set. In addition to the smaller samples sizes, ...
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ENDOTHERMY IN THE SOLITARY BEE ANTHOPHORA PLUMIPES: INDEPENDENT MEASURES OF THERMOREGULATORY ABILITY, COSTS OF WARM UP AND THE ROLE OF BODY SIZE
... tethered flight is referred to as its voluntary flight temperature ...After flight for a period of 60s or so, body temperature usually stabilised at a value termed the stable flight ...
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Energetic influence on gull flight strategy selection
... different flight strategies gulls may take advantage of a wide range of air movements and quasi two- dimensional structures in the atmospheric boundary layer (Young et ...of flight is determined in this ...
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Topic21-Clinton-BushYears.ppt
... • Terrorists hijack two planes— American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 —and crash them into the World Trade Center. • Terrorists hijack American Airlines Flight 77[r] ...
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Tracheal Gases, Respiratory Gas Exchange, Body Temperature and Flight in Some Tropical Cicadas
... Oxygen consumption of moth« during rest, pre-flight warm-up, and flight in relation to body size and wing morphology.. Endothermy in African dung beetles during flight, ball making, and [r] ...
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Honeybees perform optimal scale free searching flights when attempting to locate a food source
... The random Lévy-looping searching strategy is clearly less efficient than an equidistant spiral search pattern. A spiral search could, however, work only if the bees’ navigation were precise enough and their visual ...
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Wake analysis of aerodynamic components for the glide envelope of a jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
... Gliding flight is a relatively inexpensive mode of flight used by many larger bird species, where potential energy is used to cover the cost of aerodynamic ...their flight configuration, allowing ...
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Optimized low-thrust mission to the Atira asteroids
... In recent years, successful missions such as Deep Space 1 [2], Hayabusa [3] and Dawn [4] - which is currently en route to Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt - have demonstrated the possibility to successfully ...
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A smart Neural Network Based Algorithm for Landing Control of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
... understand flight data required to maintain stabilized guidance of anUnmanned Aerial Vehiclethrough during landing phase, the proposed algorithms for each phase of landing of the UAV are to be executed ...
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The Flight of Birds
... The complete apparatus may conveniently be subdivided into the following sections: switching system, trigger unit, power unit, camera, camera and switch drive, lamp circuits.. To trigger[r] ...
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The Flight of Birds
... In normal fast flight there is no backward movement of the tip, which traces out a simple waved track, and in birds with a slow wing beat it is possible to see a drop in body speed durin[r] ...
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Flight in Drosophila
... A flight performance was considered 'successful' if it met these criteria: 1 the animal achieved enough lift to support its weight at at least one body angle; and 2 measurements were tak[r] ...
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