Peregrine Falcon
Developing an autopilot for the peregrine falcon Robird
... The peregrine falcon Robird model is of comparable size and weight to an actual peregrine falcon: it has a total mass of approximately 730 g; its wings, weighing 70 to 75 g each, provide a ...
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Avian surface reconstruction in free flight with application to flight stability analysis of a barn owl and peregrine falcon
... The accuracy analysis showed that the method presented had sufficient accuracy to measure a range of geometric features of interest. These features are useful for flight dynamics analysis as will be demonstrated for the ...
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Aerodynamics of the Cupped Wings during Peregrine Falcon’s Diving Flight
... female peregrine falcon and manually modified its wings until every body shape matched to the geo- metries of the falcon during dive from the dam wall (see Figure ...PVC falcon model is needed ...
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Aerodynamics of the Cupped Wings during Peregrine Falcon’s Diving Flight
... female peregrine falcon and manually modified its wings until every body shape matched to the geo- metries of the falcon during dive from the dam wall (see Figure ...PVC falcon model is needed ...
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Kleptoparasitism by Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) as a factor in reducing Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) predation on Dunlin ( Calidris alpina ) wintering in British Columbia
... rob Peregrine Fal- cons (Falco peregrinus) of just-caught ...of Peregrine Falcons, including 817 attacks on Dunlin resulting in 120 ...of Peregrine Falcons, which suggests that some falcons may have ...
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The peregrine falcon's rapid dive: on the adaptedness of the arm skeleton and shoulder girdle
... diving peregrine have to counter-act these aerodynamic forces to keep the wings close to the ...a peregrine falcon of 500 g weight and an assumed diving velocity of 80 ms -1 (288 kmh -1 ) must ...
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Diving-flight aerodynamics of a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
... diving peregrine falcon and from flow and force measurements performed in a wind tunnel using a falcon model that scaled 1:1 to the real life ...diving peregrine was recorded; a ...
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BODY DRAG, FEATHER DRAG AND INTERFERENCE DRAG OF THE MOUNTING STRUT IN A PEREGRINE FALCON,FALCO PEREGRINUS
... drag coefficient body drag coefficient skin friction coefficient, laminar boundary layer skin friction coefficient, turbulent boundary layer drag on an object body drag erroneous body dr[r] ...
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Flight performance during hunting excursions in Eleonora's falcon Falco eleonorae
... Eleonora’s falcon is also capable of stooping and probably reaches terminal speeds comparable with those of the peregrine falcon, but we were not able to measure the speed of stooping Eleonora’s ...
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Chromosome level assembly reveals extensive rearrangement in saker falcon and budgerigar, but not ostrich, genomes
... ostrich, quail); animals bred for conservation (e.g., falcons and parrots), and companion animals (e.g., pet birds) are still however poorly represented, in part because they were initially assembled using NGS data ...
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Isolation and Epidemiology of Falcon Adenovirus
... and peregrine (Falco peregrinus anatum) ...the falcon virus as a new member of the aviadenovirus group ...in peregrine falcon embryo fibroblasts, in which it caused visible and reproducible ...
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Feather Vibration as a Stimulus for Sensing Incipient Separation in Falcon Diving Flight
... The region of interest for the study is the sector along the upper surface of the bird where the elevation of the distal end of feathers was observed in the life images, see Figure 2 in [7]. When the bird is in V-shape ...
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Vortices enable the complex aerobatics of peregrine falcons
... The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) is known for its extremely high speeds during hunting dives or ...of peregrine falcons during stoop is attributed to vortex-dominated flow promoted by their ...
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Feather Vibration as a Stimulus for Sensing Incipient Separation in Falcon Diving Flight
... The region of interest for the study is the sector along the upper surface of the bird where the elevation of the distal end of feathers was observed in the life images, see Figure 2 in [7]. When the bird is in V-shape ...
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Falcon Codes: Fast, Authenticated LT Codes (Or: Making Rapid Tornadoes Unstoppable)
... allows Falcon to use a weaker and faster PRG when producing an individual block encoding, since any corruption on this block cannot be targeted, but only ...(rateless) Falcon within (block) FalconS, as ...
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Gene Ontology consistent protein function prediction: the FALCON algorithm applied to six eukaryotic genomes
... Arabidopsis proteins as computed by BMRF in [18]. This method provides membership probabilities per GO term independently. We constructed two evaluation datasets from those data. First, we randomly picked 100 Arabidop- ...
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Customary law and legal pluralism in the Roman Empire: The status of peregrine law in Egypt: Customary law and legal pluralism in the Roman Empire
... this peregrine law - in a province that lacked civitates proper until 200 ce, and whose inhabitants were mostly peregrini nullius civitatis - is a theoretical ...
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Overview: The role of Network Appliance in FirstClass Systems Architecture. Gary Falcon Aptiris, Inc. February, 2009
... This is similar in approach to the FirstClass single-file storage architecture; rather than copying or duplicating blocks of data that are identical between a snapshot and t[r] ...
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New Zealand falcon prey selection may not be driven by preference based on prey nutritional content
... The 5-minute bird count method that we used may underestimate the relative abundance of less conspicuous species, including many endemic species (Hartley 2012). We believe that in our study, by truncating distance ...
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Project Peregrine: Enhancing Public Sector Research in Global Transparency and Anti-Corruption Through Open Aviation Data.
... Project Peregrine seeks to combine perceptual models from our analysts and other open source investigators with ma- chine learning techniques – for example, path clustering, flight data anomaly detection, and ...
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