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Neurosciences
Bruss Lima, Maria M. Florentino, Mario Fiorani, Juliana G. M. Soares, Kerstin E. Schmidt, Sergio Neuenschwander, Jerome Baron, Ricardo Gattass
Summary: Visual perception is the result of hierarchical and parallel processing, as well as remapping, in a dynamic network of cortical visual areas. This article focuses on the topographical organization of cortical areas and the different visual maps found in the primate brain. Contrary to the belief in a strict representational model, the findings suggest that vision is an active and constructive process from the early stages of development, with a complex interplay between perceptual and motor systems.
PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Ulrika Mussener
Summary: Digitalization and high mobile phone ownership have drastically altered communication in society, including healthcare. While mobile phone interventions have been shown to be effective, more research is needed to compare digital interventions with in-person interventions and understand the relationship between human interactions in digital interventions and outcomes. Suggestions for enhancing digital encounters in mHealth interventions and future research directions are provided.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Pierre Antonelli, Penelope Duval, Patricia Luis, Guillaume Minard, Claire Valiente Moro
Summary: Insects play important roles in nature and are influenced by environmental changes and anthropic activities. Recent studies have highlighted the role of insect-associated bacterial microbiota in insect responses to xenobiotics. Stressor exposure can affect the composition and structure of insect microbiota, which in turn may influence insect biology.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Sayantani M. Basak, Md. Sarwar Hossain, Declan T. O'Mahony, Henryk Okarma, El zbieta Widera, Izabela A. Wierzbowska
Summary: Europe is experiencing dynamic land use changes that are leading to an expansion of urban habitat and an increase in human-wildlife conflict. This study conducted a questionnaire survey in Krakow, Poland, in 2010 and 2020 to assess people's attitudes towards urban wildlife and changes in perceptions over a decade. The results showed increased encounters with certain urban wildlife and a significant increase in personal anxiety, property intrusion, and crop destruction as the most frequent responses to conflicts. Respondents preferred nonlethal methods to manage the conflicts.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Entomology
Raquel P. F. Guine, Sofia G. Florenca, Cristina A. Costa, Paula M. R. Correia, Manuela Ferreira, Joao Duarte, Ana P. Cardoso, Sofia Campos, Ofelia Anjos
Summary: Edible insects are traditional foods in many countries, but not widely accepted in Western countries. However, they are considered as a sustainable source of protein that can help mitigate hunger and malnutrition. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess consumers' perceptions and knowledge about edible insects.
Review
Biology
Steve Kett, Ayush Pathak, Stefano Turillazzi, Duccio Cavalieri, Massimiliano Marvasi
Summary: Arthropods are able to produce a variety of antifungal compounds, but some taxa, particularly eusocial insects, also acquire additional compounds through mutualistic associations with microbes. These associations have been maintained for over 50 million years, indicating the continued effectiveness of the compounds and suggesting potential strategies for reducing antifungal resistance in clinical settings.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Claudia Engel, Jonathan Rodden, Marco Tabellini
Summary: Choropleth disease maps, particularly those displaying case rates, have the potential to increase public concern and support for policies aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. However, their impact on individuals' self-reported behavior may be limited.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marjorie A. Lienard, Gary D. Bernard, Andrew A. Allen, Jean-Marc Lassance, Siliang Song, Richard Rabideau Childers, Nanfang Yu, Dajia Ye, Adriana Stephenson, Wendy A. Valencia-Montoya, Shayla Salzman, Melissa R. L. Whitaker, Michael Calonje, Feng Zhang, Naomi E. Pierce
Summary: This study focuses on the spectral sensitivity of visual systems in invertebrates, revealing the interplay between molecular basis and regulatory and adaptive evolution, which enhances insect visual adaptation at blue and red wavelengths.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Robotics
Alberto Jaenal, Francisco-Angel Moreno, Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez
Summary: This paper presents ALLOM, an approach that addresses appearance-based localization by leveraging the topological location of a robot within a map to achieve accurate metric estimations. ALLOM achieves topology-assisted metric localization by applying a specific observation model for each different place and taking advantage of the local correlation between pose and appearance descriptors within each region. It also utilizes the topological structure of the map to detect robot loss-of-tracking and effectively cope with relocalization using VPR, demonstrating superior metric localization capability compared to other state-of-the-art methods under various situations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
(2023)
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Business
Hanna Berg, Annika Lindstrom
Summary: This study examines consumers' liquid volume size perceptions based on standardized product pictures in online stores and finds that online size perceptions require more effort and are less accurate compared to offline perceptions. Consumers tend to overestimate the sizes of small products and underestimate the sizes of large products when shopping online.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Leticia R. Paiva, Alessandra Marins, Paulo F. Cristaldo, Danilo Miranda Ribeiro, Sidiney G. Alves, Andy M. Reynolds, Og DeSouza, Octavio Miramontes
Summary: As the number or density of interacting individuals in a social group increases, a transition can develop to a collective coherent pattern from uncorrelated and disordered behavior of the individuals. The value of the scaling exponent mu of a power law describing the Levy walk of an individual is collectively modified as the density of animals in the group changes. This effect is absent when termites interact with inert obstacles.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Editorial Material
Geography
Casey R. Lynch
Summary: Reflecting on Leszczynski and Elwood's theorization of glitch epistemology, this commentary argues for epistemological approaches to the question of (artificial) intelligence in geography. It suggests focusing on perceptions, encounters, and subjectivities and investigating how particular technologies may be perceived as intelligent within specific contexts.
DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(2022)
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Ecology
Camilo Castillo-Estupinan
Summary: Paramos in the Northern Andes are vital ecosystems that provide water for millions of people and support unique biodiversity. The conservation of these ecosystems has become important, but conflicts arise due to the presence of human communities, such as campesino communities, in these areas.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
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Forestry
Pete Bettinger, Krista Merry, Alba Rocio Gutierrez Garzon, Taeyoon Lee, Jacek Siry, Steve McNulty, Michael Gavazzi
Summary: This study examines the necessity of updating tree species distribution range maps. The survey results indicate that both stakeholder groups believe updating the current maps is valuable, and should be informed by remote sensing, national field inventories, and expert insight.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Bincheng Yang, Hongwei Li
Summary: Visual attention plays a crucial role in the map-reading process and eye-tracking data contains a wealth of visual information that can be used to identify cognitive behavior during map reading. This study proposes a method for quantitatively calculating visual attention based on eye-tracking data for 3D scene maps, and establishes a quantitative relationship between visual saliency and visual factors through experiments and data fitting. The research helps to determine and quantify the visual attention allocation during map reading, laying the foundation for automated machine mapping.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2021)
