Review
Behavioral Sciences
Jeremy Skipper
Summary: Most research on the neurobiology of language and consciousness ignore each other. However, this study proposes that inner speech, with an emphasis on language, is responsible for generating and sustaining self-awareness, also known as higher-order consciousness. The "HOLISTIC" model of neurobiology of language, inner speech, and consciousness is proposed, which involves a core set of regions for inner speech production and a largely unconscious dynamic periphery distributed throughout the whole brain. This model provides a more complete understanding of the neural correlates of consciousness and has implications for mental health and wellbeing.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Robotics
Jiajun Jiang, Xingxin Chen, Weichen Dai, Zelin Gao, Yu Zhang
Summary: This paper proposes a thermal-inertial SLAM method for all-day autonomous systems. By improving image processing and tracking methods, the challenge of thermal data association is overcome. Experimental results demonstrate that the method performs competitively in indoor and outdoor environments and is robust under challenging illumination conditions.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bettina Blasing, Esther Zimmermann
Summary: Dance is traditionally viewed as a visual art form, but there is a growing interest in making it accessible to individuals with visual impairments or blindness. Using verbal, auditive, and haptic techniques, researchers and artists aim to strengthen cultural participation, expand artistic research, and inspire new lines of neuro-cognitive research beyond watching dance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Muhammad Saad Shoaib Khan, Faisal Islam, Yajin Ye, Matthew Ashline, Daowen Wang, Biying Zhao, Zheng Qing Fu, Jian Chen
Summary: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) plays an important role in signal transduction and adaptive regulation in plants. It improves plant responses to stress conditions by interfering with the cellular redox regulatory network and post-translational modifications of proteins. Additionally, H2S interacts with other gas signals and plant growth regulators to activate multiple signaling pathways.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chien-Che Hung, Lih-Ming Yiin
Summary: Honeybees, with their foraging characteristics, can serve as bioindicators of pesticide exposure in a neighborhood. In a study conducted in East Taiwan, bee samples from 15 apiaries and dust samples from the surrounding environment were collected and analyzed to assess availability and establish correlation between the two samples. The study found significant correlation between residue concentrations in bees and in dust, suggesting that honeybees can be good indicators for herbicide and fungicide exposure within certain ranges. Sick/dead bees had higher pesticide contents compared to healthy bees, indicating their use as a warning sign of pesticide pollution severity.
Article
Geography
Sandra Bempah, Andrew Curtis, Gordon Awandare, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Nancy Nyakoe
Summary: The increasing urbanization in Ghana has resulted in a waste management crisis and public health consequences. This study investigates the issue of waste management from a health perspective in Teshie, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, using a spatial mixed methods approach.
Article
Ecology
Graeme Fox, Latha R. Vellaniparambil, Loreto Ros, Joshua Sammy, Richard F. Preziosi, Jennifer K. Rowntree
Summary: The global growth of cities and public interest in beekeeping has led to an increase in urban apiaries. Cities provide a diverse diet for managed bees, and non-native plants are important for sustaining urban bee populations.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Joel R. Adams, Alexandra C. Salem, Heather MacFarlane, Rosemary Ingham, Steven D. Bedrick, Eric Fombonne, Jill K. Dolata, Alison Presmanes Hill, Jan van Santen
Summary: The study developed a new measure of lexico-semantic similarity using natural language processing and pseudo-value analysis, aiming to identify specific semantic difficulties in children with ASD. Results showed significant differences in semantic coherence between ASD and TD groups, with greater variability in the ASD group. The pseudo-value-based method effectively distinguished semantic difficulties in children with ASD without needing a reference transcript.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Yuan Li, Zhetao Zhang, Xiufeng He, Yuanlan Wen, Xinyun Cao
Summary: When using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for positioning in challenging environments, a stochastic model that reflects reality is essential. However, existing models sometimes fail to accurately depict the actual situation of the station. In this study, a new approach is proposed to consider the impact of satellite distribution on positioning accuracy and adjust the observation weight. The results show improved accuracy and reliability of code positioning, particularly in high occlusion environments.
Article
Biology
Oliver Rubel, Andrew Tritt, Ryan Ly, Benjamin K. Dichter, Satrajit Ghosh, Lawrence Niu, Pamela Baker, Ivan Soltesz, Lydia Ng, Karel Svoboda, Loren Frank, Kristofer E. Bouchard
Summary: This article introduces the design and implementation principles of a language for neurophysiology data and demonstrates the impact of NWB software in unifying the description of neurophysiology data across different species, enabling the reproducibility, interchangeability, and reusability of the data.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ronald B. Gillam, Sarfaraz Serang, James W. Montgomery, Julia L. Evans
Summary: This study investigated the dimensionality of cognitive processes related to memory capacity and language ability in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. The results showed that cognitive abilities accounted for a significant amount of the variance in linguistic abilities, and the relationship between working memory and language ability was significantly stronger in the typically developing group than in the language disorder group.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Hulya Turkcan, Salih Zeki Imamoglu, Huseyin Ince
Summary: This study examines the relationships between additive manufacturing, new product development performance, and competitive advantage, with a focus on the moderating role of environmental dynamism. The results suggest that additive manufacturing has a positive impact on new product development performance and competitive advantage, with environmental dynamism playing a moderating role. It is also found that new product development performance fully mediates the association between additive manufacturing and competitive advantage.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bing Gong, Erkai He, Bing Xia, Rongrong Ying, Pengjie Hu, Jiugeng Chen, Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg, Yang Liu, Xueqing Xu, Hao Qiu
Summary: This study found that wheat plants regulate various growth-related processes, including carbohydrate, amino acid, lipid, vitamin, and nucleotide metabolism, to maintain metabolic balance and global metabolic homeostasis under different stress conditions. These findings provide novel insights into MoS2 nanosheets-mediated crop responses under global warming.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Yang Cao, Shao-Ying Gong, Zhen Wang, Yang Cheng, Yan-Qing Wang
Summary: This study explored the optimal difficulty level for learning performance in a leaderboard context, finding that low difficulty led to more positive emotions and higher learning motivation. The study also showed that negative emotions and learning motivation mediated the relationship between difficulty and learning performance.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Gissell Lacerot, Sarian Kosten, Raquel Mendonca, Erik Jeppesen, Jose Luiz Attayde, Nestor Mazzeo, Franco Teixeira-de-Mello, Gilbert Cabana, Matias Arim, Jose Henrique Cantarino Gomes, Sh Tserenpil, Marten Scheffer
Summary: Body size is considered a good indicator of trophic position in fish communities, but in warmer climates, the classical correlation between body size and trophic position disappears, leading to a decline in trophic diversity and more truncated trophic webs.
Article
Entomology
Tianfei Peng, Jeferson Pedrosa, Jaqueline Eterna Batista, Fabio S. Nascimento, Christoph Grueter
Summary: The tropical stingless bees have evolved complex communication systems to recruit nestmates to food locations, with some species able to accurately communicate location but not distance. Recent research indicates that Plebeia droryana can recruit nestmates to specific food sources, but without using social cues from conspecifics. The potential mechanism for this recruitment behavior remains unknown and requires further study.
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Thomas Wagner, Lena Bachenberg, Simone M. Glaser, Avgousta Oikonomou, Melissa Linn, Christoph Grueter
Summary: The study found that differences in size between leader and follower ants significantly reduced the success rate of tandem running, possibly due to varying walking speeds among ants of different sizes. In ant societies, phenotypic differences among workers may not always be beneficial for communication efficiency, sometimes leading to negative impacts.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Andres Arenas, Rocio Lajad, Tianfei Peng, Christoph Grueter, Walter Farina
Summary: The study showed that octopamine (OA) plays a role in influencing the decision-making process of honeybee foragers in collecting pollen or nectar, leading to a transition from nectar to pollen collection and an increase in the proportion of pollen collectors. The findings suggest that OA signaling affects the foragers' decisions on resource preferences.
GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Tianfei Peng, Dennis Derstroff, Lea Maus, Timo Bauer, Christoph Grueter
Summary: The study found that older foraging honeybees had higher expression of receptor genes in the mushroom bodies compared to younger foragers, while cumulative foraging activity was not related to receptor gene expression. Additionally, the foraging state of time-trained foragers affected receptor gene expression. Overall, the expression of receptor genes in forager mushroom bodies is complex and influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Entomology
S. M. Glaser, R. M. Feitosa, A. Koch, N. Goss, F. S. do Nascimento, C. Grueter
Summary: Tropical ants face intense intra- and interspecific competition for food sources, with recruitment communication helping colonies monopolize and exploit resources successfully. Mass-recruiting competitors are often successful in displacing focal colonies, but when foragers are able to recruit nestmates, they have a higher probability of retaining access to food sources. Competition is more intense after sunset, but an increase in activity post-sunset allows focal colonies to exploit food sources more successfully.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jonas Geldmann, Marine Deguignet, Andrew Balmford, Neil D. Burgess, Nigel Dudley, Marc Hockings, Naomi Kingston, Helen Klimmek, Alanah Hayley Lewis, Carsten Rahbek, Sue Stolton, Claire Vincent, Sue Wells, Stephen Woodley, James E. M. Watson
Summary: The work on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework is progressing well, with a focus on vision, goals, and indicators for the next decade of biodiversity conservation. The effectiveness indicator for protected areas and other conservation measures has been proposed, but there is still a lack of consensus on the data to inform it. It is essential to capture essential elements related to biodiversity outcomes and management in the updated indicator, as well as to establish a digital infrastructure for national-level data capture.
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Robbie I'Anson Price, Francisca Segers, Amelia Berger, Fabio S. Nascimento, Christoph Gruter
Summary: Social information plays a crucial role in the animal kingdom, allowing individuals to obtain information without sampling the environment. However, the reasons behind why some species communicate foraging sites while others do not remain poorly understood. Contrary to expectations, stingless bees that recruit nestmates did not bring back higher quality forage than non-recruiting species, and foragers from recruiting species did not have shorter foraging trip durations.
Article
Biology
Natascha Goy, Simone M. Glaser, Christoph Grueter
Summary: Tandem running in ants is a communication strategy that involves teaching behavior, but its effectiveness varies in different environments. Factors such as the distribution of food sources, colony size, and the ratio of scouts to recruits play crucial roles in determining the success of tandem running communication.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Joseph A. Tobias, Catherine Sheard, Alex L. Pigot, Adam J. M. Devenish, Jingyi Yang, Ferran Sayol, Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Nico Alioravainen, Thomas L. Weeks, Robert A. Barber, Patrick A. Walkden, Hannah E. A. MacGregor, Samuel E. I. Jones, Claire Vincent, Anna G. Phillips, Nicola M. Marples, Flavia A. Montano-Centellas, Victor Leandro-Silva, Santiago Claramunt, Bianca Darski, Benjamin G. Freeman, Tom P. Bregman, Christopher R. Cooney, Emma C. Hughes, Elliot J. R. Capp, Zoe K. Varley, Nicholas R. Friedman, Heiko Korntheuer, Andrea Corrales-Vargas, Christopher H. Trisos, Brian C. Weeks, Dagmar M. Hanz, Till Topfer, Gustavo A. Bravo, Vladimir Remes, Larissa Nowak, Lincoln S. Carneiro, Amilkar J. Moncada R., Beata Matysiokova, Daniel T. Baldassarre, Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Jared D. Wolfe, Philip M. Chapman, Benjamin G. Daly, Marjorie C. Sorensen, Alexander Neu, Michael A. Ford, Rebekah J. Mayhew, Luis Fabio Silveira, David J. Kelly, Nathaniel N. D. Annorbah, Henry S. Pollock, Ada M. Grabowska-Zhang, Jay P. McEntee, Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez, Camila G. Meneses, Marcia C. Munoz, Luke L. Powell, Gabriel A. Jamie, Thomas J. Matthews, Oscar Johnson, Guilherme R. R. Brito, Kristof Zyskowski, Ross Crates, Michael G. Harvey, Maura Jurado Zevallos, Peter A. Hosner, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, James M. Maley, F. Gary Stiles, Hevana S. Lima, Kaiya L. Provost, Moses Chibesa, Mmatjie Mashao, Jeffrey T. Howard, Edson Mlamba, Marcus A. H. Chua, Bicheng Li, M. Isabel Gomez, Natalia C. Garcia, Martin Packert, Jerome Fuchs, Jarome R. Ali, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Monica L. Carlson, Rolly C. Urriza, Kristin E. Brzeski, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Matt J. Rayner, Eliot T. Miller, Rauri C. K. Bowie, Rene-Marie Lafontaine, R. Paul Scofield, Yingqiang Lou, Lankani Somarathna, Denis Lepage, Marshall Illif, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Mathias Templin, D. Matthias Dehling, Jacob C. Cooper, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Kangkuso Analuddin, Jon Fjeldsa, Nathalie Seddon, Paul R. Sweet, Fabrice A. J. DeClerck, Luciano N. Naka, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Alexandre Aleixo, Katrin Bohning-Gaese, Carsten Rahbek, Susanne A. Fritz, Gavin H. Thomas, Matthias Schleuning
Summary: Functional traits provide a quantitative framework for theories in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. The AVONET dataset contains comprehensive functional trait data for all bird species, allowing integration with other datasets and providing a global template for testing hypotheses and exploring the origins, structure, and functioning of biodiversity.
Article
Entomology
Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Christoph Gruter, Cristiano Menezes, Sidnei Mateus, Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Summary: Stingless bees exhibit great diversity in behavior, ecology, nest architecture, colony size, and worker morphology. This study found that nest-entrance architecture is correlated with important foraging and defense traits. Species with smaller eyes tend to build larger entrances, resulting in faster landing approaches and fewer landing errors by foragers. Additionally, mass-recruiting species have significantly larger entrance holes compared to species with solitary foraging strategies.
JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Christoph Gruter, Lucy Hayes
Summary: Social bees have larger foraging ranges, which are further increased by their diet breadth and communication.
Article
Ecology
Lucy Hayes, Christoph Grueter
Summary: Many bee species exhibit flower constancy, especially social bees that use communication about food sources. A study aimed to understand the benefits of flower constancy in social bees and how these benefits depend on foraging conditions. Results showed that flower constancy alone was not successful, but when combined with communication, it considerably improved the foraging performance of bee colonies, especially in environments with abundant high-quality food sources and weak competition. The findings suggest that flower constancy can be an adaptive strategy in social bees and anthropogenic changes in foraging landscapes may affect bees with different levels of flower constancy differently.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Simone M. Glaser, Christoph Grueter
Summary: This article investigates the effects of social learning on individual foraging success of ants in different environmental conditions. The study found that social learners discovered better food sources than individual learners in rich environments, but collected less food during the trials. Interestingly, individual learners improved their success over time by switching food sources more frequently than social learners.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Denise A. Alves, Ebi A. George, Rajbir Kaur, Axel Brockmann, Michael Hrncir, Christoph Gruter
Summary: Communication is essential in animal societies, including eusocial bees, to tackle challenges and exploit resources efficiently. Various factors, such as social biology, ecological conditions, and anthropogenic activities, influence the communication strategies of bees. The impact of human activities on bees, such as habitat conversion and agrochemical use, highlights the need to study how bees adapt their foraging and communication strategies to these changes. This represents a new frontier in bee behavioral and conservation research.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Biology
Christoph Gruter, Maria Sol Balbuena, Lohan Valadares
Summary: Stingless bees are diverse and ecologically important pollinators in the tropics. The division of labour in these bees has been studied in only about 3% of the described species. The available data suggest that while there are similarities, there are also striking differences in division of labour compared to other social bees. Worker age and morphological variation, such as body size and brain structure, play important roles in determining worker tasks. Studying stingless bees can help confirm general patterns of division of labour and uncover novel mechanisms in eusocial bees.
CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
(2023)
