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MetazSecKB: the human and animal secretome and subcellular proteome knowledgebase.

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
The subcellular location of a protein is a key factor in determining the molecular function of the protein in an organism. MetazSecKB is a secretome and subcellular proteome knowledgebase specifically designed for metazoan, i.e. human and animals. Th...

A tool for developing an automatic insect identification system based on wing outlines.

Scientific reports
For some insect groups, wing outline is an important character for species identification. We have constructed a program as the integral part of an automated system to identify insects based on wing outlines (DAIIS). This program includes two main fu...

Broiler responses to digestible threonine at different ages: a neural networks approach.

Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition
Three experiments were conducted with broiler chickens to evaluate the effects of digestible threonine (DThr) and crude protein (CP) on their performance at three different phases of age: 1-14, 15-28 and 29-42 days. The measured traits included the f...

Evolution of Self-Organized Task Specialization in Robot Swarms.

PLoS computational biology
Division of labor is ubiquitous in biological systems, as evidenced by various forms of complex task specialization observed in both animal societies and multicellular organisms. Although clearly adaptive, the way in which division of labor first evo...

Tactile soft-sparse mean fluid-flow imaging with a robotic whisker array.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
An array of whiskers is critical to many mammals to survive in their environment. However, current engineered systems generally employ vision, radar or sonar to explore the surroundings, not having sufficiently benefited from tactile perception. Insp...

A miniature surface tension-driven robot using spatially elliptical moving legs to mimic a water strider's locomotion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
The highly agile and efficient water-surface locomotion of the water strider has stimulated substantial interest in biomimetic research. In this paper, we propose a new miniature surface tension-driven robot inspired by the water strider. A key featu...

Forecasting Seizures Using Intracranial EEG Measures and SVM in Naturally Occurring Canine Epilepsy.

PloS one
Management of drug resistant focal epilepsy would be greatly assisted by a reliable warning system capable of alerting patients prior to seizures to allow the patient to adjust activities or medication. Such a system requires successful identificatio...

An improved quasi-steady aerodynamic model for insect wings that considers movement of the center of pressure.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
A quasi-steady aerodynamic model in consideration of the center of pressure (C.P.) was developed for insect flight. A dynamically scaled-up robotic hawkmoth wing was used to obtain the translational lift, drag, moment and rotational force coefficient...

Dynamics of underwater legged locomotion: modeling and experiments on an octopus-inspired robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper studies underwater legged locomotion (ULL) by means of a robotic octopus-inspired prototype and its associated model. Two different types of propulsive actions are embedded into the robot model: reaction forces due to leg contact with the ...

GABA diffusion across neuronal columns for efficient sensory tuning.

Biological cybernetics
Synaptic (phasic) lateral inhibition between neuronal columns mediated by GABAergic interneurons is, in general, essential for primary sensory cortices to respond selectively to elemental features. We propose here a neural network model with a nonsyn...