ESCAPE TACTICS AND EFFECTS OF PERCH HEIGHT AND HABITUATION ON FLIGHT INITIATION DISTANCE IN TWO JAMAICAN ANOLES (SQUAMATA: POLYCHROTIDAE)

Escape tactics and effects of perch height and habituation on flight initiation distance in two Jamaican anoles (Squamata: Polychrotidae)

Escape by Anolis lizards is influenced by microhabitats and fight initiation distance increases with predation risk.Differences in microhabitat use among ecomorphs affect escape behavior, but only two studies have reported ecomorphological differences in flight initiation distance among Greater Antillean species.I studied effects of predation risk

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Assessing the impact of institutional mistrust on parental endorsement for COVID-19 vaccination among school communities in San Diego County, California.

BackgroundInstitutional mistrust has weakened COVID-19 mitigation g35 coupe fender efforts.Assessing to what extent institutional mistrust impacts parental decision making is important in formulating structural efforts for improving future pandemic response.We hypothesized that institutional mistrust is associated with lower parental endorsement fo

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Different functions of the insect soluble and membrane-bound trehalase genes in chitin biosynthesis revealed by RNA interference.

BACKGROUND: Trehalase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes trehalose to yield two glucose molecules, plays a pivotal role in various physiological processes.In recent years, trehalase proteins have been purified from several insect species and are divided into soluble (Tre-1) and membrane-bound (Tre-2) trehalases.However, no functions of the two trehalases i

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Stability analysis of a pneumatically actuated inverted pendulum

This paper deals with the stabilization read more of an inverted pendulum on cart; the latter is pneumatically actuated by a double acting cylinder controlled by low cost proportional valves.In particular, a numerical model of whole system is developed in order to find the ability of the pneumatic actuation in stabilizing the pendulum and evaluate

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