The influence of age and maternal antibodies on the antibody responses to human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) glycoproteins in very young children has been a matter of controversy.Both, immaturity of the immune system at very early age and suppression of the host immune response by high level of maternal antibodies have been claimed to limit t
Agricultural intensification and abandonment have led to a dramatic decrease of semi-natural grasslands such as low-intensity pastures and hay meadows.The Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) is a ground-nesting raptor of open grasslands that has severely suffered from these changes.We studied the habitat preferences of this umbrella species of open gra
This study integrates path planning, fuzzy theory, neural networks, image processing, range sensors, webcam, global navigation satellite system (GNSS), and real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning system into an intelligent wheeled mobile robot (WMR) for outdoor patrolling.The robot system uses ultrasound sensors, laser sensors, and fuzzy controllers
As Beauty Mirrors Atividades Físicas de Aventura na Natureza (AFAN) são práticas realizadas no tempo livre e em ambientes naturais.Com o crescimento cada vez maior da zona urbana, a prática tem sido bastante procurada por pessoas que geralmente buscam utilizar quebrar a rotina.O objetivo principal deste estudo foi analisar quais são os motivos
It is known that design of elastic cloaks is much more challenging than that of acoustic cloaks, cloaks of electromagnetic waves or scalar problems of anti-plane shear.In this paper, we Transmission Parts address fully the fourth-order problem and develop a model of a broadband invisibility cloak for channelling flexural waves in thin plates around