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Error is proportional to distance measured by honeybees: Weber’s law in the odometer
Honeybees were trained to fly a specific distance, the same over trials, down a tunnel for a reward. After training, they were tested occasionally with the reward absent. On tests, bees fly to or just past th...
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Honeybees link sights to smells
It is common for a smell or a sound to trigger a vivid recollection of an associated event in the past, even if it involves a different sensory modality and the episode occurred a long time ago1,2. The human brai...
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Precipitations in an Yttrium-Containing Low-Expansion Superalloy
The resistance to stress-accelerated grain-boundary oxygen embrittlement and notch-bar rupture strength in Fe–Ni–Co–Nb–Ti low-expansion superalloy has been improved significantly by trace yttrium addition. The...
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Eye-specific learning of routes and “signposts” by walking honeybees
This study investigates the honeybee's ability to learn routes based on visual stimuli presented to a single eye, and to then navigate these routes using the other (naive) eye. Bees were trained to walk throu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robot Navigation Inspired by Principles of Insect Vision
Recent studies of insect visual behaviour and navigation reveal a number of elegant strategies that can be profitably applied to the design of autonomous robots. The “peering” behaviour of grasshoppers, for ex...
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Chapter
Visual control of honeybee flight
Recent research has uncovered a number of different visual cues which bees use for controlling and stabilising flight. Bees flying through a tunnel maintain equidistance to the flanking walls by balancing the ...
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Investigation of abrasive erosion of polymers
Mechanisms of abrasive erosion for polymers, including polyurethane, styrene-butadiene rubber, nylon-6 and polytetrafluoroethylene, have been investigated using a special abrasive erosion test machine designed...
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Prior experience enhances pattern discrimination in insect vision
IT is well known that prior knowledge or experience aids us tremendously in uncovering objects that are poorly visible, partially hidden or camouflaged1–3. Is such enhancement in performance unique to higher anim...
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Is pattern vision in insects mediated by 'cortical' processing?
IT is known that bees, like humans, can learn the orientation of a striped pattern, and recognize this orientation in other simple patterns that they have never previously encountered1,2. How is orientation analy...
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Evidence for two distinct movement-detecting mechanisms in insect vision
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Investigation of shear stress distribution in notch problem under sliding mode case
The shear stress distribution for the notch problem of plane elasticity in the sliding mode case is investigated in this paper. Particular features of the shear stress distribution beneath the crown point of n...
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How honeybees measure their distance from objects of unknown size
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To investigate whether bees use motion cues in the task of estimating distance, they were trained to collect ...
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Motion cues provide the bee's visual world with a third dimension
To extract the third dimension from a two-dimensional retinal image most insects, including bees, cannot rely on mechanisms common in vertebrates such as accommodation, binocular convergence or stereoscopic v...
