Powered fight in birds is reliant on feathers forming an aerodynamic surface that resists air pressures.Many basic aspects of feather functionality are unknown,which hampers our understanding of wing function in birds...
supported by the MITACS Accelerate grant with Greenfirst,industry partner in La Sarre,QC,Canada.
Fire disturbances are increasing under global climate change and ecological transformations of forests are occurring.Specifically,shifts from productive closed-canopy feather moss forests to low-productivity open-cano...
supported by the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province(No.20240101122JC)and(No.20240101143JC);the Key Scientific and Technological Research and Development Projects of Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department(Grant Number 20230201108GX)。
Insufficient interfacial activity and poor wettability between fibers and matrix are the two main factors limiting the improvement of mechanical properties of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics(CFRP).Owl feathers are kn...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFB3600402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62004039);Fujian Science&Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China(Nos.2020ZZ111 and 2020ZZ113);the National Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China(No.2021J01577).
In the time of Internet of Things(IoT),alternating current electroluminescence(ACEL)has unique advantages in the fields of smart display and human–computer interaction.However,their reliance on external high-voltage ...
Late last year,Beijingers Sun Lijuan and her husband,both in their 60s,decided to book an apartment for no fewer than six months in Lingshui Li Autonomous County in China's southernmost island province of Hainan and m...
Passerines moult during various life-cycle stages.Some of these moults involve the retention of a variable quantity of wing and tail feathers.This prompts the question whether these partial moults are just arrested co...
the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41930533);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program(to Nansheng CHEN);the Taishan Scholar Project Special Fund(to Nansheng CHEN)。
One specimen belonging to the family Comatellinae was collected from the Zhenbei Seamount(332.5–478.2 m)in the South China Sea in July 2022.Based on the morphological characters,the specimen was identified as Palaeoc...
funded by Jiangsu Agriculture Science and Technology Innovation Fund(Grant No.CX(21)3058);Xuzhou Key Research and Development Project(Modern Agriculture)(Grant No.KC21135);International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BZ2023013).
Aiming at the difficulties of the health status recognition of yellow feather broilers in large-scale broiler farms and the low recognition rate of current models,a novel method based on machine vision to achieve prec...
P07-CVI-02700 from the Con-sejería de Innovacion,Ciencia y Empresa(Junta de Andalucía)/EU-ERDF.
After breeding,Black-necked Grebes(Podiceps nigricollis)perform a moult-migration to autumn hypersaline staging sites,where they moult the flight feathers and forage on superabundant brine shrimp(Artemia spp.)before l...
An American who has lived in China for more than 10 years and traveled ex-Ltensively all over the country,Thomas Stidham has a hobby-bird watching in parks."Birds are dinosaurs,"this Ph.D.in integrative biology from t...