Xiqiao Shan(Mount Xiqiao)in Foshan,Guangdong Province is an aural paradise.While our modern world often feels overwhelmed by the din of electronic appliances,the air around Mount Xiqiao is filled with the distinct and...
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil,pushing the class’s origins back by 20 million years and offering new insights into early life on Earth,In a remarkable discovery,a team of Chines...
supported by the Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32371564);the Key Project of Basic Research of Yunnan Province,China(202101AS070035;202301AS070001)to G.Chen;Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Talent and Platform Plan(202305AM070005).
Mimetic seeds attract birds to disperse seeds mainly by mimicking fleshy fruits or arillate seeds,however,they provide little nutritive reward for bird dispersers.The key characteristics of mimetic seeds are conspicuo...
Purpose–The deformation of the roadbed is easily influenced by the external environment to improve the accuracy of high-speed railway subgrade settlement prediction.Design/methodology/approach–A high-speed railway s...
The origin of birds from theropod dinosaurs,by any measures,is the most eye-catching evolutionary transition in the history of life,which encompasses numerous extensive morphological and biological changes.Compared to...
supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (5252014);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62303063)。
Bird vocalizations are pivotal for ecological monitoring,providing insights into biodiversity and ecosystem health.Traditional recognition methods often neglect phase information,resulting in incomplete feature repres...
funding this work through the Large Research Group Project under grant number RGP.02/513/45.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome(AIDS)is the name used to describe several potentially life-threatening infections and disorders that happen when HIV has severely compromised the immune system.The primary effect of...
One of the main objectives of artificial intelligence lies in the simulation of the behavior of living organisms;emotions are a fundamental part of life, and they cannot be left aside when simulating behavior. In this...
supported by Beijing Higher Education Society under the 2024 General Project Scheme(Grant No.MS2024128);funding from the Ningbo Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project,as part of the“Ningbo Development Blue Book 2025”Initiative(Grant No.GL24-16)。
Accurate localization ability is fundamental in autonomous driving.Traditional visual localization frameworks approach the semantic map-matching problem with geometric models,which rely on complex parameter tuning and...
supported by Unmanned Vehicles Core Technology Research and Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF);Unmanned Vehicle Advanced Research Center(UVARC)funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT,the Republic of Korea(2020M3C1C1A01083415).
Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles(FWAVs)have been developed to pursue the efficient,agile,and quiet flight of flying animals.However,unlike lightweight FWAVs capable of vertical takeoff,relatively heavy FWAVs face challenges...