Size-selective harvesting is one of the most widespread anthropogenic impacts on marine species. The loss of larger (older) individuals due to such harvesting has numerous cascading effects on the biology of affected species and populations, including changes in life history, demography, reproductive output, and even ecological interactions (Fenberg & Roy 2008). Size-selective harvesting has be...

The dynamics of competing populations are investigated using discrete non-linear models with age structure. Necessary and sufficient stability conditions for the coexistence equililbrium between two competing non-interbreeding species are developed. An extension of this result shows that coexistence, which is not necessarily stable, occurs in terms of a simple geometric rule on a two dimensiona...

Harvesting for food or sport is often non-random with respect to demographic state, such as size or life stage. The population-level consequences of such selective harvesting depend upon which states are harvested and how those states contribute to population dynamics. We focused on a form of selective harvesting that has not previously been investigated in an experimental context: sex-selectiv...

This article presents a dual-frequency (DF) dual-input-dual-output interface based on reconfigurable switching converter for thermoelectric energy harvesting. The DF operation decouples the rate of extraction at input stage from distribution output stage. automatically makes transitions among two energy-harvesting modes and one energy-recycling mode according to load condition. low-frequency ha...

Agricultural intensification in America has replaced native warm-season grasses (NWSG) with introduced forages causing wildlife habitat loss and population declines for the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and similar ground-nesting birds. Reintroducing NWSGs onto managed grasslands to reverse grassland bird population declines lacks information about appropriate multi-purpose management...

Multiple input single output (MISO) point-to-point communication system is considered where the transmitter is designed such that, each antenna can transmit information or harvest energy at any given point in time. We evaluate the achievable rate by this system, subject to an average power constraint and show that, by careful switching of antennas between transmission and harvesting modes, it i...

A Leslie-Gower predator-prey model incorporating harvesting is studied. By constructing a suitable Lyapunov function, we show that the unique positive equilibrium of the system is globally stable, which means that suitable harvesting has no influence on the persistent property of the harvesting system. After that, detailed analysis about the influence of harvesting is carried out, and an intere...

The light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) is the main energy absorber for photosynthesis in green plants, and its translocation between photosystems I and II is the primary means of energy redistribution between them. Using single-particle tracking, we performed the first measurement of the mobility of LHCII in the photosynthetic membranes in both the nonphosphorylated and the phosphorylated (P-L...

Studies on harvesting robots with manipulator were started with the tomato fruit harvesting robot since 30 years ago by Prof. Kawamura, Kyoto University [1]. The robot consisted of a 5 DOF manipulator, a harvesting end-effector, a color TV camera which was used for stereo vision, and a battery car for traveling in the ridges as shown in Figure 1. Following the harvesting robot, the robotic tech...

When exposed to excess light illumination photosynthetic organisms switch into a photoprotective quenched state where the excess energy is safely dissipated as heat. When these processes are investigated by means of ultrafast spectroscopy, the experimentalist is faced with the unnatural process of singlet–singlet annihilation which often makes the interpretation of the results very complicated....