Differential pressure measurements offer a new approach for studying the aerodynamics of bird flight. Measurements from differential pressure sensors are combined to form a dynamic pressure map for eight sites along and across the wings, and for two sites across the tail, of pigeons flying between two perches. The confounding influence of acceleration on the pressure signals is shown to be smal...

Several neuropsychiatric disorders involving hippocampal structural changes have been studied extensively using volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These studies have mostly measured total hippocampal volume while the present study aimed to delineate and measure hippocampal subfields within the whole hippocampus and subdivisions along its longitudinal axis. Images were acquired at 4.7 ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a disease of the aortic wall, which can progress to catastrophic rupture. Assessment of mechanical characteristics of AAA, such as aortic distensibility, may provide important insights to help identify at-risk patients and understand disease progression. While the majority of studies on this topic have focused on retrospective patient data, recent studies have...

Juno's highly inclined orbits provide opportunities to sample high-latitude magnetic field lines connected the orbit of Io, among other Galilean satellites. Its payload offers both remote-sensing and in-situ measurements Io-Jupiter interaction. These are at discrete points along Io's footprint tail least one event (12th perijove) was confirmed be on a flux tube Alfvénically allowing for an inve...

We describe a new method for improving the performance of functional programs based on catamorphisms. The method relies on using a compact vector representation for the recursive structure over which the catamorphism operates. This saves space and allows catamorphisms to be implemented in tail-recursive fashion even in cases where the standard linked structure representation requires non-tail-r...

The neural systems that control escape behavior have been studied intensively in several animals, including mollusks, fish and crayfish. Surprisingly little is known, however, about the activation and the utilization of escape circuits during prey-predator interactions. To complement the physiological and anatomical studies with a necessary behavioral equivalent, we investigated encounters betw...

Many observational datasets of emissions, including emissions from the oil and gas sector, follow heavy-tailed distributions, for which a small fraction of the measured emitters are much larger than more typical emitters, and account for a large fraction of the total measured emission. Such distributions are problematic, because they are expected to exhibit large, negatively biased sampling err...

Montane and Long-tailed voles (Microtus montanus and Microtus longicaudus) are notoriously difficult to distinguish through external characteristics and measurements in the field, particularly among juveniles. Being able to accurate identify these species is important, due to their central role in ecosystems (as keystone species) and as indicator species of climate change (due to their high sen...