We present a new robotic implementation of a brain-inspired model of action selection described by Gurney et al. (Gurney et al., 2001a, Gurney et al., 2001b) based on neural circuits located in the basal ganglia and thalamus of the vertebrate brain. Compared to an earlier robot implementation (Montes-Gonzalez et al., 2000), the new model demonstrates the capacity of the selection system to prod...

There is a commercial fishery for Palinuridea in the Cape Verde Islands. The species known from the archipelago are Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964, Panulirus echinatus S. I. Smith, 1869, Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1865, Scyllarides latus (Latreille, 1803) and Scyllarus pygmaeus (Bate, 1888). Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel 1911, Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851), Scylla...

In the past decade, there has been renewed interest in wave energy harvesting utilizing oscillating water columns (OWC), one of most well-studied harnessing technologies. OWC, pneumatic power from ocean waves is converted to mechanical by Wells turbines. It should be noted, however, that such turbines tend perform poorly, have a limited operating range, and low efficiency. present study, we inc...

The English music theorist and philosophical writer Edmund Gurney was the first ‘fulltime’ psychical researcher in history. While he was primarily concerned with empirical evidence for telepathy, Gurney significantly contributed to the late nineteenth-century literature on hallucinations in the sane, and the psychology of hypnotism and dissociation. He conducted the first large-scale survey of ...

Zoeller, K. C., G. Gurney, N. Marshall, and S. Cumming. 2021. The role of socio-demographic characteristics in mediating relationships between people nature. Ecology Society 26(3):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12664-260320