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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,535 Views
16 Pages

7 February 2024

Hyperprolific sows often experience increased oxidative stress during late gestation and lactation periods, which can adversely affect the farrowing process and overall lactation performance. This study examines the influence of providing a coconut c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,640 Views
8 Pages

Nest Material Preference of Wild Mouse Species in Laboratory Housing

  • Boróka Bárdos,
  • István Nagy,
  • Zsolt Gerencsér and
  • Vilmos Altbacker

6 June 2022

Our research examined the nest-building characteristics of two mouse species native to Hungary, the mound-building mouse (Mus spicilegus) and the house mouse (Mus musculus), under laboratory housing conditions. In indoor housing, the nest-building ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,131 Views
11 Pages

Autoclaving Nest-Material Remains Influences the Probability of Ectoparasitism of Nestling Hoopoes (Upupa epops)

  • Mónica Mazorra-Alonso,
  • Manuel Martín-Vivaldi,
  • Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez and
  • Juan José Soler

23 September 2020

Nest bacterial environment influences avian reproduction directly because it might include pathogenic- or antibiotic-producing bacteria or indirectly because predators or ectoparasites can use volatile compounds from nest bacterial metabolism to dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,050 Views
15 Pages

An Intelligent Approach to the Unit Nesting Problem of Coil Material

  • Dezhong Qi,
  • Wenguang Yang,
  • Lu Ding,
  • Yunzhi Wu,
  • Chen Tian,
  • Lifeng Yuan,
  • Yuanfang Wang and
  • Zhigao Huang

8 August 2023

With the popularization of small batch production, the main cutting method for sheet metal parts has changed. Laser cutting has become the main production method for coil material cutting. Developing an irregular part nesting method for the continuou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,338 Views
12 Pages

13 December 2024

Osmia bicornis L. is a widespread and valued pollinator species. It is considered to be easy to breed, provided that the nesting material in which the bees build their nests is of sufficient quality and quantity. The aim of this study was to tes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,124 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2021

Ensuring the welfare of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is crucial, in part because they can act as a conservation resource in the case of wild populations becoming extinct. One strategy often adopted to ensure animal welfare is environmental e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,774 Views
19 Pages

Nesting Process Automation in the Footwear Industry: A Hybrid Approach to Minimize Material Waste

  • Eliseo Aguilar-Tortosa,
  • Eduard-Andrei Duta-Costache,
  • Elías Vera-Brazal,
  • José-Luis Sánchez-Romero,
  • José Francisco Gómez-Hernández,
  • Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla and
  • Antonio Maciá-Lillo

31 December 2024

In any industry, maximizing the use of raw materials is essential to reduce waste and costs, which also positively impacts the environment. In footwear production, components are typically derived from cutting processes, requiring optimized systems t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,192 Views
11 Pages

9 February 2024

Uropodina mites are organisms regularly found in the breeding sites of vertebrates. However, studies devoted to the nest dwellers of hole-nesting birds have been performed nearly exclusively in artificial places, i.e., nest boxes. Here, we describe a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,679 Views
12 Pages

Housing European Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus citellus) for an Ex Situ Conservation Program

  • Boróka Bárdos,
  • Vilmos Altbacker,
  • Henrietta Kinga Török and
  • István Nagy

20 February 2024

European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) populations have declined precipitously over the last 70 years. Its protection cannot be ensured solely by protecting its habitat; it is also necessary to protect the animals ex situ. In our study, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,302 Views
12 Pages

Intraspecific Relationships and Nest Mound Shape Are Affected by Habitat Features in Introduced Populations of the Red Wood Ant Formica paralugubris

  • Filippo Frizzi,
  • Alberto Masoni,
  • Margherita Santedicola,
  • Martina Servini,
  • Nicola Simoncini,
  • Jessica Palmieri and
  • Giacomo Santini

14 February 2022

Ants belonging to the Formica rufa group build large nest mounds, which aid their survival during severe winters. We investigated whether different environmental features of the habitats affected the nest mound shape and the population structure. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,069 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2020

We investigated the effect of different farrowing systems on the behavior of sows and piglets. In total, 22 hybrid sows (Yorkshire × Landrace) were randomly assigned into three farrowing systems, farrowing crate (FC), free farrowing pen with sl...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
365 Views
11 Pages

Application and Development of CAD/CAM Technologies in the Modern Metalworking Industry

  • Fatima Sapundzhi,
  • Deyan Vezyuv,
  • Slavi Georgiev and
  • Ivaylo Nikolaev

19 January 2026

The purpose of this paper is to examine the application and development of CAD/CAM technologies in the modern metal cutting industry, with a focus on their role in increasing production accuracy, efficiency, and sustainability. The study presents an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,612 Views
14 Pages

Development of N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Reference Material from Fermentation Products

  • Tao Lan,
  • Xiangsong Chen,
  • Lixia Yuan,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Jianming Yao,
  • Jinyong Wu and
  • Dunming Xu

5 February 2025

N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) is a key ingredient in bird’s nest, as well as in health products and infant formulas. However, the absence of suitable reference materials (RMs) makes it challenging to ensure the quality of these products. Curre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,326 Views
15 Pages

16 January 2023

Hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) construct summer nests for resting and breeding. The nests are built directly in the vegetation, in tree hollows, or in nest boxes. The availability of nest materials and vegetation coverage may affect the lik...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,436 Views
46 Pages

Pot-Pollen Volatiles, Bioactivity, Synergism with Antibiotics, and Bibliometrics Overview, Including Direct Injection in Food Flavor

  • Patricia Vit,
  • Maria Araque,
  • Bajaree Chuttong,
  • Enrique Moreno,
  • Ricardo R. Contreras,
  • Qibi Wang,
  • Zhengwei Wang,
  • Emanuela Betta and
  • Vassya Bankova

30 November 2024

Stingless bees (Hymenoptera; Apidae; Meliponini), with a biodiversity of 605 species, harvest and transport corbicula pollen to the nest, like Apis mellifera, but process and store the pollen in cerumen pots instead of beeswax combs. Therefore, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2026

An algorithm named ASR-BL-SA is proposed to solve the impact of a rectangular-part nesting sequence on final material utilization. Based on the Bottom Left principle, a coefficient, k, is defined as the ratio of the shape factor to 0.785 plus the squ...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,699 Views
10 Pages

Characterization of the Worthen Sparrow (Spizella wortheni)’s Nest Building Materials in Northeastern Mexico

  • Eliseo B. Suarez,
  • Miguel Mellado,
  • Marcos Luna,
  • Eloy A. Lozano,
  • Guadalupe Calderon,
  • Yesenia Angel,
  • Oscar Angel,
  • Mayra L. Medina and
  • José E. García

19 April 2024

The study was conducted within a well-managed beef cattle operation in northeastern Mexico. Each nest was weighed and dissected to obtain the plant and animal material used to build the nests. The number of materials present per nest and relative fre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,680 Views
18 Pages

8 September 2023

During an optimization process which uses a metaheuristic strategy applied to the nesting problem, it is required to apply a repair method if the random solution contains overlapping items. In this paper, a repair method is proposed to avoid the over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,877 Views
21 Pages

Investigating the Architecture and Characteristics of Asian Hornet Nests: A Biomimetics Examination of Structure and Materials

  • Naim Sedira,
  • Jorge Pinto,
  • Mário Ginja,
  • Ana P. Gomes,
  • Miguel C. S. Nepomuceno and
  • Sandra Pereira

3 November 2023

This study investigates the internal architecture of Asian hornet nests (AHNs) using advanced imaging techniques, such as CT scanning and X-ray radiography, to understand their construction and function. The primary objective and significance of this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,411 Views
19 Pages

The Effect of Early Life Stress on Emotional Behaviors in GPR37KO Mice

  • Vandana Veenit,
  • Xiaoqun Zhang,
  • Antonio Ambrosini,
  • Vasco Sousa and
  • Per Svenningsson

30 December 2021

GPR37 is an orphan G-protein-coupled receptor, a substrate of parkin which is linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) and affective disorders. In this study, we sought to address the effects of early life stress (ELS) by employing the paradigm of li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,076 Views
13 Pages

Antimicrobial Activity of Compounds Isolated from the Nest Material of Crematogaster rogenhoferi (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

  • Weihui Bai,
  • Baihe Chen,
  • Huimei Chen,
  • Lei Nie,
  • Mingrong Liang,
  • Yijuan Xu,
  • Yongyue Lu and
  • Lei Wang

23 December 2024

Ants as social insects live in groups, which increases the risk of contagious diseases. In response to the threat of pathogens, ants have evolved a variety of defense mechanisms, including incorporating antimicrobial chemicals into nest material for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,583 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2019

Underground ant nests are typically made of soil and rubble mixed with dead plant bodies, ant secretions, and other organic substances. The clay content is high, and the natural clay materials show pozzolanic activity after calcination. In this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,002 Views
10 Pages

Functions of Snake Sloughs in Bird Nests Vary with Habitats: A Test of the Anti-Predation Hypothesis

  • Jinmei Liu,
  • Laikun Ma,
  • Yameng Jin,
  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Xintong Li and
  • Wei Liang

13 April 2023

Snake sloughs in bird nests can reduce nest predation and serve as an anti-predator strategy. However, the anti-predator function of snake sloughs in nests has only been tested twice, and it is difficult to speculate around the origin of the differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,282 Views
10 Pages

Composition of the Wild Rabbit Nest and Its Implication for Domestic Rabbit Breeding

  • Ágnes Bilkó,
  • Imre Petróczi,
  • Boróka Bárdos,
  • István Nagy and
  • Vilmos Altbacker

11 February 2022

Wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) give birth in an underground nursery burrow where the kits are hermetically closed into the nest chamber for several weeks except for the three minutes of daily nursing. Given this confinement, the nest q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,482 Views
16 Pages

10 June 2022

Vespa velutina accidentally arrived in Europe (France) in 2004, and rapidly expanded throughout the entire country. Its presence in mainland Portugal was first noticed in 2011. Being an invasive species with no natural predators in the region to cont...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,233 Views
8 Pages

16 May 2022

We compared the species composition of seedlings germinated on ten recently abandoned Formica polyctena nests with the plant species on active nests and the plant species composition of the forest floor around the nests. Compared to no plants at all,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,589 Views
11 Pages

24 August 2023

Urbanization affects the natural world, with implications for habitat availability and wildlife behavior, notably in the context of South Korea. This study investigates the effects of urbanization on the nest sizes and materials of barn swallows, a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,628 Views
18 Pages

Research into the geometric nests built by white-spotted pufferfish indicated the nest’s potential for flow control and reduction in flow velocity. However, studies to date have only focused on the construction process and behaviour of the male...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,893 Views
15 Pages

12 June 2023

The authors have obtained original material on the fauna and population structure of oribatid mites inhabiting nests of the European Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca, Passeriformes, hollow-nesting bird) on the territory of the taiga zone of the Eu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,691 Views
14 Pages

Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China

  • Ruixin Mo,
  • Yu Li,
  • Qingmiao Yuan,
  • Mingyun He,
  • Xianyin Xu,
  • Guangjian Chen,
  • Wenwen Zhang and
  • Yubao Duan

19 June 2023

The breeding ecology of birds is the cornerstone of bird life-history theory, and breeding success directly affects the survival and development of populations. We studied the breeding ecology of a secondary cavity-nesting bird, the chestnut-vented n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
833 Views
11 Pages

1 August 2025

The presence of nest boxes not only increases the reproductive success of many passerine birds in transformed forest habitats, but they also constitute important artificial microhabitats for many groups of invertebrates. One of such groups which have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,221 Views
11 Pages

18 May 2021

Spiders are common inhabitants of tree hollows, as well as bird nesting boxes, especially in autumn and winter. Some species of spiders use bird nesting boxes for overwintering. We investigated spider assemblages in nesting boxes and how temperature...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
28,027 Views
19 Pages

A Review of Ant Nests and Their Implications for Architecture

  • Guanghong Yang,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Wenjun Qu,
  • Wu Yao,
  • Peng Zhu and
  • Jing Xu

14 December 2022

This paper discusses the latest progress in research on ant nests and explores innovative scientific concepts associated with underground ant nests from the perspective of bionics. The methods used by scholars to study the structure of ant nests and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,882 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2020

Acromyrmex fracticornis grass-cutting ants construct conspicuous chimney-shaped nest turrets made of intermeshed grass fragments. We asked whether turrets are constructed by merely piling up nearby materials around the entrance, or whether ants incor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,724 Views
11 Pages

18 November 2023

Bird and mammal nests and nest boxes constitute microenvironments in which various groups of invertebrates can live, including mites from the suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata). The main aim of the current study was to ascertain the characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,483 Views
10 Pages

27 March 2020

Wasps are a group of social insects that build a house, known as a nest, from locally available building materials cemented by their saliva and secretions. Similar to termite nests, there could be many beneficiary bacteria present in their house that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,584 Views
22 Pages

Porous materials and structures, such as subterranean fire ant nests, are abundant in nature. It is hypothesized that these structures likely have evolved biological adaptations that enhance their collapse resistance. This research aims to elucidate...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,994 Views
30 Pages

12 June 2024

More than 40 hypotheses predict associations between features of nest architecture and at least one measure of reproductive success. However, quantitative studies of reproductive consequences of nest characteristics remain scarce. In addition, most s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,047 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2023

The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) and the Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) are well-known model organisms for the study of bird migration, as well as the selectivity of nesting sites and the choice of living environment. The former breeds mainly in open a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
692 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2025

For the first time, studies have been conducted aiming at the diversity of the oribatid mites (Oribatida) that inhabit the nests of open-nesting birds of the genus thrushes (Turdus), particularly fieldfare (T. pilaris Linnaeus, 1758) and redwing (T. ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,804 Views
12 Pages

2 May 2020

Ants have strict requirements on the building materials of the nest, such as the size, weight, luster and color of soil particles. The soil of underground ant nests is composed of clay particles cemented together to form a hard brick-like material. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,970 Views
16 Pages

Nesting and Foraging Preferences of Four Sympatric Species of Cavity-Nesting Leafcutting Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

  • Qianlei Dai,
  • Junjie Hu,
  • Xuan Liu,
  • Jia Wan,
  • Jiabao Wei,
  • Dongshuo Yang and
  • Chunling He

11 August 2025

Megachilidae are crucial pollinators of cultivated and wild vegetation, playing a vital role in ecosystem pollination services, however, there is still a lack of information regarding the ecology and behavior of these species. This study aims to anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,507 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2024

Insect pollination services amount to USD 235–577 billion. Seventy five percent of agricultural production for human consumption depends on pollination, mainly by bees. A decline in pollinators, including Meliponini tribe bees, will impact the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,321 Views
12 Pages

21 April 2023

Vespa velutina nigrithorax, a species of hornet, is spreading globally, with increasingly negative effects on human health. To effectively eliminate V. velutina, its nest should be destroyed and its queen removed; however, the nests are difficult to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,861 Views
17 Pages

Home Range, Movement, and Nest Use of Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in an Urban Environment Prior to Hibernation

  • Lars Mørch Korslund,
  • Marius Stener Floden,
  • Milla Mona Sophie Albertsen,
  • Amalie Landsverk,
  • Karen Margrete Vestgård Løkken and
  • Beate Strøm Johansen

29 December 2023

The West European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) is in decline, and it is important to identify its challenges. We used VHF-telemetry to monitor pre-hibernation space use, nest use, and hibernation sites in a suburban area in Norway. Based on nine ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,788 Views
23 Pages

22 October 2024

The in-plane loading conditions of carbon fiber/epoxy composite (CFRP) and aluminum nested-tube-reinforced expanded polypropylene (EPP) blocks were empirically examined. This study used crashworthiness metrics to estimate the best design configuratio...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,100 Views
9 Pages

The nested sampling (NS) method was originally proposed by John Skilling to calculate the evidence in Bayesian inference. The method has since been utilised in various research fields, and here we focus on how NS has been adapted to sample the Potent...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,796 Views
24 Pages

23 April 2024

The mining industry is the leading supplier of raw materials in modern society. This sector of human activity has experienced a severe crisis due to the energy transition and has been revived in recent years due to the need for critical metals that a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,017 Views
13 Pages

Describing the Pollen Content in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Vespa velutina Larvae

  • Ana Diéguez-Antón,
  • Olga Escuredo,
  • Laura Meno,
  • María Carmen Seijo and
  • María Shantal Rodríguez-Flores

27 September 2023

Vespa velutina is an invasive species that exhibits flexible social behavior, which may have contributed to its introduction in several European countries. It is important to understand its behavior in order to combat the effects of its introduction...

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