Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex psychiatric disorder with unclear etiology and pathological features. Neuroscientists are increasingly proposing that schizophrenia is an abnormality in the dynamic organization of brain networks. Previous studies have...
Mesocarnivores play essential roles in terrestrial ecosystems, but anthropocentric disturbances have profoundly transformed their intraguild interactions worldwide. In this study, we explored how a guild of four mesocarnivores (red fox Vulpes vulpes,...
Livestock interactions with wildlife have been a concern for managers historically. Invasive feral swine represent an additional management concern in the realm of resource competition as well as zoonotic disease spread between livestock and wildlife...
Sympatric distribution and temporal overlap of cryptic zooplankton species pose a challenge to the framework of the niche differentiation theory and the mechanisms allowing competitor coexistence. We applied the methods of phylogenetic analysis, DNA...
Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) interference is a standard method for characterizing photon indistinguishability. However, in practical systems, the measured interference visibility is not solely determined by intrinsic spectral–temporal misma...
The effects of human disturbance represent one of the major threats for wildlife conservation. Many studies have shown that wildlife avoids or reduces direct contact with human activities through changes in activity patterns, and by minimizing spatio...
Dramatic increases in populations of wild ungulates have brought a new ecological issue in the Qinling mountains. Information on species’ niche differentiation will contribute to a greater understanding of the mechanisms of coexistence, so as t...
Activity patterns constitute a critical adaptive trait in large carnivores, enabling them to manage interspecific competition, enhance their foraging efficiency, and adapt to fluctuating environmental conditions. At the community level, elucidating t...
In our study, we examine how the temporal window shift—the step between consecutive analysis windows—affects EEG-based cognitive fatigue detection while keeping the window length fixed. Using a reference workload dataset and a pipeline th...
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Efficiency in the early ability to switch attention toward competing visual stimuli (spatial attention) may be linked to future ability to detect rapid acoustic changes in linguistic stimuli (temporal attention). To test this hypothesis, we compared...
The Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) and sika deer (Cervus nippon) in Japan are usually allopatric. However, a recent expansion in the distribution range of sika deer, combined with an increase in abundance, has resulted in an overlap of the dist...
Understanding the resource partitioning and diet of sympatric species is vital for conservation and management. From April 2020 to March 2021, a study on the dietary consumption of Rhabdomys dilectus and Lophuromys acquilus was conducted on Mount Kil...
Temporal partitioning is reported as one of the main strategies adopted by coexisting mammal species to limit interspecific competition and behavioural interference. In the last decades, camera-trapping surveys have provided valuable insights in asse...
Climate change is a major challenge affecting marine environments, making it essential to understand species distribution responses in both time and space for effective conservation strategies. Meanwhile, varying responses of species to climate chang...
Habitat use and the temporal activities of wildlife can be largely modified by livestock encroachment. Therefore, identifying the potential impacts of livestock on the predator–prey interactions could provide essential information for wildlife...
High classification performance in financial-risk early-warning research may reflect recovery of a constructed contemporaneous rating rule rather than prediction of an independent future outcome. This study distinguishes these two forms of evidence t...
In terrestrial mammalian carnivore guilds, interspecific competitions (interferences and resource competitions) among sympatric species induce their ecological and behavioral patterns and population dynamics, thereby shaping community structures. Com...
In the global trend of museums transitioning from static displays to digital, narrative, and experiential forms, heritage museums face challenges such as weakened cultural identity, insufficient emotional resonance, and the separation of reality and...
Understanding the ecosystem services and their interaction with coal resource development is crucial for formulating sustainable development policies. In this study, we focused on the Yellow River Basin, characterized by both rich coal resources and...
The overlapped areas of cropland and coal resources play a fundamental role in promoting economic and social progress. However, intensive mining operations in high water-level areas have brought significant spatial–temporal heterogeneity and ec...
Temporal niche partitioning is an important strategy for sympatric species or populations when utilizing limited resources while minimizing competition. Different resource availability across seasons may also influence the intensity of competition, r...
The construction of new tunnels above existing tunnels has become increasingly common to optimize underground space utilization. However, such construction may pose potential engineering hazards due to cracking in the secondary lining of the lower tu...
The logarithmic derivative has been shown to be a useful tool for data analysis in applied sciences because of either simplifying mathematical procedures or enabling an improved understanding and visualization of structural relationships and dynamic...
Investigating the spatio-temporal differentiation patterns and driving factors of ecosystem services (ESs) supply and demand is of great significance for early warning of ecosystem imbalance risks and identifying regional natural resource supply&ndas...
Analyses of temporal partitioning and overlaps in activity rhythms are pivotal to shed light on interspecific coexistence between similar species or prey and predators. In this work, we assessed the overlap of activity rhythms between the Eurasian be...
Background: Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is an advanced preclinical approach in radiotherapy that utilizes spatially fractionated dose distributions by collimating x-rays into micrometer-wide, planar beams. While the benefits of temporal fractio...
Construction sites are considered as complicated work environments. Various concurrent activities may overlap apropos to time and workspace, predisposing them to spatial–temporal exposure and repetitive accidents. Detecting the characteristics of rep...
The peri-implantation window is a tightly regulated temporal phase during which the human endometrium undergoes coordinated molecular remodeling to establish receptivity. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) contribute to implantation-related processes; however, wheth...
The Lhasa River is one of the five tributaries of the Yarlung Zangbo River. It is the main industrial, agricultural and animal husbandry area in Tibet. It plays an important ecological security barrier role in regulating regional climate and maintain...
The co-occurrence of felid species in Southeast Asia provides an unusual opportunity to investigate guild structure and the factors controlling it. Using camera-trap data, we quantified the space use, temporal activity, and multi-dimensional niche ov...
The analysis of activity patterns is a valuable tool for understanding the temporal organization of mammal communities, which is determined by biological requirements, resource availability, and competitive pressures both within and between species....
Building Sustainable Cities and Human Communities is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. And the sustainability of culture plays an important role in the sustainable development of cities and human communities. Language...
Understanding how prey and predator species partition activity patterns across time and space is essential for elucidating behavioral adaptation and ecological coexistence. In this study, we examined the diel and seasonal activity rhythms of two symp...
Coexistence between species with similar ecological niches implies species must segregate along one or more niche axes to survive. Space, time, and trophic resources are regarded as the principal axes upon which species segregate. We examined segrega...
Species with similar resource requirements cannot coexist for long. To facilitate co-existence, carnivores adapt different strategies to partition the available resources in space and time. In high-altitude ecosystems with limited resources the opera...
This paper establishes the relationship between the signal of a lidar system corrected for the incomplete overlap effect and the signal of another lidar system or a ceilometer for which the overlap function is unknown. Simple mathematical relationshi...
Monochamus alternatus Hope and Arhopalus rusticus (L.) are important stem-boring pests that co-occur on weakened Pinus spp. Their larvae damage the xylem and phloem of the trunks and branches. At present, the consequences of the interspecific relatio...
In this work, an attempt has been made to develop an automated system for detecting electroclinical seizures such as tonic-clonic seizures, complex partial seizures, and electrographic seizures (EGSZ) using higher-order moments of scalp electroenceph...
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) signals are very vital in air traffic control. However, the space-based ADS-B signals are easily overlapped and their message cannot be correctly received. It is challenge to separate overlapped sign...
In the context of climate change and the intensification of population activities, differences in regional water resources are the main drivers leading to these resources’ unbalanced development. This problem can be addressed by exploring spati...
Studying the spatial and temporal interactions between sympatric animal species is essential for understanding the mechanisms of interspecific coexistence. Both Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bears (Ursus arctos) inhabit northeaster...
Conflicts are ubiquitous in forest management because of several overlapping temporal and spatial issues (see examples in tropical and temperate areas [...]
Understanding predator-prey coexistence mechanisms is essential for conserving endemic species in montane ecosystems. Galliformes serve as critical ecological indicator species, yet their populations are declining globally due to habitat fragmentatio...
The duiker community in Central African rainforests includes a diversity of species that can coexist in the same area. The study of their activity patterns is needed to better understand habitat use or association between the species. Using camera tr...
The shift from manual to conditionally automated driving, supported by Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADASs), introduces challenges, particularly increased crash risks due to human factors like cognitive overload. Driving simulators provide a s...
Identifying spatial and temporal patterns of human–carnivore encounters is crucial for predicting conflict hotspots. However, the degree of overlap between human and carnivore movements is likely to differ between stable environments and season...
Multi-Camera Multi-Vehicle Tracking (MCMVT) is a critical task in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Differently to in urban environments, challenges in highway tunnel MCMVT arise from the changing target scales as vehicles traverse the narrow...
Ecological theory suggests that interspecific interactions and environmental heterogeneity promote temporal niche partitioning, whereby species segregate their activity along diel and seasonal axes. For ectotherms, temperature is a critical niche dim...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by frequent episodes of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which are often accompanied by leg movement (LM) events, especially periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS). Traditional single-event detecti...
This study examines spatio-temporal patterns of dolphin species in a coastal ecosystem located in the Bay of Algeciras–Gibraltar (southern Spain), a highly anthropogenic coastal system influenced by a submarine canyon and exposed to intense ant...
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