There is a large and troubling gap between the promise of deliberative innovations and the most prevalent practices of our largely dysfunctional democracy.A web of factors is widening this gap and increasing the urgency of addressing it.With democracy in crisis, the deliberative civic 2334-080 field is engaging in more collaborative efforts and in
Abstract Background Resemblance to raptors such as hawks (Accipiter spp.) is considered to be an adaptive strategy of cuckoos (Cuculus spp.), which has evolved to protect cuckoos against host attacks.However, the effectiveness of the mimicry remains controversial, and is not yet fully studied for highly aggressive hosts.Methods We evaluated the eff
In the production of cold-rolled strip, the strip surface may suffer from various defects which need to be 2334-080 detected and identified using an online inspection system.The system is equipped with high-speed and high-resolution cameras to acquire images from the moving strip surface.Features are then extracted from the images and are used as i
Advances in mobile autonomous platforms for oceanographic sensing, including gliders and deep-water profiling floats, have provided new opportunities for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of cetaceans.However, there are few direct comparisons of these mobile autonomous systems to more traditional methods, such as stationary bottom-moored recorders.