Sensory information and encounter rates of interacting species.

Most motile organisms use sensory cues when searching for resources, mates, or prey.The searcher measures sensory data and adjusts its search behavior based on those data.Yet, classical models of species encounter rates assume that searchers move independently of their targets.This assumption leads to the familiar mass action-like encounter rate ki

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Analysis Methods for Human Factors in Chemical Plant Accidents

It is important to analyze the cause of an accident so as to prevent further incidents of a similar kind.Variation Tree Analysis (VTA) and Why-Why analysis are accident investigation methods to analyze an accident due to human factors in Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.VTA is the method to employ time series analysis of the circumstances at the tim

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Species associated with whale sharks Rhincodon typus (Orectolobiformes, Rhincodontidae) in the Galapagos Archipelago

Whale sharks Rhincodon typus frequently appear to interact or associate with other species, which vary depending on the community structure and the demographic of the whale sharks at each location globally.Here, we present the species sighted frequently around whale sharks in the Galapagos Archipelago and reported by dive guides and Basketball scie

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Returning to the roots: resolution, reproducibility, and robusticity in the phylogenetic inference of Dissorophidae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli)

The phylogenetic relationships of most Paleozoic tetrapod clades remain poorly resolved, which is variably attributed to a lack of study, the limitations of inference from phenotypic data, and constant revision of best practices.While refinement of phylogenetic methods continues to be important, any phylogenetic analysis is inherently constrained b

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