Kingfisher Escape Tactics

Danger Comes from All Fronts: Predator-Dependent Escape Tactics of Túngara Frogs

The escape response of an organism is generally its last line of defense against a predator. Because the effectiveness of an escape varies with the approach behaviour of the predator, it should be advantageous for prey to alter their escape trajectories depending on the mode of predator attack. To test this hypothesis we examined the escape responses of a single prey species, the ground-dwellin...

KINGFISHER: Total Maritime Awareness System (Demonstration)

Continuous monitoring of naval activities of vast areas, hundreds of nautical miles away from shoreline, is one of todays most challenging problems. To enable total maritime awareness in these areas, the use of satellite-based sensors is an efficient and cost-effective way to perform this task. The KINGFISHER (Figure 1) is a maritime multi-layer intelligence system created for an in-depth analy...

Metafol: Program Tactics and Logic Tactics plus Reflection Metafol: Program Tactics and Logic Tactics plus Reeection

universit a di genova facolt a di ingegneria dipartimento informatica sistemistica telematica Abstract The goal of this paper is to present a reasoning system, called METAFOL, embodying the features of a self-reeective system, i.e. a system which has a representation of its own code and is able to reason about and, possibly, extend or modify it. These features have been achieved by employing a ...

Evasion Tactics

The number of countries that censor and monitor their citizens’ use of the Internet is increasing. While it is no secret that China and Iran censor the Internet, at least 25 countries, including Pakistan, Ethiopia, Thailand and Uzbekistan, also have technical filtering regimes in place. Some of the technology is even exported by western companies: search engines, blog hosting providers and emai...

Thermal Characteristics of Wild and Captive Micronesian Kingfisher Nesting Habitats