Grooming has emerged as an active area of research within the operations research and telecommunications fields and concerns the optimization of network transmissions that span multiple distinct transmission channels, protocols, or technologies. This study explores the meaning of grooming, the technical context in which it can be applied, and example situations. A new taxonomy captures key aspe...

Grooming is a well-recognized, multipurpose, behavior in arthropods and vertebrates. In this paper, we review the literature to highlight the physical function, neurophysiological mechanisms, and role that grooming plays in insect defense against pathogenic infection. The intricate relationships between the physical, neurological and immunological mechanisms of grooming are discussed to illustr...

We review the evolution of traffic grooming from SDH/SONET to evolutionary flexible-grid and elastic-rate technologies and summarize the relevant issues. Sliceable optical transponder is identified as a novel technology that could potentially impact the future grooming paradigm.

grooming behaviour is one of the important mechanisms of honeybee defence against parasitic mites. in addition to genetical characteristics, environmental conditions affect the behavioural traits of honeybee colonies. the main objective of this study was to examine the effect of temperature and humidity on the ability of honeybee workers to remove varroa mites from their body. one hundred worke...

The behavioural assays were carried out in a Y-maze wherein intact, castrated and testosterone-treated male mice were exposed to oestrus and non-oestrus urine samples. The intact male mice investigated more frequently and spent more time in the Y-maze arm with oestrus urine than in that with non-oestrus urine. In contrast, the castrated mice were not attracted to oestrus urine, whereas testoste...

HUANG, SHU. Traffic Grooming in Wavelength Routed Path Networks. (Under the direction of Assistant Professor Rudra Dutta). Recent increase in bandwidth and development of wavelength routing techniques has prompted the study of traffic grooming in wide area wavelength routed optical networks. These networks are widely expected to form the high speed high performance backbone networks of the futu...

Grooming is a widespread behavior among non-human primates, characterized by rhythmic sweeps and plucking movements of the fingernails directed at addressing skin debris, spots, blemishes, ectoparasites or vegetation trapped in the fur [1]. Self-grooming is directed toward the individual’s own body (primarily those accessible parts, such as the arms and the legs), while allogrooming is carried ...

Natural rodent grooming and other instinctive behavior serves as a natural model of complex movement sequences. Rodent grooming has syntactic (rule-driven) sequences and more random movement patterns. Both incorporate the same movements—only the serial structure differs. Recordings of neural activity in the dorsolateral striatum and the substantia nigra pars reticulata indicate preferential act...

We used data from adult female chacma baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, to provide the first test of hypotheses on interchange trading and the structure of a biological market (Noë & Hammerstein 1994, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 35, 1–11) within a primate group. The interchange commodities selected were grooming and handling of infants less than 3 months of age. Patterns of grooming...