Courtship in Drosophila melanogaster has become an iconic example of an innate and interactive series of behaviors. The female signals her acceptance of copulation by becoming immobile in response to a male's display of stereotyped actions. The male and female communicate via vision, air-borne sounds, and pheromones, but what triggers the female's immobility is undetermined. Here, we describe a...

Workers of a number of ant species produce vibrational signals, a phenomenon called ‘‘stridulation,’’ with a specialized organ located on their gasters. Even though stridulation can be heard by humans as faint air-borne sound, it has repeatedly been shown that ants are insensitive to the air-borne components of such signals. Instead, they are highly responsive to their substrate-borne component...

Studies on air borne fungi have received much attention due to increase in asthma and allergic rhinitis. It is necessary to have the knowledge of filamentous fungi present in air in a region for proper diagnosis and specific treatment towards allergic symptoms induced by inhaled allergens. In this study, the variability of air borne fungi was identified and assessed on a monthly basis in fruit ...

Hospital ward is one of non-negligible potential places to occur cross-infection among patients and health workers. Air-borne transmission was regarded as the main infection route SARS-CoV-2. Preventing air-borne should be a significant measure, which could effectively mitigate risk virus infection. Based on those consideration, in this study, influence different types air distribution ventilat...

The return link performance of conventional civil DVB-RCS transmission technology limits its direct application to air-borne satellite video transmission system. This paper studies the novel emergent DVB-RCS return link technique based on introducing adaptive parallel processing to the conventional civil DVB-RCS return link. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed return link transmiss...