Current state of the art in the field of UAV activation relies solely on human operators for the design and adaptation of the drones flying routes. Furthermore, this is being done today on an individual level (one vehicle per operators), with some exceptions of a handful of new systems, that are comprised of a small number of self-organizing swarms, manually guided by a human operator. Dronesba...

Today, drones (i.e., autonomous or remotely piloted flying machines) are being built and start to be used. Military operations using drones are now becoming better established. However, drones are still under-regulated in the civilian world. Main questions are about safety and security. Therefore, drone operations have to be seriously considered by commercial and general aviation regulatory ins...

African honey bees, introduced to Brazil in 1956, rapidly dominated the previously introduced European subspecies. To better understand how hybridization between these different types of bees proceeded, we made geometric morphometric analyses of the wing venation patterns of specimens resulting from crosses made between Africanized honey bees (predominantly Apis mellifera scutellata) and I...

Many apiculturally important traits of the honeybee have medium to high heritabilities and are therefore capable of strong response to selection. However, the natural mating system of honeybees makes it difficult to exclude unselected males from matings and necessitates expensive procedures like artificial insemination or isolated mating stations. By manipulating ambient light and temperature, ...

Nanotechnology has opened up a new, previously unimaginable world in cancer diagnosis and therapy, leading to the emergence of cancer nanomedicine and nanoparticle-aided radiotherapy. Smart nanomaterials (nanoparticle drones) can now be constructed with capability to precisely target cancer cells and be remotely activated with radiation to emit micrometer-range missile-like electrons to destroy...

The availability of relatively capable and inexpensive hardware components has made it feasible to consider large-scale systems of autonomous aquatic drones for maritime tasks. In this paper, we present the CORATAM and HANCAD projects, which focus on the fundamental challenges related to communication and control in swarms of aquatic drones. We argue for: (i) the adoption of a heterogeneous app...

The effects of miticides on the reproductive physiology of queens and drones were examined. The first study examined the effects of Apistan (fluvalinate), Check Mite+ (coumaphos), and Apilife VAR (74% thymol) on sperm production and viability in drones. Drones from colonies treated with each miticide were collected at sexual maturity. Sperm production was determined by counting the number of sp...

In this paper, we present DroneFace, an open dataset for testing how well face recognition can work on drones. Because of the high mobility, drones, i.e. unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are appropriate for surveillance, daily patrol or seeking lost people on the streets, and thus need the capability of tracking human targets’ faces from the air. Under this context, drones’ distances and height...

The evolution of flight energetics requires that phenotypes be variable, repeatable and heritable. We studied intraspecific variation in flight energetics in order to assess the repeatability of flight metabolic rate and wingbeat frequency, as well as the functional basis of phenotypic variation in workers and drones of the bumblebee species Bombus impatiens. We showed that flight metabolic rat...

Police body cameras have been a hot topic recently, with controversy surrounding the privacy of officers, the usefulness of the cameras, the policies that should be followed when using footage, and so on [2]. Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of the police body camera debate is the ability of an officer to disable their camera at will. Reasons ranging from privacy to convenience hav...