Although camouXage is a common predator defense strategy across a wide variety of organisms, direct tests of the adaptive and ecological consequences of camouXage are rare. In this study, we demonstrated that closely related crabs in the family Epialtidae coexist in the same algal environment but use alternative forms of camouXage– –decoration and color change––to protect themselves from predat...

In China’s construction industry, it is a normal practice to separately subcontract the decoration engineering part from construction engineering, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) is also done separately. Application of BIM in decoration engineering should be integrated with other disciplines, but Chinese current practice makes this very difficult and complicated. Currently, there are th...

Gold-decorated silica nanoparticles were synthesized in a two-step process in which silica nanoparticles were produced by chemical vapor synthesis using tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) and subsequently decorated using two different gas-phase evaporative techniques. Both evaporative processes resulted in gold decoration of the silica particles. This study compares the mechanisms of particle decor...

Many animals decorate themselves through the accumulation of environmental material on their exterior. Decoration has been studied across a range of different taxa, but there are substantial limits to current understanding. Decoration in non-humans appears to function predominantly in defence against predators and parasites, although an adaptive function is often assumed rather than comprehensi...

On-line machine vision algorithms are potentially applicable for various systems, including robot vision, security and guarding systems, clinical image diagnostic systems, and automatic video editting systems. However, in processing tremendous amount of image data in a stream of video signal, software burden required for image understanding sometimes restricts the realization of the systems. In...

objectives: this study aimed to find the factors that affect dental esthetics and smile attractiveness in orthodontically treated patients according to laypeople’s judgment, and to determine whether there is any relationship between dental and smile esthetics. materials and methods: using the q-sort technique, 60 laypersons (30 males, 30 females) rated dental and smile photographs of 48 orthodo...

Studies using actin decoration techniques and electron microscopy have failed to show the presence of actin in the ciliate Spirostomum teres. The internal and external membranes of dividing cells were made permeable by treatment with Triton. The myosin subfragment S-1 was introduced into the cells for incubation under conditions suitable for actin decoration. Arrowhead decoration of microfilame...

Abstrak Simbol memainkan peranan penting dalam melihat keindahan nilai estetika sesuatu rekabentuk bangunan masjid. Ini kerana keunikan sesebuah masjid warisan banyak dipengaruhi oleh simbol yang dipilih mempunyai falsafah tertentu. Pemilihan tepat menjadikan lebih menarik dan cantik. Kajian ini bertujuan merungkai pemilihan bagi setiap pada Masjid Muhammadi, Kota Bharu Kelantan. diambilkira ka...

We have studied vortex configurations in mesoscopic superconducting disks using the Bitter decoration technique. For a broad range of vorticities L the circular geometry is found to lead to the formation of concentric shells of vortices. From images obtained on disks of different sizes in a range of magnetic fields we traced the evolution of vortex states and identified stable and metastable co...