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This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume
"Polarized Light in Animal Vision" edited by Horvath and Varju, but
also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines
polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including
vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and
aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized
light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken
into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by
the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to
scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies;
polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and
anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization
transmitted through Snell's window and both linearly and circularly
polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This
Part also examines polarized "light pollution" induced by
anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces,
glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now
known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III
surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision
including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based
polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the
navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky
polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to
polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this
section.
This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume
"Polarized Light in Animal Vision" edited by Horvath and Varju, but
also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines
polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including
vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and
aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized
light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken
into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by
the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to
scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies;
polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and
anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization
transmitted through Snell's window and both linearly and circularly
polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This
Part also examines polarized "light pollution" induced by
anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces,
glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now
known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III
surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision
including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based
polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the
navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky
polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to
polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this
section.
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Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications - 21st International Conference, ASMTA 2014, Budapest, Hungary, June 30 -- July 2, 2014,Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Bruno Sericola, Telek Miklos, Gabor Horvath
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R2,232
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st
International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling
Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2014, held in Budapest, Hungary,
in June/July 2014. The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed
and selected from 27 submissions. The papers discuss the latest
developments in analytical, numerical and simulation algorithms for
stochastic systems, including Markov processes, queueing networks,
stochastic Petri nets, process algebras, game theory, etc.
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Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications - 16th International Conference, ASMTA 2009, Madrid, Spain, June 9-12, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Khalid Al-Begain, Dieter Fiems, Gabor Horvath
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R1,504
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It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the 16th
International
ConferenceonAnalyticalandStochasticModellingTechniquesandApplications
(ASMTA 2009) that took place in Madrid. The conference has become
an established annual event in the agenda of the experts of
analytical modelling and performance evaluation in Europe and
internationally. This year the proceedings continued to be
published as part of Springer's prestigiousLecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. This is another sign of the growing
con?dence in the quality standards and procedures followed in the
reviewing process and the program compilation. Following the
traditions of the conference, ASMTA 2009, was honored to have a
distinguished keynote speaker in the person of Kishor Trivedi.
Professor Trivedi holds the Hudson Chair in the Department of
Electrical and Computer EngineeringatDukeUniversity, Durham, NC,
USA. HeistheDuke-SiteDirector of an NSF Industry-University
Cooperative Research Center between NC State University and Duke
University for carrying out applied research in computing and
communications. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1975. He is
the author of a well-known text entitled Probability and Statistics
with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications,
published by Prentice-Hall, the
secondeditionofwhichhasjustappeared.
Hehasalsopublishedtwootherbooks entitled Performance and
Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems, published by Kluwer
Academic Publishers, and Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, by
John Wiley. He is also known for his work on the modelling and
analysis of software aging and rejuvenation. The conference
maintained the tradition of high-quality programs with an
acceptance rate of about 40%.
Arthropods as pests in crops, vectors of diseases, pollinators, and
natural enemies of pests are of huge economic importance. They
affect livestock, human health and food supplies around the world.
This unique book examines and reviews how light and colour can be
used to enhance pest management in agricultural and medical
applications by manipulating the optical responses of arthropods.
Arthropods use optical cues to find food, oviposition sites and to
navigate. Light also regulates their diurnal and seasonal
activities. Plants use optical cues to attract or deter various
species of arthropod. In this book, an international team of
experts show how light can be used successfully to attract, arrest,
confuse and deter arthropods as well as to disrupt their biological
clocks. The book: Presents an up-to-date and thorough summary of
what is known about how arthropods of agricultural and medical
importance respond to visual cues. Describes techniques that use
light to manipulate pests and beneficial insects and mites.
Presents a broad discussion of the potential use of optical
manipulation of arthropods to improve the health of plants,
domestic animals and humans.
The surface of dry or wet asphalt roads reflect partially linearly
polarised light, the degree of linear polarisation of which depends
on the darkness and roughness of asphalt: the darker and/or the
smoother the asphalt, the higher the p of light reflected from it.
If the asphalt is sunlit and the direction of view is parallel to
the solar-antisolar meridian, then the direction of polarisation of
asphalt-reflected light is horizontal. In this case the asphalt
surface can attract water-seeking aquatic insects, because they
detect water by means of the horizontal polarisation of light
reflected from the water surface. This phenomenon is called
positive polarotaxis. This book proposes the use of these remedies
on asphalt roads running near emergence sites of endangered aquatic
insects, especially in the vicinity of wetlands, rivers and lakes.
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