Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies by Pedro Ribeiro, Anzhelika Butenko, Daniel Linke, Hamid Reza Ghanavi, Joana Isabel Meier, Niklas Wahlberg, Pável Matos-Maraví

“…Abstract Background The endosymbiotic relationship between Wolbachia bacteria and insects has been of interest for many years due to their diverse types of host reproductive phenotypic manipulation and potential role in the host’s evolutionary history and population dynamics. …”
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Q-Learning-Driven Butterfly Optimization Algorithm for Green Vehicle Routing Problem Considering Customer Preference by Weiping Meng, Yang He, Yongquan Zhou

“…This paper proposes a Q-learning-driven butterfly optimization algorithm (QLBOA) by integrating the Q-learning mechanism of reinforcement learning into the butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA). …”
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Changes in Vertical Stratification of Neotropical Nymphalid Butterflies at Forest Edges Are Not Directly Caused by Light and Temperature Conditions by Brian K. Oye, Ryan I. Hill

“…Habitat fragmentation and land use changes threaten neotropical habitats and alter patterns of diversity at forest edges. Like other arthropod assemblages, neotropical fruit-feeding butterfly communities show strong vertical stratification within forests, with some recent work showing its potential role in speciation. …”
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Identifying Large- and Small-Scale Habitat Characteristics of Monarch Butterfly Migratory Roost Sites with Citizen Science Observations by Andrew K. Davis, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Elizabeth Howard

“…Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in eastern North America must make frequent stops to rest and refuel during their annual migration. …”
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A contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of the Cerkljansko Idrijsko region, west Slovenia, with notes on their vertical distribution by Rudi Verovnik

“…Črna prst at an altitude around 1800 m. The highest diversity of butterfly species and habitat types was observed between 500 and 750 m. …”
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The effect of land use intensity and habitat characteristics on butterfly community composition within the Southern Great Plains of the United States by Emily A. Geest, Raymond A. Moranz, Kristen A. Baum

“…The amount of agriculture, urbanization, and wetlands surrounding study sites also influenced butterfly community composition. Flowering forb community measures differed by site with sites managed by fire alone having lower blooming forbs species richness, diversity, and abundance than sites with other management regimens. …”
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Configurable radix-4 NTT hardware optimization and implementation for lattice-based cryptography by ZHOU Qinglei, HAN Heru, LI Bin, LIU Yuhang

“…By analyzing the radix-4 NTT/INTT (inverse NTT) algorithm process, an efficient FPGA architecture was designed, which parameterized runtime configurability and offered compile-time configurability to meet diverse requirements, a pipeline approach was used to construct the radix-4 NTT unified butterfly unit, key algorithmic modules such as modular division and modular reduction were deeply optimized, thereby enhancing computational efficiency and reconfigurability. …”
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Shallow-Water Wave Dynamics: Butterfly Waves, X-Waves, Multiple-Lump Waves, Rogue Waves, Stripe Soliton Interactions, Generalized Breathers, and Kuznetsov–Ma Breathers by Sarfaraz Ahmed, Ujala Rehman, Jianbo Fei, Muhammad Irslan Khalid, Xiangsheng Chen

“…The lump-one stripe solutions are computed by using a mix of positive quadratic and exponential transformations to the governing equation. The lump two-stripe solutions are obtained by using a mix of positive quadratic and exponential transformations to the governing equation. …”
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Day-Flying Lepidopteran Species Abundance, Diversity, and Distribution in Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia by Abenezer Wendimu, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign, Elias Bojago

“…Lepidoptera account for the second largest, most diverse, widespread, and widely recognized insect order in the class Insecta. …”
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Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow by Rodríguez de Cara, María Ángeles, Jay, Paul, Rougemont, Quentin, Chouteau, Mathieu, Whibley, Annabel, Huber, Barbara, Piron-Prunier, Florence, Ramos, Renato Rogner, Freitas, André V. L., Salazar, Camilo, Silva-Brandão, Karina Lucas, Torres, Tatiana Teixeira, Joron, Mathieu

“…We show that H. numata populations which carry the inversions as a balanced polymorphism show markedly distinct patterns of diversity compared to all other taxa. …”
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Pipevine Swallowtail, Blue Swallowtail Battus philenor (Linnaeus 1771) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Papilioninae: Troidini) by Donald W. Hall

“… This document provides an in-depth profile of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor. It covers the butterfly’s nomenclature, distribution, physical description, life cycle, host plants, natural enemies, and defenses. …”
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IBOA-Based Optimization of Cross-Sectional Dimension of Rods for a 3-RRR PPM to Minimize Energy Consumption by Yin Gao, Ke Chen, Hong Gao, Hongmei Zheng, Lei Wang, Kerong Jiang

“…For obtaining optimal cross-sectional dimensions of rods for a 3-RRR planar parallel manipulator (PPM) to minimize energy consumption, the inverse dynamics of the manipulator is modeled based on the Newton–Euler method, after which the coefficient matrix of the inverse dynamics equation is decomposed based on matrix theory. …”
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A Pipelined Hardware Design of FNTT and INTT of CRYSTALS-Kyber PQC Algorithm by Muhammad Rashid, Omar S. Sonbul, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal, Amar Y. Jaffar, Azamat Kakhorov

“…NTT-based polynomials’ multiplication relies on the computation of forward number theoretic transform (FNTT) and inverse number theoretic transform (INTT), respectively. …”
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Diagnoses of postpartum urinary retention using next-generation non-piezo ultrasound technology: assessing the accuracy and benefits by Ruben Plöger, Charlotte Behning, Adeline Walter, Ulrich Gembruch, Brigitte Strizek, Florian Recker

“…The agreement rate for the diagnosis of covert postpartum urinary retention is 100%. Subgroup analyses lack a significant difference reflected by agreement and correlation rates. …”
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Constraints and sources of nonequilibrium: a case of radical market transformation in Brazil by Andriani Pierpaolo

“…I show how the entry of Illycaffé worked as an attractor (pull-strategy) that caused the decommoditisation of the coffee sector, enabled the emergence of a network of quality producers, and caused the rise of a ‘long tail’ of diversity.…”
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Communication management in a millennium of chaos and change by Ursula Stroh

“…Communication management could be used by organisations to reorganise themselves out of disorder and chaos by facilitating conflicts and diversity. Strategic planning will become even more important, but will have to change from the basic premise of control and prediction to scenario planning, and the emphasis will be on relationship building. …”
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Mapping Habitat Structures of Endangered Open Grassland Species (<i>E. aurinia</i>) Using a Biotope Classification Based on Very High-Resolution Imagery by Steffen Dietenberger, Marlin M. Mueller, Andreas Henkel, Clémence Dubois, Christian Thiel, Sören Hese

“…Our findings underscore the critical role of human intervention in preserving habitat suitability, particularly in mitigating the adverse effects of natural succession dominated by shrubs and trees. …”
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Study on coded distributed fast Hadamard transform based non-binary LDPC code decoding algorithm by Rui LIU, Yong LI

“…Despite the excellent error correction performance and burst error resistance capability of non-binary LDPC codes, the complexity of the decoding algorithms hinders their broader application.In the classic FHT-QSPA decoding, the fast Hadamard transform (FHT) and its inverse transform (IFHT) have become the main bottleneck for updating the check nodes.Therefore, a coded distributed FHT scheme based on systematic MDS codes was proposed.In the scheme, the channel probability was modeled by the master node as a matrix and it was segmented, and those sub-matrices were encoded into redundant ones.Then, all the sub-matrices were offloaded to worker nodes to perform parallel FHT and IFHT, and the results were sent back to the master node for the final decoding.By embedding redundant information, the proposed scheme resolved the straggling problem, improving the efficiency, and accelerating the entire decoding process.Comparisons with other coded matrix multiplication schemes, the proposed scheme provides lower encoding complexity, higher numerical accuracy in decoding recovery, and maintains an efficient butterfly operation, effectively reducing the computational complexity of worker nodes.The time comparison and decoding performance analysis reveal that the proposed scheme achieves up to approximately 3.8 times acceleration compared to the traditional single-node FHT scheme, significantly enhances the FHT-QSPA decoding efficiency without affecting the decoding performance.…”
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Model Test and Numerical Simulation Analysis on Freezing Effect of Different Freezers in Freeze-Sealing Pipe-Roof Method by Haibing Cai, Yujie Liu, Rongbao Hong, Mengkai Li, Zongjin Wang, Hanglong Ding

“…However, the processing method of ESF is relatively complex, which adopts arc angle steel welding requiring a lot of reverse welding and high welding quality. Eventually, EDCF is recommended to ensure the quality of frozen walls due to its lower cost and better freezing effect. …”
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Quantum Chemical Topological Analysis of [2Fe2S] Core in Novel [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Mimics by Piotr Matczak

“…In this work, the analysis of bonds in the butterfly [2Fe2S] core in a series of complexes based on recently synthesized [FeFe]-hydrogenase mimics has been carried out using a wide range of quantum chemical topological methods. …”
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