Due to the rich and high quality of offshore wind resources, floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) arouses the attentions of many researchers.But on a floating platform, the wave and wind induced loads can significantly affect power regulation and vibration of the structure.Therefore, reducing these loads becomes a challenging part of the design of

The knowledge of the sky illumination is important for radiometric corrections and for computer graphics applications such as relighting or augmented reality.We propose an approach to compute environment maps, representing the sky radiance, from a set of ground-based images acquired by a Bun / Dome panoramic acquisition system, for instance a mobil

Is a group best off if everyone co-operates? Theory often considers this to be so (e.g.the "conspiracy of doves"), this understanding underpinning social and economic policy.We observe, however, that after competition between "cheat" and "co-operator" strains of yeast, population fitness is maximized under co-existence.To address whether this might

Insects use various types of behaviour, chemical defences, mimetic, Sponge Blender aposematic or cryptic appearances as anti-predatory strategies.Among insects, carabid beetles of the genus Brachinus are distasteful prey because they discharge an irritating “cloud” of quinones when threatened.These beetles live in aggregations and adopt

Wolbachia are common bacteria among terrestrial arthropods.These endosymbionts transmitted through the female germline manipulate their host reproduction through several mechanisms whose most prevalent form called Cytoplasmic Incompatibility -CI- is a conditional sterility syndrome eventually favoring the infected progeny.Upon fertilization, the sp