Use of Ecoacoustics to Characterize the Marine Acoustic Environment off the North Atlantic French Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Archipelago by Paul Nguyen Hong Duc, Dorian Cazau, Paul R. White, Odile Gérard, Joël Detcheverry, Frank Urtizberea, Olivier Adam

“…Several cetacean species were encountered in the audio recordings including sperm whales (which were detected by visual observations and strandings of 3 males in 2014), humpback, and blue whales.…”
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A dynamic epibiont community associated with the bone-eating polychaete genus Osedax by Shana K. Goffredi, Balig Panossian, Camille Brzechffa, Naomi Field, Chad King, Giacomo Moggioli, Greg W. Rouse, José M. Martín-Durán, Lee M. Henry

“…On the host surface, they exchange genes and appear to undergo ecological succession, as the whale carcass habitat degrades over time, similar to what is observed for some free-living communities. …”
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Rubbing Salt in the Wound: Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Pain-Related Genes Reveals the Pain Adaptation of Cetaceans in Seawater by Xiaoyue Ding, Fangfang Yu, Xiaofang He, Shixia Xu, Guang Yang, Wenhua Ren

“…<i>ASIC4</i> gene was identified to be pseudogenized in all odontocetes (toothed whales) except from <i>Physeter macrocephalus</i> (sperm whales), and relaxed selection of this gene was detected in toothed whales with pseudogenized <i>ASIC4</i>. …”
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Editorial: Ocean observation based on underwater acoustic technology by Xuebo Zhang, Haixin Sun, Arata Kaneko

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Hydroacoustic methods and tools for fish stock assessment and fishery maintenance Part 2. Methods and tools of fishery biohydroacoustics by Mikhail Yu. Kuznetsov, Yury A. Kuznetsov

“…Stereotypes of acoustic behaviour are revealed for toothed whales during their hunting upon fish: these predatory cetaceans have special acoustic manipulators able to generate signals for concentration and holding the fish, adapted for hearing system of the prey. …”
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Rise of the machines: Integrating technology with playback experiments to study cetacean social cognition in the wild by Stephanie L. King, Frants H. Jensen

“…However, the difficulty of observing their behaviour underwater means that studying whale and dolphin sociality in the wild poses some significant methodological challenges. …”
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Fish food in the deep sea: revisiting the role of large food-falls. by Nicholas D Higgs, Andrew R Gates, Daniel O B Jones

“…Here were report on the first observations of three large 'fish-falls' on the deep-sea floor: a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and three mobulid rays (genus Mobula). …”
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Cetaceans using the marine protected area of "Parque Estadual Marinho da Laje de Santos", Southeastern Brazil by Marcos Cesar de Oliveira Santos, Giovanna Corrêa e Figueiredo, Marie-Francoise Van Bressem

“…A total of 24 boat-surveys rendered 18 sightings of cetacean groups of the following species: Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) (12), rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) (2), common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) (1), Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera edeni) (2) and common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) (1). …”
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Secured VM Deployment in the Cloud: Benchmarking the Enhanced Simulation Model by Umer Nauman, Yuhong Zhang, Zhihui Li, Tong Zhen

“…The most significant gains of the presented work are 4.24%, 9.73%, 11.10%, 28.83%, 7.63%, and 10.62% for 20 count data of nodes for artificial bee colony–bat algorithm, ant colony optimization, crow search algorithm, krill herd, whale optimization genetic algorithm, and improved Lévy-based whale optimization algorithm, respectively.…”
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Evaluation of the Beaufort Sea shelf structure and function in support of the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area by Kristen J. Sora, Colette C.C. Wabnitz, Nadja S. Steiner, U. Rashid Sumaila, William W.L. Cheung, Andrea Niemi, Lisa L. Loseto, Carie Hoover

“…Estimates of trophic structure indices for the BSS indicate temporal ecosystem stability, and no loss in diversity. While beluga whales are a focus of the TNMPA management plan, they are not considered a key component of the modeled food web. …”
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Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru) by Giovanni Bianucci, Christian de Muizon, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert

“…Several aspects of the fascinating evolutionary history of toothed and baleen whales (Cetacea) are still to be clarified due to the fragmentation and discontinuity (in space and time) of the fossil record. …”
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Remaining useful life prediction method of EV power battery for DC fast charging condition by Shaotang Cai, Jun Hu, Shuoqi Ma, Zhenning Yang, Hao Wu

“…To realize the online rapid prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of electric vehicle (EV) power battery under direct current (DC) fast charging conditions and reduce the influence of complex health indicator (HI) on the prediction accuracy, an adaptive prediction method of the RUL of EV power battery based on whale swarm algorithm–long short-term memory (WSA-LSTM) algorithm is proposed in this paper. …”
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Improved BIGRU Model and Its Application in Stock Price Forecasting by Yuanshuai Duan, Yuanxin Liu, Yi Wang, Shangsheng Ren, Yibo Wang

“…The modeling process introduces a whale algorithm for multi-objective optimization, which improves the probability of finding the best combination of parameter vectors. …”
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Effects of Leading-Edge Tubercles on Three-Dimensional Flapping Foils by Ruixuan He, Xinjing Wang, Jian Li, Xiaodong Liu, Baowei Song

“…Recently, inspired by the flippers of humpback whales, researchers have been widely studying leading-edge tubercles for use as passive flow control devices. …”
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An uncertain structure for minimizing the conflict of exploitation policies in common pool groundwater resources by Yaning Xu, Yi Mao, Yuezhong Fan

“…Conflicts between beneficiaries were formulated based on the ratio between the crop area and water allocation and were defined by an inertia weight to increase its effect on the final iterations of the process. The Whale Optimization Algorithm was included as a bi-objective algorithm in the decision-making process. …”
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Assessing of the use of proteins A, G, and chimeric protein AG to detect marine mammal immunoglobulins. by Michael Essien Sakyi, Takashi Kamio, Kaoru Kohyama, Md Matiur Rahman, Kaori Shimizu, Ayaka Okada, Yasuo Inoshima

“…In this study, we used ten pinnipeds' species (Baikal seal, California sea lion, harbor seal, northern fur seal, ringed seal, South American fur seal, South American sea lion, spotted seal, Steller sea lion, and walrus) and five cetacean species (beluga whale, bottlenose dolphin, harbor porpoise, killer whale, and Pacific white-sided dolphin) and compare binding ability to proteins A, G, or chimeric protein AG by ELISA. …”
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Providing a Control System for Charging Electric Vehicles Using ANFIS by Zahra Mahdavi, Tina Samavat, Anita Sadat Jahani Javanmardi, Mohammad Ali Dashtaki, Mohammad Zand, Morteza Azimi Nasab, Mostafa Azimi Nasab, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Baseem Khan

“…The method utilizes an adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and a whale optimization algorithm to regulate the charging or discharging of EV batteries based on frequency fluctuations. …”
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Unsteady Aerodynamic Design of a Flapping Wing Combined with a Bionic Wavy Leading Edge by Xuan Bai, Hao Zhan, Baigang Mi

“…Based on the bionic design of the humpback whale fin, a passive flow control method is proposed to obtain greater flapping lift by applying the wavy leading edge structure to the straight symmetrical flapping wing. …”
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Spatial, Temporal, and Geographical Factors Associated with Stranded Marine Endangered Species in Thailand during 2006–2015 by Pangram Pradip Na Thalang, Sukanya Thongratsakul, Chaithep Poolkhet

“…We used spatial and temporal analyses to investigate the stranding of endangered marine species (whales, dolphins, dugongs, and sea turtles) in Thailand, based on stranding data and geographical records during 2006–2015. …”
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Sustainable Phosphorus Fertilizer Supply Chain Management to Improve Crop Yield and P Use Efficiency Using an Ensemble Heuristic–Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithm by Mohammad Shokouhifar, Mahnaz Sohrabi, Motahareh Rabbani, Seyyed Mohammad Hadji Molana, Frank Werner

“…These solutions are fed into a population-based whale optimization algorithm which benefits from exploration and exploitation strategies. …”
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