La Rochelle Université

Airflows redefine the cost of aerial transport in the wild

Fuel economy matters to both animals and machines, as the cost of transport can determine where, when, and how far locomotion is possible. However, established estimates of these values for animal flight come from laboratories and treat the atmosphere as constant, even though fre...

Agonistic interactions and vocalizations among Procellariiformes in multi-species feeding aggregations, observed through bird-borne cameras

Abstract Marine predators frequently aggregate at food sources, where interactions can range from cooperative group hunting to interference competition for resources. To investigate interactions at feeding aggregations among procellariiforms, we equipped wandering albatrosses Dio...

Celastrol and Its Derivatives in Breast, Ovarian, and Cervical Cancer: Molecular Targets, Signalling Networks, and Nanocarrier-Based Delivery

Celastrol, a quinone methide pentacyclic triterpenoid obtained mainly from the roots of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f., forms covalent, often reversible, adducts with cysteine thiols in regulatory proteins, which underlies its multi-targeted action. This review summarises the pr...

Evaluating fine-tuned, embedding-based, and zero-shot models for aspect-based sentiment analysis in South Slavic news

In the contemporary digital media landscape, the ability to automatically distill public opinion from a vast and continuous stream of information is highly important. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) offers this granular capability. In this work, we address a specific, indu...

Similarity laws for experimental assessment of the thermal efficiency of a wall with optimized shape submitted to two-dimensional heat transfer

To assess the energy efficiency of wall prototypes with advanced designs, real scale experimental demonstrators are difficult and expensive projects. To address this issue, this study develops a reduced scale experimental demonstrator based on similarity laws established for a pr...

Measuring Ocean Surface Waves

Abstract Propagating waves on the ocean surface can be represented as a stochastic process whose statistics are characterized by a spectrum. This paper reviews methods for measuring the wave spectrum and related quantities. Observations begin by sensing fluid dynamical properties...