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Figure 3. Robotic faces, similar to smiley emoticons-Gestalt Processing in Human-Robot Interaction: A Novel Account for Autism Research

The smiley Gestalt is the result from a dynamic (evolved in time) cognitive process, it is immediately given in cognition, memorable, emotionally rich and socially relevant and reflects the special kind of Gestalt complexity as defined by Edwin Rausch (1988). Conventional representations of holistic entities like smileys or novel robotic faces come to life because they capture essential Gestalt qualities of the perceived image. For example, in figure 3 the robotic faces resemble the smileys in terms of the evoked internal/emotional reactions.

Figure 2. Taxonomy of the educational technologies for children with ASC-Gestalt Processing in Human-Robot Interaction: A Novel Account for Autism Research

learner (Perlin, 1997). MOSOCO is an emergent technology implemented in a smartphone called “Mobile Social Compass” (Escobedo et al., 2012). Six basic social skills are being encouraged by prompting the user to initiate social contact. The menu displays symbols for the basic social skills – eye contact, space and proximity, start an interaction, asking questions, sharing interests and finish an interaction. The MOSOCO application has turned out to be an extremely useful tool as an online prompt in starting, maintaining and finishing social interaction for both typical and autistic students, as well as to anyone that feels need for improving their social competence.

Figure 1. Necker cube depth illusion (Adapted from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube])-Gestalt Processing in Human-Robot Interaction: A Novel Account for Autism Research

Often the term Gestalt is used interchangeably with the term “emergent whole” (Johansson, 1998). The emergence of a cognitive Gestalt structure adds dynamical and psychophysical forces, which are different from the static notion of the “emergent whole”. An eminent example for the dynamic nature of the emergent process is the Necker cube, which cannot be perceived as static, but rotates in front of our eyes to the complete exhaustion of the eye gazing process (figure 1).

Figure 7. Kanizsa square makes us see a non-existing figure – white square (Adapted from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion]-Gestalt Processing in Human-Robot Interaction: A Novel Account for Autism Research

A special case of Gestalt processing is the perceiving of illusions. Illusions make us see things or processes that are not there – for example the Kanizsa square like the one depicted in figure 7.

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Figure 1 in Novel trophobiotic interactions in lantern bugs (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoridae)

Figure 1. Trophobiotic interactions of lantern bugs (Fulgoridae) with insects and snails. (a) Lantern bug, Enchophora sanguinea, with two simultaneous moth guests (small Platynota sp. and larger Elaeognatha argyritis); (b) Enchophora sanguinea tended by cockroach, Eurycotis sp. 1; (c) Enchophora sanguinea with a trophobiotic snail, Euglandina aurantiaca, and kleptotrophobiotic ant, Camponotus sp. n.; (d) snail, E. aurantiaca, catching a droplet of honeydew (red arrow) ejected by Enchophora sanguinea; (e) moth, Euclystis proba, waiting for a stream of honeydew; (f) snail, Euglandina aurantiaca, with lantern bug Phrictus quinquepartitus; (g) moth, Elaeognatha argyritis tapping Enchophora sanguinea with its antennae, which elicits immediate honeydew production; (h) lantern bug E. sanguinea squirting honeydew—this photograph shows a single droplet exposed multiple times with a stroboscopic flash.

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Experimental heatwaves and warming induce distinctive community responses through their interactions with a novel species

This repository provides the data for the manuscript "experimental heatwaves and warming induce distinctive community responses through their interactions with a novel species" As the climate warms, species shift their distributions at different rates, re-organising ecological communities. The resulting novel interactions will shape the local community’s response to ongoing climate change. The distinction between extreme events and a rising mean temperature in driving range expansion of the neighbouring species has not been examined empirically, nor has the resulting ecological impact propagating through multi-trophic networks been addressed. In this study, we recreated a high-elevation host-parasitoid community comprising Drosophila species and their associated parasitoid species from the Australian Wet Tropics, and subjected them to either heatwaves or warming in combination with the introduction of a low-elevation-specific Drosophila species. This dataset contains three groups of measurements: 1. Single-generation reproductive success of each species at various sampling times (about every 3 weeks) throughout the initiation and maintenance of the community. 2. Population size of each species before the community was terminated. 3. One-day reproductive success of each species before, during, and after the last heatwave event.

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Data from: Off-target drift of the herbicide dicamba disrupts plant-pollinator interactions via novel pathways

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Negative outcomes of novel trophic interactions along mangrove range edges in the Gulf of Mexico: 2020-2021

Mangrove encroachment is shifting the food sources available to basal consumers in Gulf of Mexico salt marshes, so we sought to determine how two important basal consumers will respond to mangroves as a food source. We collected Littoraria irrorata and leaves of Spartina alterniflora, and Avicennia germinans from marshes in Galveston, Texas in summer of 2020 for a series of food preference and food quality studies. Additionally, we compared the physiological conditions of Littoraria irrorata and Uca rapax individuals collected from manipulated sites with varying levels of mangrove cover in Port Aransas, Texas in late 2020 and early 2021. These studies yielded results on the behavioral and physiological responses of basal consumers to mangrove plant matter as a food source.

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Data from: Wild samango monkeys, Cercopithecus mitis, balance risk and opportunity to interact with novel objects in village gardens

Research suggests that wild animals in urban areas exhibit heightened behavioral flexibility when they encounter novel human-made objects, but most such studies compared responses in urban populations with those from disjunct populations in less disturbed environments. We therefore know little about intrapopulation variation in cognitive or behavioral flexibility under different conditions of anthropogenic exposure. Here, we investigate object exploration and behavioral flexibility in a single group of samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in an environment where individuals forage in both gardens and natural forest. Over two months, we presented monkeys with novel, human-made objects in both natural and disturbed areas, varying the position of objects in trees to represent exposed or safer foraging zones. We video-recorded and analyzed interactions with these novel objects, assessing interaction times (an indicator of persistence), exploratory diversity (or motor diversity), and the occurrence of foraging innovations. Results from 67 interactions (29 in natural habitats and 38 in disturbed) indicate that samango monkeys exhibited a spatially complex response to novel objects: in contrast to other species, exploration diversity decreased significantly in anthropogenic environments, even as persistence remained largely static across contexts. Monkeys also exhibited foraging innovations by pulling on strings to bring objects closer. This may reduce exposure to danger, as string-pulling was most prevalent in the highest risk condition (ground level in human gardens). Significant intrapopulation variation in behavioral flexibility suggests that samango monkeys adjust the expression of problem-solving behaviors in relation to the degree of human disturbance in their immediate environment.

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Data from: Museum specimens provide novel insights into changing plant-herbivore interactions

Mounting evidence shows that species interactions may mediate how individual species respond to climate change. However, long-term anthropogenic effects on species interactions are poorly characterized due to a lack of data. Insect herbivory is a major ecological process that represents the interaction between insect herbivores and their host plants, but historical data on insect damage to plants is particularly sparse. Here, we suggest that museum collections of insects and plants can fill key gaps in our knowledge on changing trophic interactions, including proximate mechanisms and the net outcomes of multiple global change drivers across diverse insect herbivore-plant associations. We outline theory on how global change may affect herbivores and their host plants and highlight the unique data that could be extracted from museum specimens to explore their shifting interactions. We aim to provide a framework for using museum specimens to explore how some of the most diverse co-evolved relationships are responding to climate and land use change.

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Novel plant-microbe interactions: rapid evolution of a legume-rhizobium mutualism in restored prairies

1. When plants colonize new habitats, the novel interactions they form with new mutualists or enemies can immediately affect plant performance. These novel interactions also may provoke rapid evolutionary responses and can be ideal scenarios for investigating how species interactions influence plant evolution. 2. To explore how mutualists influence the evolution of colonizing plant populations, we capitalized on an experiment in which two former agricultural fields were seeded with identical prairie seed mixes in 2010. Six years later, we compared how populations of the legume Chamaecrista fasciculata from these sites and their original (shared) source population responded to nitrogen-fixing rhizobia from the restoration sites in a greenhouse reciprocal cross-inoculation experiment. 3. We found that the two populations differed both from their original source population and from each other in the benefits they derive from rhizobia, that one population has evolved reduced allocation to rhizobia (i.e., forms fewer rhizobium-housing nodules). 4. Synthesis. Our results suggest that these plant populations have evolved different ways of interacting with rhizobia, potentially in response to differences in rhizobium quality between sites. Our study illustrates how microbial mutualists may shape plant evolution in new environments and highlights how variation in microbial mutualists potentially may select for different evolutionary strategies in plant hosts.

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Data from: A ketocarotenoid-based color polymorphism in the Sira poison frog Ranitomeya sirensis indicates novel gene interactions underlying aposematic signal variation

The accumulation of red ketocarotenoids is an important component of coloration in many organisms, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. In some organisms, ketocarotenoids are sequestered from the diet and can accumulate when enzymes responsible for carotenoid breakdown are disrupted. In other organisms, ketocarotenoids are formed endogenously from dietary precursors via oxidation reactions carried out by carotenoid ketolase enzymes. Here, we study the genetic basis of carotenoid coloration in an amphibian. We demonstrate that a red/yellow polymorphism in the dendrobatid poison frog Ranitomeya sirensis is due to the presence/absence of ketocarotenoids. Using whole-transcriptome sequencing of skins and livers, we found that a transcript encoding a cytochrome P450 enzyme (CYP3A80) is expressed 3.4-fold higher in livers of red frogs versus yellow. As CYP3A enzymes are known carotenoid ketolases in other organisms, our results point to CYP3A80 as a strong candidate for a carotenoid ketolase in amphibians. Furthermore, in red frogs, the transcript encoding the carotenoid cleavage enzyme BCO2 is expressed at a low level or as a splice variant lacking key catalytic amino acids. This suggests that BCO2 function may be disrupted in red frogs, providing a mechanism whereby the accumulation of ketocarotenoids and their dietary precursors may be enhanced.

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Dataset (II) related to publication: Discrepancy in interactions and conformational dynamics of pregnane X receptor (PXR) bound to an agonist and a novel competitive antagonist

MD simulation data related to the publication Rashidian et al.: Discrepancy in interactions and conformational dynamics of pregnane X receptor (PXR) bound to an agonist and a novel competitive antagonist. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2022.06.020">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2022.06.020</a> Individual .zip files contain raw-desmond trajectories (-out.cms files and trj-files) dataset I: systems SRL+Co, C-100 and BAY-1797 dataset I: each file contains all branched replicas and the main replica. dataset1:  C_100_Replica1 contains four branched replicas and the main replica. The two of four branched replicas which stem from the middle of the main replica named: b_c_D1_r1_2285 (corresponding name in the SI data is R1_a) and b_c_D1_2285_r1_2 (corresponding name in the SI data is R1_b). dataset1: C_100_Replica2–5 , each file contains one main replica and the two branches. dataset I: system SRL+Co ;each file contains one main replica dataset I: system BAY-1797; each file contains one main replica dataset II:system SRL ; each file contains one main replica.

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Dataset (I) related to publication: Discrepancy in interactions and conformational dynamics of pregnane X receptor (PXR) bound to an agonist and a novel competitive antagonist

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Dataset (III) related to publication: Discrepancy in interactions and conformational dynamics of pregnane X receptor (PXR) bound to an agonist and a novel competitive antagonist

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Raw data for: Novel food resources and conservation of ecological interactions between the Andean Araucaria and the Austral parakeet

In fragile ecosystems, the introduction of exotic species could alter some ecological processes. The Austral parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineous) shows close ecological and evolutionary relationships with the Andean Araucaria (Araucaria araucana), so any alteration in these interactions may have negative consequences for both partners and for ecosystem functioning and structure. We conducted extensive roadside surveys to estimate the abundance of parakeets in the northern Patagonian Andes over four years and recorded the food plants consumed by foraging flocks. The use of native habitats and humanized areas like villages and farms was influenced by Araucaria seed crop. In masting years, the large seed crop allowed a massive use of this resource during the non-breeding season, and even during the breeding season. The exploitation of exotic plants was minor in the masting year, but became predominant in non-masting years, especially during the non-breeding season. This feeding switch towards exotic plants primarily arose because the low Araucaria seed crop in non-masting years is entirely consumed just after production by domestic and wild exotic mammals living in Araucaria forests year-round, thus forcing the displacement of parakeets towards anthropic habitats to exploit exotic plants. Given the degradation of the remaining Andean Araucaria forests due to the impact of exotic mammals on the ecological interaction between Araucaria and Austral parakeets, ambitious programs to exclude or reduce the density of these alien mammals, including livestock, are warranted.

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Seed limitation interacts with biotic and abiotic factors to constrain novel species' impact on community biomass and richness

Seed limitation can narrow down the number of coexisting plant species, limit plant community productivity, and can also constrain community responses to changing environmental and biotic conditions. In a 10-year full-factorial experiment of seed addition, fertilisation, warming, and herbivore exclusion, we tested how seed addition alters community richness and biomass, and how its effects depend on seed origin and biotic and abiotic context. We found that seed addition increased species richness in all treatments, and increased plant community biomass depending on nutrient addition and warming. Novel species, originally absent from the communities, increased biomass the most, especially in fertilised plots and in the absence of herbivores, while adding seeds of local species did not affect biomass. Our results show that seed limitation constrains both community richness and biomass, and highlight the importance of considering trophic interactions and soil nutrients when assessing novel species immigrations and their effects on community biomass.

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Data from: BioID2-based tau interactome reveals novel and known protein interactions associated with multiple cellular pathways

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Data from: Wild samango monkeys, Cercopithecus mitis, balance risk and opportunity to interact with novel objects in village gardens

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