Individual timing consistency across long-distance songbird migrations.

Migration timing in long-distance migratory birds plays an essential role in individual survival and fitness and is thought to be driven by circannual routines cued by photoperiod with some plasticity to environmental conditions. We examined the individual order of migration timing in purple martins (), a neotropical migratory songbird that travels between breeding sites throughout eastern North America and nonbreeding sites in Brazil. Migration timing data were collected for 295 different individual purple martins over 9 years using light-level geolocators deployed at breeding sites across the range.

An Integrated Photonic Biosensing Platform for Pathogen Detection in Aquaculture.

Aquaculture is expected to play a vital role in solving the challenge of sustainably providing the growing world population with healthy and nutritious food. Pathogen outbreaks are a major risk for the sector, so early detection and a timely response are crucial. This can be enabled by monitoring the pathogen levels in aquaculture facilities.

Signal Acquisition, Score Interpretation, and Economics of a Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Test for Coronary Artery Disease.

A point-of-care non-invasive test for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) (POC-CAD) has been previously developed and validated. The test requires the simultaneous acquisition of orthogonal voltage gradient (OVG) and photoplethysmogram signals, which is the primary methodology described in this paper. The acquisition of the OVG, a biopotential signal, necessitates the placement of electrodes on the prepared skin of the patient's thorax (arranged similarly to the Frank lead configuration, comprising six bipolar electrodes and a reference electrode) and a hemodynamic sensor on the finger (using a standard transmission modality).