Mostly in the mind
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The physiologist P.E. Di Prampero acknowledged the problems involved in translating scientific information and theories into useful advice for atheletes, at a meeting of scientists, coaches and athletes. Di Prampero's model has been applied to competition cyclists. Other research looking at the human body as a machine involves the calculation of sustained metabolic rates of animals in the wild and of Tour de France cyclists. Scientific contribution also comes from the development of more refined tracks.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Advanced optics in a jellyfish eye
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The box-jellyfish lenses contain a finely tuned refractive index gradient producing nearly aberration-free imaging. It is found that even small animals are able to evolve the sophisticated visual optics, which were known only from a few advanced bilaterian phyla.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Light touch on the rudder
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The structure of the larva of the box jellyfish Tripedella cystophora is described. The lifecycle, its movement by cilia are explained.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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