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  2. Animal echolocation - Wikipedia

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    For example, bats increase the repetition rate of their calls (that is, decrease the pulse interval) as they home in on a target. This allows the bat to get new information regarding the target's location at a faster rate when it needs it most. Secondly, the pulse interval determines the maximum range that bats can detect objects.

  3. Cot analysis - Wikipedia

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    C 0 t analysis, a technique based on the principles of DNA reassociation kinetics, is a biochemical technique that measures how much repetitive DNA is in a DNA sample such as a genome. [1] It is used to study genome structure and organization and has also been used to simplify the sequencing of genomes that contain large amounts of repetitive ...

  4. Receiver operating characteristic - Wikipedia

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    A high ROC AUC, such as 0.9 for example, might correspond to low values of precision and negative predictive value, such as 0.2 and 0.1 in the [0, 1] range. If one performed a binary classification, obtained an ROC AUC of 0.9 and decided to focus only on this metric, they might overoptimistically believe their binary test was excellent.

  5. List of research methods in biology - Wikipedia

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    This list of research methods in biology is an index to articles ... Used of an antibody-based method to detect a specific protein in a sample: Molecular biology, ...

  6. Doppler shift compensation - Wikipedia

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    This keeps the returning echo in the same frequency range as the normal echolocation call. This dynamic frequency modulation is called the Doppler shift compensation (DSC), and was discovered by Hans Schnitzler in 1968. [1] CF bats employ the DSC mechanism to maintain the echo frequency within a narrow frequency range. [2]

  7. Scanning acoustic microscope - Wikipedia

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    When the acoustic wave propagates though the sample it may be scattered, absorbed or reflected at media interfaces. Thus, the technique registers the echo generated by the acoustic impedance (Z) contrast between two materials. Scanning acoustic microscopy works by directing focused sound from a transducer at a small point on a target object.

  8. Target strength - Wikipedia

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    Sonar image of the wreck of USS O-9.. The target strength or acoustic size is a measure of the area of a sonar target. This is usually quantified as a number of decibels.For fish such as salmon, the target size varies with the length of the fish and a 5 cm fish could have a target strength of about -50 dB.

  9. Echolocation jamming - Wikipedia

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    Another form of jamming occurs when an echolocating animal produces many sounds in succession and assigns an echo to the wrong emission. To avoid this type of jamming, bats typically wait enough time for echoes to return from all possible targets before making the next sound. This can be seen clearly when a bat attacks an insect.