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Optogenetic Stimulation of Escape Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
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Cited by 24 •
2013
Genetically encoded optogenetic tools enable noninvasive manipulation of specific neurons in the Drosophila brain. Such tools can identify neurons whose activation is sufficient to elicit or suppress particular behaviors. Here we present a method for activating Channelrhodopsin2 that is expressed in targeted neurons in freely walking flies.
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Escape Velocity
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2025
The escape velocity of an object is defined as the minimum initial velocity that it requires to escape the surface of another object to which it is gravitationally bound and never to return. For example, what would be the minimum velocity at which a satellite should be launched from the Earth's surface such that it just escapes the Earth's gravitational field? To calculate the escape velocity, it is assumed that no energy is lost to any frictional forces. In practice, a satellite launched from...
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Generation of Influenza Virus Escape Variants against Neutralizing Antibodies
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2025
This video demonstrates a technique for generating escape variants of neutralizing influenza virus monoclonal antibodies. Antibody-neutralized virus suspension is injected into embryonated chicken eggs to propagate escape variants selectively. This results in a virus population predominantly of escape variants, confirmed via a Hemagglutination assay.
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A Treatment Package without Escape Extinction to Address Food Selectivity
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2015
Feeding difficulties are a common problem for children with developmental disorders, including autism, and behavioral interventions often include escape extinction. Recent research has begun to evaluate treatments that do not include escape extinction. This manuscript describes a multicomponent treatment package that does not use escape extinction to treat feeding difficulties.
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Escape Velocities of Gases
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2023
To escape the Earth's gravity, an object near the top of the atmosphere at an altitude of 100 km must travel away from Earth at 11.1 km/s. This speed is called the escape velocity. The temperature at which gas molecules attain the rms speed, which is equal to the escape velocity, can be estimated by using the equation for the average kinetic energy of the gas molecules. According to the kinetic theory of gas, the average kinetic energy of the gas molecules is proportional to its temperature.
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Jeans escape favors loss of light gases because particles with sufficient thermal energy can exceed a body's gravitational hold. The effect is especially important for smaller bodies, whose weaker gravity makes energetic particles easier to remove. Comparing this mechanism with observed atmospheric composition helps researchers assess how thermal motion has altered a world over time.
Hydrodynamic outflow treats atmospheric loss as a large-scale escape process, whereas Jeans escape emphasizes individual particles gaining enough thermal energy to leave. Both belong to the thermal mechanisms of atmospheric escape, but distinguishing them helps scientists select models that match the physical conditions of a planet or moon and interpret how its atmosphere changes.
Nonthermal escape is driven by external interactions rather than thermal energy alone. Stellar radiation, including ultraviolet radiation, and charged particles can remove atmospheric material and gradually erode an atmosphere. This mechanism is particularly important when evaluating how a star influences planetary evolution, atmospheric composition, climate, and the potential habitability of orbiting worlds.
Researchers combine measurements, atmospheric observations, and physical models to investigate atmospheric escape. Measurements provide evidence about atmospheric properties, while models connect those observations with possible thermal and nonthermal loss processes. The resulting comparisons help constrain a planet's or moon's history and clarify how atmospheric change may have affected its present state.
Gravity, particle energy, atmospheric composition, and stellar conditions all shape atmospheric escape. Smaller bodies more readily lose light gases, while stellar ultraviolet radiation can erode atmospheres. Considering these factors together allows researchers to evaluate whether observed atmospheric differences reflect thermal loss, nonthermal forcing, or the combined influence of a body's environment and history.
Atmospheric escape provides a way to connect present-day atmospheric observations with planetary history. In exoplanet studies, models of ultraviolet-driven erosion help explain why atmospheres may differ among worlds. More broadly, escape research informs interpretations of climate and habitability by showing how the loss of atmospheric gases can reshape a planet or moon over time.