Since most biological specimens are large in comparison to the scales employed by high-resolution microscopes, the entire specimens are captured by stitching many overlapping image tiles into a single canvas of virtually unlimited size.
During the experiments, the changes in the diameter and thickness of the specimens are captured by a high-speed video camera.
All the specimens were captured by villagers from Mauang Village (Thakhek district) and collected in the Thakhek market (Thakhek district) in 2007 and are now deposited at the Mahasarakham University Herbarium University of Mahasarakhamm, Tambon Khamriang Kantarawichai district, Thailand).
Sand fly specimens were captured by sticky traps made from 20 × 20-cm, castor-oiled paper (10 ); a minimum of 10 sticky traps were used in each collecting site.
All images of each specimen were captured by using a cool CCD camera (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, MD, USA).
Mitochondrial DNA was extracted from 4.5 g of frozen liver of an Anomalurus sp (scaly-tailed flying squirrel) specimen captured in central Africa (specimen provided by F. Catzeflis), according to previously described methods for mammalian species [ 49].
Wear loss and ferrographic analyses indicated that a "negative wear" occurred when the additive was applied, suggesting the debris particles were captured by the specimen to form a self-repairing layer.
The Laika trap captured 126 phlebotomine sand flies: P. perniciosus (n = 38); S. minuta (n = 88), a similar number of specimens (130) and the same species were captured by classical light trap which collected also 3 specimens of P. neglectus.
Given these varying factors, it is critical that material characterization and responses of its specimens and entire devices are adequately captured by the model to provide accurate predictions.
The failure processes and failure modes of SFRC specimens with different fibre volume fractions are captured by the high speed camera during the tests and compared.
