Screen Shots:
The screen shot of the simulator is as shown below.
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User Instructions:
The simulator consists of three regions: the simulator's viewable window, the variables menu and the simulation control menu.
The Variables Menu:
User can enter the values for the different variables in the simulator. Parameters include handling time for prey-1 and prey-2 (hp1 & hp2), Energy content of prey-1 and prey-2(ep1 & ep2) ,Energy cost for searching a prey (es), Energy cost for handling a prey in kCal/s (eh) and Abundance of prey-1and prey-2 (ap1 & ap2).
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Simulation Control Menu:
These set of buttons are used for controlling the simulation. Simulation control includes: buttons for plotting Time per Item, Energy per Item and Energy per Time. The 'Reset' button resets the simulator to the default values.
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Viewable Window (Result Display Window):
The simulated values for the parameters are interspersed as graphs in this window.
![](/userfiles/1/image/Opt_procedure_4.png)
Step by Step Explanation:
Step 1: Open the simulator and enter the values for the parameters in the variable window.
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Step 2: Click on any of the plot buttons to simulate the model. The graph will be shown in the Result display window.
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The ‘Plot Time per Item’ graph is as shown below.
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The ‘Plot Energy per Time’ graph is as shown below.
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Step 4: Click Reset button to reset the simulator.
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Help:
Unfortunately, this Virtual Lab requires Adobe Flash player. Please see additional information if this does not work on your computer
• For Google Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• For Microsoft Edge - https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4532571/microsoft-edge-turn-on-flash
• For Mozilla Firefox - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-flash-plugin-view-videos-animations-games
On GNU/Linux machines, please see appropriate online help. For example,
• on Ubuntu - https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/net-install-flash.html.en
• on Fedora - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/using-adobe-flash/