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Probabilistic models of individual and collective animal behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Recent developments in automated tracking allow uninterrupted, high-resolution recording of animal trajectories, sometimes coupled with the identification of stereotyped changes of body pose or other behaviors of interest.
Bodova, Katarina   +4 more
core   +6 more sources

Technological Innovation and Animal Law: Does Dignity Do the Trick?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Risk Regulation, 2019
EU and UK animal protection laws are underpinned by arguments based on the perceived desirability of reducing animal suffering. Technological innovations, however, give rise to ethically problematic situations in which suffering is not present or where ...
A. Lansink
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policing Farm Animal Welfare in Federated Nations: The Problem of Dual Federalism in Canada and the USA

open access: yesAnimals, 2013
In recent European animal welfare statutes, human actions injurious to animals are new “offences” articulated as an injury to societal norms in addition to property damage. A crime is foremost a violation of a community moral standard.
Terry L. Whiting
doaj   +1 more source

Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

open access: yesJournal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health, 2023
Animal rights law is in need of an update. Many of its central theories were developed over 20 years ago, meaning that they fail to take account of issues that, in today’s society, are inextricably linked to the question of animal rights.
Eva Bernet Kempers
doaj   +1 more source

Power-law versus exponential distributions of animal group sizes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
There has been some confusion concerning the animal group-size: an exponential distribution was deduced by maximizing the entropy; lognormal distributions were practically used; a power-law decay with exponent {3/2} was proposed in physical analogy to ...
Anderson   +24 more
core   +1 more source

Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: African Swine Fever

open access: yesEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2021
EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission to assess the effectiveness of some of the control measures against diseases included in the Category A list according to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 on transmissible animal diseases (‘Animal Health Law’).
S. Nielsen   +28 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analysis and Assembling of Network Structure in Mutualistic Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
It has been observed that mutualistic bipartite networks have a nested structure of interactions. In addition, the degree distributions associated with the two guilds involved in such networks (e.g.
Burgos, Enrique   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Using machine learning to create a repository of judgments concerning a new practice area: a case study in animal protection law

open access: yesArtificial Intelligence and Law, 2022
Judgments concerning animals have arisen across a variety of established practice areas. There is, however, no publicly available repository of judgments concerning the emerging practice area of animal protection law. This has hindered the identification
Joe Watson, Guy Aglionby, Samuel March
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preliminary assessment of illegal hunting by communities adjacent to the northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Illegal hunting of wildlife is a major issue in today’s society, particularly in tropical ecosystems. In this study, a total of 114 local residents from eight villages located in four wards adjacent to the northern Gonarezhou National Park, south-eastern
Gandiwa, E.
core   +3 more sources

Porzucanie zwierząt jako przestępstwo w polskim porządku prawnym

open access: yesZoophilologica, 2020
The article will attempt to show criminal consequences against people who abandon animals according to the Polish law. What is more, the purpose of this paper is to show animal abandonment as one of animal cruelty crimes. In addition, it will systematize
Aleksandra Polak-Kruszyk
doaj   +1 more source

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