Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds [PDF]
Shepherding behaviors are a type of group be haviors in which one group (the shepherds) tries to control the motion of another group (the flock). Shepherding behaviors can be found in many forms in nature and have various important robotic applications.
null Jyh-Ming Lien +3 more
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Renewable energy becomes increasingly popular due to its zero carbon dioxide emissions and increasing energy demand. To better utilize renewable energy, hybrid Alternative Current (AC)-Direct Current (DC) microgrids have been proposed because the most common renewable energy that can be harvested in residential homes is solar energy, which provides DC ...
Zhichuan Huang +3 more
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‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing [PDF]
This article examines the effects of state intervention on the workings of informal institutions that coordinate the communal use and management of natural resources.
Agarwal Anil +55 more
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Neurocysticercosis is one of the most common causes of seizures in the developing world. Due to the high volumes of immigration from South America and Asia, American physicians are increasingly encountering this condition. This case report attempts to present a brief overview of some of the difficulties associated with the treatment of patients with a ...
Mrinal M, Patnaik +4 more
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Reading and proclaiming the birth narratives from Luke and Matthew : a study in empirical theology amongst curates and their training incumbents employing the SIFT method [PDF]
Drawing on Jungian psychological type theory, the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching suggests that the reading and proclaiming of scripture reflects the psychological type preferences of the reader and preacher.
Francis, Leslie J., Smith, Greg
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“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body [PDF]
This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual writers, the life stage of Youth
Orman, Steve
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Characteristics of the dairy goat primary sector at the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. [PDF]
A survey was done based on 19 goat shepherds at counties of Centre-highlands, Northern and North-western regions of the Rio de Janeiro State and at the county of Pedra Dourada, Zona da Mata region, State of Minas Gerais.
Fernandes, Alberto Magno +3 more
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Serum vascular endothelial growth factor concentration in dogs diagnosed with chronic superficial keratitis [PDF]
The objective of this study was to measure the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels in dogs diagnosed with chronic superficial keratitis (CSK).
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Professionalising the Shepherds
In this article, we present some results of a survey among Dutch Catholic pastors about their attitudes toward the church and professionalisation. After clarifying attitudes based on theological concepts like authority, apostolicity and local leadership, we examine attitudes towards aims and responsibilities of professionalisation policies.
Schilderman, J.B.A.M. +2 more
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Teaching Policy Instrument Choice in Environmental Law: The Five P’s [PDF]
. We introduce a method to combine the color channels of an image to a scalar valued image. Linear combinations of the RGB chan-nels are constructed using the Fisher-Trace-Information (FTI), defined as the trace of the Fisher information matrix of the ...
Reiner Lenz, Vasileios Zografos
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