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Spraying drones: efficacy of integrating an avian repellent with drone hazing to elicit blackbird flock dispersal and abandonment of sunflower fields

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Multiple management strategies exist to combat bird damage to agriculture. We explored combining two tools, drones as frightening devices and an avian repellent, to assess effectiveness of an integrated method to deter large flocks on complex landscapes. We evaluated the ability of a spraying drone (DJI Agras MG‐1P) deploying Avian Control (i.e. active
Jessica L. Duttenhefner, Timothy J. Greives, Page E. Klug   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

GLP-1 guidelines amid an obesity epidemic: a poor fit for the Global South. [PDF]

Arch Public Health
Shrisunder R, Karmarkar V.
europepmc   +1 more source

A framework for the ethical use of animal‐borne devices in post‐release monitoring following rehabilitation

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Rehabilitation and release contribute to conservation efforts for threatened species. Ensuring that these efforts are effective requires a good understanding of the factors which determine survival and integration of released animals into wild populations.
Jessica Harvey‐Carroll, Daire Carroll, Cara-Marie Trivella, Ellen Connelly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Domestic ecologies of gender: Women, material life, and eco-folklore in Saudi proverbs. [PDF]

PLoS One
Alshhre AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring visual representation of sound in computer music software through programming and composition

Presented through contextualisation of the portfolio works are developments of a practice in which the acts of programming and composition are intrinsically connected.
Freeman, Samuel David
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Acoustic Effect of Holes on a Brass Disk

, 2010
Recently it has become popular for music companies to manufacture cymbals with large symmetrically placed holes. The physics of how these perturbations effect the sound is unknown.
Brooke R. Peaden, Peaden, Brooke R.
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Assessing the utility of autonomous recording units and spring point counts for monitoring abundance of ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus is a species of conservation concern that has declined across most of its range. At the southeastern trailing edge of the range in Georgia, grouse are restricted to elevations 600 m a.s.l. and abundance is relatively low.
Clayton D. Delancey, William B. Lewis, Gregory T. Wann, Richard B. Chandler, Emily Rushton, James A. Martin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing presence of Bigg's killer whales and changing seasonality of Southern Resident killer whales in Washington waters. [PDF]

PLoS One
Rand ZR, Koehn LE, Morrigan A, Hanson MB.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the potential of nest archives for establishing long-term trends in local populations of an Arctic-nesting colonial sea duck. [PDF]

PLoS One
Álvarez-Manzaneda I, Rühland KM, Campbell M, Duda MP, Mallory ML, Clyde N, Grant Gilchrist H, Hargan KE, Smol JP.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source