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Smart Agricultural TechnologyFencing is essential for rotational grazing, a pivotal practice to support conservation and natural resource management. Virtual fencing offers a technological alternative to traditional fencing and represents potential for increased resource ...
Jenny Melo-Velasco +3 more
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Detection of attacker and location in wireless sensor network as an application for border surveillance [PDF]
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2017 Border surveillance is one of the high priority in the security of countries around the world. Typical and traditional border observations involve troops and checkpoints at borders, but these do not provide complete security.
Mohammed Aseeri +4 more
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The ability of ewes with lambs to learn a virtual fencing system [PDF]
Animal, 2017 The Nofence technology is a GPS-based virtual fencing system designed to keep sheep within predefined borders, without using physical fences. Sheep wearing a Nofence collar receive a sound signal when crossing the virtual border and a weak electric shock
E.I. Brunberg +3 more
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Assessing and Improving Animal Welfare Using Applied Ethology [PDF]
AnimalsThe papers in this Special Issue, entitled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Behaviour, Applied Ethology and Welfare of Farmed Animals”, bring to the forefront empirical data and theoretical discussions that contribute to the discussion of ...
Emma Fàbrega, Maria J. Hötzel
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Effects of Social Facilitation and Introduction Methods for Cattle on Virtual Fence Adaptation [PDF]
AnimalsAgricultural industries rely on physical fences to manage livestock. However, these present practical, financial, and ecological challenges, which may be solved using virtual fencing.
Pernille Arent Simonsen +11 more
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Frontiers in Animal Science, 2021 Virtual fencing contains and controls grazing cattle using sensory cues rather than physical fences. The technology comprises a neckband-mounted device that delivers an audio cue when the animal nears a virtual boundary that has been set via global ...
Megan Verdon +2 more
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Virtual Fencing Technology for Cattle Management in the Pasture Feeding System—A Review
Agriculture, 2022 Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source.
Piotr Goliński +3 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Autonomous vehicles are required to operate in an uncertain environment. Recent advances in computational intelligence techniques make it possible to understand driving scenes in various environments by using a semantic segmentation neural network, which assigns a class label to each pixel.
Yining Hua +4 more
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The Development and Failure of Social Norms in Second Life [PDF]
, 2008 This Note analyzes the development and efficacy of social norms in maximizing the welfare of participants in the virtual community of Second Life. Although some of these norms developed appropriately in response to the objectives and purposes of this ...
Stoup, Phillip
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Challenges of Pasture Feeding Systems—Opportunities and Constraints
Agriculture, 2023 Grazing plays an important role in milk production in most regions of the world. Despite the importance of grazing, current trends in livestock farming in Europe are causing a decline in the popularity of pasture-based feeding of dairy cows.
Barbara Wróbel +2 more
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