Can Sound Alone Act as a Virtual Barrier for Horses? A Preliminary Study
Animals, 2022 Virtual fencing is an innovative alternative to conventional fences. Different systems have been studied, including electric-impulse-free systems. We tested the potential of self-applied acoustic stimulus in deterring the horses from further movement ...
Wiktoria Janicka +3 more
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Integrating Digital Technologies to Aid Grassland Productivity and Sustainability
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Digital technologies provide an opportunity to further increase the sustainability and productivity of grasslands and rangelands. Three resources are key to that change.
David R. Stevens +5 more
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Animals, 2022 Asian elephants are a principal cause of human-wildlife conflict. This results in the death/injury of elephants and humans and large-scale crop and property damage.
Surendranie Judith Cabral de Mel +6 more
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Animal, 2022 Virtual fencing (VF) represents a way to simplify traditional pasture management with its high labour and cost requirements for fencing and to make better use of the ‘beneficial’ agronomic and ecological effects of livestock grazing.
D. Hamidi +9 more
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Tech-Savvy Beef Cattle? How Heifers Respond to Moving Virtual Fence Lines
Animals, 2017 Global Positioning System (GPS)-based virtual fences offer the potential to improve the management of grazing animals. Prototype collar devices utilising patented virtual fencing algorithms were placed on six Angus heifers in a 6.15 hectare paddock ...
Dana L. M. Campbell +4 more
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Attitudes towards the Potential Use of Aversive Geofencing Devices to Manage Wild Elephant Movement
Animals, 2023 Aversive geofencing devices (AGDs) or animal-borne satellite-linked shock collars might become a useful tool to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC).
Surendranie J. Cabral de Mel +5 more
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Архитектурно-планировочный анализ Демидовского заводского госпиталя: история почти 200-летней эксплуатации [PDF]
, 2015 Article is devoted to history one of the first Ural medical institutions — Demidovsky factory hospital. Authors consider architectural and planning decisions, reconstruction questions, condition of hospital today.
Ananin, M. Y. +5 more
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Developing Employment Opportunities for Care Leavers [PDF]
, 2010 This article describes an action research project carried out in North West England that aimed to assist Children’s Services Departments and Care Trusts in developing their strategies for supporting care leavers into employment and training.
Allen +23 more
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An applied paradigm for simple analysis of the lower limb kinematic chain in explosive movements: an example using the fencing foil attacking lunge [PDF]
, 2018 A simple method to quantify the kinematic chain in a propulsive task would facilitate assessment of athlete effectiveness. The study’s aim was to assess if the kinematic chain distinguishes between skill levels.
Graham-Smith, Phillip +3 more
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Accidental child driveway runovers: Exploring Waikato data and the efficacy of existing responses [PDF]
, 2009 While the numbers of accidents are not high, there is little doubt that driveway runovers are an ongoing, often fatal and inevitably avoidable tragedy for children and their families. In many cases the driver is an immediate family member, or a neighbour
Campbell, Maxine M. +2 more
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