SYSTEMS OF ANIMAL DETECTION ON HIGHWAYS. EXPERIENCE OF USA AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (24) ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kharytonova ◽  
◽  
Tetiana Lozova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
Animal Detection

Introduction. The experience of the countries of Western Europe and USA was analyzed, the purposes and methods of implementation of wild animals detection systems on highways are developed. Problem statement. The reduction of the natural habitat of wild animals leads to an increase in the number of road accidents. Animal detection systems are aimed at reducing the frequency of collisions between wild animals and vehicles. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to analyze the literature on the effectiveness and evaluation of the implementation of wild animal detection systems; to elaborate sources that describe the history of implementation and experience of foreign countries. Materials and methods. Analysis of foreign sources on the implementation of wild animal detection systems. Results. The analysis of foreign information sources on the implementation of wild animal detection systems was carried out. Conclusions. The experience of the countries of Western Europe and North America is described, the efficiency of implementation of wild animal detection systems is analyzed.

BRINGING IN THE WILD: THE COMMODIFICATION OF WILD ANIMALS IN THE CAPE COLONY/PROVINCE c. 1850–1950

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
LANCE VAN SITTERT
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Public Ownership ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
Relationship Of

The history of the imperial/colonial elite's preoccupation with saving a handful of specific ‘game’ species in reserves has come to stand for the relationship of all classes with all wild animals in both South Africa and the wider world of the British empire. The result is a narrative of process and periodization flawed in general and false in the specific case of the Cape Colony/Province, where economics rather than ideology was both the primary motor of game conservation and the mediating factor in human relationships with wild animal species. Here the general trend across the century from 1850 to 1950 was, contra MacKenzian orthodoxy, towards private not public ownership of game propelled by a rural rather than an urban elite. Public ownership was instead restricted to ‘vermin’ species in which the state created a market in which it became the chief consumer. The Cape's great tradition was refracted through its customary permissive legislation to yield a myriad of small traditions at the regional or local level. Rather than an argument for Cape exceptionalism, its wild animal history is a caution against glib generalizations from the elite archive and an indication of the need to broaden prevailing ‘game reserve history’ to include the full range of human and animal inhabitants as agents rather than as residual analytical categories in any narrative.

scholarly journals Can virtual reality act as an affective machine? The wild animal embodiment experience and the importance of appearance

10.29007/dc7s ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Sierra Rativa ◽  
Marie Postma ◽  
Menno Van Zaanen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Animal Body ◽  
Virtual Experience ◽  
Amorphous Body ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Perceived Pain ◽  
General Goal

In view of the growing urgency to protect wildlife, the general goal of our research is to develop an immersive virtual experience where users can step into the ‘shoes’ of wild animals. The specific objective of this research is to explore the possibility of creating a strong emotional connection experience with a virtual animal body. In a game setting, users explore a simulated natural habitat of the animal. At the end of the game, users experience a distress event during which they become the target of an illegal animal hunter. The users receive physical feedback through haptic virtual reality suits (vibrating motors) that mimic the sensation of feeling pain of a hunter's shot. We compare the perceived pain, empathy, immersion, and embodiment experience evoked through a game character with a natural body (beaver), with an artificial body (robot beaver), and an amorphous body. The results of this investigation show a significant effect of game character appearance and perceived pain during the distress event. Moreover, we find a significant effect of game character appearance on immersion. These results suggest that the design of the game character appearance can influence users’ emotional connectedness to the character and the game experience.

scholarly journals Wild animal oral microbiomes reflect the history of human antibiotics use

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaelle C. Brealey ◽  
Henrique G. Leitão ◽  
Thijs Hofstede ◽  
Daniela C. Kalthoff ◽  
Katerina Guschanski
Keyword(s):  
Wild Animal ◽  
Oral Microbiome ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Dental Calculus ◽  
Shotgun Metagenomics ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Antibiotics Use ◽  
History Of

AbstractFollowing the advent of industrial-scale antibiotics production in the 1940s, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been on the rise and now poses a major global health threat. Because AMR can be exchanged between humans, livestock and wildlife, evaluating the potential of wild animals to act as AMR reservoirs is essential. We used shotgun metagenomics sequencing of dental calculus, the calcified form of the oral microbial biofilm, to determine the abundance and repertoire of AMR genes in the oral microbiome of Swedish brown bears from museum specimens collected over the last 200 years. Our temporal metagenomics approach allowed us to establish a baseline of natural AMR in the pre-antibiotics era and to quantify a significant increase in total AMR load and diversity of AMR genes that is correlated with human antibiotics use. We also demonstrated that Swedish public health policies were effective in limiting AMR spillover into wildlife.

Wild Animal Detection from Highly Cluttered Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850021
Author(s):  
Gyanendra K. Verma ◽  
Pragya Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Camera Trap ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Animal Detection

Monitoring wild animals became easy due to camera trap network, a technique to explore wildlife using automatically triggered camera on the presence of wild animal and yields a large volume of multimedia data. Wild animal detection is a dynamic research field since the last several decades. In this paper, we propose a wild animal detection system to monitor wildlife and detect wild animals from highly cluttered natural images. The data acquired from the camera-trap network comprises of scenes that are highly cluttered that poses a challenge for detection of wild animals bringing about low recognition rates and high false discovery rates. To deal with the issue, we have utilized a camera trap database that provides candidate regions utilizing multilevel graph cut in the spatiotemporal area. The regions are utilized to make a validation stage that recognizes whether animals are present or not in a scene. These features from cluttered images are extracted using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). We have implemented the system using two prominent CNN models namely VGGNet and ResNet, on standard camera trap database. Finally, the CNN features fed to some of the best in class machine learning techniques for classification. Our outcomes demonstrate that our proposed system is superior compared to existing systems reported in the literature.

History of the Modern Music of Western Europe

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ◽  
Robert Muller
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
History Of

Battery-Powered Wild Animal Detection Nodes with Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol E103.B (12) ◽  
pp. 1394-1402
Author(s):  
Hiroshi SAITO ◽  
Tatsuki OTAKE ◽  
Hayato KATO ◽  
Masayuki TOKUTAKE ◽  
Shogo SEMBA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Animal Detection

EPIZOOTOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MODERN CATTLE LEUKEMIA

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
V. V. Makarov ◽  
D. A. Lozovoy
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Negative Order ◽  
Dairy Cattle Breeding ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Epizootic Process ◽  
National Programs

  Enzootic bovine leucosis (EBL) has been known for more than a century and a half. Its occurrence and registration may have historically been associated with intensive breeding of dairy cattle in Western Europe to increase target productivity. It is known that any limiting intervention in the nature of the animal organism is always accompanied by an uncontrolled and unpredictable change in the genotype of a wider range than the required, particularly negative order. In particular, a decrease in the resistance to macroorganisms and the possibility of the new diseases emergence, including infectious ones (for example, immunodeficiencies such as BLAD syndrome of black-motley cattle and stress syndrome in pigs, the occurrence of scrapie and other slow sheep infections). In the last two decades of the last century, in many disadvantaged countries, primarily Western European, national programs for the eradication of EBL have been developed and subsequently successfully implemented. First of all the motivation was the economy of dairy cattle breeding (mainly the extension of productive age, as well as the tightening of requirements in international trade in cattle and bull products, breeding, pricing, etc.). In an analytical article are reviewed the elements of epizootology of EBL in the foreign countries with special attention to the situation in the USA, scenarios of various control programs, and promising methods for assessing the role of infected animals in the epizootic process. A critical assessment of the problem of EBL in the Russian Federation is given, the reasons for the ineffectiveness of against leucosis measures are discussed.

THE HISTORY OF CATHOLICISM IN BASHKORTOSTAN: A BRIEF HISTORIOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
F.A. KRYZHANOVSKY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
General Nature ◽  
South Urals ◽  
The South ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
History Of

The article examines the main publications covering the centuries-old history of the Catholic Church in the lands of modern Bashkortostan, as well as partly affecting the interaction of local Catholic communities with coreligionists from other cities located in the South Urals, as well as in the Middle Volga region. Unfortunately, there are quite a few special studies on the history of this Christian denomination in our republic. Many works, in one way or another related to this issue, are of a general nature and contain a schematic listing of factual information, or are more devoted to the history of national communities, for which this religion is, to a certain extent, one of the most important elements of traditional ethnic culture. Here it is necessary to note, first of all, publications on the history of the Polish and German diaspora, which provide information about the participation of representatives of these communities in the creation of Catholic parishes and public associations associated with charity and education. At the same time, the significance of the confessional aspect is to a much lesser extent revealed in works on the history of Latvian immigrants from Latgale, Belarusians and Ukrainians from Volyn and Eastern Galicia, who, due to various circumstances, left their homes during the First World War, as well as other Catholic emigrants from Central and Western Europe, located in the Ufa province at the beginning of the XX century. In some articles on demography and striking features of social stratification, one can find indirect references to the presence of Catholics, but this information only It is noteworthy that most publications indicate the middle of the 17th century as the earliest dating of the appearance of believing Catholics in the South Urals, and evidence of missionary trips to the Eastern Hungarians during the 13th-15th centuries allows us to make hypothetical assumptions about their role in the life of the local religious community. It can be noted that the presence of a certain part of Catholics on the territory of Bashkiria during the 16th20th centuries. was associated with forced migration due to the fact that, as a result of military clashes, some of them were captured, as well as due to participation in activities that conflicted with the interests of the Russian leadership are considered, with a few exceptions, only in the context of the problem of the origin of the Bashkir people, most likely due to the modest results of the preaching.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Garipzanov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Periods

The concluding chapter highlights how the cultural history of graphic signs of authority in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages encapsulated the profound transformation of political culture in the Mediterranean and Europe from approximately the fourth to ninth centuries. It also reflects on the transcendent sources of authority in these historical periods, and the role of graphic signs in highlighting this connection. Finally, it warns that, despite the apparent dominant role of the sign of the cross and cruciform graphic devices in providing access to transcendent protection and support in ninth-century Western Europe, some people could still employ alternative graphic signs deriving from older occult traditions in their recourse to transcendent powers.

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