Elephant and Rhino Experts Plan Survival Strategies

Elephant and Rhino Poaching in Africa

The “Plan B” Integrated Rhino Poaching Strategy

Since 2007, rhino poaching has been occupying the time and resources of conservationists and Government in South Africa and abroad. What started as a low-level poaching concern soon ratcheted into what is now regarded as a complex crisis involving sophisticated and well funded global criminal syndicates. And as each subsequent year has reported ever higher losses at the hands of the poachers, t...

Do nondomain experts enlist the strategies of domain experts?

User studies demonstrate that nondomain experts do not use the same information-seeking strategies as domain experts. Because of the transformation of integrated library systems into Information Gateways in the late 1990s, both nondomain experts and domain experts have had available to them the wide range of information-seeking strategies in a single system. This article describes the results o...

International experts laud Canadian child and maternal health plan.

ElePhant - An anatomical Electronic Phantom as simulation - system for oto - rhino - laryngoscopic - surgery

intervention " Mastoidectomy ". The anatomical structures of the head are created with plaster as base material using 3D-printing as rapid prototyping technology (RPT). Structures at risk, represented by electrically conductible material and fiber optics, are realized as an electric circuit and can be detected during the simulation of the surgical procedure. An accuracy study of 15 identical RP...