People construct fences to delineate land ownership and to control access to land. Fences accomplish several purposes, notable among them are containing livestock or wildlife raised for profit or subsistence, excluding use of vegetation within areas to be conserved, and reducing conflicts between wildlife and humans. In addition to these intended purposes, fences may also offer unanticipated be...

Severe declines in biodiversity have been well documented for many taxonomic groups due to intensification of agricultural practices. Establishment and appropriate management of arable field margins can improve the diversity and abundance of invertebrate groups; however, there is much less research on field margins within grassland systems. Three grassland field margin treatments (fencing off t...

Detection and removal of fences from digital images becomes essential when an important part of the scene turns to be occluded by such unwanted structures. Image de-fencing is challenging because manually marking fence boundaries is tedious and time consuming. The fence is a distributed object and may cover a significant portion of the scene. In this paper a novel image de-fencing algorithm tha...

In India, as in other countries, problems associated with locally overabundant wildlife species have emerged as important management issues for reason of some species losing their natural habitat but adapting themselves to the manaltered habitats. Consequently, there is a clash with the interests of local people. Crop-raiding by locally overabundant wild populations of nilgai and blackbuck in H...

Intellectual historians have rarely attended to the genre of fighting manuals, but these provide a new window on long-debated questions such as relationship between Scholasticism and Humanism. This article offers close comparison first known fencing manual, 14-th century Liber de Arte Dimicatoria (Leeds, Royal Armouries FECHT 1, previously better MS I.33), corpus manuals which underwent remarka...

Fencing enclosures play an important role in improving ecological quality. There is a direct impact of implementing fencing on the change soil The quality index was used to examine effects for different years (7 and 11 years) Biru County Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. enclosure significantly increased water content, non-capillary porosity, organic matter, total nitrogen, phosphorus, alkali-hydro...