The ecological impacts of invasive mammals are widely documented around the world. In New Zealand, fencing designed to exclude non-native is used for conservation and restoration efforts. Orokonui Ecosanctuary a 307-hectare coastal Otago reserve (Dunedin, Zealand) that surrounded by mammal-exclusion fencing. goal present study was investigate how excluding including (native) animals inside fenc...

Building fences to manage the cattle grazing can be very expensive; cost inefficient. These do not provide dynamic control over the area in which the cattle are grazing. Existing virtual fencing techniques for the control of herds of cattle, based on polygon coordinate definition of boundaries is limited in the area of land mass coverage and dynamism. This work seeks to develop a more robust an...

PROBLEM Deep infection after joint arthroplasty can be catastrophic, leading to further surgery, loss of the prosthesis, disability, and risk of mortality. Twenty nine new cases of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurred in the first year after elective orthopaedic surgery was centralised to a district general hospital in Essex. DESIGN Prospective trial to establish whether ring ...

Wildlife-exclusion fencing and wildlife-crossing structures (e.g., underpasses and overpasses) are becoming increasingly common features of highway projects around the world. The prey-trap hypothesis posits that predators exploit crossing structures to detect and capture prey. The hypothesis predicts that predation events occur closer to a highway after the construction of fences and crossing s...

The lunge is the most common attack in fencing, however there is currently a paucity of published research investigating the kinematics of this movement. The aim of this study was to investigate if kinematics measured during the épée fencing lunge had a significant effect on sword velocity at touch and whether there were any key movement tactics that produced the maximum velocity. Lower extremi...

Electroencephalographic (EEG; Be-plus Eb-Neuro) and stabilogram (RGM) data were simultaneously recorded in 19 elite karate and 18 fencing athletes and in 10 non-athletes during quiet upright standing at open- and closed-eyes condition in order to investigate the correlation between cortical activity and body sway when the visual inputs are available for balance. Our working hypothesis is that, ...

Key points  A “single tool” for studying free-ranging animal behavior on complex landscapes does not exist.  Today’s tools require competent multiple disciplinary teams beginning with the planning and design of experiments on through to applying the results within a practical management framework.  Research that involves instrumenting animals must be conducted in a human manner that accurate...

Abstract Livestock owners, elites and non-elites alike, from different parts of Namibia fence in land that belongs to the indigenous San people who collectively manage their as a conservancy. Fencing violates Communal Land Reform Act 2002. The conservancy started lawsuit August 2013 with reference this remove fences end illegal occupation land. High Court ruled 2016 favour conservancy, but have...

PURPOSE This study aims to help improve performance by comparing and analyzing the kinematic variables for each upper lower extremities segment when two groups of players attack national women’s fencing in a match situation.METHODS divided movement time, time ratio, Fente step length change, angle factor at event, velocity point sword event into Olympic medalists’ group (Group A) international ...