This paper describes a design method, novel to the domain of interaction design, for gathering user requirements from children called the KidReporter method. The KidReporter method was chosen and further refined based on assumptions about User-Centred Design. The method was considered to be suitable and appealing for children in terms of participating in design. Two school classes participated ...

Equine Herpesvirus 9 (EHV-9) is a new member of the equine herpesviruses which was isolated from Thomson’s gazelles (Gazella thomsoni) that died of fulminant encephalitis in a Japanese zoo (Fukushi et al., 1997; Yanai et al., 1998). Previously, experimental infections of EHV-9 were conducted in various species of animals other than primates to clarify the infectivity and virulence of this virus...

school friend who directed animal programs at Zoo Atlanta—a small zoo with a strong research reputation—I decided to check it out. I had never thought of working at a zoo before, and the prospect made me a little nervous. My background was in museums, and I had meager experience in animal care. But I set aside my reservations and flew to Atlanta. My friend gave me a tour of the zoo’s impressive...

The occurrence of a coccidian parasite, Cryptosporidium, among birds in the Kuala Lumpur National Zoo was investigated in this study. A hundred bird fecal samples were taken from various locations of the zoo. Fecal smears prepared using direct smear and formalin ethyl acetate concentration technique were stained with modified Ziehl-Neelsen stain. Samples positive for Cryptosporidium with Ziehl-...

problems, namely,a novel family of graphical password systems built on top of Captcha Zoo is a Captcha scheme which uses 3D models of horse and dog. mathematical concept related to 3D password, applications of scheme etc. Moreover, Pass. Point – is a recall-based graphical password schema, where a (2) Fawaz A. Alsulaiman and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “A Novel 3D. Graphical. also offers a novel ap...

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease that affects practically all domestic and wild animals, which can become carriers and, as a consequence, will contribute to the spread of microorganism in nature. The present study aims detect occurrence leptospirosis against by microscopic serum agglutination test animals at Zoo Centro Universitário da Amazônia (ZOOUNAMA). 26 adult both sexes following sp...