The most important part of recent grassland tenure reforms in Inner Mongolia has been to divide the collective grassland to household level, then fence and enclose grassland. Fencing is a form of strongest signal of private property right and aims to exclude overboundary grazing, attempting to solve “tragedy of the commons” from open access. Fencing gives herders a “user right”, though ownershi...

The sport of fencing involves asymmetric motions, large forces, and rapid changes in momentum. Today’s fencing shoes are designed to facilitate footwork but they provide little plantar force dissipation. Plantar foot pressures and kinematics were measured in 13 fencers. The study compared fencing shoes to a standard court shoe. The court shoe resulted in a significant reduction in plantar press...

BACKGROUND In most industrialized countries, drowning ranks second or third behind motor vehicles and fires as a cause of unintentional injury deaths to children under the age of 15. Death rates from drowning are highest in children less than five years old. Pool fencing is a passive environmental intervention designed to reduce unintended access to swimming pools and thus prevent drowning in t...

OBJECTIVES To explore the relationship between caregiver characteristics and the adequacy of domestic swimming pool fencing. SETTING A typical metropolitan area of a large Australian capital city, Brisbane. METHODS From a reanalysis of the dataset of the 1989 Brisbane Home Safety Survey of 1050 householders, associations between 10 caregiver factors, pool ownership, and quality of pool fenc...

Does verbalizing a previously-seen complex visual stimulus influence its subsequent recollection? We investigated this question by examining the mediating role played by expertise level in fencing on the effects of verbalizing upon visual memory. Participants with three distinct levels of expertise in fencing (novices, intermediates, experts) performed seven trials. In each trial, they first wa...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of proper fencing around outdoor swimming pools among US households and to describe this fencing in relation to demographic and other household factors. To estimate the number of drownings among children <5 years of age that might be prevented by having proper fencing around all residential pools in the United States. METHODS A 1994, randomly dialed nati...

This paper presents design of power converters for solar fencing system employed in agriculture. Wild animals especially elephants destroys farmer's year of hard work in just few hours. Solar fencing system can be used in which the animals experience a high voltage low current shock for a very short time. This paper presents a design and analysis of very low current, high voltage converters for...

Runoff from dairy cow pastures can degrade the quality of surface waters. Weekly grab samples were collected for 7.5 years from a small stream draining a 56.7–ha, mostly dairy cow pasture and analyzed for fecal coliform and enterococci (streptococci). In situ measurements of pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, conductivity, and turbidity were made during most grab sampling events. Fecal coliform...

a serious concern, as RM uses different prices for fundamentally the same service. The authors examine the effects of familiarity with an RM pricing practice, framing of prices, and fencing condition (i.e., whether a respondent was advantaged or disadvantaged by an RM price) on fairness perceptions. The authors conduct two experiments and find that familiarity moderated the effects of framing a...

Recently, various services using the location information are developed with the wide spread of smartphones. Geo-fencing is one of the services. In Geo-fencing services, terminals automatically carry out the some processing associated with the virtual border when they detect that themselves passes the border. However, it is a problem that power saving of Geo-fencing service covering over indoor...