scholarly journals The Perils of Being Populous: Control and Conservation of Abundant Kangaroo Species

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1753
Author(s):  
David Benjamin Croft ◽  
Ingrid Witte
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Managed Landscapes ◽  
Second Wave

Australia’s first people managed landscapes for kangaroo species as important elements of their diet, accoutrements and ceremony. This developed and persisted for about 65,000 years. The second wave of colonists from the United Kingdom, Ireland and many subsequent countries introduced familiar domesticated livestock and they have imposed their agricultural practices on the same landscapes since 1788. This heralded an ongoing era of management of kangaroos that are perceived as competitors to livestock and unwanted consumers of crops. Even so, a kangaroo image remains the iconic identifier of Australia. Kangaroo management is shrouded in dogma and propaganda and creates a tension along a loose rural–city divide. This divide is further dissected by the promotion of the consumption of kangaroo products as an ecological good marred by valid concerns about hygiene and animal welfare. In the last decade, the fervour to suppress and micro-manage populations of some kangaroo species has mounted. This includes suppression within protected areas that have generally been considered as safe havens. This review explores these tensions between the conservation of iconic and yet abundant wildlife, and conflict with people and the various interfaces at which they meet kangaroos.

Shall I Compare Thee? The Legal Dilemma: The Choice of Comparators in Discrimination Cases

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-317
Author(s):  
Sam Middlemiss
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
European Community ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
The Law ◽  
Rules Set

There have been remarkable developments in some areas of discrimination law in the United Kingdom over recent years along with a notable lack of development in other areas with both relative success or failure (in terms of extending the protection of the law) often being determined by the appropriate comparator which can be used in presenting a claim for discrimination and/or the influence and constraints of rules set down in UK and European Community Legislation. It is contended that a lack of uniformity of approach to these issues both hinders and helps the equality cause. It hinders by presenting uncertainty about the appropriate comparator in these cases and helps where the law recognises uniformity of approach in determining comparators across differing kinds of equality cases is both illadvised and inappropriate. It is contended in this article that reform of the areas of law where protection is weak or badly-structured is best served by borrowing from approaches in the better protected areas of UK discrimination law or from strategies utilised in other jurisdictions. In the interests of brevity and consistency of argument and analysis it has been necessary to refrain from considering this issue as it relates to equal pay.

scholarly journals Ethnic background and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among the healthcare workforces: Results of a large occupational cohort study in rural United Kingdom.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Inghels ◽  
Ros Kane ◽  
Priya Lall ◽  
David Nelson ◽  
Zahid Asghar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Adjusted Risk ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Professional Exposure ◽  
Environment Type ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract Black and South Asian healthcare workers have been found at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United Kingdom. However, many studies do not consider all potential confounders (e.g., professional exposure, living environment) and those conducted during the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak remain scarce. Using 1-year-folow-up data from a cohort of 13,366 healthcare workers employed in 119 facilities in Lincolnshire, we aimed to quantify the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among ethnic minority healthcare staff and to elucidate pathways of infection. Overall, 1258 individuals (9.4%) recorded a positive SARS-CoV-2 test during the observation period, incidence per person-year was 5.2% [Cluster adjusted 95% CI: 3.6–7.6%] during the first COVID-19 wave (Jan-Aug 2020) and 17.2% [13.5–22.0%] during the second wave (Sep 2020-Feb 2021). Compared to Whites, Black and South Asian employees were at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection during both the first wave (Clustered adjusted Hazard Ratio, 1.58 [0.91-2.75] and 1.69 [1.07-2.66] respectively) and the second wave (HR 2.09 [1.57-2.76] and 1.46 [1.24-1.71]). Higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection significantly persisted even after controlling on age, gender, pay grade, residence environment, type of work and time exposure at work. Higher adjusted risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection were also found among lower-paid health professionals. Black and South Asian health workers continue to be more exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to their white counterparts. Urgent interventions are required to reduce SARS-CoV-2 exposure with these ethnic groups.

scholarly journals Hasty Reduction of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures Leads to the Second Wave of Infection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yara Hazem ◽  
Suchitra Natarajan ◽  
Essam R. Berikaa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sir Model ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractThe outbreak of COVID-19 has an undeniable global impact, both socially and economically. March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic worldwide. Many governments, worldwide, have imposed strict lockdown measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19. However, these measures cannot last forever; therefore, many countries are already considering relaxing the lockdown measures. This study, quantitatively, investigated the impact of this relaxation in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Canada. A modified version of the SIR model is used to model the reduction in lockdown based on the already available data. The results showed an inevitable second wave of COVID-19 infection following loosening the current measures. The study tries to reveal the predicted number of infected cases for different reopening dates. Additionally, the predicted number of infected cases for different reopening dates is reported.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibodies in Dogs and Cats in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Smith ◽  
Enyia Anderson ◽  
Cintia Cansado Utrilla ◽  
Tessa Prince ◽  
Sean Farrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Neutralising Antibodies ◽  
Diagnostic Laboratory ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Human Infections ◽  
Second Wave

Companion animals are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and sporadic cases of pet infections have occurred in the United Kingdom. Here we present the first large-scale serological survey of SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibodies in dogs and cats in the UK. Results are reported for 688 sera (454 canine, 234 feline) collected by a large veterinary diagnostic laboratory for routine haematology during three time periods; pre-COVID-19 (January 2020), during the first wave of UK human infections (April-May 2020) and during the second wave of UK human infections (September 2020-February 2021). Both pre-COVID-19 sera and those from the first wave tested negative. However, in sera collected during the second wave, 1.4% (n=4) of dogs and 2.2% (n=2) cats tested positive for neutralising antibodies. The low numbers of animals testing positive suggests pet animals are unlikely to be a major reservoir for human infection in the UK. However, continued surveillance of in-contact susceptible animals should be performed as part of ongoing population health surveillance initiatives.

Make this tango viral: Touching toward the untouchable in tele-synaesthesia performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 237-266
Author(s):  
Ada Xiaoyu Hao
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Sensory Response ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Tactile Sense ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Information ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
Second Wave

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an uncanny rift between tact and touch as it expands the virtual towards its potential. Layer upon layer of new information has been repeatedly revising and reformulating our sense of touch. The unconditional freedom of touch needs to be rendered accountable in this rift of time and space. The act of touching entails individual acknowledging the risk of reaching towards the unknown or the known. Tracing with a tactile sense of touch is to be tactful about how, where and what can such act of touching could reach, especially in the context of communicative technology. This article focuses on the possibility of virtual sensibility by challenging ways to feel touched beyond the nostalgic narratives that attempt to indict communicative technology with the loss of touch. To replenish and reinstate touch through tele-synaesthesia performance, I ask: how to elongate our somatosensensation and echo the embodied experience of touching through virtual connectivity? Tele-synaesthesia performance joints telematic and synaesthetic experience together to embody the incorporeality of touch through virtual connectivity. It embodies the injunction of physical contact and challenges what can and cannot be touched by suturing one sensuous modality to another. Inspired by Paul Sermon’s artistic production of Telematic Quarantine (2020) and Pandemic Encounters (2020), that tele-presents the stories of self (isolation), I have created The Best Facial (2021): a series of one-to-one participatory tele-synaesthesia performances, where I became a virtual aesthetician and performed ‘virtual facial care’ on Zoom amid the second wave of the pandemic in the United Kingdom. In this article, I will discuss how tele-synaesthesia performance could trigger tactile experiences in the participants in reference to Michel Foucault’s concept Heterotopia (1986) that allegorically address the incompatible physical places in the society. I discuss how to elicit an affective sensory response from non-tactile senses through virtual touch, as stated by Naomi Bennett’s ‘Telematic connections: sensing, feeling, being in space together’ (2020). I refer to Legacy Russell’s discussion on glitch (2020) to analyse the possible future of tele-synaesthesia performance and its potential for expanding virtual connectivity with an ethical touch of a non-performative refusal of the present.

scholarly journals Covid-19 Pandemic and Independent Convenience Stores in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-265
Author(s):  
Maria Rybaczewska ◽  
Łukasz Sułkowski ◽  
Yuriy Bilan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Convenience Stores ◽  
Shopping Behaviour ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second Wave

Covid-19 brought the new reality into every-day life, global economy, and various sectors, including independent convenience stores. After the first and during the second wave of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom (mid-November 2020), the overall situation was very dynamic and turbulent. This paper is thus aimed at answering the question how the independent convenience stores sector in the United Kingdom functions in the Covid-19 reality. We analyse such issues as the recession phase in the global economy, and challenges the independent convenience stores sector in the UK faces, including the changing aspects of the consumer shopping behaviour. We identify the changes in the footfall, basket spend, sale, product categories, etc. Finally, we conclude that the convenience store sector in the UK is relatively resistant to Covid-19 pandemic and emphasise the most challenging consumer behaviour aspects in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 European resurgence foretold: interplay of introductions and persistence by leveraging genomic and mobility data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Lemey ◽  
Nick Ruktanonchai ◽  
Samuel Hong ◽  
Vittoria Colizza ◽  
Chiara Poletto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
Novel Variants ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract Following the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in spring 2020, Europe experienced a resurgence of the virus starting late summer that was deadlier and more difficult to contain. Relaxed intervention measures and summer travel have been implicated as drivers of the second wave. Here, we build a phylogeographic model to evaluate how newly introduced lineages, as opposed to the rekindling of persistent lineages, contributed to the COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. We inform this model using genomic, mobility and epidemiological data from 10 West European countries and estimate that in many countries more than 50% of the lineages circulating in late summer resulted from new introductions since June 15th. The success in onwards transmission of these lineages is predicted by SARS-CoV-2 incidence during this period. Relatively early introductions from Spain into the United Kingdom contributed to the successful spread of the 20A.EU1/B.1.177 variant. The pervasive spread of variants that have not been associated with an advantage in transmissibility highlights the threat of novel variants of concern that emerged more recently and have been disseminated by holiday travel. Our findings indicate that more effective and coordinated measures are required to contain spread through cross-border travel.

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