Build a Bridge and Get Over it: The Effect of Bridges Over Water on Terrestrial Animal Presence

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Beyer ◽  
Yvette Dzumaga ◽  
Sara DiMassimo ◽  
Ashley Pearcy
Keyword(s):  
Terrestrial Animal ◽  
Animal Presence

Lurcherland: Poachers, Dogs and Animal Presence in English Life and Culture, c. 1831–1901

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-379
Author(s):  
Stephen Ridgwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Popular Knowledge ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Active Link ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Animal Presence

Abstract In Victorian England poachers and dogs were subject to increasing levels of public interest and engagement. This article considers how their various interactions were represented across a range of printed and visual media and suggests that in establishing the poacher as a largely positive figure the dog had a vital role to play. If a number of other factors worked in favour of the poacher, not least the widespread dislike of the Game Laws, important in this process of legitimation was the poacher’s active link to the canine world. Though ambiguity always surrounded the poacher, and the dog was not always to be found on his side, more often than not it was. The development of this association casts an interesting light on the framing of human-animal relations in the nineteenth century, a critical moment for those concerned with the ‘animal turn’ and notions of non-human agency, and reveals how the dog was more than just the poacher’s ally in the un-official hunting field. As an urban-centred culture acquired a distinctly ruralist orientation, within the popular knowledge economy the idea of the poacher and his dog resonated across boundaries of class and geography. This in turn provides new evidence of how, at the level of culture, the more disreputable sides of life could be accommodated within a society that ostensibly prized respectability.

scholarly journals Estimating maximum bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex using multi-body dynamics

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. T. Bates ◽  
P. L. Falkingham
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Feeding Behaviour ◽  
Ontogenetic Change ◽  
Positive Allometry ◽  
Musculoskeletal Models ◽  
Terrestrial Animal ◽  
Body Dynamics ◽  
Mode Of Life ◽  
Scaling Analyses ◽  
Multi Body

Bite mechanics and feeding behaviour in Tyrannosaurus rex are controversial. Some contend that a modest bite mechanically limited T. rex to scavenging, while others argue that high bite forces facilitated a predatory mode of life. We use dynamic musculoskeletal models to simulate maximal biting in T. rex . Models predict that adult T. rex generated sustained bite forces of 35 000–57 000 N at a single posterior tooth, by far the highest bite forces estimated for any terrestrial animal. Scaling analyses suggest that adult T. rex had a strong bite for its body size, and that bite performance increased allometrically during ontogeny. Positive allometry in bite performance during growth may have facilitated an ontogenetic change in feeding behaviour in T. rex , associated with an expansion of prey range in adults to include the largest contemporaneous animals.

Review of characterization methods for water-soluble polymers used in oil sand and heavy oil industrial applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Heavy Oil ◽  
Environmental Fate ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Oil Sand ◽  
Characterization Methods ◽  
Water Soluble Polymers ◽  
Soluble Polymers ◽  
Terrestrial Animal

Water-soluble polymers have been used in many applications in the oil sand and heavy oil industries, including drilling, enhanced oil recovery, tailings treatment, and water treatment. Because they are water soluble, residual polymer can remain with the aqueous phase, potentially leading to environmental impacts. Investigating the environmental fate of these water-soluble polymers is particularly important as they may be toxic to aquatic biota or terrestrial animal life. However, since polymers are somewhat complex because of their high molecular weight, there are many challenges in their measurement, especially in complex matrices. In this paper, polymers used in oilfield applications, particularly in the oil sand or heavy oil industries, are reviewed and various analytical methods for polymer characterization are compared.

scholarly journals Scene Illustration of Terrestrial Animals with Its Monitoring, Tracking and Recognizing Through Deep Learning in Relation with Granular Computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 2538-2543
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Granular Computing ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Terrestrial Animal ◽  
Learning Technique

Combining Deep Learning Technique with Granular Computing employs an inductive paradigm for the terrestrial animal’s elucidation. The proposed method frames the object (terrestrial animal) in arbitrary-shaped and sized granules rather than fixed and rectangular shaped, so that object can effectively mine and recognized. The goal is to present a formal model which automatically focus only on representative pixel of each granule rather than converting pixels from entire image through scanning. Thus, this work entails the process of recognizing not only the static animal in the background, but also depicts moving animal in foreground separately.

scholarly journals Step by step: reconstruction of terrestrial animal movement paths by dead-reckoning

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. R. Bidder ◽  
J. S. Walker ◽  
M. W. Jones ◽  
M. D. Holton ◽  
P. Urge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Movement ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
Terrestrial Animal

Novel Statistical Analyses in Terrestrial Animal Ecology; Dirty Data and Clean Questions

1987 ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Simberloff ◽  
P. Berthet ◽  
V. Boy ◽  
S. H. Cousins ◽  
M.-J. Fortin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ecology ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Terrestrial Animal ◽  
Dirty Data

scholarly journals Intestinal Transcriptome Analysis Highlights Key Differentially Expressed Genes Involved in Nutrient Metabolism and Digestion in Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) Fed Terrestrial Animal and Plant Proteins

Genes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Chinh Thi My Dam ◽  
Tomer Ventura ◽  
Mark Booth ◽  
Igor Pirozzi ◽  
Michael Salini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differentially Expressed Genes ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
Nutrient Digestibility ◽  
Differentially Expressed ◽  
Plant Proteins ◽  
Nutrient Metabolism ◽  
Terrestrial Animal ◽  
Yellowtail Kingfish ◽  
Seriola Lalandi

This study investigated the effects of dietary terrestrial animal and plant proteins on the intestinal transcriptomes of yellowtail kingfish (YTK), Seriola lalandi, an ecologically and economically important marine species in Australia. Five diets containing fish meal (FM), poultry by-product meal (PBM), blood meal (BLM), faba bean meal (FBM) and corn gluten meal (CGM) were formulated and fed over a period of 4 weeks. The Illumina RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) results identified a suite of differentially expressed genes involved in nutrient metabolism and protein digestion pathways, reinforced by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) results. These findings provide molecular support to the notion that PBM and FBM are useful raw materials in commercial diets for YTK. Using the same evidence, we have demonstrated that BLM and CGM may be less useful and their incorporation into commercial aquafeeds for this species should be done cautiously. The differentially expressed genes showed a subtle difference and high correlation with apparent nutrient digestibility of raw materials. Further, our results indicate that transcriptome profiling provides a useful tool to evaluate alternative protein sources for use in aquaculture feeds.

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