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Adorno, Theodor W. "Rose the Hippopotamus, Central Park Zoo." Social Text 27, no. 2 (2009): 133–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-025.
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Kohli, Bharat, and Vishal Thakur. "NOVEL ANIMAL WELL BEING CENTRIC ZOO LAYOUT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION AT DHAULADHAR NATURE PARK (A SMALL ZOOLOGICAL PARK)." International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research 8, no. 10 (November 9, 2021): 83–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/ijetmr.v8.i10.2021.1030.
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Zoological parks are the ex-situ conservation facilities to complement and strengthen the national efforts in conservation and strengthen the rich biodiversity of the country, particularly the fauna.[1]The architectural design or the map of the zoo depicting location and dimensions of the office,exhibit area, indoor holding area, visitor paths etc are some of the major components of Master (Layout) Plan of the Zoo. Central Zoo Authority is the competent authority to approve the Master (Layout) Plan of the recognized zoological parks recognized by CZA. This Master (Layout) Plan model design takes into account of 3 key parameters that one should keep in mind while designing the zoo: Animal welfare (i.e., making animal housing facility as comfortable as possible), seamless visitor experience and smooth working of zoo management personnel.
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WAKO, Kenji. "Changing of Zoo in the Central Park Zoo History and Idea to the Park of Olmsted." Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architects 54, no. 5 (1990): 90–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5632/jila1934.54.5_90.
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DALHOUMI, Ridha, Patricia AISSA, and Stéphane AULAGNIER. "Bat species richness and activity in Bou Hedma National Park (central Tunisia)." TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 40 (2016): 864–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1505-46.
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Penn, Laura. "Zoo theater's influence on affect and cognition: a case study from the Central Park Zoo in New York." Zoo Biology 28, no. 5 (September 2009): 412–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zoo.20201.
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Tovar, Twiggy C., Don Moore, and Ellen Dierenfeld. "Preferences among four species of local browse offered toColobus guereza kikuyuensis at the Central Park Zoo." Zoo Biology 24, no. 3 (2005): 267–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zoo.20051.
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FRASER, JOHN, SUSAN CLAYTON, JESSICA SICKLER, and ANTHONY TAYLOR. "Belonging at the zoo: retired volunteers, conservation activism and collective identity." Ageing and Society 29, no. 3 (March 5, 2009): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x08007915.
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ABSTRACTThe present study affirms previous research findings that volunteering satisfies personal needs but goes further by considering the factor of collective identity for volunteers and its consequences for them. The study specifically focused on older volunteers working at zoos. In the initial phase at Central Park Zoo 30 volunteers completed a short self-completion questionnaire. The second phase involved one-on-one interviews with 21 Bronx Zoo volunteers with a collective self-esteem scale. The responses indicated that the volunteers considered the collective identity of zoo volunteer to be important to their self-concept and believed that this identity is held in high public esteem. The results also suggested that identity as a zoo volunteer not only satisfies personal needs, as found by other volunteer studies, but that the collective identity supports external activism based on shared values. It was concluded that the collective environmental identity facilitated by volunteer work at the zoos provides affirmational social support for the volunteers' work as environmental conservation advocates, and enhances their sense of purpose and self-efficacy.
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Liza, Fahmida Tasnim, Mandira Mukutmoni, and Aleya Begum. "Gastrointestinal Parasites of Captive Asiatic Black Bear in Three Zoological Parks of Bangladesh." Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 48, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v48i1.47881.
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Forty-two freshly defecated fecal samples from captive Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) were collected between May 2017 and April 2018 from Bangladesh National Zoo, Dhaka, Shaheed A.H.M. Central Park and Zoo, Rajshahi and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, Gazipur. The collected samples were processed by Formol-ether concentration technique. Altogether nine different gastrointestinal (GI) parasites were observed and identified, which include one protozoan, Coccidia spp. (42.86%); four cestodes, Hymenolepis spp. (42.86%), Diphyllobothrium spp. (28.57%), Spirometra spp. (14.29%) and Taenia spp. (21.43%); and four nematodes Ascaris spp. (57.14%), Toxocara spp. (21.43%), Trichuris spp. (21.43%) and hookworms (35.71%). No trematode parasite was found during the study period. Dominance of helminth parasites (71.43%) over protozoan parasites was observed. The male bears were found more susceptible to parasitic infection than the females. The intensity of infection was found erratic in young and adult bears. The species diversity, animals feeding behavior and hygiene maintenance may be responsible for the high prevalence rate of gastrointestinal parasites in the present study.
Bangladesh J. Zool. 48(1): 119-125, 2020
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Vyshegurov, S. Kh, A. P. Belanova, N. V. Ponomarenko, E. V. Palchikova, N. V. Ivanova, and E. V. Biktimirova. "Specialized objects of landscape architecture of the city of Novosibirsk." Bulletin of NSAU (Novosibirsk State Agrarian University), no. 2 (July 25, 2023): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31677/2072-6724-2023-67-2-14-25.
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Today, a modern large city can only be imagined with specialised landscape objects. They belong to the group of public facilities, the functional feature of which is formed, as a rule, under the pressure of the city’s cultural, social and historical environment. The presence of such facilities provides a wide range of recreational activities and contributes to the multifaceted development of the personality of visitors. The article presents a methodology developed by the authors for assessing the attractiveness and integration into the urban gardening system of specialised objects of landscape architecture in Novosibirsk. The proposed method makes it possible to determine the popularity of an entity among the population, its accessibility, its performance of the prevailing function, the possibility of social integration of people with disabilities, and the organisation of the landscape on the territory. Five specialised objects of various functional orientations were identified in the structure of Novosibirsk. Among them, parks of communication with nature and protect flora and fauna prevail in number (Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Dendrological Park, Novosibirsk Zoo named after R.A. Shilo). These objects are also the most popular among the residents of the city. The main factor in attracting visitors to such sites is the cognitive function. The historical and architectural open-air museum needs to be better integrated into the system of urban landscaping due to poor awareness of citizens about this object, the lack of developed transport and pedestrian communications and unhindered access for all categories of citizens. The dendrological park needs a reconstruction of the landscape organisation and functional zoning of the territory; for this object, the problem of popularization among the city’s residents is also relevant in the course of the analysis of specialized landscape objects of Novosibirsk, the Central Siberian Botanical Garden, the Central Park, the Novosibirsk Zoo named after N.N. R.A. Awl. However, none of them fully meets all the necessary criteria. Reconstruction of varying degrees is required for each facility, considering social trends and modern processes.
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Foerder, Preston, Martin Chodorow, and Donald E. Moore. "Behavioural synchrony in two species of communally housed captive penguins." Behaviour 150, no. 12 (2013): 1357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003100.
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Animals in aggregations such as herds, schools, flocks, or colonies tend to synchronize their behaviour with each other for food acquisition and predator detection. Different species of captive penguins, when housed communally, intermingle more than in their natural habitat. Wild penguins typically divide themselves into separate colonies by species. We predicted that penguins would synchronize their behaviour more with conspecifics rather than interspecifically in a mixed-species zoo exhibit. The subjects were 65 penguins of two different species, chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) in the Central Park Zoo, New York, NY, USA. Using instantaneous scan sampling, 359 video scans were taken over 10 days. Scans were analysed for nine different categories of behaviour for both species. Intra-species synchrony scores were calculated using the Kappa coefficient of agreement, and inter-species synchrony was measured by computing cross-correlations. As predicted, overall synchrony was significantly greater within both species of penguins than for randomly aggregated data representing mixed groups. There was also significantly less synchrony between species than between randomly mixed data for six of the nine behaviour categories. The pattern of results indicates that the penguins had organized by behaviour into separate species-specific colonies within the enclosure. They maintained species separation through behavioural synchrony despite the restrictions imposed by captivity.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Central Park Zoo"
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Penn, Laura M. "An exploration of zoo theatre's contribution to the directives of zoos : a case study from the Central Park Zoo in New York." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432820.
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Metzger, Steve. The dancing clock. Wilton, CT: Tiger tales, 2011.
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Gamble, Adam. Good night, Central Park. Dennis, MA]: Our World of Books, 2012.
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1950-, Blackmar Elizabeth, ed. The park and the people: A history of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1998.
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1950-, Blackmar Elizabeth, ed. The park and the people: A history of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1992.
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1950-, Blackmar Elizabeth, ed. The park and the people: A history of Central Park. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1994.
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Scheier, Joan. Central Park Zoo. Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
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Sheier, Joan. Central Park Zoo. Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
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Scheier, Joan. Central Park Zoo (NY). Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
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Ackner, Mattis Paul. König Vom Central Park Zoo. tredition Verlag, 2019.
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Ackner, Mattis Paul. König Vom Central Park Zoo. tredition Verlag, 2019.
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London, Herbert. "The New Central Park Zoo: A Tribute to the Absurd." In The Broken Apple, 13–14. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003419112-7.
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Brown, Mark. "Leading in Changing Times." In Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, 1–17. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_28-1.
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AbstractThis chapter reflects on the challenges and opportunities of leading educational change in today’s digitally connected world. It offers personal insights and critical reflections on learning leadership framed by a wide-angle, multifocal lens that helps zoom in and out to visualize preferred futures. Before outlining a collection of leadership touchstones and critical questions for guiding institutional transformation and then reporting their application in the practice of digital education, the chapter begins by illustrating how the new learning ecology is complex and entangled in competing images of the future. Efforts by educational leaders to build agile and sustainable transformative organizational cultures need to be guided by a clear sense of direction and anchored in a living institutional mission. The role of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) hosted at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland is central to this story, as harnessing the transformative potential of new digital technology is at the heart of its change agenda. After briefly introducing DCU, the chapter reports how the NIDL’s commitment to leadership development and active engagement in global networks are helping to reshape the higher education landscape with a critical digital edge. However, forging a future-focused mission based on multifocal criticality and transformative leadership is not something for the faint-hearted; it requires agency, relational capital, and strategic foresight to move from digital in part to digital at the heart of your organizational culture.
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Brown, Mark. "Leading in Changing Times." In Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, 509–25. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6_28.
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AbstractThis chapter reflects on the challenges and opportunities of leading educational change in today’s digitally connected world. It offers personal insights and critical reflections on learning leadership framed by a wide-angle, multifocal lens that helps zoom in and out to visualize preferred futures. Before outlining a collection of leadership touchstones and critical questions for guiding institutional transformation and then reporting their application in the practice of digital education, the chapter begins by illustrating how the new learning ecology is complex and entangled in competing images of the future. Efforts by educational leaders to build agile and sustainable transformative organizational cultures need to be guided by a clear sense of direction and anchored in a living institutional mission. The role of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) hosted at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland is central to this story, as harnessing the transformative potential of new digital technology is at the heart of its change agenda. After briefly introducing DCU, the chapter reports how the NIDL’s commitment to leadership development and active engagement in global networks are helping to reshape the higher education landscape with a critical digital edge. However, forging a future-focused mission based on multifocal criticality and transformative leadership is not something for the faint-hearted; it requires agency, relational capital, and strategic foresight to move from digital in part to digital at the heart of your organizational culture.
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"The Arsenal and The Zoo." In Rebuilding Central Park. The MIT Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5808.003.0033.
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Balmer, Randall. "By the Numbers." In Grant Us Courage, 33–46. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195100860.003.0004.
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Abstract The numbers are staggering. In a very real sense Orlando, Florida, can reckon 1965 as the line of demarcation in its history. Before that, it was a pleasant, almost sleepy town in central Florida, but Walt Disney quietly began assembling parcels of swampland into a huge tract south of the city. The opening of Walt Disney World on October 1, 1971, quickly transformed Orlando into the theme park capital of the world, with such attractions as Epcot Center, Disney-MGM Studios, Universal Studios, Sea World, and Gatorland Zoo. In 1989, approximately thirteen million pilgrims found their way to Orlando, a town that boasts more motel rooms, nearly eighty thousand, than any other city in the United States.
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MARISCO DA SILVA, GABRIELE. "ESTRATÉGIAS DIDÁTICAS ALTERNATIVAS PARA O ENSINO DE MICROBIOLOGIA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR." In Itinerários de resistência: pluralidade e laicidade no Ensino de Ciências e Biologia. Editora Realize, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46943/viii.enebio.2021.01.269.
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PARA QUE OCORRA A APRENDIZAGEM SIGNIFICATIVA, É NECESSÁRIO QUE O SUJEITO INICIALMENTE SINTA VONTADE DE APRENDER, E ISSO É DESPERTADO NO MOMENTO QUE INFORMAÇÕES NOVAS SE RELACIONAM ÀQUELAS QUE JÁ ESTÃO NA ESTRUTURA COGNITIVA. AS ESTRATÉGIAS ALTERNATIVAS PODEM CONTRIBUIR PARA ESSA APRENDIZAGEM. NESSE SENTIDO, ESSE RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA DOCENTE APRESENTA ESTRATÉGIAS DIDÁTICAS UTILIZADAS PARA ABORDAR O CONTEÚDO DE FUNGOS, NO ENSINO SUPERIOR, AFIM DE ESTIMULAR A APRENDIZAGEM E INSERIR O ALUNO NO PAPEL CENTRAL DO CONHECIMENTO. FORAM USADOS DIFERENTES RECURSOS METODOLÓGICOS: GOOGLE SALA DE AULA, ESTUDO DE CASO, SALA DE AULA INVERTIDA ASSOCIADA À APRENDIZAGEM ESPIRAL, PAINEL INTEGRADO, O JOGO “GAME OF FUNGOS” E AULAS PRÁTICAS. RELATA-SE QUE O USO DE ESTRATÉGIAS DIDÁTICAS ALTERNATIVAS É DESAFIADOR, O PROFESSOR PRECISA ESTAR MOTIVADO E SAIR DA ZONO DE CONFORTO, ENTRETANTO, O USO DESSAS ESTRATÉGIAS, TROUXE MOTIVAÇÃO, PARTICIPAÇÃO, ENVOLVIMENTO, CURIOSIDADE E ESTÍMULO AOS TRABALHOS EM EQUIPE, PODENDO CONTRIBUIR COM A APRENDIZAGEM SIGNIFICATIVA
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Nurse, Angus, and Tanya Wyatt. "Wildlife as Property." In Wildlife Criminology, 19–36. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529204346.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the notion of wildlife as property or ‘things’ and critically analyses the extent to which anthropocentric notions of wildlife as a resource for human exploitation determines harm caused to non-human animals. This chapter examines how anthropocentric notions of morality and human-centred values underpin the exploitation of non-human animals and the sense in which they are owned. Employing a green criminological perspective, the chapter examines the use and abuse of wildlife within the animal ‘entertainment’ industry. The chapter examines the use of wildlife within aquariums, zoos, and circuses and examines both the legality of this use and the non-human animal harm contained within such uses. Evidence exists, for example, of psychological harm caused to wildlife in zoos that would likely be unlawful if experienced by companion animals. Yet, zoos and safari parks are ostensibly legal operations, thus animal welfare legislation is often the only mechanism through which action can be taken in respect of what would otherwise be deemed unlawful captivity (see also Chapter 7 on animal rights). We end the chapter by touching on how wildlife come to be property – that is a short discussion of wildlife trade, including the online market.
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Gross, Alan G. "Lisa Randall: The Technological Sublime." In The Scientific Sublime. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637774.003.0008.
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In 2008 a rap video by Kate McAlpine went viral (nearly eight million views at present). Not your typical rap video, it takes place in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider and on the grounds 100 feet above. During the performance, the computer-generated voice of Stephen Hawking chimes in as part of a periodic call and response. Throughout, the lyrics are replete with technical terms like “protons,” “lead ions,” “antimatter,” “black holes,” “dark matter,” “Higgs boson,” “Standard Model,” “graviton,” “top quark,” and acronyms like “ALICE,” “ATLAS,” and “CMS.” Here is the central refrain: . . . The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head. The Higgs boson, that’s the one that everybody talks about And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out. . . . McAlpine’s was a prophesy that proved right on target. In 2016, François Englert and Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize in physics for a conjecture they had made over a half century earlier, a mathematically driven leap of faith that became a scientific fact when the Higgs boson was detected—a hitherto mysterious but absolutely central member of the particle zoo. It was a discovery that confirmed the otherwise highly confirmed Standard Model, the explanatory centerpiece of the quantum world. At five billion dollars, the detector of the Higgs, the Large Hadron Collider, is the most expensive scientific apparatus ever built. It is a Mount Everest of machines, the apotheosis of the technological sublime. This form of sublimity is near the center of Lisa Randall’s professional life, the only means by which her deepest conjectures about the universe can be demonstrated. Hers is a flight into the scientific stratosphere tethered to events that she hopes will be observed by two incarnations of the technological sublime: the Large Hadron Collider or the GAIA satellite. When the UK funding for the Large Hadron Collider was still in question, Science Minister William Waldegrave challenged British physicists, telling them “that if anyone could explain what all the fuss was about, in plain English, on one sheet of paper, then he would reward that person with a bottle of vintage champagne.”
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. "The Endangered Species and Youth: Keeping All the Cogs and Wheels." In A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.003.0025.
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I have something to show you. I just got it by overnight delivery.” My student’s face was a blaze of eagerness. From his backpack, he pulled out a small box. Seconds later, magically cupped in his hands was a tiny, neon lime green frog with black eyes. This was hardly the fare for a usual student–teacher appointment. But Blake Klocke is no ordinary university student, though he appears so—the same blue jeans and backpack uniform, laptop at the ready. The difference is not his red hair and freckles, but his amphibian excitement. On his laptop, he displayed for me dozens of frog-related book-marked websites, which he explained aglow with enthusiasm. He had been raising frogs since he was nine, being part of a rescue train across the world of hobbyists who have been keeping the genetic strains of frogs alive in their homes as they are being extinguished in the wilds. Zoos don’t have the space or the avid visiting publics to care about these small, diverse members of the living community, so without the care of personal frog lovers like Blake in raising captive-bred endangered amphibians, our world would have lost these strands of life’s web. The black-eyed tree frog is a critically endangered Central American species that is decreasing so rapidly that scientists predict it will be reduced by 80% in the wild in ten years by the life-sucking, zombie-like Chytrid fungus that is wiping out full populations. “Once my frogs have young, I can get you some so you can raise your own,” Blake offered, ready to convert me to the simple joys of amphibian care. Blake has experienced this excitement from his youth on, and his outdoors adventures have created a love in him that will carry him far— far beyond the lakes and wetlands near Eagan, Minnesota, where he first started catching tadpoles. This finding the “drama in the bush” is just what Leopold had been advocating in his classes, radio talks to young farmers, and writings about the sport of amateur naturalist studies.
Conference papers on the topic "Central Park Zoo"
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Ferrante, Linda, Simona Normando, Daniela Florio, and Barbara De Mori. "Animal welfare and Ethics course for post-graduate at Veterinary School: how to improve assessment methodologies with a bottom up approach." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5535.
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Animal Welfare, with its strong ethical component, is increasingly central to public debate and in all sectors dealing with animals has become a key expertise to acquire. This paper presents a post-graduate level course on animal welfare and ethics assessment delivered by the Veterinary School of Padua University, Italy. The course was delivered at Garda Zoological Park, Italy, allowing students to do an experience with wildlife in a peculiar management system. Teachers used an inquiry-based approach to lead students ‘construct’ their experience in welfare assessment. At the end of the course students, divided into groups, had to develop a protocol for the assessment of the animal welfare of a species in the zoo. The analysis of these final works and a pre-test and post-test questionnaires were used to assess the effectiveness of the course. Results highlighted a growing awareness of the complexity of assessment methodologies and more attention on animal based indicators. Students found difficulties using a bottom-up approach but were satisfied at the end of the course. Improvements can be done to promote reflections on reasons to assess animal welfare and its ethical component, on the utility of such assessment and on a balanced use of tools and methodologies.
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Benger, Werner. "Illustrating Geometric Algebra and Differential Geometry in 5D Color Space." In WSCG 2023 – 31. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision. University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/csrn.3301.1.
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Geometric Algebra (GA) is popular for its immediate geometric interpretations of algebraic objects and operations. It is based on Clifford Algebra on vector spaces and extends linear algebra of vectors by operations such as an invertible product, i.e. divisions by vectors. This formalism allows for a complete algebra on vectors same as for scalar or complex numbers. It is particularly suitable for rotations in arbitrary dimensions. In Euclidean 3D space quaternions are known to be numerically superior to rotation matrices and already widely used in computer graphics. However, their meaning beyond its numerical formalism often remains mysterious. GA allows for an intuitive interpretation in terms of planes of rotations and extends this concept to arbitrary dimensions by embedding vectors into a higher dimensional, but still intuitively graspable space of multi-vectors. However, out intuition of more than three spatial dimensions is deficient. The space of colors forms a vector space as well, though one of non-spatial nature, but spun by the primary colors red, green, blue. The GA formalism can be applied here as well, amalgamating surprisingly with the notion of vectors and co-vectors known from differential geometry: tangential vectors on a manifold correspond to additive colors red/green/blue, whereas co-vectors from the co-tangential space correspond to subtractive primary colors magenta, yellow, cyan. GA in turn considers vectors, bi-vectors and anti-vectors as part of its generalized multi-vector zoo of algebraic objects. In 3D space vectors, anti-vectors, bi-vectors and covectors are all three-dimensional objects that can be identified with each other, so their distinction is concealed. Confusions arise from notions such as “normal vectors” vs. “axial vectors”. Higher dimensional spaces exhibit the differences more clearly. Using colors instead of spatial dimensions we can expand our intuition by considering "transparency" as an independent, four-dimensional property of a color vector. We can thereby explore 4D GA alternatively to spacetime in special/general relativity. However, even in 4D possibly confusing ambiguities remain between vectors, co-vectors, bi-vectors and bi-co-vectors: bi-vectors and bi-co-vectors - both six-dimensional objects - are visually equivalent. They become unequivocal only in five or higher dimensions. Envisioning five-dimensional geometry is even more challenging to the human mind, but in color space we can add another property, "texture" to constitute a five-dimensional vector space. The properties of a bi-vector and a bi-co-vector becomes evident there: We can still study all possible combinations of colors/transparency/texture visually. This higher-dimensional yet intuitive approach demonstrates the need to distinguish among different kinds of vectors before identifying them in special situations, which also clarifies the meanings of algebraic objects in 3D Euclidean space and allows for better formulations of algorithms in 3D.
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Albuquerque, Helder Neves de, and Joaci Dos Santos Cerqueira. "CAMPINA GRANDE-PB: O DESAFIO DO CONTROLE DOS POMBOS URBANOS." In II Congresso On-line Internacional de Sustentabilidade. Revista Multidisciplinar de Educação e Meio Ambiente, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51189/rema/2067.
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Introdução: Campina Grande-PB assim como outras cidades brasileiras enfrenta uma urbanização com crescimento desordenado associada à falta ou ineficácia de políticas públicas de controle ambiental urbano, os quais proporcionam desafios na relação ser humano/meio ambiente causando problemas de saúde pública e, consequentemente, insustentabilidade ambiental. Dentre os desafios estão o controle populacional dos os pombos (Columba livia) que são aves distribuídas no mundo todo com uma população mundial estimada em mais de 10 milhões por km² e que representam um sério problema de saúde pública devido serem vetor de diversas doenças infecciosas. Objetivos: Identificar as áreas urbanas de maior incidência e proliferação de pombos (Columba livia) na cidade de Campina Grande-PB. Material e métodos: O presente estudo foi exploratório e de caráter descritivo, realizado no período de janeiro a maio de 2021, onde empregou-se como técnicas de coleta de dados e instrumentos de pesquisa a observação in loco, técnicas de geoprocessamento, Gps Garmin Gpsmap 62sc Câmera 5mp e Câmera digital semiprofissional Canon Powershot SX60HS 16.1MP LCD 3.0, zoom óptico de 65x. Resultados: No ano de 2016 foram iniciadas ações desenvolvidas pela PMCG no controle dos pombos na praça da bandeira, com isso, os animais que nidificavam nesse local migraram para outros bairros e locais da cidade dissipando os problemas e ampliando as áreas de ocorrência e reprodução, acarretando diversos danos aos patrimônios público e privado além de apresentarem riscos sanitários a toda a população. Diante disso, foram identificados 15 pontos com presença de pombos diversificados dentre os bairros da cidade, onde os principais foram: Centro (na Praça da Bandeira, Feira Central, Hospital Elpídio de Almeida, Shopping Popular); Centenário; Santa Rosa; Dinamérica; Prata (Igreja do Rosário, Feira da Prata e Colégio da Prata), Distrito Industrial (Aeroporto); Bodocongó e Malvinas. Conclusão: Torna-se extremamente urgente e necessário efetuar o controle populacional de pombos na cidade, com o propósito de evitar a disseminação populacional, abrigos e a proliferação de doenças e outros transtornos, sempre primando pelo manejo adequado e eficiente, aplicando e respeitando-se as legislações ambientais e a ecologia desses animais.
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Casarin, Jordana, Haline Costa, and Jorge Forero. "Pesquisadores estendidos: Em direção a um ser humano metassocial." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.113.g175.
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As tecnologias de realidade estendida (XR), principalmente as derivadas da realidade virtual (RV), oferecem alternativas promissoras, na medida em que fomentam novos contextos sociais que devem ser analisados e sistematizados. O metaverso centrado no mundo virtual começou a destacar a interação educacional e social, com possibilidades de quebrar as fronteiras entre o mundo real e os espaços virtuais, que ajudam a escapar das restrições de isolamento. A necessidade de soluções alternativas tornou-se evidente em tempos de isolamento, onde as interações físicas eram limitadas. Em julho de 2021, durante as restrições impostas pela pandemia de COVID-19, investigadores da Universidade do Porto, em Portugal, criaram um evento virtual denominado “Surviving a Ph.D: Tec e Arts Experiences”, com o objetivo de ajudar os doutorandos a enfrentarem os desafios de investigações demoradas e às vezes solitárias. O problema emocional relacionado ao isolamento dos investigadores já era evidente em pesquisas anteriores, e o cenário pandêmico serviu como um alerta ainda maior para profissionais, como cientistas, nos quais soluções alternativas de contato são muito bem-vindas. Para tanto, foi desenvolvido um ambiente virtual tridimensional, entre outras coisas, que permitiu proporcionar, além de apresentações e painéis de discussão, uma experiência imersiva para promover um espaço de diálogo e discussão em torno dos problemas ocorridos nos programas de doutorado. Os participantes foram convidados a participar de atividades programadas em um ambiente desenvolvido no Mozilla Hubs, uma plataforma web de código aberto, que permite a criação de espaços virtuais multiusuário sob uma mecânica de jogo em primeira pessoa. Os cenários produzidos (também chamados de quartos) buscaram refletir a ideia de isolamento ao incorporar o imaginário de quatro ilhas interligadas, que foram desenvolvidas no editor Spoke, fornecido pela Mozilla. Estas ilhas albergaram uma determinada atividade num espaço virtual específico (Lobby, Área de Conferências, Cultura e Lazer e Área de alimentação para reflexão). Da mesma forma, os participantes deveriam escolher um avatar com o qual pudessem visitar as instalações previstas para o evento. Os resultados mostraram que, ao contrário das plataformas que poderíamos considerar lineares, como Zoom, Google Meet ou mesmo YouTube, onde as interações ocorrem de forma sequencial, os ambientes virtuais promovem relações de grupo que podem ocorrer de forma simultânea e assíncrona. Da mesma forma, efeitos positivos foram observados nas impressões registradas de visitantes simultâneos de vinte e três países dos cinco continentes, que avaliaram os quartos como modernos, inovadores, divertidos e amigáveis. Neste artigo, expomos os antecedentes, a metodologia e os resultados desta experiência para contribuir com o conhecimento sistematizado em torno dessas novas tecnologias de informação que, a partir do metaverso, convidam-nos a nos repensarmos como seres sociais.
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Casarin, Jordana, Haline Costa, and Jorge Forero. "Investigadores ampliados: Hacia un ser humano social meta." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.113.g174.
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Las tecnologías de realidad extendida (XR), en particular las derivadas de la realidad virtual (VR), ofrecen alternativas prometedoras en la medida en que fomentan nuevos contextos sociales que deben ser analizados y sistematizados. El Metaverso centrado en el mundo virtual comenzó a destacar la interacción social y educativa, con posibilidades de romper los límites entre el mundo real y los espacios virtuales que ayudan a escapar de las limitaciones del aislamiento. La necesidad de soluciones alternativas se hizo evidente en tiempos de aislamiento, donde las interacciones físicas eran limitadas. En julio de 2021, durante las restricciones impuestas por la pandemia del Covid 19, investigadores de la Universidad de Oporto en Portugal crearon un evento virtual llamado “Sobrevivir a un doctorado: Experiencias Tec y Arts”, destinado a ayudar a los estudiantes de doctorado a enfrentar los desafíos de la realización de investigaciones prolongadas y a veces solitarias. El problema emocional relacionado con el aislamiento de los investigadores ya era evidente en investigaciones anteriores, y el escenario pandémico sirvió como una advertencia aún mayor para profesionales como los científicos, en los que las soluciones de contacto alternativas son muy bienvenidas. Para lograr este propósito, se desarrolló un entorno virtual tridimensional, entre otras cosas, que permitió brindar, además de presentaciones y paneles de discusión, una experiencia inmersiva para promover una instancia de diálogo y discusión en torno a la problemática que ocurría en los programas de doctorado. Se invitó a los asistentes a participar de las actividades programadas en un entorno desarrollado en Mozilla Hubs, una plataforma web de código abierto que permite crear espacios virtuales multiusuario bajo una mecánica de juego en primera persona. Los escenarios producidos (también llamados habitaciones) buscaban reflejar la idea de aislamiento incorporando el imaginario de cuatro islas interconectadas, las cuales fueron desarrolladas en el editor Spoke provisto por Mozilla. Estas islas albergaban una actividad particular en un espacio virtual específico (Lobby, Área de conferencias, Cultura y ocio y Área de comida para el pensamiento). Asimismo, los participantes debían elegir un avatar con el que poder visitar las instalaciones previstas para el evento. Los resultados mostraron que, a diferencia de aquellas plataformas que podríamos considerar lineales, como Zoom, Google Meet o incluso YouTube, donde las interacciones ocurren secuencialmente, los entornos virtuales promueven relaciones grupales que pueden ocurrir de manera simultánea y asincrónica. Asimismo, se observaron efectos positivos en las impresiones registradas de visitantes concurrentes de veintitrés países del mundo de los cinco continentes, quienes evaluaron las salas como modernas, innovadoras, divertidas y amigables. En este artículo exponemos los antecedentes, la metodología y los resultados de esta experiencia, para contribuir al conocimiento sistematizado en torno a estas nuevas tecnologías de la información que, desde el Metaverso, nos invitan a repensarnos como seres sociales.