Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Mischievous animals"

In his works, Dmitry Naumov created a special social and spiritual “microcosm” in the image of the Yakut village Charannaakh, since, in his opinion, the national identity of the Sakha people is formed precisely in rural areas. The writer's stories demonstrate a number of intra-genre varieties, starting with the main types of short prose – the actual story, short story, essay – and ending with synthetic and hybrid forms of short epic genres. Naumov's short stories feature satirical stories directed against bureaucrats, careerists, and lovers of the “green serpent”. Many of them contain everyday comedy, and in a number of the writer’s stories one can feel the features of the so-called “mischievous” tradition known in world literature, which often borders on “black” humor. Naumov’s humor is of a soft, “hinting” nature, and its meaning is hidden in allegories and subtext. A whole series of stories is dedicated to animals: the author’s bestiary includes horses, cows, dogs, cats, even piglets. The writer demonstrates extraordinary skill in creating crowd scenes and identifying the “collective consciousness.” At the same time, his artistic anthropology contains many vivid individualized images. In many of Naumov’s stories one can feel his talent as a playwright. If the writer’s short stories demonstrate different types of short prose, then the genre designations of his dramatic works are limited to only two definitions – “play” in the sense of “drama” and “comedy”. The only dramatic work that is not accompanied by an author's genre definition is “Autumn.” Judging by the brief initial remark, adherence to the principle of “three unities,” the absence of external events, and the minimum of characters, this is a psychological monodrama. In his comedies, as in his stories, Naumov used a whole system of poetic means and techniques, starting with such as literary allusions, poetics of names, animalistic imagery, and ending with the verbal self-disclosure of the characters. To enhance the ironic context, they mention the characters of S.S. Yakovlev-Erilik Eristin, poor Khachygyr, D.K. Sivtsev-Suorun Omollooa autocrat Makar, the “great strategist” Ostap Bender from the works of I. Ilf and E. Petrov, and adapt Ellyai’s poems. Finally, Naumov himself is a brilliant expert on the native language, rightfully throws a stone at supporters of excessive “Yakutization” of the language of the Sakha people.

Vaccination for dogs is essential for controlling rabies and achieving the goal of eliminating dog-mediated rabies globally by 2030. This paper aims to investigate the preferences for public services regarding rabies vaccination, in an effort to optimize the existing rabies vaccination and prevention programs in China. The households investigated had significant preferences for dog rabies vaccination service attributes. The households can be classified into three types: resolute executors (52.13%), mischievous rebels (5.85%), and incentivized compliers (42.02%). The residence, the presence of children in the household, perception of the safety risks, and knowledge of rabies may be sources of heterogeneity. Supportive services on dog rabies vaccination should be made available, such as arranging weekend vaccination services, building mobile vaccination stations, providing home vaccination services, and increasing vaccine supply through multiple channels. Furthermore, multiple measures can be taken to increase rabies vaccination awareness among family members and facilitate dog management innovation to further increase the level of rabies prevention and control.

This article studies the radical identity-making potential of noise and nonhuman sound in video games. To do so, this article focuses on the oral production of the rabbid protagonists—mischievous humanoid rabbits easily identifiable by their constant and cacophonic sound making—in the Mario + Rabbids series. The rabbids’ constant shouts, grunts, and cries serve as great examples of the potential of nonhuman noise and sound to not only reproduce identities that escape from human-centric conceptions of being, but, more importantly, to invite players to see all identities—including their own—as polysemic and sometimes contradictory assemblages. This article converses with existing research on the ability of human voice and silence to manage identities in video games, with studies on nonhuman material excess in video games where players control nonhuman characters, and with work on how animal main characters sound in video games. This dialogue brings forth reflections on what being and becoming mean. The cacophonic nature of noise does not necessarily invoke the absence of all meaning, but an opportunity to embrace its many potential meanings and reflect on an equally polysemic world.

Owners’ understanding of dog behaviour influences dog welfare. This study aimed to investigate owners’ experiences of living with dogs and perceptions of dog behaviour/behaviour change. Data from an ongoing UK/ROI longitudinal study of dogs were used. Open-ended survey data (n = 3577 comments, n = 1808 dogs) when dogs were 12/16 weeks (data combined), 6, 12, 18 and 24 months were analysed to cover the dog’s puppyhood/adolescence. To evaluate the usefulness of open-ended survey questions, both quantitative textual and qualitative thematic analyses were employed. Textual analysis identified an overall positive sentiment at all timepoints; the proportion of positive: negative sentiments increased with the dog’s age. Words related to ‘love’ were the most frequent descriptors at all but the first timepoint, when ‘bite’ was the most frequent descriptor. Qualitative analysis helped to identify that owners attribute dog behaviour to ‘Dog’s biology’, ‘Personality/deliberate action’ and ‘External influences’. Analysis of open-ended survey responses helped to identify changes in perception over time. When dogs were young, owners described problematic behaviours as ‘mischievous’, unintentional and context-specific. Similar behaviours shown by older dogs were seen as ‘deliberate’. Both positive and negative experiences of dog ownership were identified. However, as not all respondents answered open-ended questions, the generalisability of our findings is limited.

MERV GRIFFITHS was born in Sydney on 8th July 1914, grew up in Northbridge and was educated in schools in North Sydney, including North Sydney Boys’ High School, which he attended from 1930-32. He entered what he, mischievously referred to as “The University” [University of Sydney] in 1934 to study Zoology. This period was difficult financially for all, including the University of Sydney, but in spite of the effects of underfunding and crowded conditions, Merv followed his biological interests under the tutelage of Professor W. J. Dakin and a small staff in the Zoology Department. He shared the Caird Scholarship and Haswell Prize with his friend and colleague Darcy Gilmour in 1936, obtained his Bachelor Degree in Zoology with first Class Honours in 1937, followed by his Master of Science in 1938. Merv first began publishing in the scientific literature in 1936 with a paper on The colour changes in batoid fishes in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

Since veterinary medicine plays an important role in assuring a nation's food safety, therefore the present status of our food safety, where large numbers of consumers in Bangladesh have become victims of consuming adulterated foods, needs to be enhanced and governed by the guideline of veterinary and public health educators. This article highlights the need of an integrated collaborative approach between academicians and government officials for the creation and dissemination of food-safety teaching driving force to mitigate food borne diseases, ensure food safety, control mischievous and fraudulent adulteration – all destined to a harmonious national health strategic action plan. Veterinary education is very effective for cor- rect implementation of the stable to table concept and best serves the public when it is updated on current market needs of food products and measures protecting animal health. Universities in Europe and USA have adjusted their veterinary medicine curricula during the past few years. Experts predicted determinant changes by 2020 that would influence the work of the veterinarians. All of them are in favor of placing food quality and food safety and public health as the highest priorities in future veterinary education. In Bangladesh, Universities and Veterinary Colleges are producing qualified Veterinary Food Hygienists to deal with matters of health and demands for consumers’ food protection. The veterinary education blends veterinarians with strong capacity to advocate the assurance of food quality and safety from farm to fork. Government in collaboration with veterinary food hygienist should advocate academic and field covered sciencebased food safety system. It is hoped that in the near future Bangladesh will come forward with veterinary public health responsibilities incorporated in national food safety program. The concerned authorities in collaboration with international public health authority like WHO should establish a center for food safety, food quality control, and zoonoses.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously and mischievously begins the notorious Second Essay in On The Genealogy of Morals (1887) with an assertion that ties the proper breeding of mankind to the right to make promises. Nietzsche maintains: “[t]o breed an animal with the right to make promises—is this not the paradoxical task that nature has set itself in the case of man? Is this not the real problem which man not only poses but also faces?” Nietzsche’s language challenges its reader from the start to comprehend its various possibilities of mood and mode, rhetoric and grammar: is it a bold statement of authorial values or an ironic insinuation meant to trap the bad conscience of civilized man? More simply, is it a “real” question or a rhetorical statement? The passage loses no time in deploying some of the soldiers in the army of poetical tropes that Nietzsche unmasks as the producers of truth in his equally well-known short piece, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” (here prosopopoeia: speaking for nature).Based on this small sampling, already we can sense fully how the “literary” intensity and instability of Nietzsche’s style are embedded in his very conduct of philosophy. The question marks on which the two sentences of this opening salvo end (or sort of end, as there are original ellipses “…”) may not indicate a question has been posed at all for the reader directly to answer. No question, at least, has been posed from the quasi-naïve and open premise that we tend to call a question on equal (epistemological) footing or in (sociable) “good” faith. Not a “real” question from Nietzsche, then; but all the more a real problem. A driving interrogation in fact: in light of what the next sentence calls the “countervailing” and saving “force of forgetfulness,” the conduct of the human will in verbal action becomes “the real problem” we both pose and face as linguistic beings engaged by what Stanley Cavell understands in the term moral perfectionism.

Fisheries are an extremely precious resource in the world. It is delicious food which more than people eat it and elsewhere, it is utilized as raw material for agro-industry and purpose of medicine. During the ancient and medieval era, marine and inland water were exceedingly productive for fisheries and numerous & miscellaneous types of fishes were spontaneously and naturally grown in marine water and inland water. During the ancient and medieval period, fishes were considered unlimited since the productive rate of water for fishes were exceedingly furious and all of the favourable features for grown fishes were excellently appearing in marine and inland water. Else, marine and terrestrial ecosystems were enriched, consequently massive fishes were supplied with sufficient food such as floating vegetation, insects, zooplankton and a lot of animal dead bodies which were supplied as food for massive fishes. Notwithstanding, after the Industrial revolution, the marine water and inland water were polluted and primary producers were massively destroyed. Consequently, the earlier feature of water was rapidly lost and numerous fishes were dead predominantly lacking sufficient oxygen, food and floating plant. Moreover, the cultivators utilized huge amounts of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and poison which merged in canal, ponds, river and ultimately into sea. Consequently, it changed the chemical and physical features of water which greatly reduced the productivity of water. Procedure of Fish Production: If we can return earlier productivity or feature of water, then again can increase huge production of fishes. Several produce steps are given below which many times increase fish production, if we appropriately follow it. Step 1: Pollution of water is a major problem which reduces fish productivity. Ordinarily, vegetation (floating plant on surface water and the bank & embankment covered by vegetation) can absorb huge poisonous elements and liquid. Huge surrounding plants and moderate or few floating plants absorb the pollution and poisonous elements from the water. The poisonous solid, liquids and gaseous elements can possibly be absorbed only by floating plants and surrounding vegetation. Ordinarily, the bank and embankment need to be covered by moderate dense vegetation. Since the covering vegetation decreases adjacent temperature since the sun rays can't directly fall into water which reduces temperature in water. Although, sun rays are precious and fundamental elements for growing massive fishes. Notwithstanding, intensive and massive sun rays are harmful for fishes since they increase the temperature of the surface water and consequently may change physical features of surface water due to exceeding temperature. Else, leaves of covering vegetation fall on water which increase acidity in water and help to absorb the poisonous elements from the water. Although, more acidity or more alkaline in water is detrimental for the growth of fishes. Step 2: Huge leaves of plants and floating plants increase the acidity in water. Ordinarily, fishes can't tolerate more acidity and it distorts the growth of fishes. Henceforward, infrequently we need applied pure calcium/ lime or calcareous which reduce the acidity of water. Furthermore, the calcium or lime/quicklime chemically reacts with clays and decomposed leaves which results produce a mixture of food for fishes. Henceforth, we need to apply five to seven times lime or quicklime in ponds and tanks since it chemically reacts with decomposed leaves, flowers and roots. Consequently, it creates food for fishes and it reduces the acidity in water. Step 3: For suitable habitats of fishes need 2 to 5 feet clays in ponds, lake, river or sea. The clays less than 2 feet or more than 5 feet clays are harmful for fishes. The sufficient clay (2 feet to 5 feet) creates suitable habitats for fishes. Although, the larger fishes need more clay and it depends on size of fishes. The sandy or silty bottom is mischievous for the growth of fishes and other aquatic life. Micro aquatic life can't grow massively in the silty and sandy bottom of water which is considered the main food for fishes. Step 4: The sunrays are considered extremely precious elements for the growth of massive fishes. Although, huge run ray’s is harmful for fishes and it can change the physical features of water. To mention that the catfish, shark catfish etc does not require adequate sunrays. These types of fishes can grow with less oxygen and sunrays. Furthermore, these types of fishes (catfish etc) grow in dirty clay and silty decomposed water. Step 5: Fish like habitats as branches of bamboo or plants which live on branches of bamboo and fragment of plants. It is considered a suitable habitat for fishes since it can't live long in the bottom. Else, the fish floats in the upper layer of water predominantly demanding of oxygen and sun rays. Step 6: For massive fishes to grow up in water, they need a supply of food such as a mixing of carbohydrate (food grain) and protein (rejected animal parts). These fishes grow up rapidly in a short time with a predominantly supply of sufficient foods. Step 7: Infrequently, the water of ponds or tanks need changes after a few years. They need pure water from the underground which keeps balance between quality of water and oxygen. Step 8: The pond and tanks need to be encircled by the embankment since the polluted and poisonous water can't merge with pond's water & tank water from the cultivation land. Henceforward, it needs obstacles contraire to polluted water and poisonous water. Step 9: The temperature is a great factor to keep the quality or productivity of water. The more temperature above 30 degrees Celsius is harmful for fishes and it changes the physical properties of water. Otherwise, less temperature (less than 5 degree Celsius) is harmful for fishes and sun rays & oxygen can't get reach in water. Ordinarily, 7 degrees to 17degrees Celsius temperatures are suitable for fishes and other aquatic life. Step 10: For cultivation of fishes in ponds or tanks use underground water since the underground water is pollution free and it is extremely clean which is perfect for fish cultivation. Step 11: The more alkaline water is not suitable for fishes. The decomposed leaves of plants reduce alkaline in water and it increases the acidity in water. Although, more acidity is not suitable for cultivation or growth of fishes. Henceforward, moderate alkaline and moderate acidity is suitable for fish cultivation. Step 12: The uncovered surface or partially uncovered surface of water is suitable for fishes. The covering by floating plants generates a barrier for the infiltration of atmospheric water and sun rays which is an extremely precious element for the growth of fishes. If these processes or procedures are appropriately followed then many times increase production of fish cultivation. Although, all types of fish don't need a similar environment.

The appearance of the culture hero is an important moment in the development of a distinctively human society following on from the initial stages of creation. These heroes are best known for introducing culture to humanity; they are “the source of uniquely human institutions.” The hero wrests key elements of human life, such as fire, from the world’s creative powers, and in so doing ensures that such things become accessible to ordinary people, thus setting the stage for the emergence of human civilisation. The heroes themselves are not human, but rather part of an intermediate generation linking the spiritual powers that formed the universe and human beings. These heroes are often depicted as demi-gods, being part human and part god. While they assist humanity by providing the building blocks of culture, they are themselves not confined by cultural norms or the boundaries of time and space. Some culture heroes reveal a particularly mischievous aspect to their behaviour: they become the trickster, the hero’s alter ego. The trickster plays a more subversive role of clown or buffoon, a restless being who typically indulges in lots of eating and sex; the antithesis of the hero. Such hero-tricksters have the power to transform themselves into various shapes, often appearing as animals.