74 results about "Mammal" patented technology

An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.

An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.

The invention discloses a multifunctional mammal ecological monitoring system and method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle, and belongs to the technical field of ecological monitoring. The system comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle platform configured to provide a flight function and provide a mounting platform for other modules; the multi-sensor integration module is configured to be capable of collecting information of mammals and living areas of the mammals; the intelligent control module is configured to identify a target, navigate and control the work of the unmanned aerial vehicle platform; and the data processing module is configured to perform edge calculation on the collected data, fuse the data of the multiple sensors and generate an ecological behavior monitoring result and a habitat environment monitoring result of the mammals. According to the invention, high-precision, intelligent, low-interference and large-range real-time monitoring of ecological behaviors, population distribution, habitat environment and the like of mammals can be realized.

In some implementations, a controller may obtain global positioning system (GPS) data from a GPS unit of an enrichment device. The controller may determine habitat information identifying a habitat for animals, of a plurality of habitats of animals, using the GPS data. The controller may determine a geofence of the habitat for animals based on the habitat information. The controller may determine a movement profile associated with the habitat for animals using the habitat information. The movement profile identifies one or more motions of the enrichment device. The controller may cause the enrichment device to move, within a boundary of the geofence, in accordance with the one or more motions of the movement profile. The enrichment device may move in accordance with the one or more motions to stimulate movement of one or more animals of the habitat for animals. The controller may monitor the movement and / or animal interaction.

The present invention relates to a nesting enclosure for birds mammals or reptiles comprising a body securable to a tree trunk. The body is so shaped that when the enclosure is secured to the tree trunk, a nesting space is defined that is partly bounded by the body and partly bounded by a surface of the tree trunk. The nesting space is adapted to retain therein material shredded from the surface.

The invention discloses a full-automatic wild mammal health monitoring and disease early warning system, and belongs to the technical field of ecological monitoring. The system comprises a data acquisition module which is configured to be capable of acquiring behavior, physiology and living environment data of mammals; the data processing module is configured to perform corresponding preprocessing on the acquired different types of data, so that the data can meet the requirements of subsequent data analysis and / or early warning; the data analysis module is configured to identify and analyze the preprocessed data to obtain the type, position, movement speed, attitude information and health information of the mammal; and the disease early warning module is configured to predict the disease risk probability of the mammals and trigger corresponding early warning according to the prediction result and the grading early warning rule. According to the invention, through multi-source data acquisition, intelligent analysis and real-time early warning, the problems of data islands, strong manual dependence, response delay and the like in the prior art are solved.

To address such a problem that since animals cannot speak, they cannot communicate intentions thereof to humans, accordingly, owners cannot acquire physical conditions of animals and are unable to manage the physical conditions of the animals.SOLUTION: A physical condition of an animal is determined by collecting saliva thereof and measuring a saliva ORP value. However, it is very difficult to get an animal to hold a swab for collecting saliva in the oral cavity, and even when an owner has a good relationship with the animal such as a pet, the animal may bare fangs and fiercely resist if the owner tries to get the animal to hold the saliva collection swab in its mouth. Accordingly, there is provided a saliva collection device that can collect saliva from the animal and easily determine the animal's physical condition by the saliva ORP value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

The present invention discloses a method for monitoring the changes in the ecological environment of urban plains based on the investigation of small mammals. First, after determining the pellet collection points of long-eared owls, the proportion of forest, shrub, grassland, and cultivated land coverage areas, biomass, and vascular plant species richness within the predation range area are obtained; then, based on the pellets of long-eared owls, the parameters for measuring the biodiversity index are calculated: the species richness of prey animals, the appearance frequency of prey animals in the pellets, the predation intensity of prey animals, and the biomass proportion of prey animals; finally, based on the above indicators, the comprehensive index of the ecological environment quality in the urban plain area is calculated to determine the changes in the ecological environment of the urban plain area. The use of this method solves the problem of the inability to long-term observe the biodiversity of small mammals, and provides technical support for long-term observing small mammals with good indicator functions to judge the changes in the comprehensive quality of the urban ecological environment.

The present invention provides cyclic depsipeptide compounds of formula (I) and compositions comprising the compounds that are effective against parasites that harm animals. The compounds and compositions may be used for combating parasites in or on mammals and birds. The invention also provides for an improved method for eradicating, controlling and preventing parasite infestation in birds and mammals.

A composition and method for therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of mammals includes a mixture of IgY antibodies derived from one or more eggs laid by one or more avian species, wherein each of the one or more avian species have been vaccinated with one or more of the plurality of antigens. The mixture of IgY antibodies can be combined with a protective material that includes colostrum. In some embodiments the composition can also include IgA and IgM antibodies.

A formulation for repelling insects and arthropods comprises about 0.5% by weight to about 4.0% by weight of an active ingredient and an emulsifier. The active ingredient includes a mixture of one or more natural essential oils. A method for making the repellant formulation comprises forming an oil-in-water emulsion by mixing one or more of the natural essential oils into an aqueous solution including an emulsifier, homogenizing the oil-in-water emulsion, and adding a buffer to the emulsion for maintaining a pH of the emulsion at above about 7.5. The repellant formulation is used by applying an effective amount of the repellant formulation onto the skin or fur of a mammal, clothing or other surface.

Probe compositions and kits for identifying or assisting in the identification of mammalian species are provided. The probe composition is a nucleotide probe shown in SEQ ID NO: 1-SEQ ID NO: 3590 in the sequence listing. The COI gene of the target species is captured by the probe, and the DNA sequence of the COI gene is obtained by using the method of high-throughput detection of next-generation sequencing for library construction. It can take into account the advantages of flexibility and convenience of first-generation sequencing and can obtain results quickly, while solving the problem of cumbersome operation of batch samples in first-generation sequencing, and avoiding the risk of inaccurate COI gene sequences caused by unstable partial results in first-generation sequencing. Developing the probe into a mammalian COI gene capture kit can achieve rapid and batch identification of mammalian species.

The present invention relates to a self-adhesive multilayer device comprising successively: a first adhesive layer; a support layer; a second adhesive layer; an active layer comprising a block copolymer and optionally a semiochemical substance, said block copolymer being an acrylic block copolymer comprising at least one alkyl polymethacrylate block and at least one alkyl polyacrylate block, a styrenic block copolymer comprising at least one polystyrene block and at least one polydiene block possibly hydrogenated, or a mixture thereof.The present invention also relates to a kit comprising one or more self-adhesive multi-layer devices and a composition comprising a semiochemical substance; as well as the use of this device or kit in a method of diffusing a semiochemical substance and for the protection of a plant or stored goods against harmful animals such as insects or mammals including rodents.

A formulation for repelling insects and arthropods comprises about 0.5% by weight to about 4.0% by weight of an active ingredient and an emulsifier. The active ingredient includes a mixture of one or more natural essential oils. A method for making the repellant formulation comprises forming an oil-in-water emulsion by mixing one or more of the natural essential oils into an aqueous solution including an emulsifier, homogenizing the oil-in-water emulsion, and adding a buffer to the emulsion for maintaining a pH of the emulsion at above about 7.5. The repellant formulation is used by applying an effective amount of the repellant formulation onto the skin or fur of a mammal, clothing or other surface.

To enable communication with a keeper by analyzing behavioral patterns and cries of a marine mammal.SOLUTION: A system includes means for analyzing behavioral patterns and cries of a marine mammal, means for trying to communicate with the marine mammal on the basis of a behavior selected by a keeper, and means for performing learning by a generation AI.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

This invention belongs to the field of traditional Chinese medicine preparation, specifically disclosing a method for preparing and using a fossil-like medicinal material. This invention uses mineralized tissues such as bones, teeth, and horns of mammals like cattle, horses, deer, and sheep as raw materials, and processes them through mineral phase transformation and isostatic pressing to produce a fossil-like medicinal material. Based on the principle of natural mineralization of biological bones, the resulting fossil-like medicinal material has the same structure as natural fossil medicinal materials. Animal experiments have verified that natural dragon bone and the fossil-like medicinal material of this invention have comparable calming and sedative effects, possessing practical application value.

An animal proof fence (1) comprising one or several panel elements (2) which are provided to extend upright to form a barrier, wherein the fence (1) comprises an upper zone (A) wherein at the height of the upper zone (A) the one or several panel elements (2) comprise a smooth unperforated surface on which reptiles, such as snakes, amphibians and small mammals cannot climb and a lower zone (B) wherein at the height of the lower zone (B) the one or several panel elements (2) comprise perforations allowing view through the fence (1).

The invention provides a marine mammal individual identification method, which belongs to the field of computer image identification, is based on a convolutional neural network model, combines an attention mechanism, multi-scale feature processing and a depth separable convolution technology, and comprises four steps of data acquisition, data enhancement, model construction and model evaluation. Through the application of the method, the facial key features of the marine mammals can be accurately captured, the parameter quantity and the calculation demand of model operation are reduced, and efficient and accurate identification of the marine mammal individuals under the background of a small data set is realized; and the marine mammal individual population identification challenges of high cost, low efficiency, unfriendliness and the like in the traditional method are solved. Therefore, the marine mammal individual identification method has good marine mammal individual identification capability, and can be widely applied to the fields of marine species investigation monitoring and protection management.

The invention relates to a grading method and an evaluation system for health levels of mammals eating transgenic crops, and belongs to the field of bioinformatics and biological big data analysis. According to the method, 26 pieces of physiological index data in 6 dimensions are screened and integrated; creating a data preprocessing module for the limited pairing array; obtaining global optimal mixed probability distribution of the physiological indexes, and determining a health interval; and establishing an algorithm for evaluating the health status of the mammal: establishing a three-level score data output structural body, establishing an input data structural body, obtaining a single physiological score value and a weight thereof, obtaining equal weight of six dimensions, and obtaining four grades of the health status. According to the invention, the limitations of selection of different models of animals, group difference, incomplete indexes, small sample size and the like in a single toxicological experiment are solved, and a health status grading algorithm and evaluation and human-computer interaction visualization system for diversified physiological indexes by integrating limited paired original experimental data obtained based on the single experiment is provided.

A ridge end cap or ridge end block tile 10 for covering the end of a ridge tile 4 comprises a cavity having an opening for outside access and providing a habitat for a mammal or bird. The opening may

The embodiment of the invention provides a marine mammal age prediction method and related equipment, and belongs to the crossing field of machine learning, acoustic signal processing and marine organism monitoring. The method comprises the following steps: collecting acoustic signals of marine mammals, preprocessing the acoustic signals, and extracting multi-dimensional spectrum features of a main frequency band, a harmonic wave band and a whistle band; evaluating feature importance by using an XGBoost algorithm and screening out a key feature subset; constructing a mathematical model based on the physiological law of the acoustic characteristics of the marine mammals along with age changes, and generating simulation data to expand a training set; constructing and training a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network model containing a regularization technology to carry out age regression prediction; and finally, updating the model through an incremental learning mechanism to adapt to new data. According to the method, non-intrusive, automatic and high-precision age estimation of marine mammals is realized, the problem of scarcity of field data is effectively solved, and the generalization ability and practical value of the model are improved.

The present invention discloses a method for identifying terrestrial mammal actions based on a spatiotemporal channel attention mechanism, and belongs to the technical field of deep learning action recognition. The present invention first sets an action recognition model, which includes a 3D backbone network for extracting spatiotemporal features of a video, a 2D backbone network for extracting spatial features of a key frame of a video, and a channel fusion module for fusing spatiotemporal features and spatial features, and its output is input into an attention mechanism module after a first convolution block, and the attention feature map output by the attention mechanism module is sent to a classification layer through a second convolution block, and the classification layer is used to perform action recognition prediction on the classification feature map, and obtain action recognition prediction results, including: terrestrial mammal action category, confidence of a prediction box, and location information of a prediction box; based on the collected training data set, the action recognition model is deep-learned and trained, and when a preset convergence condition is met, an action recognition model for a target animal is obtained; the total loss function used when the action recognition model is deep-learned and trained is a weighted sum of a prediction box regression function, a classification function, and a confidence function. Based on the existing spatiotemporal action recognition model based on deep learning, the present invention optimizes the backbone network architecture, loss function composition, etc., which to a certain extent overcomes the problems of small sample actions and difficulty in recognizing easily confused actions in the original model, enhances the model's generalization ability and the recognition accuracy of terrestrial mammals, and improves detection performance.

The invention provides an intelligent regulation and control method and system for a plateau afforestation habitat, and belongs to the technical field of ecological intelligent regulation and control. The method comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring multi-source data to construct a habitat database, and quantifying habitat demand parameters of target species; s2, calculating a comprehensive ecological function value and a species suitability index, and identifying a habitat demand conflict region; s3, designing a regulation and control scheme and pre-evaluating benefits; s4, outputting an optimal scheme through a multi-objective optimization algorithm by taking multi-species overall benefit maximization and balance degree optimization as objectives; s5, after the scheme is implemented, feedback data are obtained through a monitoring network, actual and expected benefits are compared, and when the deviation exceeds a threshold value, model parameters are corrected in a linkage mode, and closed-loop optimization is formed. According to the intelligent regulation and control method and system for the plateau afforestation habitat, habitat quality dynamic accurate diagnosis and simulation optimization decision making are achieved, a real-time feedback self-adaptive management mechanism is constructed, and the diversity of plateau animals and birds is improved.

A formulation for repelling insects and arthropods comprises about 0.5% by weight to about 4.0% by weight of an active ingredient and an emulsifier. The active ingredient includes a mixture of one or more natural essential oils. A method for making the repellant formulation comprises forming an oil-in-water emulsion by mixing one or more of the natural essential oils into an aqueous solution including an emulsifier, homogenizing the oil-in-water emulsion, and adding a buffer to the emulsion for maintaining a pH of the emulsion at above about 7.5. The repellant formulation is used by applying an effective amount of the repellant formulation onto the skin or fur of a mammal, clothing or other surface.

The utility model discloses a kind of foldable breeding cages for mammal reproduction, belong to mammal reproduction technical field, including bottom plate, and four positioning frames being set above bottom plate, the top of four The positioning frame is also provided with first guardrail, the top of the transverse plate is rotatably installed with two first guardrails and two second guardrails by hinge respectively, and the connecting place of first guardrail and second guardrail is provided with bolt, the inside of second guardrail is slidably installed with two limit blocks.The foldable breeding cage for mammal reproduction, two first guardrails and two second guardrails are rotatably installed by hinge on the top of transverse plate, when the cage wall of breeding cage needs to be folded and stored, only two first guardrails are folded and stored on the top of transverse plate by hinge flipping first, then two second guardrails are folded and stored on the top of transverse plate by flipping, cage wall can be folded and stored, operation is more convenient and time-saving, and practicality is better.

Methods for treating cancer and / or inducing tumor regression in mammals (e.g., humans) by increasing the metabolism of the mammal, administering a BA dye to the mammal, and thereafter exposing the tumor to actinic light for activation of the BA dye.

Methods, devices, kits and compositions for detecting the presence or absence of one or more tapeworm coproantigens in a sample are disclosed herein. The methods, devices, kits and compositions of the present invention may be used to confirm the presence or absence of tapeworm in a fecal sample from a mammal and may also be able to distinguish between different tapeworm species and in the presence of one or more infections with helminths (such as roundworm, hookworm, whipworm and heartworm), Giardia and parvovirus. Confirmation of the presence or absence of tapeworm in the mammal may be made, for example, for the purpose of selecting an optimal course of treating the mammal and / or for the purpose of determining whether the mammal has been rid of the infection after treatment has been initiated.

A method for determining the severity of a mammalian dive response (MDR) triggered during patient's seizure that includes the following steps: (1) collecting an ictal specimen, the ictal specimen being a saliva of any other secretion from the mouth of the patient when the patient is in a peri-ictal period; (2) analyzing the ictal specimen to measure a level of a specimen marker, the specimen marker being a cellular or non-cellular biological component; and (3) determining the severity of the MDR or other autonomic reflex based on the level of the specimen marker.

The present invention provides a method for identifying individual marine mammals, which belongs to the field of computer image recognition. The method is based on a convolutional neural network model, combined with an attention mechanism, multi-scale feature processing, and depth-separable convolution technology, and includes four steps: data acquisition, data enhancement, model construction, and model evaluation. Through the application of this method, it is possible to accurately capture the key facial features of marine mammals, reduce the number of parameters and computing requirements of model operations, and achieve efficient and accurate identification of individual marine mammals in the context of a smaller data set, thereby solving the challenges of high cost, low efficiency, and unfriendly marine mammal individual population identification in traditional methods. Therefore, the marine mammal individual identification method of the present application has good marine mammal individual identification capabilities and can be widely used in the fields of marine species survey, monitoring, and protection management.