48 results about "Mammal" patented technology

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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, 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.

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.

The invention discloses a plateau animal information attracting device and a control method thereof.The plateau animal information attracting device comprises a device bottom plate, a protective lifting assembly used for adjusting the attracting height is arranged at the upper end of the device bottom plate, a pressure-bearing bottom plate is fixedly installed at the upper end of the protective lifting assembly, and a protective side plate is fixedly installed at the upper end of the pressure-bearing bottom plate; a transverse adjusting assembly used for transversely adjusting the attracting position is arranged at the side end of the protective side plate, an attracting box used for diffusing the smell of the liquid attracting agent is arranged at the side end of the transverse adjusting assembly, and a controller is fixedly installed on one side of the upper end of the device bottom plate. A liquid medicament storage box is fixedly mounted at the top end in the attracting box body, a liquid outlet pipeline is fixedly mounted at the lower end of the liquid medicament storage box, and a liquid smell diffusion frame is fixedly mounted at the bottom end in the attracting box body. The device has the advantage of adjustably and efficiently releasing the attracting smell, and the attracting efficiency of the device is remarkably improved.

A method of examining for cancer in a non-primate mammal such as a pet animal may include, for example, a method of examining or diagnosing for cancer in a non-primate mammal, including evaluating taxic behavior of nematodes toward a urine sample from a subject mammal.

The present application relates to the technical field of biodiversity protection and ecological modeling, and particularly relates to a method and system for predicting hot spot distribution of large and medium-sized protected mammal diversity. According to the mammal diversity data obtained in the target area, spatio-temporal matching and standardization processing are performed to construct a comprehensive data set. By setting a variance inflation factor and through expert scoring method, core feature variables are selected from the comprehensive data set. Based on random forest and MaxEnt model as the basic prediction layer, the core feature variables are predicted, and the outputs of the random forest and MaxEnt model are respectively introduced into the meta learner model to obtain the initial distribution probability of each species. Habitat connectivity index and time series dynamic factor are constructed to generate a species diversity distribution matrix. A hot spot analysis algorithm is used to identify and output the hot spot area of each species. Through integration of multi-source data and dynamic correction mechanism, the accuracy and timeliness of the hot spot prediction are improved.

To realize more suitable sampling by reducing differences in sampling time among individuals for exhalation samples of multiple animal individuals.SOLUTION: A sampling method for individually sampling exhaled-gas of multiple mammalian individuals using a plurality of sampling sections that samples exhaled-gas of mammals comprises a switching process of switching the sampling sections that sample the exhaled-gas, and a detection process of detecting presence or absence of a mammal at the sampling sections. In the detection process, presence of a mammal at the sampling section is detected in association with individual information of the mammal. In the switching process, the sampling section that samples the exhaled-gas is selected such that a difference in cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas among the mammalian individuals becomes small, on the basis of the cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas for each mammalian individual within a predetermined period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The invention discloses a fixing device for wild mammal monitoring and a laying method.The fixing device comprises an angle-adjustable supporting rod, a universal joint, a mounting table and an infrared camera, the mounting table is connected to the angle-adjustable supporting rod, the universal joint is mounted on the surface of the mounting table, and the infrared camera is detachably mounted above the universal joint; the universal joint is used for adjusting the installation angle of the infrared camera.

The application discloses a method for evaluating metabolic toxicity of pollutants on mammals, which comprises: feeding mammals in an exposure group and mammals in a control group respectively, the mammals in the exposure group are pre-administered with pollutants, and the mammals in the control group are not administered with the pollutants; obtaining tissue sections at the same position of the mammals in the exposure group and the control group respectively after the feeding; performing MALDI-TOF / TOF mass spectrum imaging analysis on the tissue sections to obtain tissue section mass spectrum imaging maps; screening characteristic differential substances between the exposure group and the control group according to the mass spectrum imaging maps; and performing metabolic pathway enrichment analysis on the characteristic differential substances. The method has the advantages of high throughput, high sensitivity and in-situ analysis, and provides a new technical means for evaluating health risks of emerging pollutants.

To realize more suitable sampling by reducing differences in sampling time among individuals for exhalation samples of multiple animal individuals.SOLUTION: A sampling device (1) that individually samples exhaled-gas of multiple mammalian individuals comprises a plurality of sampling sections (11) that samples exhaled-gas of mammals, a switching section (12) that switches the sampling sections for sampling the exhaled-gas, and a detection section (13) that detects presence or absence of a mammal at the sampling sections. The detection section detects the presence of a mammal at the sampling section in association with individual information of the mammal. The switching section selects the sampling section that samples the exhaled-gas such that a difference in cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas among the mammalian individuals becomes small, on the basis of the cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas for each mammalian individual within a predetermined period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To realize more suitable sampling by reducing differences in sampling time among individuals for exhalation samples of multiple animal individuals.SOLUTION: A computer executes a sampling method that individually samples exhaled-gas of multiple mammalian individuals using a plurality of sampling sections that samples exhaled-gas of mammals and includes a switching process of switching the sampling sections that sample the exhaled-gas, and a detection process of detecting presence or absence of a mammal at the sampling sections. In the detection process, presence of a mammal at the sampling section is detected in association with individual information of the mammal. In the switching process, the sampling section that samples the exhaled-gas is selected such that a difference in cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas among the mammalian individuals becomes small, on the basis of the cumulative sampling time of the exhaled-gas for each mammalian individual within a predetermined period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The present invention relates to a method of improving a reproductive potential of a male mammal using an ultra-weak photon. The ultra-weak photon according to the present invention is in a visible light spectrum but is transmitted as weak light that is not visually recognized so that the ultra-weak photon does not provoke stress and can be irradiated safely for a long time, thereby improving the reproductive potential of male mammals. Unlike an existing material feeding method of improving a reproductive potential, in which a material is supplied wastefully and environmental pollution problems are caused due to tolerance and misuse, the present invention relates to a useful alternative technology that can be used for a long time and ensure the sustainability of livestock industries.

The utility model belongs to the field of animal feeding, and particularly relates to small and medium-sized animal feeding decontamination equipment which comprises a bottom plate, dirt discharge grooves are formed in the front side and the rear side of the bottom plate respectively, a fence is fixedly connected to the side edge of the top of the bottom plate, and a top plate is fixedly installed at the top of the fence. The decontamination assembly is arranged on the bottom plate and used for cleaning excrement on the bottom plate; the dirt removing assembly comprises a scraping plate, the scraping plate is arranged in the middle of the upper end face of the bottom plate, a first rotating disc and a second rotating disc are arranged on the two sides of the top of the top plate correspondingly, the first rotating disc and the second rotating disc are meshed, and a double-head motor is installed between the first rotating discs on the two sides; the scraper is driven by the double-end motor, the first rotary disc, the second rotary disc, the first rope winding wheel, the second rope winding wheel, the first pull rope, the second pull rope and the like to reciprocate, so that excrement on the bottom plate is comprehensively cleaned, and bacteria are prevented from breeding, and the health of animals is prevented from being affected.

The invention belongs to the field of preparation of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and particularly discloses an imitated fossil medicinal material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. Mineralized tissues such as bones, teeth, horn bones and the like of mammals such as cattle, horses, deer, sheep and the like are used as raw materials, and imitated fossil medicinal materials are prepared through mineral phase transformation and isostatic pressing densification process processing. Based on the principle of natural mineralization of biological bones, the obtained imitated fossil medicinal materials are the same as natural fossil medicinal materials in structure, animal experiments verify that the natural fossil medicinal materials and the imitated fossil medicinal materials have the equivalent effects of relieving convulsion and soothing the nerves, and the actual popularization and application value is achieved.

A method for in-vivo monitoring of a target internal volume of a mammal that includes: (a) placing the target internal volume proximal to a three-dimensional magnetic field generator; (b) generating first, second, and third magnetic field gradients along respective first, second, and third axes that are mutually orthogonal; (c) measuring first, second, and third magnetic fields with a three-dimensional magnetic sensor disposed in an ingestible capsule, the ingestible capsule disposed in the target internal volume; (d) with a controller in electrical communication with the three-dimensional magnetic sensor, generating a magnetic sensor output signal that encodes a measurement of the first, second, and third magnetic fields; (e) broadcasting the magnetic sensor output signal from an antenna disposed in the ingestible capsule, and (f) receiving the magnetic sensor output signal with a receiver. The received magnetic field data can be used to determine the three-dimensional position of the ingestible capsule.

To provide a device, process and program for simulating physiological behavior of a mammal using a virtual mammal.SOLUTION: The device including a mobile head and mobile eyes comprises: a visual stream for successive data representative of eye poses; instructions for mobility action instructions; a memory for storing information on an environment and on stabilization constraints; and a processor assessing and recording a current part of the environment, triggering successive movements of the head and of the eyes according to a function of the mobility action, the successive data and the information on the environment, and controlling the successive movements of the eyes with respect to the successive movements of the head by using the stabilization constraints according to a function of the successive data. The device further comprises an input for training movement sequence data representative of a training movement sequence of the head and the eyes associated with a training environment. The processor learns the stabilization constraints by triggering, in the training environment, the successive movements of the head corresponding to the training movement sequence, and assessing and recording a current part of the training environment from the sequence data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

This invention belongs to the field of ecological environment construction technology, specifically disclosing a method and system for constructing mammal ecological corridors in urban green space systems. The method includes: planning a corridor base containing peak paths and buffer chambers based on multi-source spatiotemporal data, and configuring functional vegetation; using phenologically matched trigger plants to attract animals along peak paths, and using responder vegetation in buffer chambers to respond to environmental disturbances and increase density to form dynamic barriers. Simultaneously, an adaptive operation system composed of a sensor network, edge computing nodes, and a cloud platform is deployed: edge nodes perceive animal wandering behavior in real time and drive audio-visual devices for flexible guidance; the cloud platform analyzes long-term performance data and automatically generates and executes adaptive management schemes for the corridor. This invention achieves real-time proactive guidance of animal behavior and adaptive management of environmental changes in the corridor, improving the actual effectiveness and intelligent management level of the ecological corridor.

Methods and systems are described for management of animals exhibiting estrus related behaviour by processing one or more images captured by one or more imaging devices using one or more AI models for detecting and locating two animals with a pair of overlapping bounding boxes in a given image of the one or more images; determining if a current state of a first animal of the two detected animals matches a mounting state or a chin-resting state and when the first animal is in the mounting state or the chin-resting state identifying a second animal of the two detected animals as being mounted by or receiving the chin of the first animal which is indicative that the second animal is in an estrus state; and generating a notification when the second animal is in the estrus state or the first animal is in the mounting or chin-resting state.