Monkey Business Research Articles

Solusi Numerik Model Matematika SIPAS dalam Penyebaran Praktik Monkey Business dengan Metode Adams-Bashforth-Moulton

This research is applied research to determine the numerical solution for the SIPAS mathematical model for the spread of monkey business practices using the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method. The epidemic model for the spread of monkey business practices is susceptible, infected, practiced, and awareness (SIPAS). The discussion begins by determining the initial solution using the fifth order Runge-Kutta method, prediction and correction values using the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method, simulation and analysis of the results. In this research, it was found that the Adams-Bashforth- Moulton method predicts an increase in the population who know a viral business and become vulnerable(S) due to the number of residents who know a viral business and the population who are aware of the dangers of monkey business practices. Meanwhile, the population that is interested (I), practiced (P) and awareness (A), on the other hand, has decreased and disappeared completely due to a population that has stopped following a viral business and is aware of the dangers of monkey business practices. After carrying out simulations and analyzing the results, it can be seen that the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method can be used to determine the numerical solution for the SIPAS mathematical model for the spread of monkey business practices.

Elucidating discrepancies among reported wildlife trade: A response to “Is biomedical research demand driving a monkey business?” by Warne et al. (2023)

Accurate representation of international trade in live macaques is a matter of considerable conservation and public health relevance. Our response to Warne et al. (2023) describes data handling and interpretation deficits among evaluation of non-human primate trade and the treatment of international wildlife trade more generally. In contradiction to statements made by Warne and colleagues, according to US trade records, thousands of live macaques have been exported to the United States from China since 2018 and this high-risk trade in endangered species continues to warrant attention from conservation and public health perspectives. The accuracy of wildlife trade data used to influence policy decisions also warrants greater scrutiny by researchers and decision-makers applying their results.

Is biomedical research demand driving a monkey business?

For decades, animal models such as the macaque have been used in the advancement of human medicine and therefore have been subject to extensive trade globally. The sustained need of macaques for research necessitates assessment of the international trade and whether appropriate regulations are in place to safeguard animal welfare, public health and scientific integrity. In this study, we investigated the trade in live macaques (Macaca fascicularis) for commercial, scientific and medical purposes reported through the CITES Trade Database between 2000 and 2020 from selected countries. Discrepancies were evident in the data collected, particularly associated with the quantities of live animals reported by the exporting and importing countries. Of particular interest were the trade discrepancies reported between 2019 and 2020, wherein Cambodia significantly increased their exports of macaques whilst China, traditionally one of the largest suppliers of macaques, ceased all exports. Concurrently there were notable inconsistencies between the macaque trade permitted for export to the United States and the import quantity reported. Such findings suggest that the macaque trade requires more stringent monitoring in order to minimise potential illegal wildlife trade activity and reduce the risk of zoonoses or pathogen spill-over events. Therefore, increased regulation on a global scale is required to ensure that the supply of macaques is legitimate, supports quality research and does not provide an opportunity for future disease outbreaks to occur.

Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) Case 2023-03: Anesthesia Monkey Business

Anesthesia Incident Reporting System (AIRS) Case 2023-03: Anesthesia Monkey Business

Monkey Business – Host Viral Load and Vector Infection Reveals Heterogeneity of Dengue Type 2 and Zika Virus Transmission in Native and Novel Non-Human Primate Hosts

Monkey Business – Host Viral Load and Vector Infection Reveals Heterogeneity of Dengue Type 2 and Zika Virus Transmission in Native and Novel Non-Human Primate Hosts

Copyright and Art’s Monkey Business: How Andy Warhol Found. v. Goldsmith Could Reshape Fair Use and NFTs

Copyright and Art’s Monkey Business: How Andy Warhol Found. v. Goldsmith Could Reshape Fair Use and NFTs

Monkey Business: Reinforcement learning meets neighborhood search for Virtual Network Embedding

In this article, we consider the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem for 5G networks slicing. This problem requires to allocate multiple Virtual Networks (VN) on a substrate virtualized physical network while maximizing among others, resource utilization, maximum number of placed VNs and network operator’s benefit. We solve the online version of the problem where slices arrive over time. Inspired by the Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (NRPA) algorithm, a variant of the well known Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) that learns how to perform good simulations over time, we propose a new algorithm that we call Neighborhood Enhanced Policy Adaptation (NEPA). The key feature of our algorithm is to observe NRPA cannot exploit knowledge acquired in one branch of the state tree for another one which starts differently. NEPA learns by combining NRPA with Neighborhood Search in a frugal manner which improves only promising solutions while keeping the running time low. We call this technique a monkey business because it comes down to jumping from one interesting branch to the other, similar to how monkeys jump from tree to tree instead of going down everytime. NEPA achieves better results in terms of acceptance ratio and revenue-to-cost ratio compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms, both on real and synthetic topologies.

Monkey business: A girl's once strange dream.

For close to 50 years, my research has focused on social relationships and social structure, particularly in macaques, and has been marked by a gradual broadening of scope. Supported by open-minded parents, I followed a once unconventional path into field primatology largely by ignoring distinct gender-based ideas about appropriate occupations for women that were prevalent when I was a child. Later, as Robert Hinde’s PhD advisee, I benefited enormously from his mentoring and from the transformative experience he provided. I began by examining infant social development in free-ranging rhesus monkeys and the integration of infants into the kinship and dominance structures of their groups. I gradually branched out to look at (1) kinship and dominance in additional age classes and macaque species, (2) additional aspects of social structure (reciprocity, agonistic support, tolerance, cooperation, conflict management), (3) mechanisms and organizing principles (e.g., attraction to kin and high rank, intergenerational transmission, demography, reciprocity, social style, time constraints) and (4) evolutionary underpinnings of social relationships and structure (e.g., parental investment, kin selection, socioecology, phylogeny, biological markets). For much of this journey, I have been accompanied by talented PhD students who have enriched my experience and whom I am now proud to call colleagues and friends. It is gratifying to realize that my career choice is no longer considered as unconventional as it once was.

Monkey Business in a Kangaroo Court: Reimagining Naruto v. Slater as a Litigious Event

Abstract This essay performs a critical rhetorical analysis of out-of-court texts pertaining to Naruto v. Slater, colloquially known as the “Monkey Selfie Lawsuit.” By veering from a legal positivist perspective on law and turning toward theories of the public screen, it argues that while People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) formally lost its case on appeal, it successfully litigated their case in the court of public opinion. It further offers the concept of the “litigious event”—a staged lawsuit designed for mass media dissemination—to explain my perspective. By latching onto the already-viral monkey selfies at the center of the copyright dispute, PETA took advantage of the public screen by bringing a private, logocentric civil suit into a public, image-based digital sphere. Increased coverage of the case allowed PETA's legal team to harness the power of digital media to disseminate important arguments about legal rights for animals. Naruto v. Slater functioned as a trial for media, as a strategic lawsuit for public participation—in other words, as a strategically sound and rhetorically powerful litigious event.

Making sense of monkey business: Re-examining tests of animal rationality

This paper re-examines research that studies economic rationality using experimental data generated by nonhuman animals (e.g. rats, pigeons, monkeys, etc.). The standard experimental methodology to elicit choices from nonhuman animals allows a researcher to test three types of economic rationality: standard deterministic utility maximization, average choice rationality, and random utility maximization. Most of the research has evaluated whether animals satisfy average choice rationality. We describe the difference between these models and check each type of rationality on capuchin monkey data from Chen et al.(2006). We reject standard deterministic utility maximization and random utility maximization for most subjects, but we cannot reject average choice rationality. This paper is the first to provide a statistical test for average choice rationality.

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Monkey Business: Reinforcement Learning Meets Neighborhood Search for Virtual Network Embedding}

Monkey Business Practices on The Selling of “Janda Bolong” Plants in Indonesia: A Review of Islamic Economic Philosophy

<p>The sale and purchase of the “Janda Bolong” plant which was busy in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic at a very fantastic price, which was then suspected to contain monkey business practices. So this study aims to describe a review of the Islamic economic philosophy of monkey business practices in the “Janda Bolong” plants sale and purchase transaction. The research method used is a qualitative research method with the type of library research using a deductive approach. The results of this study indicate that the practice of buying and selling that occurs in the object of the plant “Janda Bolong” is a type of monkey business with objects that are not commonly practiced. The “Janda Bolong” plant sale and purchase transaction contains a <em>fasid</em> (damaged) contract, where the contract is in accordance with the Sharia but in the nature of the contract there is a problem. The price formation process that occurs in it is also unfair, so it is not in accordance with Islamic law. In Islamic economic philosophy, the practice of monkey business in buying and selling the “Janda Bolong” plant is not allowed. Because it denotes the essence of the creation of humans on earth, namely as a caliphate by processing the available resources in order to achieve happiness in this world and the hereafter.</p>

Character: Three Inquiries in Literary StudiesCharacter as Form

Character: Three Inquiries in Literary StudiesCharacter as Form

Visual Perception: How Better Imaging Can Make Things Worse

Summary Visual search is critical to daily life and to socially important tasks — from cancer screening to airport security. New research shows how a technological advancement can interact with the human visual system to improve search for one type of target while making matters worse for another. Part of the problem is that we are surprisingly bad at knowing where we have looked.

Reconstructing the Brain’s Wiring Diagram Is No Monkey Business

Reconstructing the Brain’s Wiring Diagram Is No Monkey Business

Monkey business 2: hirsute hoodlums

Monkey business 2: hirsute hoodlums

Lies, Damned Lies, and … GCSE Results

Credit: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com.YOU WERE PROBABLY EXPECTING to read ‘statistics’ in the title, and you are probably thinking ‘Oh no! Not that old chestnut again!’. But if you are st...

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Case T-548/17 VF International Sagl v EUIPO—Virmani (ANOKHI) ECLI:EU:T:2018:686, General Court of the European Union, judgment of 16 October 2018 The General Court has annulled a decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, rejecting VF International’s opposition based on its earlier ‘Kipling’ figurative marks to an EU trade mark application by Mr Ken Virmani for a figurative mark featuring the word element ‘ANOKHI’ applied for in respect of a variety of goods and services including bags in Class 18 of the Nice Classification. In 2014, Mr Ken Virmani filed an EU trade mark application for the following figurative sign: The application covered a variety of goods in Classes 9, 14, 18 and 25, including jewellery in Class 14, bags in Class 18 and clothes in Class 25. VF International opposed the application under Articles 8(1)(b) and 8(5) of Regulation 207/2009 (now Regulation (EU) 2017/1001—EU Trade Mark (EUTM) Regulation). VF International relied on its two earlier EU trade marks depicted below, both covering a variety of goods and services in Classes 9, 14, 16, 18, 24 and 25, including jewellery in Class 14, bags in Class 18 and clothing in Class 25.

Monkey business: Collaborating to grow an ecological physiology of primates.

The lab and field provide differing approaches to studying primate biology. We outline the challenges and benefits of these approaches and demonstrate how collaboration can help bridge these perspectives to provide complementary insight into primate adaptive pathways. With this aim, our collaboration has made tangible insights into the ecological physiology of several primate species, and also yielded more subtle, intangible professional benefits.

Much (Much) More than Monkey Business

Much (Much) More than Monkey Business