Wild Geese Research Articles

Multi-dimensional Soundscape Interaction Design at Xi’an Small Wild Goose Pagoda

Based on the analysis of the soundscape at Small Wild Goose Pagoda (also Xiao Yanta, according to its Chinese pronunciation) from the perspective of “audience-sound-environment”, this article explores the audience’s perception information of the “Yanta Morning Bell”, the symbolic soundscape of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda. To probe audience’s way of acquiring the perception information of the pagoda and the mode of constructing cultural contacts, this article starts with the uniqueness of the soundscape at the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, incorporating visual, hearing, touch and other interactive forms. By immersive experience, audiences can receive cultural information and enrich their cultural knowledge. This study hopes to provide new ideas for the multi-dimensional soundscape interaction design at Small Wild Goose Pagoda.

Wild goose chase – no predictable patient subgroups benefit from meniscal surgery: patient-reported outcomes of 641 patients 1 year after surgery

BackgroundDespite absence of evidence of a clinical benefit of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM), many surgeons claim that subgroups of patients benefit from APM.ObjectiveWe developed a prognostic model predicting change in...

Effectiveness of lasers to reduce goose grazing on agricultural grassland

In recent decades, wild goose populations have grown considerably. Geese forage extensively in agricultural fields leading to frequent conflicts with agricultural stakeholders and calls for effective methods to reduce economic impacts. In this study, we explored the use of handheld lasers to displace grazing barnacle geese Branta leucopsis and dark-bellied brent geese Branta bernicla from farmland pastures on the Wadden Sea island Mando in Denmark. We evaluate the efficiency of the laser to displace geese, the resultant impact on goose usage and the derived effect on pasture vegetation height. The laser was effective in displacing geese from pastures, but range and efficiency were affected by time of day, light conditions, distance and flock size. Fields subject to laser treatments experienced seven times lower dropping densities and had a mean vegetation height that was 3.3 cm taller than control fields where geese were not exposed to lasers. While the use of laser reduced goose exploitation of experimental fields, a simple cost-benefit analysis revealed that the personnel-hours needed to find geese and operate the laser carried economic costs outweighing the potential economic benefits. We discuss the potential in displacing geese with lasers, and suggest conditions when the method may be a suitable way to reduce goose damages locally.

The Emergence of Avian Orthoavulavirus 13 in Wild Migratory Waterfowl in China Revealed the Existence of Diversified Trailer Region Sequences and HN Gene Lengths within this Serotype.

Avian orthoavulavirus 13 (AOAV-13), also named avian paramyxovirus 13 (APMV-13), has been found sporadically in wild birds around the world ever since the discovery of AOAV-13 (AOAV-13/wild goose/Shimane/67/2000) in a wild goose from Japan in 2000. However, there are no reports of AOAV-13 in China. In the present study, a novel AOAV-13 virus (AOAV-13/wild goose/China/Hubei/V93-1/2015), isolated from a wild migratory waterfowl in a wetland of Hubei province of China, during active surveillance from 2013 to 2018, was biologically and genetically characterized. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated a very close genetic relationship among all AOAV-13 strains, as revealed by very few genetic variations. Moreover, pathogenicity tests indicated that the V93-1 strain is a low virulent virus for chickens. However, the genome of the V93-1 virus was found to be 16,158 nucleotides (nt) in length, which is 12 nt or 162 nt longer than the other AOAV-13 strains that have been reported to date. The length difference of 12 nt in strain V93-1 is due to the existence of three repeats of the conserved sequence, “AAAAAT”, in the 5′-end trailer of the genome. Moreover, the HN gene of the V93-1 virus is 2070 nt in size, encoding 610 aa, which is the same size as the AOAV-13 strain from Japan, whereas that of two strains from Ukraine and Kazakhstan are 2080 nt in length, encoding 579 aa. We describe a novel AOAV-13 in migratory waterfowl in China, which suggests that diversified trailer region sequences and HN gene lengths exist within serotype AOAV-13, and highlight the need for its constant surveillance in poultry from live animal markets, and especially migratory birds.

Virtual Restoration of Stained Chinese Paintings Using Patch-Based Color Constrained Poisson Editing with Selected Hyperspectral Feature Bands

Stains, as one of most common degradations of paper cultural relics, not only affect paintings’ appearance, but sometimes even cover the text, patterns, and colors contained in the relics. Virtual restorations based on common red–green–blue images (RGB) which remove the degradations and then fill the lacuna regions with the image’s known parts with the inpainting technology could produce a visually plausible result. However, due to the lack of information inside the degradations, they always yield inconsistent structures when stains cover several color materials. To effectively remove the stains and restore the covered original contents of Chinese paintings, a novel method based on Poisson editing is proposed by exploiting the information inside the degradations of selected three feature bands as the auxiliary information to guide the restoration since the selected feature bands captured fewer stains and could expose the covered information. To make the Poisson editing suitable for stain removal, the feature bands were also exploited to search for the optimal patch for the pixels in the stain region, and the searched patch was used to construct the color constraint on the original Poisson editing to ensure the restoration of the original color of paintings. Specifically, this method mainly consists of two steps: feature band selection from hyperspectral data by establishing rules and reconstruction of stain contaminated regions of RGB image with color constrained Poisson editing. Four Chinese paintings (‘Fishing’, ‘Crane and Banana’, ‘the Hui Nationality Painting’, and ‘Lotus Pond and Wild Goose’) with different color materials were used to test the performance of the proposed method. Visual results show that this method can effectively remove or dilute the stains while restoring a painting’s original colors. By comparing values of restored pixels with nonstained pixels (reference of their same color materials), images processed by the proposed method had the lowest average root mean square error (RMSE), normalized absolute error (NAE), and average differences (AD), which indicates that it is an effective method to restore the stains of Chinese paintings.

"좋은 삶을 위하여: 「기러기의 꿈」의 탈북 서사와 행복의 이데올로기"

"좋은 삶을 위하여: 「기러기의 꿈」의 탈북 서사와 행복의 이데올로기"

Spatio–temporal distribution of greylag goose Anser anser resightings on the north-west/south-west European flyway: guidance for the delineation of transboundary management units

In western Europe, the majority of wild goose populations have increased exponentially over the last decades. Such increase is the source of many socio–ecological conflicts. The need for coordinated management actions to handle the goose-related conflicts at the European scale has led to the establishment of a specific European Goose Management Platform (EGMP) under the auspices of the Agreement on the Conservation of African–Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). The northwest/south-west (NW/SW) European population of greylag goose Anser anser has been considered as a priority concern, and an AEWA international single species management plan has been recently adopted. Because of the complex structure of the greylag goose population (e.g. spatial differences in migration strategies), and management (e.g. different hunting schemes among the range states), delineation of management units (MUs) based on goose movement characteristics was deemed necessary to further implement effective management actions. Based on neckband marking in various breeding regions and subsequent resighting locations, we conducted spatio–temporal analysis based on kernel methods to infer spatio–temporal and migratory movements of greylag geese in the NW/SW European flyway. The results highlight the existence of contrasted migratory behaviour, dispersal patterns and phenology within the flyway. From these results three international management units could be delineated. The first MU would include migratory birds from Norway. Birds from breeding grounds in Sweden and Denmark would represent the second MU. Finally, a third central MU was delineated, including primarily breeding birds from the Netherlands and northwestern Germany, which do not show migratory behaviour at the flyway scale. The delineation of these MUs has to be considered within an adaptive process, and future studies will enable a refinement of the definition of such units in order to continuously improve the efficiency of management plans.

Transcriptomic analysis between Normal and high-intake feeding geese provides insight into adipose deposition and susceptibility to fatty liver in migratory birds

BackgroundDysregulation of adipogenesis causes metabolic diseases, like obesity and fatty liver. Migratory birds such as geese have a high tolerance of massive energy intake and exhibit little pathological development. Domesticated goose breeds, derivatives of the wild greyleg goose (Anser anser) or swan goose (Anser cygnoides), have high tolerance of energy intake resembling their ancestor species. Thus, goose is potentially a model species to study mechanisms associated with adipogenesis.ResultsPhenotypically, goose liver exhibited higher fat accumulation than adipose tissues during fattening (liver increased by 3.35 fold than 1.65 fold in adipose), showing a priority of fat accumulation in liver. We found the number of differentially expressed genes in liver (13.97%) was nearly twice the number of that in adipose (6.60%). These differentially expressed genes in liver function in several important lipid metabolism pathways, immune response, regulation of cancer, while in adipose, terms closely related to protein binding, gluconeogenesis were enriched. Typically, genes like MDH2 and SCD, which have key roles in glycolysis and fatty acids metabolism, had higher fold change in liver than in adipose tissues. Three hundred two differentially expressed long noncoding RNAs involved in regulation of metabolism in liver were also identified. For example, lncRNA XLOC_292762, which was 5.7 kb downstream of FERMT2, a gene involved phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate binding, was significantly down-regulated after the high-intake feeding period. Further investigation of documented obesity-related orthologous genes in goose suggested that understanding the evolutionary split from mammals in adipogenesis will make goose fatty liver a better resource for future research.ConclusionsOur research reveals that goose uses liver as the major tissue to regulate a distinct lipid synthesis and degradation flux and the dynamic expression network analyses showed numerous layers of positive responses to both massive energy intake and possible pathological development. Our results offer insights into goose adipogenesis and provide a new perspective for research in human metabolic dysregulation.

‘I am still close to my child’: middle-class Korean wild geese fathers’ responsible and intimate fatherhood in a transnational context

ABSTRACT This paper employs responsible fathering as a theoretical framework and explores the transnational fathering practices of wild geese fathers – middle-class Korean fathers who remained alone in their home country while sending their wives and children abroad for their children's education. Based on in-depth interviews with 64 wild geese parents in the United States, Canada, and South Korea, it analyses how wild geese fathers strived to fulfil components of responsible fathering – providing economic support and emotional/physical care for children – in the transnational context by utilising three tools of transnational fathering: remittances, transnational communication, and face-to-face encounters. It revisits the one-dimensional and economically-oriented portrait of transnational fatherhood by documenting wild geese fathers who actively renegotiated the gendered boundary of parenting and practiced more affectionate, expressive, and involved fatherhood from a distance. It highlights the significance of social class, legal status and technology as critical resources of transnational father-child intimacy. In sum, its analysis of middle-class Asian transnational fathering contributes to better understanding the growing diversity of transnational fatherhood.

WONDERFUL JOURNEY

When I was a child, my favorite book was Wonderful Journey by Selma Lagerlof in Hungarian translation. The story is about a boy who is turned into a Tom Thumb for bad behavior. He joins a flock of wild geese and travels with them on the back of a goose on a series of adventures through towns and forests, even under the sea to an “Atlantis.” He speaks the language of the animals and learns good behavior. As a reward, after a year, he is transformed back into a regular boy and goes home. He looks up wonderingly at the flock of geese going on another adventure but can no longer understand the language of animals. He is sad. At this point, I always cried. (I did not know that the story, written in 1907, took place in Sweden and was a geography lesson of Sweden, specifically. It is available now in English as the Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Selma Lagerlof received the Nobel Prize.)

We The People: Portraits of Resistance and America Reconstructed

We The People: Portraits of Resistance and America ReconstructedDonna BassinDonna Bassin84 Haller Dr., Cedar Grove, NJ 07009. E-mail: [email protected]Donna Bassin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and published author, filmmaker, and fine art photographer. She is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and in private practice in New York City. She has directed and produced two award-winning documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:December 2018https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2018.105.6.709PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations AboutREFERENCESBassin D. (2017). The art(s) of witness: Through the camera and the psychoanalytic situation. In Hagman G. (Ed.), Art, creativity and psychoanalysis: Perspectives from analyst-artists (pp. 165–181). New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Google ScholarBenjamin J. (2018). Beyond doer and done to: Recognition theory, intersubjectivity and the third. New York: Routledge. Google ScholarBion W. (1988). Notes on memory and desire. In Spillius E. B. (Ed.), Melanie Klein today: Developments in theory and practice, Vol. 2, Mainly practice (pp. 17–21). Florence, KY: Taylor & Frances/Routledge. (Original work published 1967) Google ScholarButler J. (2009). Frames of war: When is life grievable? New York: Verso. Google ScholarCole T. (2018, August 23). There's less to portraits than meets the eye, and more. New York Times Mag. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/magazine/theres-less-to-portraits-than-meets-the-eye-and-more.html Google Scholarhooks, b. (2000). All about love: New visions. New York: Harper Perennial. Google ScholarMaltz-Leca L. (2013). Process/procession: William Kentridge and the process of change. Art Bull., 95:139–165. Google ScholarMirlesse S. (2012, March 22). Light, looking: Uta Barth. BOMB. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/light-looking-uta-barth/ Google ScholarMitchell S. A. (2000). Relationality: From attachment to intersubjectivity. New York: Analytic Press. Google ScholarMorrison T. (2015, March 23). No place for self-pity, no room for fear. Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/ Google ScholarPizer B. (2008). Passion, responsibility, and “wild geese”: Creating a context for the absence of conscious intentions. Psychoanal. Dialog., 15:57–84. Crossref, Google ScholarSegal H. (1997). Silence is the real crime. In Psychoanalysis, literature, and war: Papers, 1972–1995 (pp. 143–156). London: Routledge. (Original work published 1987) Google ScholarSolnit R. (2014). The faraway nearby, New York: Penguin Books. Google ScholarWhite M. (1960). Aperture, 8(4). Google ScholarWhite M. (1963). Equivalence: The perennial trend. PSA J., 29:17–21. Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 105Issue 6Dec 2018 Information© 2018 N.P.A.P.PDF download

Flight feather moult drives minimum daily heart rate in wild geese.

Waterfowl undergo an annual simultaneous flight-feather moult that renders them flightless for the duration of the regrowth of the flight feathers. In the wild, this period of flightlessness could restrict the capacity of moulting birds to forage and escape predation. Selection might therefore favour a short moult, but feather growth is constrained and presumably energetically demanding. We therefore tested the hypothesis that for birds that undergo a simultaneous flight-feather moult, this would be the period in the annual cycle with the highest minimum daily heart rates, reflecting these increased energetic demands. Implantable heart rate data loggers were used to record year-round heart rate in six wild barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis), a species that undergoes a simultaneous flight-feather moult. The mean minimum daily heart rate was calculated for each individual bird over an 11-month period, and the annual cycle was divided into seasons based on the life-history of the birds. Mean minimum daily heart rate varied significantly between seasons and was significantly elevated during wing moult, to 200 ± 32 beats min-1, compared to all other seasons of the annual cycle, including both the spring and autumn migrations. The increase in minimum daily heart rate during moult is likely due to feather synthesis, thermoregulation and the reallocation of minerals and protein.

Experiment and Simulation Study on Vibration Control of an Ancient Pagoda with Damping Devices

In order to choose an effective method for improving the seismic performance of an ancient pagoda called the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, 12 damping devices of varying properties are developed. They are made of shape memory alloy-suspension pendulum damping systems (SMA-SPDSs) based on the restoring force of the SMA wires. By means of the shaking table test, the frequency, equivalent damping and equivalent damping force of the SMA-SPDS are analyzed first to acquire their respective trend of influence. Then, four shock absorption plans (one without SMA-SPDS) are analyzed numerically, and the frequency, displacement and acceleration amplitude, inter-story displacement angle and inter-story shear force calculated are compared with those of the experiment. The results show that the shock absorption rate of Plan 3 is better than all the others, and the simulation results are in agreement with the corresponding experimental results, which also prove that the simulation presented in this paper is feasible, which can be used to verify the rationality and applicability of the device (SMA-SPDS). Therefore, it provides a theoretical means for conducting the strengthening and repairing work of the pagoda concerned.

Over a Thousand Years of Evolutionary History of Domestic Geese from Russian Archaeological Sites, Analysed Using Ancient DNA.

The European domestic goose is a widely farmed species known to have descended from the wild greylag goose (Anser anser). However, the evolutionary history of this domesticate is still poorly known. Ancient DNA studies have been useful for many species, but there has been little such work on geese. We have studied temporal genetic variation among domestic goose specimens excavated from Russian archaeological sites (4th–18th centuries) using a 204 base pair fragment of the mitochondrial control region. Specimens fell into three different genetic clades: the domestic D-haplogroup, the F-haplogroup that includes both wild and domestic geese, and a clade comprising another species, the taiga bean goose. Most of the subfossil geese carried typical domestic D-haplotypes. The domestication status of the geese carrying F-haplotypes is less certain, as the haplotypes identified were not present among modern domestic geese and could represent wild geese (misclassified as domestics), introgression from wild geese, or local domestication events. The bones of taiga bean goose were most probably misidentified as domestic goose but the domestication of bean goose or hybridization with domestic goose is also possible. Samples from the 4th to 10th century were clearly differentiated from the later time periods due to a haplotype that was found only in this early period, but otherwise no temporal or geographical variation in haplotype frequencies was apparent.

Geese for slaughter and wild geese as a source of selected mineral elements in a diet

Geese for slaughter and wild geese as a source of selected mineral elements in a diet

Green Consumers or Green Wild Goose Chase: Market Demand As a Determinant of Eco-Innovation in the Purchase of Refrigerators

This paper examined the determinants of eco-innovation from an evolutionary economics perspective. The focus was on consumer demand (pull) as a determinant of eco-innovation in the sale of consumer appliances (refrigerators). The research also addressed the effect of life cycle costing (LCC) and eco-labels on consumer demand for refrigerators. A mixed methodology approach combining quantitative analysis of web site sales was combined with qualitative content analysis of refrigerator product descriptions. The Energy Star eco-label and other environmental claims made in product descriptions were found to drive consumer demand for refrigerators. The research also found that consumers exhibited the willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for energy efficient and eco-innovative products when purchasing refrigerators from the Home Depot web site.

Recombinant Goose Circoviruses Circulating in Domesticated and Wild Geese in Poland.

Circoviruses are circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses that infect a variety of animals, both domestic and wild. Circovirus infection in birds is associated with immunosuppression and this in turn predisposes the infected animals to secondary infections that can lead to mortality. Farmed geese (Anser anser) in many parts of the world are infected with circoviruses. The majority of the current genomic information for goose circoviruses (GoCVs) (n = 40) are from birds sampled in China and Taiwan, and only two genome sequences are available from Europe (Germany and Poland). In this study, we sampled 23 wild and 19 domestic geese from the Gopło Lake area in Poland. We determined the genomes of GoCV from 21 geese; 14 domestic Greylag geese (Anser anser), three wild Greylag geese (A. anser), three bean geese (A. fabalis), and one white fronted goose (A. albifrons). These genomes share 83–95% nucleotide pairwise identities with previously identified GoCV genomes, most are recombinants with exchanged fragment sizes up to 50% of the genome. Higher diversity levels can be seen within the genomes from domestic geese compared with those from wild geese. In the GoCV capsid protein (cp) and replication associated protein (rep) gene sequences we found that episodic positive selection appears to largely mirror those of beak and feather disease virus and pigeon circovirus. Analysis of the secondary structure of the ssDNA genome revealed a conserved stem-loop structure with the G-C rich stem having a high degree of negative selection on these nucleotides.

Wild Goose Chase: Still No Rationales for the Doctrine of Double Effect and Related Principles

I focus on the question as to what rationale could possibly underlie the doctrine of double effect (DDE) or related principles. I first briefly review the correct critiques of the claim that people who intend some evil as a means to a good must be “guided by evil,” and that this is allegedly always wrong. I then argue that Quinn’s claim that violations of the DDE express certain negative attitudes of the agent and that agents violating the DDE must make an additional morally problematic presumption regarding their victims is mistaken. Tadros claims that an agent violating the means principle must force his victims to adopt his goals. I demonstrate that the difference Tadros tries to construe between an agent inflicting intended harm and an agent inflicting merely foreseen harm is non-existent. Sarch’s official rationale for the DDE also fails to distinguish harming as a means from side-effect harming, and reformulations of his rationale that suggest themselves run into severe problems. Walen’s defense of the means principle in terms of the “restricting claims principle” and Overland’s appeal to “moral obstacles” are susceptible to counter-examples and appear to be question-begging. Recently, Walen has offered a revised formulation of his Restricting Claims Principle, claiming that it overcomes counter-examples and explains the means principle. I will argue that it contradicts the means principle and does not overcome the counter-examples. Thus I conclude that so far we are still left without a reasonable rationale for the DDE or related principles.

For 1987

For 1987 Jidi Majia The priest told me:That wild goose is pure whiteHe’s your deceased fatherresting in the marshes of our hometown, JilebuteHis pose was noble; the sincerity in his eyesmoved people with one glanceHis flight came from eternal stillnessas if roused from an ancient memoryWhen the smoke rose from the kitchen chimneys, he flewacross the hills like a silhouette in a dreamThat incomparable beauty waslike an arrowhead passing in a flash overthe doors of our People’s eternal soulsActually, I knew long ago in Greater Liangshanthe moment a life vanishesit has already been reborn in another form Copyright © 2018 University of Hawai‘i Press

Bundling, Reprinting, and Reframing: Serial Practices Across Borders

ABSTRACT This article explores the circulation of periodical material between metropolitan and regional locations in early twentieth-century North America. It asks how the globalized consumer technology of the household magazine was being taken up outside of cosmopolitan centers through the framework of local, regional, or national concerns. For example, mainstream Canadian monthlies such as The Western Home Monthly and Maclean's frequently engaged with, or re-used, content and formats taken from New York publications. To understand these transnational publishing dynamics, we argue, it is crucial to attend to the material practices of magazines. The article analyzes several such practices, including both editorial and sales strategies. We look at the reprinting or reframing of complete features and of excerpts from other periodicals. We examine the simultaneous serialization of novels in American and Canadian publications, using a case study of Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese. And we offer the first critical discussion of “bundling,” whereby US and Canadian titles were packaged together as a single subscription. It argues that the affordances of seriality, particularly timeliness and increased circulation through decreasing prices, allowed editors to redeploy metropolitan print materials for a regional readership eager to imagine themselves as participants in the new project of modernity.