Technology for Improving Street Dog Welfare and Capturing Data in Digital Format during Street Dog Sterilisation Programmes

Street dogs survive on food handouts provided by individuals, or the wider community yet typically receive limited to no veterinary care. They can also carry a variety of zoonotic diseases such as rabies, posing a significant risk to human and dog population health. Dog sterilization is one of the most humane and effective methods available to control street dog populations. Dog sterilization programs, particularly those operating at a large-scale, often face a variety of challenges including limited resources, staffing, and less-than-ideal facilities. Record keeping is often a challenge as well, which can complicate the return of a sterilized dog to their location of capture. Street dogs are territorial, and the return of a dog to an incorrect location is fraught with various welfare issues, as well as an increased risk of postoperative complications, including death. Humane Society International developed a mobile phone-based application called ‘HSIApps’ drawing on years of field experience and data collection in street dog location recording, as well as clinical and postoperative treatment. HSIApps facilitates the return of dogs back to their exact captured location, which ensures dog welfare, and generates reports of a variety of useful data variables to maximize the efficacy and reliability of sterilization programs

The Urban Environment, Issues and Strategies for up Gradation of Urban

 This paper deals with the issues from rapid, unplanned and unsustainable behaviour of urban development which is making developing cities/towns focal points for many emerging environment and health hazards and gives the solutions. As urban populations growth increase, the quality of the urban environment, will play an increasingly crucial role in public health with respect to issues ranging from provision of potable water and sanitation, injury prevention and solid waste disposal to the interface between urban poverty, environmental health and wellbeing. Unsustainable behaviour of transport and urban land and its uses is a driver, or root cause, of a number of significant level, and interrelated environment and health hazards faced by urban dwellers in developing countries. These health and environmental links cut across a range of policy sectors and thus are oftentimes overlooked in making policies. They are a focus of this Priority Risks section on the environment of urban areas

Channel waveguides and Mach-Zehnder structures on RbTiOPO_4 by Cs^+ ion exchange

Cs+ ion exchange in RbTiOPO4 and (Yb,Nb):RTP/RTP(001) has been used to locally increase the refractive indices for waveguide circuit fabrication. Ti masks were fabricated on RTP samples by conventional photolithography. Cs+ exchange was done using a CsNO3 melt at 698 K during 2 h. Elemental analysis confirms an Cs+ profile with a variable depth. Apparently the Cs+ exchange is disfavored in the doped epitaxial sample. The refractive index variation is higher for nz than for nx,y. Near-field images of the guided modes at 633, 1064 and 1520 nm were recorded. The optical characterization shows propagation losses of 5 dB/cm at 1520 nm

Technology for Improving Street Dog Welfare and Capturing Data in Digital Format during Street Dog Sterilisation Programmes

Street dogs survive on food handouts provided by individuals, or the wider community yet typically receive limited to no veterinary care. They can also carry a variety of zoonotic diseases such as rabies, posing a significant risk to human and dog population health. Dog sterilization is one of the most humane and effective methods available to control street dog populations. Dog sterilization programs, particularly those operating at a large-scale, often face a variety of challenges including limited resources, staffing, and less-than-ideal facilities. Record keeping is often a challenge as well, which can complicate the return of a sterilized dog to their location of capture. Street dogs are territorial, and the return of a dog to an incorrect location is fraught with various welfare issues, as well as an increased risk of postoperative complications, including death. Humane Society International developed a mobile phone-based application called ‘HSIApps’ drawing on years of field experience and data collection in street dog location recording, as well as clinical and postoperative treatment. HSIApps facilitates the return of dogs back to their exact captured location, which ensures dog welfare, and generates reports of a variety of useful data variables to maximize the efficacy and reliability of sterilization programs