Dogs on utes

Transportation can be stressful for dogs and it is important that the journey be made as comfortable and as safe as possible. Legislation for transporting dogs in Australia varies from state & territory to state & territory. However, thousands of dogs are injured each year while travelling in the back of open vehicles because the dogs are not properly restrained. While the RSPCA Australia does not have a specific policy on the appropriate restraint of dogs in cars they do have a policy regarding containers for transport (RSPCA Policy F1 Transportation of animals - general principles) - the container should enable the animal to lie down comfortably in a natural position, turn around, stand and sit erect and stretch with clearance

On Universal Codes for Integers: Wallace Tree, Elias Omega and Variations

A universal code for the (positive) integers can be used to store or compress a sequence of integers. Every universal code implies a probability distribution on integers. This implied distribution may be a reasonable choice when the true distribution of a source of integers is unknown. Wallace Tree Code (WTC) is a universal code for integers based on binary trees. We give the encoding and decoding routines for WTC and analyse the properties of the code in comparison to two well-known codes, the Fibonacci and Elias omega codes. Some improvements on the Elias omega code are also described and examined.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures (3 figure image files