Sentences with word «nonlethal»

As even a cursory review of their website shows, the AVMA «encourages the use of nonlethal strategies as the initial focus for control of free - roaming abandoned and feral cat populations.»
The people who usually complain about coyotes are livestock producers who refuse to invest in nonlethal methods to protect their calves and lambs.
Hopefully, groups like Alley Cat Allies and Alley Cat Rescue will be successful in convincing the city officials to use nonlethal methods... there are many available such as the ones you described and they have excellent success rates.
In its 31 March decision, the court found that, among other shortcomings, the target sample size of the Japanese program was not scientifically justified, nonlethal means of doing the research were not sufficiently considered, and there was little peer - reviewed science.
If Japan were actually following IWC's recommendations, Brierley says, it would now be trying to answer its research questions with nonlethal methods.
Laser guns may first appear on the battlefield as nonlethal weapons intended to blind and disorient, as in the PHaSR prototype.
The company additionally said it would stop selling items «resembling assault - style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys» on its website.
In addition to raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21, the retailer will remove items from its websites «resembling assault - style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys.»
Out of respect for cats and the people who care for them, we should give preference to nonlethal alternatives in management first and foremost.
But the animals were always given nonlethal doses of pathogens, leaving open the question of whether the predator could save the animals» lives.
But it also drew up a New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean (NEWREP - A) that calls for taking 333 minke whales a year for the next 12 years in addition to other nonlethal research.
In this team - based mode, one side is outfitted with nonlethal weapons and active camouflage that makes them nigh - invisible.
While the lethal effects of predation are well documented, nonlethal effects may have equally strong consequences.
Investigating a vaccine strategy against feline enteric coronavirus, the common, nonlethal virus that can mutate into FIP, to help protect cats
To be sure, advocates for outdoor cats often have their own scientific and ethical blind spots about cats on the whole and about nonlethal management strategies.
According to those norms, one may defend oneself against an unjust aggressor, but, if at all possible, this must be done by nonlethal means.
Japan complied and conducted only nonlethal sampling during the past Antarctic season.
Mark Brazil, a science writer, wrote recently in The Japan Times, a newspaper, «With the development of so many nonlethal research techniques — whether DNA sampling, satellite tracking, telemetric tagging or analysis of feces to determine diet — the government's support for killing whales even for «research» seems as odd as killing giant pandas, Siberian tigers or Japanese cranes.»
We will provide nonlethal cat management training, education on responsibilities, and TNR Guides.
Watch Dogs 2 improves on the original's gunplay as well, with Marcus able to unlock and customize a wide selection of 3D - printed weaponry, including a long - range Taser for those who prefer nonlethal shootouts.
As a first step, President Barack Obama should sign an executive order declaring that a deliberate attack with lethal and nonlethal force by fully autonomous weaponry violates the Law of War.
A war on cats ignores their intrinsic value, wrongly blames them for mistakes of our own making, and fails to adequately use nonlethal measures to manage cats and wildlife.»
Nations such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan all have been used before for transporting mostly nonlethal supplies.
Active but nonlethal resistance is both theologically and practically defensible even in seemingly hopeless circumstances — as the courageous work of André Trocmé in Vichy France and of several church leaders in South Africa today makes evident.
The uphill 18th was a relatively nonlethal par - 4 in the days when players could avoid the trees on the right by playing safely left off the tee.
Even nonlethal entanglements are «exceptionally costly and [the effects] can last for years,» she says.
Survivors of nonlethal nuclear accidents can carry something else around: worry.
But nonlethal violence is far higher in the chimps, occurring between a hundred and possibly a thousand times more often than in humans.
Opioid receptors exist throughout the body, so the drugs can cause plenty of nonlethal problems, some of which can signal to medical staff that a person has recently taken opioids.
This research article, «Nonlethal Screening of Bat - wing Skin with the Use of Ultraviolet Fluorescence to Detect Lesions Indicative of White - Nose Syndrome,» was recently published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
«As with most pneumococcal infections, it should be appreciated that localized nonlethal infections are much more common than the rapidly lethal presentations,» says Swords.
There's also little data to flesh out the big picture: Scientists do not track the incidence of nonlethal morbillivirus in healthy dolphins, largely because of the logistical challenges and cost of tracking live dolphins.
Nonlethal overdoses of organophosphates can cause headaches, sweating, blurred vision, twitching, abdominal cramps, and in severe cases, paralysis and difficulty breathing.
The resulting vaccine proved nonlethal in chicks and provoked NDV and flu antibodies in 92 percent of inoculated chickens after three weeks.
When exposed to stressful, but nonlethal temperatures, some cellular proteins aggregate into large clumps known as stress granules.
But in Avida, sexual organisms had to pay a price for that insurance — they carried more nonlethal yet harmful mutations than the asexual organisms.
Hospitals might instead employ nonlethal security measures, such as pepper spray or physical restraints.
March 25, 2009 — In passing the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Congress approved a demonstration project involving federal compensation for livestock losses to wolves, as well as federal funding for nonlethal activities to reduce the risk of livestock losses to wolves.
Mechanics like camouflage, close - quarters combat and nonlethal takedowns allowed each player to approach a given scenario from the angle that best suited their personality.
[3] Farnworth et al., [4] whose work the authors cite, suggest that even cat owners, who, on average, «found nonlethal methods significantly more acceptable for stray cats than non-owners did,» felt differently when the same cats were described as «feral» (as distinct from «stray» or «companion»).
Endorsed by the International City / County Management Association, this guide is designed to help communities find long - lasting, nonlethal solutions to conflicts involving community (feral and stray) cats.
It shall not be cruelty to defend one's person, property, or animal by means of pepper spray or other similar, nonlethal attack deterrent.
In opposition are animal advocates including the British singer Morrissey who are appalled at the rhetoric of a war on cats and promote nonlethal methods of controlling the negative effects of cats as being more effective and humane.
Currently available nonlethal wildlife science is the future.
The well - loved stealth series has always empowered gamers with a broad array of in - game choices, whether it was using lethal or nonlethal tactics to drop nosy guards, or leveraging magic and technology to overcome adversity.
We feel like the missions are very re-playable because there are different pathways to take, powers to use, styles (stealth vs combat), finding hidden areas, a few side missions, morality (lethal vs nonlethal), etc..
* Note that for almost all the combat moves, we've added nonlethal versions.
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