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Animal Culture and Animal Welfare

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2022
AbstractFollowing recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live.
Simon Fitzpatrick, Kristin Andrews
openaire   +2 more sources

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interspecies Knowledge Transfer for Facial Keypoint Detection

open access: yes, 2017
We present a method for localizing facial keypoints on animals by transferring knowledge gained from human faces. Instead of directly finetuning a network trained to detect keypoints on human faces to animal faces (which is sub-optimal since human and ...
Gu, Xiuye, Lee, Yong Jae, Rashid, Maheen
core   +1 more source

Adult-perpetrated Animal Abuse: Development of a Proclivity Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There is a clear discrepancy in the reporting of animal cruelty complaints, prosecutions and convictions suggesting that any prevalence figures of abuse are significant under-representations.
Chan D.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Multiple environmental controls explain global patterns in soil animal communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Soil animals play important roles in ecosystem functioning and stability, but the environmental controls on their communities are not fully understood. In this study, we compiled a dataset of soil animal communities for which the abundance and body mass ...
Johnston, Alice S. A., Sibly, Richard M.
core   +1 more source

Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Retrospective Analysis of Typologies of Animal Abuse Recorded by the SPCA, Hong Kong

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
We conducted a retrospective study of 254 suspected cruelty offences recorded by the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) between January 2013 and December 2019.
Amanda Whitfort   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neo-Thomism and the Problem of Animal Suffering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Proponents of the problem of animal suffering claim that the millions of years of apparent nonhuman animal pain and suffering provides evidence against the existence of God.
Keltz, B. Kyle
core  

Animal welfare in the reformed Common Agricultural Policy: wherefore art thou? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Against the backdrop of the recently reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), this article considers the potential for improved standards of farm animal welfare within the Treaty objectives of the European Union.
Ryland, Diane
core   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Protective and Regenerative Properties of Commercially Available Artichoke Leaf Powder Extract on Plasma and Liver Oxidative Stress Parameters

open access: yesAntioxidants, 2023
Hepatocellular damage by the harmful effects of xenobiotics, which increase the production of free radicals, is a widespread phenomenon. The extract from the leaves of Cynara scolymus L.
Ewa Florek   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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