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Oxygen-carrying sequential preservation mitigates liver grafts ischemia-reperfusion injury
iScience, 2023 Summary: Oxygen-dependent preservation has been proposed to protect liver grafts from ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), but its underlying mechanism remains elusive.
Jianbo Li +7 more
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Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2001 A bibliometric analysis of volumes 74 (1999) and 76 (2000) (altogether 48 articles) of Zbornik Biotehniške fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. Kmetijstvo. Zootehnika (Research Reports Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana. Agriculture.
Tomaž BARTOL
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Rewilding elephants: A solution or a potential problem?
Animal Sentience, 2020 Baker & Winkler (B&W) provide a comprehensive and systematic review of Thailand’s captive tourist elephants. They propose rewilding as a solution to improving the welfare of captive tourist elephants. They also advocate this method for restoring degraded
Sagarika Phalke
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Associative learning: Unmet criterion for plant sentience
Animal Sentience, 2023 In a thought-provoking target article, Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (S&C) discuss the possibility that plants are sentient, focusing on a series of capacities normally attributed only to human and nonhuman animals. S&C propose learning as a marker for sentience.
Luigi Baciadonna +2 more
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Dehydrated Drosophila melanogaster track a water plume in tethered flight
iScience, 2023 Summary: Perception of sensory stimuli can be modulated by changes in internal state to drive contextually appropriate behavior. For example, dehydration is a threat to terrestrial animals, especially to Drosophila melanogaster due to their large surface
Daniela Limbania +2 more
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From sentience to science: Limits of anthropocentric cognition
Animal Sentience, 2016 Donald Broom’s Sentience and Animal Welfare (2014) is an intellectually and morally engaging book written with radical new concepts in mind. It deals with many issues that are central to the animal welfare debate such as brain complexity, cognitive ...
Charukeshi Chandrasekera
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Human superiority is obvious but does not justify cruelty
Animal Sentience, 2019 Humans are obviously superior, in general, to other animals. This is also supported by evolution and Jerison’s encephalization quotient. However, superiority does not justify cruelty towards other animals. Rather, it suggests higher responsibility.
Yew-Kwang Ng
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Effects of human-animal relationship on animal productivity and welfare [PDF]
, 2020 This is a literature review of the effects of humans´ relationships with farm animals on animal productivity and welfare, including the following topics: definition of the concept and description of different tests that have been developed to measure ...
Alonso-Spilsbury, María +5 more
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Justifying the precautionary principle with expected net-welfare maximization
Animal Sentience, 2017 The precautionary principle may be best justified on the principle of expected net-welfare/benefit maximization; there is no conflict between the two principles.
Yew-Kwang Ng
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Why fish pain cannot and should not be ruled out
Animal Sentience, 2016 Do fish consciously feel pain? Addressing this question, Key (2016) asks whether the neural mechanisms underlying conscious pain reports in humans can be identified in fish. This strategy fails in three ways.
Anil K. Seth
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