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New York City’s Beloved Owl

open access: yesHumanimalia
Review of: Jacqueline Emery and David Lei, Finding Flaco: Our Year with New York City’s Beloved Owl. Foreword by Ed Shanahan. Afterword by Rita McMahon. New York: Owls of New York, 2024. 224 pp. $50.00 (hb).
Talitha May
doaj   +1 more source

Are Exposures to Multiple Frequencies the Key to Future Radiofrequency Research?

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2017
There is an extensive literature investigating possible effects of exposure to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields associated with mobile phone technologies. This has not identified any public health risks with any degree of certainty.
Zenon Sienkiewicz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Importance of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of Animal Studies: Challenges for Animal-to-Human Translation.

open access: yesJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 2020
Results of animal experiments are used for understanding the pathophysiology of diseases, assessing safety and efficacy ofnewly developed drugs, and monitoring environmental health hazards among others. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of animal data
Z. Bahadoran   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"Unaccomodated Man": Dismodernism and Disability Justice in King Lear

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2018
King Lear's exploration of what it means to be human has significant Disability Studies implications that have not yet been examined. Through the course of the play, Lear gains awareness of interdependence, bodily vulnerability, and human-animal kinship,
Christine M. Gottlieb
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Performing “le cheval sauvage” in Crin Blanc

open access: yesWhatever, 2020
Queer theories allow us to denaturalize the boundary between animals and humans by showing it to be a social construct. By applying them to cultural products, it becomes clear how the binary opposition “animality-humanity” actually depends on ...
Bianca Friedman
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Lipids on Insulin Resistance: Insights from Human and Animal Studies

open access: yesDrug Design, Development and Therapy
Insulin resistance (IR) is a complex pathological condition central to metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
R. Elkanawati, S. Sumiwi, J. Levita
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Linguistic and Material Ways of Communicating with Cows—The Dung Pusher as a Semiotic Resource

open access: yesAnimals
This study examines how farm workers working with cattle talk to and interact with these non-human animals. This study presents linguistic animal studies and multi-species pragmatics, and it is based on fieldwork, interviews, and video recordings from ...
Anni Jääskeläinen
doaj   +1 more source

Vitamin D and hippocampal development-the story so far.

open access: yesFrontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2015
Epidemiological studies suggest that vitamin D insufficiency may be prevalent in young as well as older populations. The pleiotropic effects of vitamin D are now beyond dispute and a growing number of studies provide accumulating evidence of a role for ...
Anne L Lardner
doaj   +1 more source

W stronę hermeneutyki postantropocentrycznej

open access: yesZoophilologica, 2020
The author of the article asks whether it is possible to practice post-anthropocentric hermeneutics. He expresses the need for opening the hermeneutic thought to the problem of what is non-human, especially in the context of contemporary diagnoses of the
Patryk Szaj
doaj   +1 more source

Improving translational studies: lessons from rare neuromuscular diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Animal models play a key role in the development of novel treatments for human disease. This is particularly true for rare diseases – defined as disorders that affect less than 1 in 2000 people in the human population – for which, very often, there are ...
Wells, D J
core   +3 more sources

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