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Animated robots and robotic animation

Proceedings of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002
Summary form only given. We are interested in physical robots that move in the physical world and in simulated creatures that move in the virtual world. We have built a series of physical robots that include one-legged hoppers, biped runners, a quadruped, and two kangaroo-like robots.
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CRISPR in Animals and Animal Models

2017
CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the generation of transgenic animals. This system has demonstrated an unprecedented efficiency, multiplexability, and ease of use, thereby reducing the time and cost required for genome editing and enabling the production of animals with more extensive genetic modifications.
Ellen, Shrock, Marc, Güell
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Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1988
Animal liberationists tend to divide into two mutually antagonistic camps: animal welfarists, who share a utilitarian moral outlook, and animal rightists, who presuppose a structure of basic rights. However, the gap between these groups tends to be exaggerated by their allegiance to oversimplified versions of their favored moral frameworks.
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Animal’s People: Animal, Animality, Animalisation

2017
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People tells the story of Animal, an animal who is human. He is a severely disabled boy living in a fictional city modelled on Bhopal in India. Animal has a twisted back that forces him to walk on all fours as if an animal, and this chapter reads his disfigured body as a symbol of an exploited body politic, an interrogation of ...
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Animating Animism

Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
This article explores the series Natsume Yuujincho, and the folkloric, mythological and religious qualities within the anime, its broader impact on its audience, and how fans engage and are re-enchanted by the seichi junrei, or sacred site pilgrimages.
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Animal Models

2012
Five well-established animal models in influenza research are discussed in a schematic fashion. Although there are clear parallels between these models, like viruses used, housing and handling conditions under biosafety conditions, routes of virus inoculation, sampling strategies, and necropsy techniques (mostly elaborated on in Subheading 4), each of ...
Veldhuis Kroeze, Edwin, Kuiken, Thijs, Osterhaus, Ab   +2 more
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When is an animal, not an animal?

Journal of Biological Education, 1981
The concepts of ‘animal’ held by some New Zealand primary, secondary, and tertiary students were explored using both an interview and multiplechoice survey approach. The results indicate that many students of all ages have a restricted concept of ‘animal’ compared with that of a biologist. The implications of these results for teaching are discussed.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH FOR ANIMALS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1983
B H, Ewald, D A, Gregg
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Animating the Bible’s Animals

2015
This chapter discusses the potential relevance of interdisciplinary animal studies for biblical interpretation. The story of Jacob and his family in Genesis 25–32 is examined from the perspective of a “critical animal hermeneutics.” Three features of such a hermeneutics, characteristic of contemporary animal studies, are emphasized: (1) the ...
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Preschoolers' and adults' animism tendencies toward a humanoid robot

Computers in Human Behavior, 2021
Kosuke Taniguchi, Mako Okanda, Ying Wang   +2 more
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