National Dog Survey: Describing UK Dog and Ownership Demographics
Animals, 2023 With dogs being the most commonly owned companion animal in the United Kingdom, knowledge about dog demographics is important in understanding the impact of dogs on society.
Katharine L. Anderson +4 more
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WxBS: Wide Baseline Stereo Generalizations [PDF]
, 2015 We have presented a new problem -- the wide multiple baseline stereo (WxBS) -- which considers matching of images that simultaneously differ in more than one image acquisition factor such as viewpoint, illumination, sensor type or where object appearance
Lenc, Karel +3 more
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Acquiring a Pet Dog: A Review of Factors Affecting the Decision-Making of Prospective Dog Owners
Animals, 2019 Given the prevalence of pet dogs in households throughout the world, decisions regarding dog acquisition affect many people each year. Across the stages of dog acquisition there is potential for practices that may promote or compromise canine welfare ...
Katrina E. Holland
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Dog guardians and genetic testing: Survey textbox responses & human-animal bond influences
Human-Animal Interactions, 2023 Research has yet to evaluate how direct-to-consumer genetic services for companion animals may influence the human–animal bond (HAB). US-based Wisdom PanelTM customers were invited to complete an online survey to evaluate dog guardians who had used a ...
Nikki E. Bennett +3 more
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Finiteness and children with specific language impairment: an exploratory study [PDF]
, 2002 Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are well known for their difficulties in mastering the inflectional paradigms; in the case of learning German they also have problems with the appropriate verb position, in particular with the verb in ...
Becker Dietrich +20 more
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Why do people buy dogs with potential welfare problems related to extreme conformation and inherited disease? A representative study of Danish owners of four small dog breeds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A number of dog breeds suffer from welfare problems due to extreme phenotypes and high levels of inherited diseases but the popularity of such breeds is not declining.
P Sandøe +7 more
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Acquisition and carriage of multidrug‐resistant organisms in dogs and cats presented to small animal practices and clinics in Switzerland [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2021 AbstractBackgroundThe emergence and spread of multidrug‐resistant organisms (MDRO) present a threat to human and animal health.ObjectivesTo assess acquisition, prevalence of and risk factors for MDRO carriage in dogs and cats presented to veterinary clinics or practices in Switzerland.AnimalsPrivately owned dogs (n = 183) and cats (n = 88) presented to
Dazio, Valentina +11 more
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Risk factors associated with cystic echinococcosis in humans in selected pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Uganda [PDF]
International Journal of One Health, 2017 Aim: It was to determine the risk factors responsible of occurrence of cystic echinococcosis (CE) of humans in the pastoral and agro-pastoral (PAP) in Uganda.
Emmanuel Othieno +10 more
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Proteomes, 2022 Mass spectrometry-based plasma proteomics offers a major advance for biomarker discovery in the veterinary field, which has traditionally been limited to quantification of a small number of proteins using biochemical assays.
Halley Gora Ravuri +4 more
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
, 2013 Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
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