Microbial impact on cholesterol and bile acid metabolism: current status and future prospects
Recently, the gut microbiota has emerged as a crucial factor that influences cholesterol metabolism. Ever since, significant interest has been shown in investigating these host-microbiome interactions to uncover microbiome-mediated functions on ...
Aicha Kriaa +7 more
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Virtual environment-based teleoperation of forestry machines : designing future interaction methods [PDF]
Virtual environment-assisted teleoperation has great potential as a human-robot interaction paradigm for field robotic systems, in particular when combined with elements of automation. Unstructured outdoor environments present a complex problem with many
Westerberg, Simon +3 more
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Voices of NGOs Supporting the First Master’s Degree Program in Ethology and Human-Animal Interactions in Romania: An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis [PDF]
This study aims to explore through a qualitative thematic analysis the reflections of six animal protection and wildlife conservation NGOs in Romania regarding the development of the first specialized master’s degree program in ethology and human-animal ...
Adriana Dalila Criste +2 more
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Keeper-animal interactions: differences between the behaviour of zoo animals affect stockmanship [PDF]
Stockmanship is a term used to describe the management of animals with a good stockperson someone who does this in a in a safe, effective, and low-stress manner for both the stock-keeper and animals involved.
Melfi, V +8 more
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an endemic disease in Ethiopia, although space–time cluster and monthly variation studies have never been assessed at national level.
Fanos Tadesse Woldemariyam +5 more
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Animal computer interaction (ACI) & designing for animal interaction (AXD) [PDF]
This workshop invites researchers and practitioners from HCI and related fields who work in some capacity with animals and who recognise the sentient nature of their being.
Ann Morrison +14 more
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The Imperfectly Relatable Robot: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Role of Failure in HRI [PDF]
Focusing on failure to improve human-robot interactions represents a novel approach that calls into question human expectations of robots, as well as posing ethical and methodological challenges to researchers.
Paiva, Ana +14 more
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Emotional Design and Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]
Recent years have shown an increase in the importance of emotions applied to the Design field - Emotional Design. In this sense, the emotional design aims to elicit (e.g., pleasure) or prevent (e.g., displeasure) determined emotions, during human product
Saraiva, M. +5 more
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African swine fever and swine erysipelas are two devastating diseases with similar manifestations ravaging the domestic pig industry. Only a single phylogenetic study has been carried out in Cameroon, and neither an extensive genotyping aimed at ...
Ebanja Joseph Ebwanga +2 more
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Anthropomorphism in Human–Animal Interactions: A Pragmatist View [PDF]
This paper explores anthropomorphism in human-animal interactions from the theoretical perspectives of pragmatism and anthropology of human-animal communication. Its aim is to challenge the conception of anthropomorphism as the attribution/inference of human properties to a non-human animal - particularly as a special case of the theory of mind.
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