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Psychological Reports, 1998 Beneficial and adverse effects of pets for individuals in a wide range of circumstances have been reported. Nevertheless, well-designed unbiased experiments and long-term follow-up studies are needed. Pets appear to be therapeutic for some individuals and deleterious for others. The controversies concerning the effects of pets on health merit objective
James Robert Brasić
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2006 [Extract] People keep a very broad spectrum of animal species as pets; not only the usual companion animals, such as dogs, cats and birds, but also less common mammal species, as well as reptiles, amphibia, fish and arthropods. People do travel with their pets.
Leggat, Peter A., Speare, Richard
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Imaging and PET — PET/CTimaging [PDF]
Journal de Radiologie, 2008 PET-CT has grown because the lack of anatomic landmarks in PET makes "hardware-fusion" to anatomic cross-sectional data extremely useful. Addition of CT to PET improves specificity, but also sensitivity, and adding PET to CT adds sensitivity and specificity in tumor imaging.
Von Schulthess, G K, Hany, T F
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Promoting owner responsibility for pets in disasters [PDF]
, 2021 The issue of managing animals in the disaster context is well recognised in both research and practice. Complex human-animal relationships affect decision-making and behaviour, which can delay or prohibit effective emergency response and evacuations and ...
Parison, Sonja, Gurtner, Yetta
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Pets without PETs: on pet owners’ under-estimation of privacy concerns in pet wearables [PDF]
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2020 AbstractWe report on a mixed-method, comparative study investigating whether there is a difference between privacy concerns expressed about pet wearables as opposed to human wearables – and more importantly,why. We extracted the privacy concerns found in product reviews (N=8,038) of pet wearables (activity, location, and dual-function trackers ...
Dirk van der Linden +3 more
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Holidaying with the family pet: No dogs allowed! [PDF]
, 2009 This paper assesses the extent to which dog owners located in Brisbane, Australia, wish to holiday with their pets, and whether there is a gap between this desire and reality.
Cohen, SA +3 more
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A Conception of Moral Sensitivity and Everyday Consumption Practices: Insights from the Moralising Discourses of Pet Owners [PDF]
, 2013 The marketing discipline is somewhat under-theorized regarding the moral meanings that both shape and are shaped by the everyday consumption practices of consumers.
McEachern, Morven +2 more
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Pressacademia, 2023 Purpose- This study aims to evaluate a mostly overlooked part of tourism literature: the place of pets in pet owners' travel planning process and travelling. In this sense, the purpose of this qualitative study is to explore Turkish pet owners' perceptions of travelling with pets, and the reasons behind their willingness and unwillingness to take their
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Creature comforts: An exploration of pet owners and their experiences of wellbeing gained through their relationships with their companion animals [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this phenomenological research was to gain greater understanding of people’s lived experience of their relationships with companion animals. Of particular interest were the everyday aspects of the relationship.
Johnson, Jennifer J.
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Children, parents, and pets exercising together (CPET) randomised controlled trial : study rationale, design, and methods [PDF]
, 2012 Objectively measured physical activity is low in British children, and declines as childhood progresses. Observational studies suggest that dog-walking might be a useful approach to physical activity promotion in children and adults, but there are no ...
Morrison, R. +36 more
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