Harnessing RSPCA Stakeholder Expertise to Co-Produce a Complex Intervention Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Animal Harm [PDF]
AnimalsChildhood and Adolescent Animal Harm (CAAH) is influenced by biological, psychological and socio-environmental risk factors. Interventions to prevent animal harm among children and young people are essential for fostering empathy and reducing future harm.
Suzanne Lawrie +3 more
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Dogs Admitted into Queensland RSPCA Shelters [PDF]
Animals, 2017 Over 200,000 stray and surrendered dogs are admitted to shelters and municipal facilities in Australia each year, and approximately 20% are euthanized.
Megan Hemy, Mandy Paterson
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People and Pets in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Identifying Trends in the Intake, Adoption and Return of Companion Animals During Times of Uncertainty [PDF]
AnimalsPet ownership is the most common form of human–animal interaction (HAI), is prevalent worldwide and confers benefits for the health and wellbeing of humans.
Lindsay Murray +2 more
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Comparison of wet mount, Mini-FLOTAC and Midi Parasep® coprological techniques for the detection of Crenosoma striatum, Capillaria spp. and Brachylaemus erinacei in European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeParasitism, particularly Crenosoma striatum infection, can cause significant morbidity and mortality in European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Wet mount is a coprological technique, which despite its relatively low sensitivity, is widely used in ...
Xiaoran Wu +7 more
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Animals, 2022 Not all dog adoptions are successful. This two-year retrospective study used survival (i.e., time-to-event) analyses to investigate readmissions for dogs adopted from RSPCA Queensland shelters between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020.
Nancy Pachana, Mandy Paterson
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Robust sparse smooth principal component analysis for face reconstruction and recognition. [PDF]
PLoS ONEExisting Robust Sparse Principal Component Analysis (RSPCA) does not incorporate the two-dimensional spatial structure information of images. To address this issue, we introduce a smooth constraint that characterizes the spatial structure information of ...
Jing Wang +5 more
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StrayCare Metro: Evaluation of a Targeted Cat Desexing Program to Manage Free-Roaming Cats [PDF]
AnimalsBackground: Free-roaming cats in Australian cities contribute to wildlife impacts, community concerns, and high shelter intake. We used an observational pre–post evaluation study design of a targeted cat desexing program (“StrayCare Metro”) delivered ...
Gemma C. Ma +2 more
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A Robust and Sparse Process Fault Detection Method Based on RSPCA
IEEE Access, 2019 As a method widely used in fault detection, principal component analysis (PCA) still has challenges in applicability due to its sensitivity to outliers and its difficulty in principal components (PCs) interpretation.
Peng Peng, Heming Zhang, Hongwei Wang
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Animals, 2015 A lack of published information documenting problems with the microchip data for the reclaiming of stray animals entering Australian shelters limits improvement of the current microchipping system. A retrospective study analysing admission data for stray,
Mandy Paterson
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Brighton v RSPCA NSW: Appeals and Lessons Four Years On [PDF]
AnimalsAnimal law has the potential to initiate improvements for animal wellbeing. However, this largely depends on how effectively the law bridges the legal chasm between animal welfare and animal suffering, a chasm the authors refer to as the welfare gap ...
Kathryn Jurd, Sophie Riley
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