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Stress - its effects on health and behavior: a guide for practitioners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
KEY POINTS Stress may affect the physical, mental, and social health of an animal. The effect of stressors is individual to the animal concerned and results from the appraisal of the stressor by the animal.
Karagiannis, Christos   +2 more
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PRRT2 gene mutations associated with infantile convulsions induced by sucking and the genotype-phenotype correlation

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2022
IntroductionPRRT2 is a major causative gene for self-limited familial neonatal-infantile epilepsy, paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia, and paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions. Voluntary movement trigger is prominent in adolescence
De-Tian Liu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repetition, pattern and the domestic: notes on the relationship between pattern and home-making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Repetition constitutes the very essence of pattern. Repetition is also the basis of our most ordinary actions. Repetitive gestures are usually so integrated in our lives that we tend to take them for granted.
Araujo, Ana
core   +1 more source

Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The foetus is bathed in amniotic fluid that conveys the mother’s chemical ecology.
Durand, Karine   +4 more
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Research note: Expert opinions of feather sucking and licking behavior in meat chicken breeder birds

open access: yesPoultry Science
: Feather sucking, or feather licking, has been reported anecdotally by employees in the Australian meat chicken breeder industry, but scarcely in the scientific literature.
P.S. Taylor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modified quad helix appliance for thumb sucking and cross bite correction

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Dentistry, 2013
Digit sucking habit is a learned pattern of behavior commonly seen in children of preschool age. Prolonged digit sucking beyond the preschool age, lead to the development of malocclusion such as anterior open bite, maxillary constriction and posterior ...
C Vinay   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modification and physico-chemical properties of citrus pectin – Influence of enzymatic and acidic demethoxylation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of the method of demethoxylation on the particle structure and techno-functional properties of pectins with different degree of methoxylation and distribution of free carboxyl groups.
Drusch, Stephan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Technological Solutions and Main Indices for the Assessment of Newborns’ Nutritive Sucking: A Review

open access: yesSensors, 2014
Nutritive Sucking (NS) is a highly organized process that is essential for infants’ feeding during the first six months of their life. It requires the complex coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing. The infant’s inability to perform a safe and
Eleonora Tamilia   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influences of human contact following milk-feeding on nonnutritive oral behavior and rest of individual and pair-housed dairy calves during weaning

open access: yesJDS Communications, 2023
Dairy calves are active around the time of milk-feeding and often perform nonnutritive oral behaviors, particularly during weaning. This study evaluated the interactive effects of social housing and human contact following feeding, including scratching ...
S.B. Doyle, E.K. Miller-Cushon
doaj   +1 more source

Slice Stretching Effects for Maximal Slicing of a Schwarzschild Black Hole

open access: yes, 2004
Slice stretching effects such as slice sucking and slice wrapping arise when foliating the extended Schwarzschild spacetime with maximal slices. For arbitrary spatial coordinates these effects can be quantified in the context of boundary conditions where
Bernd Reimann   +12 more
core   +1 more source

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