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Consumers’ Concerns and Perceptions of Farm Animal Welfare
Animals, 2020 Simple Summary In the current socioeconomic situation, consumers’ concerns about farm animal welfare can prevent them from buying some products, and this influences the sustainability of intensive systems.
M. Alonso +2 more
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Book Review: Malaria - What you should know about it
South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 1983 No abstract ...
Department of Health, Welfare & Pensions
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Animal Welfare, 2023 Commercial gestation housing systems for sows generally fail to cater fully for their needs in terms of comfort or the ability to perform highly motivated behaviours, which can lead to chronic stress and an impairment to welfare.
Martyna E Lagoda +4 more
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Non-invasive assessment of positive affective state using infra-red thermography in rats
Animal Welfare, 2023 With recent increased focus on positive welfare in animal welfare science, there is demand for objective positive welfare indicators. It is unclear whether changes in body surface temperature can be used to non-invasively identify and quantify positive ...
Chanakarn Wongsaengchan +4 more
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The development of animal welfare science in China: An explorative analysis
Animal Welfare, 2023 This paper presents results of a search and analysis of research projects on animal welfare registered in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database in the period 1996–2019, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of developments ...
Xin Guo, Franck LB Meijboom
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Update on oral vaccination of foxes and raccoon dogs against rabies
EFSA Journal, 2015 An assessment of a report issued by the European Commission in 2002 is presented about the oral vaccination of foxes against rabies, as well as additional topics such as the rabies aetiology and its occurrence in Europe, the target species for oral ...
Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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Scientific Opinion on canine leishmaniosis
EFSA Journal, 2015 This Scientific Opinion presents a characterisation of canine leishmaniosis (CanL) in Europe and its potential for spreading. The efficacy of available preventative measures to protect dogs against CanL was assessed, with the objective of mitigating the ...
EFSA Panel Animal Health and Welfare
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Public and industry knowledge and perceptions of US swine industry castration practices
Animal Welfare, 2023 In the United States (US), surgical castration of male piglets is typically performed without any form of analgesia. This may raise concerns with the public; however, there is no information regarding current public knowledge on swine industry practices ...
JM Neary, AP Guthrie, L Jacobs
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
The American Economic Review, 2019 The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization.
Hunt Allcott +3 more
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Welfare of Sequential Allocation Mechanisms for Indivisible Goods [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 787-794,
2016, 2015 Sequential allocation is a simple and attractive mechanism for the allocation of indivisible goods. Agents take turns, according to a policy, to pick items. Sequential allocation is guaranteed to return an allocation which is efficient but may not have an optimal social welfare. We consider therefore the relation between welfare and efficiency.
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