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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Scientific Opinion on monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for pigs
EFSA Journal, 2013 This scientific opinion proposes toolboxes of welfare indicators for developing monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for pigs stunned with the head‐only electrical method or carbon dioxide at high concentration.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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Adolescents care but don't feel responsible for farm animal welfare [PDF]
, 2015 Adolescents are the next generation of consumers with the potential to raise standards of farm animal welfare—to theirsatisfaction—if their preferences and concerns are translated into accurate market drivers and signals.
Abeyesinghe, S M +10 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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Scientific Opinion on monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for sheep and goats
EFSA Journal, 2013 This scientific opinion proposes toolboxes of welfare indicators for developing monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for sheep and goats stunned with the head‐only electrical method or slaughtered without stunning. In particular, the opinion proposes
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019 Algorithmic decision-making systems are increasingly being adopted by government public service agencies. Researchers, policy experts, and civil rights groups have all voiced concerns that such systems are being deployed without adequate consideration of
Anna Brown +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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Harmonization of welfare standards for the protection of pigs with the EU-rules: the case of Croatia [PDF]
, 2009 Three quarters of Croatian pigs are produced in small production units (1-5 sows) and on family farms with mixed farming activities. Only few farms have specialized production units with up-to-date technologies and comply with EU standards.
Antunovic, B. +4 more
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The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare
Animals, 2019 Simple Summary Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics, temperament and previous experience) interact with environmental features (e.g., social grouping ...
Sally L. Sherwen, P. Hemsworth
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Animal Welfare Management in a Digital World
Animals, 2020 Simple Summary The digital revolution opens possibilities to use multiple sensors, a data infrastructure and data analytics to monitor animals or their environment 24/7.
H. Buller +4 more
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