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There has been a paucity of research into the experiences of animal rescue staff and volunteers during COVID-19. The aim of this qualitative research was to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on companion animal rescue organisations and their ...
Grace A Carroll+2 more
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Reducing Inefficiency in Carbon Auctions with Imperfect Competition [PDF]
We study auctions for carbon licenses, a policy tool used to control the social cost of pollution. Each identical license grants the right to produce a unit of pollution. Each buyer (i.e., firm that pollutes during the manufacturing process) enjoys a decreasing marginal value for licenses, but society suffers an increasing marginal cost for each ...
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Cooperation between Departments of Health and Welfare [PDF]
Jonas N. Muller, Pearl Bierman
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Post-racing thoroughbreds (TBs) are increasingly being considered for Equine Assisted Services (EAS), but their use has not yet been widely characterised.
Claire Neveux+5 more
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Physical Welfare of School Children: An Examination of the Home Conditions of 1,400 New York School Children Found by School Physicians to Have Physical Defects [PDF]
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The Brown v. Giuliani Injunction: Combating Bureaucratic Disentitlement [PDF]
This Comment supports the preliminary injunction decision in Brown v. Giuliani, and demonstrates why judicial intervention is appropriate in welfare litigation to protect the constitutional rights of welfare recipients.
Fazzolari, Maria
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Pain, a multifaceted condition associated with actual or potential tissue damage, transcends nociception and is characterised as a subjective, sensory, and emotional experience.
Deborah Lazard+7 more
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Welfare and Beyond in Multi-Agent Contracts [PDF]
A principal delegates a project to a team $S$ from a pool of $n$ agents. The project's value if all agents in $S$ exert costly effort is $f(S)$. To incentivize the agents to participate, the principal assigns each agent $i\in S$ a share $\rho_i\in [0,1]$ of the project's final value (i.e., designs $n$ linear contracts).
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Behavioural complexity is likely to reflect how animals cope with their environment. A large behavioural repertoire and the ability to flexibly apply these behaviours provide an individual with a greater likelihood of adapting to its (captive ...
Christina Raudies, Lorenz Gygax
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