Sentences with phrase «animal interactions in»

Salomon presented her research on animal interactions in California kelp forest communities and how these dynamics change inside and outside Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) across the Northern Channel Islands.

The Human Animal Bond Association advances the role of the veterinary and affiliated professional communities in nurturing positive Human - Animal interactions in society.

Over the past four years, HABRI has funded approximately $ 2 million in research projects all aimed at exploring the health benefits of human - animal interaction in three broad categories; child health and development, healthy aging, and mental health and wellness.

Documenting the effect animals have on children with Autism and veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the goal of research projects being led by Dr. Maggie O'Haire, Purdue Veterinary Medicine assistant professor of human - animal interaction in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology, and a member of the Purdue University Center for Animal Welfare Science and the Purdue University Center for the Human - Animal Bond.

Research Interests: animal - assisted intervention; human - animal interaction in populations such as children with autism, ADHD, cancer, and the general population; www.humananimalinteraction.org

For these reasons, society needs science documenting the positive benefits of human - animal interaction in order for veterans with post-traumatic stress to have ready access to service dogs; for more hospitals and nursing homes to promote high - quality therapy animal programs; and for more public spaces and housing options to accommodate companion animals.

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This is a really important discussion, and I also wonder a bit about how organisations can help support a healthy culture in the broader animal movement, particularly in relation to their interactions within it.

Even in fairy tales, the presence of talking stones and larger - than - life animals call attention to the powers and interactions of the concrete world.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

Such types of animal minds, evolved in relation to a reciprocal interaction between the selection of environment by animal and of animal by environment, are what we refer to rather crudely as instincts.

C. H. Waddington sees an interaction between the purposive behavior of animals and their environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations of neo-Darwinism.

As campers explore our outdoor wetland, woodland, and prairie habitats, they will act as detectives to solve their own nature questions, decipher how different plants and animals survive, and discover the many interactions that occur in nature.

«Unfortunately, fish behaviors can result in negative interactions between animals and humans.

In this spring session, we'll discover similarities and differences between types of animals with fun hands - on activities including stories, crafts, and live animal interactions.

So far, all human studies of oxytocin's role in social interaction show that we respond similarly to animals.

This and less melodramatic examples of interspecies interaction are intended to illuminate the fact of our common community with animals and our duty to respect their rights and needs in exactly the way we would those of semi-dependent human community members.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatureIn a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperaturein animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

«Cerebellar interactions with the frontal cortex in cognitive processes has never been shown before in animal models,» says Parker, UI assistant professor of psychiatry and the first faculty hire of the new Iowa Neuroscience Institute.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human - animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of animals.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

About 250 million years ago, when therapsid reptiles gave rise to birds and mammals, a neuronal structure probably evolved in some animals that allowed for interaction between those parts of the nervous system involved in carrying out perceptual categorization and those carrying out memory.

The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal manure and the appearance of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil.

Animals, plants and microorganisms are limited in their interactions by distance and barriers such as oceans and mountain ranges.

His findings, reported in Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals: half of the 18 people who ran when they were attacked escaped injury.

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

A fourth study highlights possible interactions of CBD with existing anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) in animal models of seizures.

That's according to research published in the journal Anthrozoos, in which one studies about the interactions of humans and other animals.

The find suggests a new type of interaction between humans and animals in this era, says Chaix.

Use [animals in captivity] as education, interaction, breeding researchall of that.

As changes in regulations cause landfills to be cleaned up, covered and closed, scientists expect the behavior of scavenging animals to change — with potential consequences for other species, ecosystems and human - animal interactions.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

Molecular analysis showed that heart cells in affected animals were poorly developed and had mitochondrial defects, indicating that Sap130 - Pcdha9 gene interactions play a crucial role not only in heart development but also in regulating metabolic function of the cardiac muscle.

However, animals that had mutations with Pcdha9, but not Sap130, can display defects in the aorta, but with normal - sized left ventricles, suggesting interaction between the two genes is needed to cause all the features of HLHS,» said Xiaoqin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., the first author of the new study and a research instructor in Lo's lab.

The research involved walking a thoroughbred between three dimensional radiographs, an imaging technique developed by Professor Stephen Gatesy and colleagues at Brown University and used previously to view bone interaction in small animals such as fish and birds.

«With the growing understanding that all animals are in fact in a symbiotic relationship with complex microbial communities, the framework to consider how symbiotic interactions shape host evolution should be expanded,» he said.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

Porfiri is a leading researcher in the field of ethorobotics — the study of robot - animal interaction.

The researchers recorded thousands of interactions between the animals and the blocks in 20 days of experiments per species.

More animals died as a result of interactions with humans than from any other cause, and captive - born animals suffered more fatalities from human interactions than their counterparts caught in the wild.

This breakthrough finding at ARS's National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa, represents the first time that disease - causing bacteria have been found to gain strength from interaction with protozoa inside animals.

In another experiment, the researchers tested whether the animals» inability to form social memories might have to do with deficits in olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interactioIn another experiment, the researchers tested whether the animals» inability to form social memories might have to do with deficits in olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interactioin olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interaction.

Scientists have generally expected animals to get smaller as the planet warms, as research on the interactions in food webs has focused mainly on the effects of temperature.

However, this result has not been replicated in vivo, as increasing IL - 15 levels in wild - type experimental animals has not resulted in muscle hypertrophy, suggesting that IL - 15 and IL - 15Rα interactions in vivo may be more complex than simple ligand - receptor binding (11 — 13).

The researchers» strategy — generating disease - specific nerve cells, identifying a causative gene for developmental defects, validating the gene - specific defect in animal models, and then investigating interactions with other genes both in animal models and in humans — represents a promising new approach for understanding the mechanisms underlying some of the most intractable psychiatric illnesses.

A PB1 domain is a protein interaction module that can be found in animals and fungi as well as plants.

«And insides would have played a critical role in their interactions with all animals.

We have developed a custom microscope to track the activity of almost every neuron in the roundworm's head — here, we will perform the first whole - brain recordings in any animal during social interactions.