The virus is found in rodents with rock squirrels, prairie dogs and ground squirrels being the most susceptible in the U.S. Fleas carried by the rodents transmit the bacteria to other
animals and humans through their bites.
As a non-profit organization, the ACVIM promotes and fosters scientific and professional activities that lead to better care for
both animals and humans through training, education and discovery.
Significant Otherness, a benefit for the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (SNPLA), explores the unique bond between
animals and humans through artwork generously donated by eight contemporary artists for a gallery exhibition at Angels Gate Cultural Center and available for sale in this online auction.
«I like working here because I am able to be involved with
both animals and humans through our team, clients, and patients,» she says.
Not exact matches
There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn
and soybeans because they make can make the most money
through those crops, in large part because of their role as
animal feed that supports
humans» massive appetite for meat.
To be specific, a
human being or higher - order
animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in
and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved
through the collaboration
and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.
If, on the other hand, the
human mind belongs to a rational
animal, whose being is contingent, all its arguments are laced
through and through with contingency; they can not prove necessarily.
Also
human beings are made in the image
and likeness of God, we can know
and love,
through the power of our spiritual soul - we are very different from
animals, not in our physical bodies but in our souls.
Study of Scripture
through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature»,
and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned
animal sacrifices»,
and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»
These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism
and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul
through reincarnation from
humans to
animals and vice versa.
In the
animals we domesticated
through genetic transformation, «Wild,
human - threatening,
and human - fearfulness instincts are eliminated
and replaced by tameness, an acceptance or desire to be near
humans,
and often, other specific
human - serving personalities.»
One can then interpret all that has happened
through the domestication of plants
and animals and the rise of cities as repressive of what is truly
human and oppressive of most
human beings by a dominating few.
We needed a perfect savior, a
human sacrifice, like us, because all the blood of
animals that was spilled under the Old Covenant
through Moses did nothing even though God told them to do it
and implied that it actually would do something.
Our composite
human nature — part
animal and part angel — means we must always confront two issues: what we live
through and what we live for.
The three states which form the basis of the original
human condition he says are: original solitude (before the creation of the woman
and before original sin man recognises himself as «alone in the world» as he is different from the rest of creation as he is a co-creator with God (
through naming of the
animals) yet is not the same as God.
This lead Deya to Beyond Meat, a company focused on improving
human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources
and respecting
animal welfare
through the innovation of plant based meat products.
«It is harder for the medical community to combat bacterial infections in
humans, because
humans are consuming so many antibiotics
through food
and drink from
animals.»
When eaten by a
human (
animals can handle it), phytic acid attaches itself to minerals such as magnesium, iron, calcium
and zinc, which causes them to pass
through the intestines without being absorbed.
We have a team of passionate
and dedicated people that each day collectively explore new innovative ways to enhance products, performance
and value
through our
human and animal nutrition products.
Learn ways to optimise soil, plant,
animal and human health
through natural nutrient cycling
and enhancing soil resilience.
It's important because -
through us - you get access to world - class research facilities
and dedicated scientists, food technologists etc. that are constantly seeking to find cutting edge discoveries that will drive advances in
human and animal health.
A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for
humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins
and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish
and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water
and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies,
and is passed to our children
through the placenta
and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.
Through the process you'll discover how to allow shapes
and elements to emerge, including light, fire,
and earth; sun, moon,
and stars; plants, birds, fishes,
and animals;
and the
human being itself.
In 1822 the «Act to Prevent the Cruel
and Improper Treatment of Cattle» was steered
through the House of Commons by Irish MP Richard Martin — known as «Humanity Dick» because of his campaigning for both
animal and human rights.
Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for
animals with a complex brain,
and human instincts are filtered
through layer upon layer of culture
and other learned behavior.
Even without an
animal bitten, rabies can be transferred
through saliva
and enter the
human body
through cuts, wounds, or the mucus membrane of the eyes, for instance, said Peter Tripi, senior public health sanitarian with the Erie County Health Department.
Humans can easily develop tularemia
through incidental contact with infected rabbits, cats, rodents or other
animals (
and the ticks or fleas that may be on them).
Another great example is tuberculosis among elephants moving
through populations now that the fences have come down around parks in South Africa
and moving
through human and domestic
animal populations that are infected with tuberculosis or who could be infected with tuberculosis.
Now paleontologist Neil Shubin — discoverer of the «fishapod» Tiktaalik, whose fins with wrists
and elbows illustrate an evolutionary transition between ancient fish
and early land
animals — leads a lively jaunt
through the
human body to get us in touch with our fishy (not to mention buggy, wormy,
and yeasty) extended family.
«The world
humans and animals experience depends entirely on how sensory stimuli are perceived
and processed
through an emotional filter.»
Through such research, investigators are hoping to identify useful systems to simulate the interactions between an
animal and its environment,
and find out whether the interactions within a given system are comparable to how
humans interact with their environment.
But this week in the journal PLoS Biology neuroscientists argue that
animals have brains similar to those of non-autistic
humans — they take in lots of juicy stimuli, sift
through,
and draw a cohesive picture.
Trying to look at normal
humans through her eyes —
and, in a very different way,
through the eyes of
animals — I saw a disturbing vision.
And both humans and animals direct their evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthes
And both
humans and animals direct their evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthes
and animals direct their evolution
through the social
and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthes
and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthesis.
One of the most promising avenues for developing a cure, however, is
through gene therapy,
and to create those therapies requires
animal models of disease that closely replicate the
human condition.
Artifacts from that period — the obese
human and animal figurines
and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone
and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world
and its successful propagation
through the descent group or lineage.
It is surprising to find that a single gene (ESRP),
through its ancestral biological role (cell adherence
and motility) has been used throughout the
animal scale for very different purposes: from the immune system of an echinoderm to the lips, lungs or inner ears of
humans,» states professor Jordi Garcia - Fernàndez, of the University of Barcelona's Department of Genetics, Microbiology
and Statistics
and the IBUB.
Taken together, the data suggest that
humans domesticated dogs in Asia more than 14,000 years ago,
and that a small subset of these
animals eventually migrated west
through Eurasia, probably with people.
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.»
They searched
through 60 years of scientific
and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife,
and second, whether
human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in
animals.
The findings shed light on how
animals recognize complex substances
through smell
and could even help curb some
human phobias.
We have known about this
human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times,
and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either
through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish
and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
The findings have implications for all aspects of medical
and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on
human and animal lives
through vaccination
and other immune - based therapies.
«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels
through beta3 - AR production in the BAT of
animals and humans may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.
«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical
animal models,
and we now need to define its safety
through toxicology
and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of
Human and Molecular Genetics
and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.
«If we imagine plants
and animals moving
through a
human - dominated area, it's likely to be much slower,» he says.
Specifically, the findings explain how a particular gene — called fkbp5 — is involved in a phenomenon known as «fear extinction,»
through which
animals and humans disassociate with fearful memories of a traumatic experience, such as war, assault or a natural disaster.
«But a lot of the earlier work on the faces of
animals was actually done by Darwin, who argued that all
humans and many
animals show emotion
through remarkably similar behaviours, so we thought there would likely be crossover between
animals and our work in
human faces.»
Animals that live with people or who are habituated to them
through captivity may copy elements of
human speech in order to strengthen social bonds, Angela Stoeger - Horwath, a bioacoustician at the University of Vienna
and co-author of the elephant study, previously told Live Science.
The virus, a relative of those that cause canine distemper
and human measles, spreads
through exhaled droplets
and feces of sick
animals; it causes fever, diarrhea, dehydration,
and death in a matter of days.