Sentences with phrase «begin researching animal»

In March of 2013 I began researching animal shelters in need of volunteer work.

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behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner's students at Harvard began to apply to human beings his methods of instrumental or operant conditioning, (3) developed during a quarter century of laboratory research mainly with animals.

Beginning in 2011, research associate Jindong Zhang and his colleagues were using motion - detecting camera traps to document the movement of animals in Hetaoping, a roughly 15 square - mile area in the northeastern portion of the reserve.

The extraordinary khipu texts of the central Andes, including the logosyllabic animal fiber cords, are a proud testament to the intellectual achievements of Native American peoples, and my research team and I are just beginning our efforts to decipher the Collata khipus.

His opposition to animal research began in 1995, when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies on pigs and witnessed experiments he saw as cruel.

Typical pain treatment research begins with an animal model — one that uses only male mice.

In this announcement, the agency says that it is «posting the first batch of annual reports of research institutions and inspection reports» resulting from a «comprehensive review» that began with the complete removal of previously public documents that are generated by the agency as it enforces the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Horse Protection Act.

While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

Last year, the Department of Agriculture began procedures to extend the 1970 Animal Welfare Act to cover more than 20 million laboratory rats, mice, and birds — about 95 percent of all research animals.

► «The number of federally regulated animals used in U.S. biomedical research dropped last year to its lowest level since data collection began in 1972, according to new statistics posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),» David Grimm reported later at ScienceInsider.

In this research, after just four weeks on a high - fat or a high - sugar diet, the performance of mice on various tests of mental and physical function began to drop, compared to animals on a normal diet.

Heather Spence, a behavioral neuroscientist specializing in the auditory environments of marine animals, was swimming with dolphins in Cancún for her research just a few days before beginning last week's orientation for this year's STPF fellows.

The number of federally regulated animals used in U.S. biomedical research dropped last year to its lowest level since data collection began in 1972, according to new statistics posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Since Conn began his tenure as associate director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in 1994, animal rights extremists have followed him when he traveled, harassing him every step of the way.

And although some scientists are eager to begin new studies on chimps, but many wonder whether such research on these now - endangered animals will receive moral, or monetary, support.

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

The genetic investigation of giraffe began when Julian Fennessy of Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia approached Axel Janke, a geneticist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Goethe University in Germany, about five years ago to ask for help with genetic testing of the animal.

Beginning in the 1890s, Emil von Behring, a Prussian military physician, and Shibasaburo Kitasato, a Japanese physician and bacteriologist, collaborated on research in which they injected animals with weakened bacterial pathogens such as typhoid, tetanus and diphtheria.

Many adults take a similar approach when beginning to contemplate the pros and cons of using animals in biomedical research.

Manufacturers began to substitute this compound for a chemical cousin — bisphenol A, or BPA — when research showed BPA mimicked the hormone estrogen and could provoke a number of adverse effects in laboratory animals.

Jul. 12, 2016 — Fecal transplants are increasingly being used to treat certain human illnesses and more scientists have begun to research the transplants» effects in animals.

Lloyd Trotman's recent research path begins at his discovery some years ago that the loss of a single copy of a master tumor suppressing gene called PTEN is sufficient to permit tumors to develop in animal models of prostate cancer.

For example, preliminary research in mice has shown that the LVN appears to perk up when the animal begins walking on something unsteady, such as a balance beam.

Meanwhile, the organisms themselves had begun to be packaged as commercial products: In 1941, the breeders at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine received a patent on their line of «JAX Mice» research animals; a year later, the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.»

While this is just the beginning of research into the theory — so far it's only been studied in petri dishes and animals — many Alzheimer's researchers are intrigued by the idea and what it could mean for a cure.

And it does sound like a lot of work and research, especially in the beginning, but to me (I just can't get morally comfortable with eating most animals / dairy) it seems worth it.

Arthur Alexander Knapp, MD began reporting on research with animals and humans in the 1930s.

It's just a shame that in response to picketing, rather than rethink their use of animals in research, big business has simply begun to outsource the work to China, Ghana, Pakistan and South Korea, countries where such protest is not tolerated.

Children begin by immitating my version of the elephant piece then they research their own animal, following the structure closely and then writing their own facts under chosen sub-headings but including grammatical features and punctuation etc..

The students begin their research with a form that they and the teacher have worked on, and then we use endangered animal encyclopedias, animal books and websites.

They begin to research an expert animal in preparation to write about this animal in Units 2 and 3, again using the science journal.

It wasn't until the 1970s that scientific research began to explain the human - animal bond and benefit.

Beginning in 1989 she also focused on animal welfare and alternatives, collaborating with UC Davis librarian Mary Wood to create improved access to Web - based teaching resources for education and research, and emphasizing information on refinements in animal use.

Jennifer began researching various veterinary assistant programs and finally decided to apply to Animal Behavior College.

One of the first lessons that new pet parents learn once they begin researching proper pet care is this: not all of the foods that humans consider to be healthy and safe are suitable for animal consumption.

Her professional animal training career began in 1999 as a marine mammal trainer at the Dolphin Research Center in Marathon, FL..

It's not all that unusual with some rescued animals with unknown medical histories, but when we began work with primitive breeds that really can't handle processed foods, & then I went to work for TSC, I really started doing my research.

Being a true dog and animal lover in general, their work intrigued me and I began my research.

Susanna is a research scientist, and she began volunteering in 2012 because she loves animals and wanted to help get more cats into loving homes.

A new national program called Canine Care Certified, which was developed as a result of research by faculty in the Purdue Center for Animal Welfare Science (CAWS), has begun accepting applications for certification from breeders nationwide.

The research was conducted over three years, beginning in 2013, by Dr. Candace Croney, CAWS director and professor of animal behavior and well - being in the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Department of Comparative Pathobiology, with a joint appointment in the College of Agriculture's Department of Animal Sciences, and her colleagues atanimal behavior and well - being in the Purdue Veterinary Medicine Department of Comparative Pathobiology, with a joint appointment in the College of Agriculture's Department of Animal Sciences, and her colleagues atAnimal Sciences, and her colleagues at CAWS.

Without any culinary background to speak of other than a love for chocolate (which she often eats for breakfast) she began researching the logistics behind working with a local chocolate factory to build a company whose entire mission would be to generate profits for animal rescue groups.

«People are beginning to realize the untapped resource that companion animals present for research in human health,» said Rodney Page, director of the Colorado State University's Animal Cancer Center.

Nonetheless, Winograd as of 2007 appeared to me to be helping to effect transitions in how animal care and control work was done that I had begun to research and help promote literally in childhood.

At the same time my graduate students and I began to do research on the welfare of laboratory animals.

Her animal training began with exotics at Little River Zoo in Norman, and later with birds of prey, parrots, and small mammals at the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville.

Funding Research Working with Dr. Alan Beck and his team of professionals at Purdue University, APPA has begun a project concerning the health benefits of the human animal bond — the Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (Hanimal bond — the Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HAnimal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI).

«Animal welfare began to make tremendous progress in increasing lifesaving efforts when we first had credible research generated in the early 90's by the National Council on Pet Population,» said Ed Sayres, PLC consultant and former ASPCA president of 10 years.

Undaunted, Guinn rallied a couple of dog - loving friends and together they began researching the needs of the local animal welfare community to come up with a targeted strategy to help stop the needless killing of healthy and treatable shelter pets.