Sentences with phrase «dogs studied by»

Many of the dogs studied by Dr. Reisner had abnormally low amounts of serotonin metabolites in their urine and cerebral spinal fluid.

Proper dental care has been shown to extend, on average, the life of dogs studied by two years.

Not exact matches

A study by Millan's team found that 76 % of owners who played audiobooks for their dogs reported that they were calmer and more relaxed after a four - week period.

(Surprisingly, in that study, reggae was the genre preferred by most dogs.)

But that's also why dog poisonings by chocolate hit their highest mark on during the holiday season, as noted by a new study by U.K. researchers.

Humor That Works at Work Depends on the Type of Humor You Use A study led by Adam Miklosi found that, yet again, dogs can teach us a little something about the effectiveness of humor as a stress - buster.

A collaborative study by the Insurance Information Institute and State Farm in 2015 found one - third of all homeowners insurance liability dollars paid out was related to dog bites, totaling more than $ 750 million.

Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?

I must not expect others to tirelessly read and study, and they must not expect me to be invigorated by baking a cake or listening to our neighbor talk about his dog.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

By studying how grains with and without phytic acid affect dogs, Mellanby discovered that consumption of high - phytate cereal grain interferes with bone growth and interrupts vitamin D metabolism.

The Dangerous Dogs Act Study Group (DDASG) and Lord Redesdale criticised the Government for what they saw as its part in the ongoing problem of «status dogs» by making them appeal to those wishing to intimidate others and rebel against the existing Dogs Act Study Group (DDASG) and Lord Redesdale criticised the Government for what they saw as its part in the ongoing problem of «status dogs» by making them appeal to those wishing to intimidate others and rebel against the existing dogs» by making them appeal to those wishing to intimidate others and rebel against the existing law.

Dogs Trust, as a member of the Dangerous Dogs Act Study Group (DDASG), along with a variety of other welfare organisations, the Kennel Club and the BVA, has supported Ms Grahame's Bill since it was introduced as a Private Members Bill by Alex Neill MSP.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The UNC collaborators on the study team, led by Timothy C. Nichols, MD, performed gene therapy experiments using the well - established dog colony at their institution.

Researchers first discovered the metabolic switch in 2005, when a team headed by Oklahoma State University's Michael Davis — who has been investigating the metabolic, gastrointestinal, respiratory and blood systems of sled dogs for 10 years — did a controlled study at a professional racing kennel in Alaska.

Climate change may be harming the future of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) by impacting the survival rates of pups, according to one of the first studies on how shifting temperatures are impacting tropical species.

Led by scientists from ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, the study highlights how African wild dogs — already classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List — raise fewer pups at high temperatures.

The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the intuitively attractive, almost irresistible idea that the whole great process leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessors.

Three concurrent studies, undertaken by ZSL, the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, and the African Wildlife Conservation Fund, monitored a total of 73 wild dog packs at sites in Kenya, Botswana and Zimbabwe, over a combined 42 years of study.

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.

Using genomic analysis to study cancer in dogs can help develop new therapies for humans with cancer, according to a proof - of - concept study led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

Pet dogs provide valuable social support for kids when they're stressed, according to a study by researchers from the University of Florida, who were among the first to document stress - buffering effects of pets for children.

But the older, less studied Capitanian extinction has been dogged by criticism that it may have been a regional event, or just part of a gradual trend en route to the larger Permian extinction.

D'Aniello's study suggests humans can inadvertently hijack their dogs» emotions by releasing smells.

The study, led by Dr Carri Westgarth from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health, examined the demographic and behavioural factors that contribute towards owners reporting having a strong sense of encouragement and motivation to walk provided by their dogs, which the team call «the Lassie effect».

The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.

«If we implemented our recommended strategies for the feral predators (cats, dogs and foxes) and the goats and rabbits, experts who participated in the study estimated that we could increase agricultural production by 10 per cent or more,» she said.

This bond may be linked to your dog's behavior, according to a study by Christy L. Hoffman, PhD, assistant professor of animal behavior, ecology and conservation at Canisius College.

The researchers began their study by looking at dogs of one breed, the Portuguese water dog, and found that those with one type of mutation of IGF1 were 15 to 20 percent smaller.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

«They've made the first comparative study using nonhuman primates of the cerebral processing of voices, and they've done it with a noninvasive technique by training dogs to lie in a scanner.»

Between 1988 and 1998, sperm motility declined by 2.5 per cent per year and following a short period when stud dogs of compromised fertility were retired from the study, sperm motility from 2002 to 2014 continued to decline at a rate of 1.2 % per year.

Glasgow's Dr. Mafalda Viana, who led the multi-author study with colleague Dr. Tiziana Lembo, pointed out that «These results suggest that the virus may now be maintained by a broader carnivore community, potentially involving wildlife as well as domestic dogs beyond the immediate vicinity of the Serengeti National Park.

Another confounding factor in earlier studies: Researchers sampled DNA from modern purebred dogs, which are the result of generations of artificial selection and hybridization by breeders, skewing the genetic timeline of when wolves and dogs parted ways.

The first study shows babies born in a home with a dog during pregnancy receive protection from allergic eczema, though the protective effect goes down by age 10.

«We found a mother's exposure to dogs before the birth of a child is significantly associated with lower risk of eczema by age 2 years, but this protective effect goes down at age 10,» says allergist Edward M. Zoratti, MD, ACAAI member and a study co-author.

Most of the research has focused on studying how dogs are capable to understand different forms of human communication, for example by displaying gestures and human voice recognition.

This study is the first to show that the genetic changes in a tumor — mutations — are influenced by what breed the dog is, i.e. their genetic background.

The dogs were able to select the angry or happy face more often than would be expected by random chance in every case, the study found.

They also plan to study how dogs themselves express emotions and how their emotions are influenced by the emotions of their owners or other humans.

«We think the dogs in our study could have solved the task only by applying their knowledge of emotional expressions in humans to the unfamiliar pictures we presented to them,» says Corsin Müller of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

The study, «Dog Walking, the Human - Animal Bond and Older Adults» Physical Health,» recently was published by The Gerontologist.

Pictured here are two indigenous dogs that were sampled in a recent study by KTH canine genealogy authority, Peter Savolainen.

For example, one 1965 study by researchers at the Brooks Air Force Base in Texas showed that dogs exposed to near vacuum — one three - hundred - eightieth of atmospheric pressure at sea level — for up to 90 seconds always survived.

Throughout their study, Salkeld and Antolin found that grasshopper mice and coyotes that scavenge plague - killed prairie dogs can speed transmission of the disease by spreading the disease - carrying fleas.

The epithet dogs even some functional MRI studies, which seek to link specific thought processes to corresponding regions of the brain by measuring moment - to - moment differences in blood flow.

The data were collected through a website called Dognition.com that was developed by Brian Hare, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke who studies primate and dog cognition.

This corresponds to a previous study by Professor Vainio's research group, where it was found that dogs prefer viewing conspecific faces over human faces.

A single injection eased severe, chronic pain caused by late - stage bone cancer in dogs, according to a study in the November issue of Anesthesiology.