Sentences with phrase «for animal response»

In light of these facts, the ASPCA conducted the first ever nationwide assessment of emergency response capabilities for animals, the results of which were reported in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in an article entitled, «The National Capabilities for Animal Response in Emergencies (NCARE) Study: An Assessment of US States and Counties.»

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Also see Re: Bitcoin Core and «Animal Farm» for a response to a popular criticism of this essay and further elaboration on the points.

In Texas and in Florida, with the support of donors and partners such as the Houston Humane Society, Animal Investigations and Response, the Alachua County Humane Society, San Antonio Animal Care Services, Wings of Rescue, Greater Good and country star Miranda Lambert's Mutt Nation, The HSUS transported out hundreds of animals who'd already been awaiting adoption before the storm, helping local organizations make room for evacuees» pets and storm strays.

«The ASPCA is pleased to be in a position where we can assist animal shelters in Florida by helping move homeless cats and dogs out of impacted communities to free up much - needed space for owned pets displaced by the storm,» said Dick Green, senior director of Disaster Response for ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.

This could include another piece of stimuli that acted as a subst itute, or that you absently nudged the animal in the right direction, or other pavlovian responses that you did not account for.

Starling became celebrated for his discovery «that a strong social or «cultural» atmosphere... could in time overwhelm the genetically determined responses of perfectly normal, healthy animals.»

In discussing his results, Herman states that they demonstrate the ability of dolphins to respond correctly to semantically reversible sentences, offering «the first substantial evidence of syntactic processing of a string of lexical items by animals» (CSBD 199) 12 Evidence for such syntactic processing is found in the dolphins» correct responses to sentences having modifiers to direct and / or indirect objects: reversal errors were extremely rare.

Batcha said that 99 percent of the 47,000 responses submitted to the FDA during the most recent comment period earlier this year found that consumers believe the organic seal indicates better animal welfare practices and advocated for the rule to become effective without further delays by Nov. 14.

In response, the UK Department for International Trade (DIT) reaffirmed its commitment to a symbiotic trade agreement with Australia, with a spokesperson commenting: «This government has been very clear that the UK will maintain its own high animal welfare and environmental standards in future free trade agreements.

A response from the government is expected later this year but a spokeswoman for the consumer group Choice, Ingrid Just, said there was an obvious need for a legal standard for all animal husbandry products.

The response from major retailers has been encouraging, with Coles and Woolworths responding to public concern about the treatment of animals raised for food by committing to stock fewer factory farmed products.

In response to these pressures, the number of wild animal species is dropping, but the Fish and Wildlife Service's annual budget for killing and poisoning rises inversely in magnificent adherence to Parkinson's Law.

The reason for this seems to be insulin - like growth factor (IGF), a protein that is released by the liver of all animals (humans included) in response to growth hormone.

That's why two members of our Animal Response Team were at the Alaska SeaLife Center, in Seward, recently, contributing to around - the - clock care for a rescued — and adorable — sea otter pup

For instance, long - term monitoring of plants and selected animals by Mass Audubon scientists on our wildlife sanctuaries and across the state will allow us to track their response to climate change.

For more than 50 years, Shedd Aquarium's Animal Response Team has been in service to organizations around the globe who are on the ground and in the water day in and day out assisting animals in need.

For more than 50 years, forerunners of Shedd's current Animal Response Team have assisted partner organizations whose core missions focus on the rescue and rehabilitation of animals in need of urgent care.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Shedd Aquarium's new Animal Response Team is comprised of expert staff dedicated to responding and providing critical support for animals in times of crisis while focusing on four core areas - rescue, rehabilitation, release and rehome for the past five decades.

That's why two members of our Animal Response Team were at the Alaska SeaLife Center, in Seward, recently, contributing to 24 - hour care for a rescued sea otter pup.

Researchers at the European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing developed five different tests that use human blood cells to detect contaminants in drugs that cause a potentially dangerous fever response.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH») and Department of Emergency Services is pleased to announce that the Division of Emergency Medical Services & Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response will host a free microchip clinic for companion animals (dogs and cats).

It will be easier for Syracuse Police to deal with animal emergencies from now on, after a central New York animal cruelty group donated 25 first response kits the the police department.

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Young animals that were separated from their mothers for controlled, short times turned out to have lower hormone responses to later stresses, more curiosity about a new object and even differences in their brains.

If you're bothered by the idea of killing animals for food, then going vegetarian might seem like an obvious response.

«Our rapid climate change is happening too quickly for most animals to evolve a response.»

«I found there was much more flexibility when approaching the subject than I had anticipated there would be, which was really interesting for me since I'm used to shooting animals — which require very immediate, instinctive responses — or photographing and interviewing people, which is a much more cerebral undertaking.»

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

By freezing, a classic behavior called a startle response for animals that hear, spiders assess the situation to avoid detection from wasps that scout for movement, before escaping.

Not all of the research was animal focused: one winner found that 6 per cent of its French subjects hated cheese, making it an excellent candidate for studying the brain's disgust response.

The move comes in response to an exposé published in The New York Times last month, which documented numerous cases of animal suffering and death at a Department of Agriculture facility that has been trying to create larger and more fecund farm animals for several decades.

If this same mechanism exists in other animals — possibly including humans — it could mean that there is a completely different way for a species to evolve in response to its environment.

Animals vaccinated more than a week before viral challenge developed antibodies, an adaptive immune response, that were shown to be critical for protection.

In response, Jentsch has founded a chapter of Pro-Test, a group that started in Oxford, U.K., and gained media attention and public support for animal testing.

Interestingly, the study shows that although these animals have high levels of dopamine, they do not show the normal response that should occur when dopamine binds to its receptor, despite the fact that the levels of the receptor for dopamine are normal in these animals.

Episkin is in part a response to the European Union Cosmetics Directive, which calls for a ban on all animal testing by 2013.

In more favourable environments, it was best for animals to mount an immune response and return to health as quickly as possible (Evolution and Human Behavior, doi.org/h8p).

«There may be other forms of synesthesia, such as seeing colours for sounds, or hearing sounds in response to visual motion, that are present in non-human animals,» says Hubbard.

This survey of officials who oversee emergency preparedness in US States and counties — led by Vic Spain, DVM, PhD, veterinary epidemiologist for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)-- investigated which American communities are prepared to deal with the animal victims of an emergency and how and where emergency response planning can be improved.

The federally operated Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland, for example, «will be closed to the public and all employees except for a few staff needed for security, animal care and emergency responses,» Anson Hines, SERC's director, wrote in an email.

Most states and about half of high - population cities and counties had organizational infrastructure for managing animals in a disaster, such as a State or County Animal Response Team.

The agency then lowers that dosage by a factor of 10 to account for possible variations in response between the most sensitive test animal and humans.

And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.

The authors cite examples of animals that migrated from mainland environments to colonize an island for which they were too large and those species that grew in response to a new, relatively colossal home range.

First animals were injected with the DNA that codes for three Ebola viral proteins, to stimulate a killer T - cell response.

Fleshner sampled the antibodies the rats made in response to the protein, and also checked the animal's spleens and lymph nodes for reactive immune cells.

The decision came partly in response to a new investigation conducted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which found numerous examples of legally dubious ivory sales on the auction site.

In response, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their work.

Later, as adults, they tested the animals for their memory of the event and also measured their fear response.