Sentences with phrase «how animal data»

Tools in the database allow groups to compare their numbers to those of similar organizations and also see how animal data relates to community data, like population, education and poverty levels.

Not exact matches

The study into a vegan America, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and based on data on what Americans ate and how they farmed between 2000 and 2010, looked at how much US soil is given over to raising animals to create food for humans, and then worked out how much food Americans could create if they cut out the middle - cow — and simply grew food to eat themselves.

How do known physiology, animal experiments, or ecological data provide a context for your findings?

«We can also combine that data with projections of sea ice, to predict how much more or less it will cost these animals to make a living over the next century,» Fischbach says.

They charted how fluctuating oxygen concentrations correlated with the emergence of new animals as seen in the fossil record and from genetic data.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

Researchers from around the world have now pooled their data on the movements of a wide array of marine animals, enabling them to look for common features in how animals move throughout the world's oceans.

A photograph of an insect, plant or animal, tagged with the date and location where it was taken, can provide valuable scientific data, e.g., on how urban sprawl impacts local ecosystems or evidence of local, regional or global climactic shifts.

Marrying that DNA data with archaeological findings, the context in which the bones were discovered, for example, may tell researchers more about when, where and how humans first engaged with plants and animals.

To study the effects of intense hunting of sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean, Whitehead and his wife, marine biologist Linda Weilgart, collected data on the whales» vocalizations and tail scars, which may indicate how well an animal fends off predators.

Because different species vary widely in their susceptibility to radiation, this limited data has made it difficult to study how wild animals adapt to radiation exposure.

By analyzing collar data for captive pumas walking or running on a treadmill, pouncing on dead prey, and going through their daily routines in a fenced yard, the researchers learned how to use the collar to figure out an animal's activity as well as its location.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

The study will facilitate understanding of how small, fast - flying, nocturnal animals use social information while foraging, while also collecting valuable data for species conservation.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

-LSB-...] Data Sharing, Embargo, and Big Science First find your tuatara (or how to sequence a genome) Florida Entomologist Finds «Jurassic» Nest with Over a Million Wasps Should we make animals smarter?

It's nice to think that animal protein reverses this trend, but I wonder how many other nutrients were separated in the data.

We can pull individual elements out of plant foods and prove they're toxic — refined starches, sugars, goitrogenic compounds, tannins, selenium, etc... and yet point that out to a PB advocate and they'll scream about how that isn't «whole food», that it's reductionist... and yet those same PB advocates rely on data from isolated compounds in animal foods.

The study, entitled «Food4Me ``, investigated 1,500 participants in seven European countries who were randomly given personalized dietary advice based on their genetic data, or instead told to follow standard dietary prescriptions such as eating lots of fruits and vegetables (don't you just love how those two are always «lumped together»), lean meats (I run like the plague when I see a lean meat because I've never once been dressing an animal I've hunted and found meat void of fat) and whole grains (which can spike your blood sugar higher than a Snicker's Bar).

Remind students about why and how NM uses student data to study animal movement, behavior, and preservation.

Ask students to take out their NM data - collection form and think about the section that asks how they have observed the animal.

Throughout the year, students also collect data on which animals they see and how many times they see them, so that Friend can also tie in math and graphs into the project.

The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) provides great data each year on how tick - borne diseases impact dogs in each region of the United States.Take a look at your state to see which tick - borne disease your dog is most at risk for contracting.

Guinea pigs are one of the most overpopulated animals and many shelters do not have to keep data that shows how many they are killing.

Webinar topics include how to foster open relationships between source and destination agencies, minimize animal stress and disease transmission and collect transport data.

Question: Website data re tapeworms seem pretty adamant that tapeworms only come from fleas... How about fecal matter from other animals containing tapeworm segments...?

It aims to promote prudent antimicrobial use among companion animal practitioners by contributing a baseline of antimicrobial usage data to the discussion on how to achieve better concordance with published guidelines.

In addition, they'll take a look at common pitfalls animal welfare organizations face in understanding and retrieving their own data, as well as how to overcome them.

Continuing our look into the animal shelter open data for the city shelters in Austin and Sacramento, we see how to wrangle the data so that it can be analyzed using R, the popular software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

But the truth is, without accurate data about which animals are coming into your shelter and why, which animals are making it out alive and which are not, you have no way of knowing how to improve your performance.

Staff also gather data on who owns pets, how they acquired them, whether the animals are fixed, how often they visit the vet and if the residents are familiar with the local animal control department.

The shelter data provides us a marker for how well we, as an animal welfare field, are doing at saving lives.

Access to the data gives you, as a taxpayer or donor, insight into animal shelter facts and how the shelters in your area are performing.

The National Federation of Humane Societies is asking animal sheltering organizations nationwide to take a short (about 10 - minute) survey on what data they collect and how they use it.

In this third post in the series, we'll see how to use R and open data to calculate and visualize some basic numbers about intake at the Austin and Sacramento city shelters (Austin Animal Center and City of Sacramento Animal Care Services).

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

Standardized and transparent data - reporting practices once seemed a long way off, but Roach is excited to see how a new national database of animal shelter statistics could change that.

Thanks to the work of the National Sheriffs» Association, the Animal Welfare Institute and others, the FBI has agreed to change how animal cruelty data is trAnimal Welfare Institute and others, the FBI has agreed to change how animal cruelty data is tranimal cruelty data is tracked.

After 25 years in the animal welfare field, I fail to see how anyone that works in this line of work can not be concerned with data.

Learn how data can improve the care of your animals and provide you with vital reporting necessary to improve your organization.

Visualize how data can improve the care of your animals and provide you with vital reporting necessary to improve your organization.

In part - one, Dr. Jan Scarlett, Director of Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses the collection and use of medical data in animal shelters, and how this can significantly improve the health of individual animals and the shelter population.

If we truly know how many animals are entering and dying in shelters (along with other measurable data such as what, where and why), then we can address the problems in an informed and targeted way.

The Shelter Statistics Task Force recognized, as a first step towards data collection, the need to better understand how information on animals was collected, recorded, analyzed, and used, and what support might be needed for these processes.

Given that a number of other animal control programs and regulatory changes were implemented during the study period, separating out the effects of a single program may be impossible... Data were not collected on how many adoptable versus nonadoptable cats were impounded, so it was not possible specifically to assess changes in outcomes for feral cats, only changes in overall cat outcomes... it can be stated that the implementation of sterilization of feral cats as part of a TNR program did not result in negative changes.

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

In this issue: A national effort to track shelter animal data; how certain pet stores are replacing puppy mill dogs with rescued pooches; a 101 on making your adoption forms better, easier and less intimidating; a Rescue Central on the power of open adoptions; a story about treating ear mites in shelter kitties, and more.

In reality, there is no definitive data detailing how many animals are purchased through this channel.

Based on the limited soft launch we have interesting data on how well the Animal Crossing mobile game is performing.

However, paleoclimate data are used as a foundation for climate scientists by providing crucial information such as rates of past climate change and how vegetation and animal populations responded to the change.