Sentences with phrase «on nonhuman»

For a brief explanation of this perspective, see my «Primer on Nonhuman Personhood, Cetacean Rights and «Flourishing.

Most of the peril is on the nonhuman side of what scientists call the «wildland - urban interface.»

This year's 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate (NHP) Models for AIDS, which takes place from October 25 - 28 in Seattle, has about 50 % more registrants than last year, and the number of international registrants has doubled, said David Anderson, conference chair and director of the Washington National Primate Research Center.

Researchers could reduce experiments on nonhuman primates by studying data that have already been collected to answer new questions, says David O'Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

The study, begun at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1989, is one of two ongoing, long - term U.S. efforts to examine the effects of a reduced - calorie diet on nonhuman primates.

At one point in the process, scientists were concerned that there could be a general ban on all nonhuman primate research.

The battle to end experiments on nonhuman primates has found its way to Mauritius, a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Despite her focus on nonhuman and nonprofessional resources, such an expansion will require new scientists with new skills to engage with technology and the public.

For example, the anti-anxiety agents benzodiazepines have a similar effect on nonhuman animals as on humans.

In this respect, even though we might want to affirm that man has some degree of free choice as to whether or not he will abide by such laws, the moral universe would still be a realm of external determination which would, in the final analysis, depend on some nonhuman rationality, if it were assumed to be rational at all.

Equally important is the violence worked on the nonhuman world because of the virtual absence of nature from economic thinking.

Not exact matches

Anthropologists have long explored how inanimate objects and nonhuman entities - like «data» - can take on fantastic, fetishistic, or even magical properties.

Corporate personhood is easily ridiculed on late - night television, but as Eric Posner pointed out in Slate, the law often «treats various nonhuman, nonsentient entities as «persons» for certain legal purposes.»

With its emphasis on stewardship it allows us to affirm that the nonhuman world ought to be used in an ecologically responsible manner for the benefit of all humans.

D — Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit.

It is also apparent that the recent evidence for self - consciousness in primates and cetaceans, based on their capacity for language use and deception, requires us to acknowledge that nonhuman capacities are somewhat closer to human capacities than Whitehead asserted.

Far too often in the past and far too frequently even today, thinkers have argued the other way on; they have assumed that human existence can be understood only in terms of the nonhuman.

Such enabling in community is based on a recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness of life, of men and women, blacks and whites, Americans and Nicaraguans, Americans and Russians, humans and the nonhuman community of animals, plants, air and water.

It speaks of «human and nonhuman Life on Earth» and of its «well - being and flourishing.»

In chapters 9 to 16 our attention will be focused on problems of ethical responsibility — that is, on decisions concerning human relationships to the nonhuman world, to self, and to other persons.

This may be a shortsighted error on our part, but, with the exception of a few saintly souls, human beings generally have not thought of themselves as having any obligations to nonhuman nature.

Eco-justice is defined as the well - being of all humankind on a thriving earth respectful of the integrity of natural systems and of worth of nonhuman creatures (Hessel).

Rivet popping on spaceship Earth consists of doing things that cause the extermination of populations of nonhuman organisms and even whole species.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

DHA supplementation in rodents and nonhuman primates leads to increased brain DHA concentrations and enhanced performance on a wide variety of learning, memory, and problem - solving tasks (19 — 21).

Maternal melatonin effects on clock gene expression in a nonhuman primate fetus.

This finding can not be explained by global constraint on the intron sequence, because interspecific comparisons with other nonhuman primates revealed phylogenetically informative sequence changes.

Tekmira siRNAs and ZMapp «are both head and shoulders above everything else in terms of demonstrated efficacy in nonhuman primates,» says Thomas Geisbert, an expert on Ebola virus at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston who has worked on most of the experimental treatments and vaccines under consideration.

► Scientists using nonhuman primates in your research, take note: «[I] n response to a congressional mandate, [the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-RSB- will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals,» David Grimm reported on Monday.

PETA's director of laboratory investigations in Washington, D.C., Justin Goodman, says his group will continue to put pressure on NIH to end all nonhuman primate research.

«The most important [issue is] the removal of restrictions on the use of nonhuman primates and the ability to reuse animals,» said Simon Festing, chief executive of Understanding Animal Research, a British advocacy group promoting the need for humane animal research.

Nonhuman ecosystem engineers The beaver is the second - largest rodent on Earth: Adults can weigh up to 30 kilograms and measure more than one meter long.

Tommy the chimpanzee lives in a cage on private property in New York, according to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

The researchers are planning to test this method to deliver HIV vaccines in nonhuman primates, and they are also working on further developing cancer vaccines, including one for lung cancer.

The scientists said they are currently working on analyses to model the ecological role that nonhuman primates play in maintaining the diversity of astroviruses, particularly in places where they share the environment with humans and other animals.

He says more work on human cells and in nonhuman primates is needed to confirm whether this mutation is really the culprit in microcephaly.

The drug has already demonstrated safety in nonhuman primate trials, and the cardiovascular research might even be able to skip ahead to a larger phase II trial based on safety data from the ongoing phase I studies, Leeper suggests.

Hauser is well - known for his research on the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals and has been an admired teacher and mentor, as well as the author of several popular books on animal behavior.

The scientists have not only isolated an identical bacterium in monkeys suggesting that there is a nonhuman reservoir, they now also discovered the pathogen on flies.

Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.

Nunez calls on researchers to become more precise with their terms and suggests that it could be productive to investigate «what seems to be nearly universal in human cultures and in many nonhuman animals too: a «quantical» ability and not a numerical one.»

«This is the first example of a small molecule — which can be easily prepared and made on a large scale — that shows substantive post-exposure protection against Ebola virus in nonhuman primates,» Bavari commented.

In nonhuman primates, most epidemiologic studies of adenoviruses have focused on their identification in fecal samples from asymptomatic animals [6], [7], [8].

«Thus,» the authors write to describe the previous state of the research, «it still remains an open question whether any nonhuman animal can attribute the concept «seeing» without relying on behavioral cues.»

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

Keep your study running on time with a continuous supply of nonhuman primate research models.

AGI provides enriched housing facilities for nonhuman primates in both CDC quarantine and non-quarantine settings on a cost - effective per diem basis.

The concern for an occurrence of lung immunopathology on challenge of mice vaccinated with an inactivated virus vaccine, as reported by Haagmans, et al. for ferrets and nonhuman primates, was seen by us after challenge of mice vaccinated with a SARS VLP vaccine [20].

The vaccines were evaluated for immunogenicity and efficacy; however, because of the previous report of immunopathology on challenge of ferrets and nonhuman primates that had been vaccinated with a whole virus adjuvanted vaccine and mice that had been vaccinated with a VLP vaccine, the primary orientation was to assess for immunopathology among animals in relation to type of vaccine, dosage, serum antibody responses, and virus infection.

On the origins of human handedness and language: a comparative review of hand preferences for bimanual coordinated actions and gestural communication in nonhuman primates.