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  • Proximate Factors Influencing Cat Behavior, Cognition, and The Human-Cat Bond

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    Vitale, Kristyn R.
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    The domestic cat is one of the world’s most popular companion animals. However, to date much remains to be learned about cat behavior and the cat-human relationship. To examine the influence of proximate factors on cat behavior and the human-cat bond, three studies were undertaken. Study 1 directly measured the...
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    DISSERTATION OF Kristyn R. Vitale for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science presented on June

  • Care Team Burnout in Human and Veterinary Medicine

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    Alshaiji, Rawan
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    Medical professionals experience higher rates of burnout than other professions due to the highly stressful nature of their environment. In 2018, 94 percent of physicians reported experiencing burnout – characterized by emotional fatigue, and feelings of depersonalization and low personal accomplishment – at some point in their careers. As emotional...
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    ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Table 1.4.2.b: Minimum Number of Participants Needed for Veterinary Medicine Survey

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    National Academy of Sciences NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NCRP National Committee on Radiation

  • Animal Farming, Pollution, and Community Health

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    Weinerman, Michael A.
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    Health effects stemming from animal feeding operations pollution in the contiguous United States are analyzed using a 20-year, county-level data set. Several quasi-experimental, potential outcome models are used to estimate the impact of high concentrations of animal units on mortality rates and other health and economic outcomes over a 20-year...
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    century. Animal product industries developed from a system of mostly small, mostly dispersed farms that

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian

  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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    Blanchard, Nicholas
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    By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
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    .,  R.W.  Struggling  for  Identity:  The  Study  of  Animal   Behavior  in  America

  • Influence of protein supplementation frequency on cows consuming low-quality forage : performance, grazing behavior, and variation in supplement intake

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    Schauer, Christopher Scott
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    Our objective was to determine the influence of CP supplementation frequency (SF) on cow performance, grazing time, distance traveled, maximum distance from water, cow distribution, DMI, DM digestibility, harvest efficiency (HE), percentage of supplementation events frequented, and CV for supplement intake for cows grazing low-quality forage. One hundred-twenty pregnant (approx....
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science presented on July 28, 2003. Title: Influence of

  • Ecophylogenetic Characterization of the Gut Microbiome of At-risk Companion and Food Animals

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    Kirchoff, Nicole S.
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    Agricultural and companion animals are integral to our way of life as they provide us with nourishment, financial resources, transportation, and companionship. However, pets, managed animals in the agricultural industry, as well as wild populations of food animals are all subject to health and mortality risks. The gut microbiome is...
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    gut microbiome is a vital component of animal health and plays a role in immunity, digestion

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of

  • An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

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    Wollert, Edwin Del
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    While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...
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    forays into North America, they pose the troubling question of religious reform in Europe, and they