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Showing 1 to 20 of 624 for “"Horse"”.
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The Trojan horse as a Trojan horse
… power relations. The legend of the Trojan Horse has the important role of warning us against the easy way into schools, the trivialization of ideas and the superficial experiences that do not change the praxis and mindsets in schools.
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Horse AWAREness
… riding center in San Marcos, Texas. The horses living and working at AWARE are integral to the program’s success, yet only the instructors and a few volunteers know these amazing animals very well, on either a general species level or an individual basis. Since only a few people have the …
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Horse Grenade
… of the colloquialism “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades,” Horse Grenade is concerned with questions of identity and proximity—physical, mental, and emotional—which weave themselves throughout my work. I am intrigued by the fluctuating correlation between spiritual closeness …
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Show Horse Welfare
… handlers have compromised the well-being of show horses for the sake of winning. These situations may be due to training negligence or naivety of individuals working with the horse. Either way, due to these incidents, increasing pressure has been placed on the horse industry to address show horse …
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An investigation into the importance of off-horse exercise on riding position of horse riders
… to investigate the perceived importance of off-horse exercise on riding position, the impact that certain fitness parameters have and the effectiveness of a specifically tailored exercise programme. Nearly 90% of respondents stated they believed off-horse exercise to impact on their riding …
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Demon Horse: The Functions of Family
<p><em>Demon Horse: The Functions of Family</em> is a collection that showcases how family relationships can affect people, especially those navigating grief, parenthood, abuse, mental health, betrayal, and ancestry. As a collection,<em> Demon Horse: The Functions of Family </em>looks at family as …
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Adjustment to Retirement of Horse Racing Jockeys
… for athletes. Retirement from professional horse racing can be particularly distressful for jockeys. This thesis describes how former professional jockeys' adjusted to retirement. The participants in the present study were 72 retired jockeys, who had been retired between one and forty-one …
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Fat metabolism in the exercising thoroughbred horse
The thoroughbred horse has been selectively bred for speed and has a high capacity for carbohydrate metabolism. The following series of studies investigated the relative contribution of fat and carbohydrate to energy production during exercise of varying intensity. Furthermore the work assessed the …
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Post laryngoplasty ultrasonography of the horse larynx
… treat laryngeal hemiplegia in Thoroughbred racehorses and success and evaluation thereof has traditionally been determined using endoscopy with little emphasis on ultrasonography. Laryngeal ultrasonography can easily be performed in the standing unsedated horse and is relatively inexpensive. …
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Nitrogen Metabolites During Exercise in the Horse
In experiment one, eight Quarter Horse mares were intravenously infused prior to exercise with either sodium acetate (control) or ammonium acetate to determine the effect of elevated ammonia (NH$\sb3$) levels on fatigue development and muscle metabolism. The horses were exercised on an 11% grade …
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The horse in European history, 1550-1900
The dissertation, which bears the title ‘The horse in European history, 1550-1900’, breaks new ground in our understanding of European history by making sense out of the history of a continent once dominated by and dependent on horses. By placing the horse at the centre, the PhD, which adopts a …
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Folate Status and Supplementation in the Horse
… and anti-folate drugs on folate status in the horse, and the bioavailability of supplement and feed folate in the horse. In the first study, mares and foals had adequate plasma folate, RBC folate, and plasma homocysteine concentrations during 6 mo of lactation and growth. Therefore, mares and …
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Analysis of multidimensional state anxiety in horse trials.
… and performance within the context of British Horse Society (BHS) one day horse trials. Initially, subjects (n=105) completed the Riders' Perceptions Questionnaire which was devised by the author to assess the nature of the interaction between the rider and horse during performance from the …
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Carnosine metabolism and function in the thoroughbred horse
Thoroughbred horseracing involves high-intensity exercise characterized by the production and accumulation of hydrogen (H<sup>+</sup>) ions within the skeletal muscles. Without a system for maintaining acid-base balance the consequential accumulation of H+ ions within the working muscles would …
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A study of dental disease in the horse
Summary avaiilable; p. iii-iv.
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The Etiology of Potomac Horse Fever (Ehrlichia Risticii)
Potomac horse fever (PHF) was clinically characterized in 1979. It is fatal in approximately 30 percent of cases. The finding of antibodies to Ehrlichia sennetsu, causative agent of human sennetsu rickettsiosis, in the serum of horses recovering from PHF implicated a rickettsia as the potential …
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