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Showing 1 to 20 of 6131 for “"animals"”.
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Insistent Animals
Insistent Animals is a poetry collection that explores the susceptibility of the body. The collection follows depictions of the speaker's rural upbringing, interactions with her estranged family, romantic and physical entanglements, and aspects of the speaker's fraught relationship to her own …
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Animals in Motion
<p>“Animals in Motion” is a collection of poems and introductory essay exploring intersections between people’s representations of animals and their relationships to animals in the context of current ecological crises. While the essay investigates the age old practice of using animal remains as …
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Animals now and then.
… I do this by arguing that given hylomorphism, animals can become immaterial, and that this is less an affront to intuition and mereology than it might seem. Second, I defend a hylomorphic variety of animalism from the objection that if it is true, we are not the primary thinkers of our …
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Infants' reasoning about animals
… whether from a young age children reason about animals biologically. If there is a core biological domain, it may have its origins in infancy, and expectations about insides and animal behaviors are likely candidates for early biological expectations. First, I focus on animals’ insides and ask …
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Animals in Dickens' world view
Photocopy of typescript.
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The strangeness of caged animals
The Strangeness of Caged Animals is set in a trendy urban apartment block overlooking the river, one midsummer night. It concerns the relationships of six people in three couples who are intrinsically connected to the apartments. The main character is Della, a woman approaching fifty, who wants to …
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Lead Toxicity in Experimental Animals
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:36:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7309963.PDF: 3412457 bytes, checksum: ccc6fb957474d13b6f20897e92f9b2d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Counting animals in ecological images
In the field of ecology, counting of animals to estimate population size and prey abundance is important for the conservation of wildlife. This involves analyzing large volumes of image, video or audio data and manual counting. Automating the process of counting animals would be invaluable to …
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Animals as intervention: How schools are making use of animals as part of their educational provision.
… has investigated current practice of including animals within educational settings in the UK. Aims: The aims of the current project were: 1) to explore whether, and how, animals are being included in UK based educational settings, 2) to consider what works and why to establish and incorporate …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
… from the material (manuscript skin; the flesh of animals in hunting and butchery) to the metaphorical (the use of animal sculpture and religious imagery). Although much of the thesis focusses on the ways in which animals are used in positive or affirming ways, I close with a consideration of the …
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The treatment of animals with acupuncture
This thesis overviews the history of veterinary acupuncture - its expansion and growth from China, through Europe, to Australia, and the development of the Australian Veterinary Acupuncture Association. Its aim also is to ascertain the conditions treated with acupuncture by veterinary practitioners …
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Single-View 3D Reconstruction of Animals
… complex and non-rigid objects like people and animals, from just a single picture we can say much about its 3D shape, configuration and even the viewpoint that the photo was taken from. Today, the same cannot be said for computers – the existing solutions are limited, particularly for highly …
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
… that because there are many sentient nonhuman animals, there are many nonhuman animals that are worthy of moral consideration. Being morally considerable is not equivalent to having substantial moral status. Rachels' moral individualism allows us to make moral decisions based upon the …
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Service animals and emotional support animals: a distinction that privileges physical disabilities over mental and emotional disabilities
The use of animals for physical and emotional support has become commonplace over the past few years. Animals are now regularly admitted into spaces that were exclusively reserved for humans. In response, many countries have passed laws to regulate the presence of animals in public spaces: these …
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ANAESTHESIA AND PAIN MANAGEMENT IN COMPANION ANIMALS
… makes this a still evolving facet of small animals clinical practice. Intraperitoneal and intra-articular administration of analgesic drugs are two alternative, simple and low-cost techniques for perioperative pain management in small animal practice. Based on the results obtained in the …
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