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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"dog training"”.
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The Effects of Delayed Positive Reinforcement on Learning in Dogs
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) have lived closely with humans for thousands of years. Successful dog training is important for dogs to fulfil the many roles that they play within human societies, and to aid good human-dog relationships and thus the welfare of both parties. The overall aim of this …
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Rover@Home : computer mediated remote interaction between humans and dogs
In this thesis we create a method to allow dogs and humans to interact over the Internet. In particular, we generalize an established dog training technique known as "clicker-training" such that the remote and co-located interactions are reported by dog owners to be similar. In the process of …
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Lay Theories and Attitudes About Psychopathy
… assigned to watch a control video describing dog training myths or a video describing psychopathy myths. Compared to a control video, watching a short educational video about psychopathy helped improve lay participants' conception and misguided attitudes about psychopathy. This has promising …
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Embodied Cognition and Representation in Domesticated Dogs
… of mind. Similarly, the volume of research into dog cognition has increased in the last decade and is set to keep on growing as we learn more about the animals with which we have associated for so long. This thesis argues that the principles of embodied cognition can be productively applied to …
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Leveraging the Human-Animal Bond for care access in the unhoused population: A One Health Study
… Health Clinic data, and survey data from a pilot dog training study to characterize the experience of the participants through descriptive statistical analysis. Multiple logistic regression analyses were also performed to assess the relationship among One Health Clinic clients, Emotional Support …
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Learning Style AND Entrepreneurial Operations:A Small Business Study
… business endeavors (Hillary, 2001). The pet dog industry is a salient example of entrepreneurial activity in which the pressures of business, economics, and learning coalesce. Because small businesses bolster about half of the private-sector economy and represent more than 99% of all business …
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Investigating the hidden costs of livestock guarding dogs and the diet of a sympatric predator in Namaqualand, South Africa
… carnivore decline worldwide. Livestock guarding dogs have been widely acclaimed as an environmentally friendly tool for reducing this conflict, yet little is known about the hidden costs of their presence. This study used scat analysis to reconstruct the diet of livestock guarding dogs and local …
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“I Do Have a Softer Side”: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Prisoner-Dog Relationship in the Canine Partners for Life Training Program
… the relationship between incarcerated dog handlers and the service dogs they trained. Six men at a large northeastern prison were interviewed during the summer of 2017; all were current or former dog trainers in the <em>Canine Partners for Life</em> (CPL) training program. The men were …
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Effects of Click + Continuous Food Vs. Click + Intermittent Food on the Maintenance of Dog Behavior.
… within subjects reversal design was used with 2 dogs to compare the behavioral effects of continuous pairings (C+F condition) vs. intermittent pairings (C+C+F condition) of the clicker with food. Results show that the C+C+F condition affects the frequency, accuracy, topography, and intensity of …
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Befragung zur Haltung und zum Verhalten der Rasse Dobermann in Deutschland
… led. A profile of the character of this breed of dog in germany should be worked out and investigated. In addition it should be examined to what extend an increased aggression problem within this breed exists. Further the attitude and the behaviour of the dog - owners were examined. For that …
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Development and evaluation of tools and methodologies for estimating behaviour and predicting training outcome of working dogs
Background: The average training success rate in different dog industries is as low as 50% and the cost of training a guide dog is as high as 53,00 in Ireland. The key to reducing costs is in the assessment of trainee dogs for identifying likely to fail at an early stage. Objectives: This thesis …