scholarly journals WHY VETERINARIANS SHOULD UNDERSTAND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijana VUČINIĆ ◽  
Katarina NENADOVIĆ ◽  
Dunja KOVAČ ◽  
Ljiljana JANKOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Science Knowledge ◽  
Animal Learning ◽  
Know How ◽  
Animal Tracking ◽  
Veterinary Practice ◽  
Behavior Science ◽  
Treatment Procedures ◽  
And Training

Behavior is the fastest way of animal adaptation to changes that occur in itsorganism or in its habitat. This is a visible feature of animals. Therefore, veterinarianscan use knowledge about animal behavior in many branches of veterinary practice andveterinary science. Knowledge of animal behavior can also be helpful in diagnosticsin veterinary practice. In addition, knowledge of animal behavior can be applied inall animal treatment procedures, as well as in their restraint, animal examination,animal learning and training, animal tracking, feeding, reproduction and many otheractivities. Accommodation systems and all kinds of enrichment of living conditionsare part of applied animal behavior science. Veterinarians must know how to preventbehavioral disorders and pathological forms of animal behavior, but also how totreat them. They also need to know how to apply knowledge about animal behaviorto protect animal welfare. Applied animal behavior science can be applied to controlgame animals and pests in a more humane way as well as in conservation of species.There are many other examples of application of animal behavioral knowledge inveterinary practice, as it is presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Strategies and facilities in order to improve animal welfare

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (suppl spe) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Jorge de Moura ◽  
Leda Globbo de Freitas Bueno ◽  
Karla Andrea Oliveira de Lima ◽  
Thayla Morandi Ridolfi de Carvalho ◽  
Ana Paula de Assis Maia Maia
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Litter Quality ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Art

To keep the position in being a world-wide exporter of chicken meat, Brazil must meet international quality standards, always seeking alternative resources of improvement, without increasing production costs, including litter quality, requirements of animal welfare and environment affairs, such as the use and reuse of broiler litter. Researches are performed in the areas of animal welfare, environment, animal behavior and use of modern climatization technology improving the quality of the environment created to raise broilers, also trying to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and global warming in the environment, becoming a sustainable production system. This paper has a bibliographic revision of the subject mentioned above, intending to show a state-of-art key factors related to a new concept of broiler environment and welfare.

scholarly journals A Novel Method for Acquiring Engineering-Oriented Operational Empirical Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijun Liu ◽  
Zuhua Jiang ◽  
Bo Song ◽  
Hongyuan Zhu ◽  
Xinyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Rough Set ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Know How ◽  
Time Standards ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Variable Precision Rough Set ◽  
Basic Motion ◽  
And Training ◽  
Predetermined Time

The operational knowledge of skilled technicians gained from years of experience is invaluable for an enterprise. Possession of such knowledge will facilitate an enterprise sharing technician’s know-how and training of new employees effectively. However, until now there is rare efficient quantitative method to obtain this kind of tacit knowledge. In this paper we propose a concept of engineering-oriented operational empirical knowledge (OEK) to describe this kind of knowledge and design a framework to acquire OEK from skilled technician’s operations. The framework integrates motion analysis, motion elicitation, and intent analysis. The modular arrangement of predetermined time standards (MODAPTS) is used to divide the technician’s operational process into basic motion elements; and the variable precision rough set (VPRS) algorithm is used to extract the technician’s OEK content, which combined with the technician’s intent elicited via interview; the completed OEK is obtained. At the end of our study, an engineering case is used to validate the feasibility of the proposed method, which shows that satisfactory results have been reached for the study.

scholarly journals Comunicación del personal de Enfermería con el paciente con patología psiquiátrica = Nursing staff communication with psychiatric pathology patient

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Zaraida Aviles Saez ◽  
Rosalía Cara Rodríguez ◽  
Luisa María López Trinidad
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Know How ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Fundamental Point ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Training

Resumen: La comunicación con las personas diagnosticadas de patologías mentales es un punto fundamental para ayudar a conseguir su reinserción social. Enfermería es la figura que mantiene un contacto más estrecho con estos pacientes cuando se encuentran ingresados en centros sanitarios. El diálogo con estos pacientes es sumamente complejo, lo que hace necesario realizar investigaciones y formación que aborden la mejor forma de relacionarnos con ellos. Este estudio tiene por objetivo demostrar la im­portancia que tiene la comunicación con el paciente psiquiátrico respecto a la relación con el personal de Enfermería y su evolución. Los resultados muestran que los profesionales y estudiantes de Enfermería necesitan formación específica para saber cómo enfrentar un diálogo con personas con enfermedades mentales. La escucha activa, el idioma, la comunicación no verbal y la cercanía en la relación son claves para una comunicación efectiva.Palabras clave: Comunicación; enfermedad mental; Enfermería; relación.Abstract: Communication with people diagnosed with mental pathologies is a fundamental point to help achieve their social reintegration. Nursing is the figure that maintains a closer contact with these patients when they are admitted to health centers. The dialogue with these patients is extremely complex, which makes it necessary to conduct research and training that addresses the best way to relate to them. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the importance of communication with the psychiatric patient regarding the relationship with the nursing staff and their evolution. The results show that nursing professionals and students need specific training to know how to face a dialogue with people with mental illness. Active listening, language, non-verbal communication and closeness in the relationship are key to effective communication.Keywords: Communication; mental illness; nursing; relationship.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN LUMBA-LUMBA SEBAGAI SATWA LANGKA YANG DILINDUNGI DARI TINDAKAN PENEMPATAN DAN ATRAKSI HIBURAN YANG TIDAK SESUAI

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1806
Author(s):  
Vivian Fanny ◽  
Ahmad Redi
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The emerging of entertainment development in Indonesia, increasing number of tourists is one aspect for the world entertainment competition. The increasing insistence and urge in the world of entertainment making the business perform a variety of ways in order to survive and able to compete in the competition. One of the example is the dolphins entertainment, they do a lot of tricks and do interact directly to human. Apart from all the entertainment that we get as the consumer, we do not know how the way dolphins suffer of to do all the orders given for the tricks, to do the direct interaction without injuring humans. All things they went through was a hard painfuly and unpleasant process. As a protected species, the care maintenance and ownership rules should be followed for the sake of the animal welfare. The protection of dolphins entertainment considered as important and should be monitored according the rules to avoid animal abuse.

Formazione e sostenibilitŕ: didattica partecipata e aree protette, arte dell'intreccio e ecodesign

2009 ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Piergiorgio Pizzuto
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Project ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Plant Fibers ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Know How ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
And Training

- The intent of this paper is to present the results and the proceedings of an interdisciplinary research about connections between training and sustainability in the field of eco-design applied in the traditional use of plant fibers. The research has begun three years ago and has taken the form of a pilot project entitled Design Zingaro - a participating experience of planning and training. Creations of Land Art and Design with plant materials. It was realized in an inclusive process of dialogue, trough participation of many university students, artists, naturalists, forest staff and master weaver of traditional know-how of local craft. The educational activity was designed in partnership with all the stakeholders. The action of coordination has revealed vital for the involvement of both participants linked to University and external ones (artists, naturalists, forest staff and master weaver). From the methodological point of view, the process of training and planning has to be analyzed, through an ecological approach to epistemology and by a systemic view. The analysis has to be focused on relationships that enabled the conduct of the process. The main nodal relationships form the basis to build up a reticular and systemic model, able to describe the complexity of our process. There are many thematic issues covered by the research. They are all closely interlinked with each other: 1. the report of the observer with the process under study 2. arrangements and approaches of participing planning and training 3. institutional cooperation 4. the handing down of traditional know how of interlacement with plant fibers 5. fieldwork and residential workshops Abstracts 187 6. design production and artistic outcomes 7. the realization of a quality label for sustainable products 8. public events, promotion and diffusion 9. mass media and international forum.

Environmental choices of farm animals

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
C J. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Know How ◽  
Single Dimension ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
Preference Strength

AbstractTo assess farm animal welfare we need to understand how animals make choices and how these choices relate to preference strength. Studies of environmental choice can be categorized by the method used to investigate them, or by the underlying basis on which the animal is choosing. Choices made between resources that vary along a single dimension should meet certain criteria e.g. those of transitivity. Choices made between resources that vary along more than one dimension may or may not meet these criteria, depending how the animal evaluates each option. Understanding how farm animals choose will allow the results of individual experiments to be applied in a wider context. It is also important to know how preferences are formed during development. Evidence suggests that preferences for nests and pecking substrates in hens may be influenced by prefunctional experience. Experimental data from studies of environmental choice may enable us either to provide important resources in commercial systems, or to provide facilities for animals to continue to make their own decisions.

Why lessons learnt are lost

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haris ◽  
Abdur Rehman Cheema ◽  
Chamila Subasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Know How ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Housing Reconstruction ◽  
And Training ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reduce the gap in understanding the complexity of barriers, their modifiers and how these barriers and their modifiers result in malpractices and missed good practices in post-earthquake reconstruction contexts. This paper provides insights to the often asked question: why the lessons learnt from one earthquake event are not actually learnt and many of the mistakes around housing reconstruction are repeated? Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the review of the literature of the top deadliest earthquakes in the developing countries and the two case studies of the 2005 Kashmir and 2015 earthquake in Pakistan. Findings Multifarious barriers, their modifiers, malpractices and missed good practices are deeply interwoven, and endemic and include weak financial standing, lack of technical know-how, vulnerable location, social and cultural preference, affordability and availability of materials, over-emphasis on technical restrictions, inefficient policies, lack of clarity in institutional roles, monitoring and training. Research limitations/implications The study is desk based. Practical implications A better understanding of barriers can help disaster-related organisations to improve the planning and implementation of post-earthquake housing reconstruction. Social implications The study contributes to the understanding concerning various social and cultural preferences that negotiate the Build Back Better (BBB) process. Originality/value The study offers a distinctive perspective synthesising the literature and the two case studies to sharpen the understanding of the complexity of barriers to BBB.

scholarly journals Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 778-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine E Webb ◽  
Peter Woodford ◽  
Elise Huchard
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Behavior Science ◽  
Moral Status Of Animals

Abstract Animal ethics—the field of philosophy concerned with the moral status of animals—is experiencing a momentum unprecedented in its history. Surprisingly, animal behavior science remains on the sidelines, despite producing critical evidence on which many arguments in animal ethics rest. In the present article, we explore the origins of the divide between animal behavior science and animal ethics before considering whether behavioral scientists should concern themselves with it. We finally envision tangible steps that could be taken to bridge the gap, encouraging scientists to be aware of, and to more actively engage with, an ethical revolution that is partly fueled by the evidence they generate.

scholarly journals Advancing animal welfare and ethics in veterinary practice through a national pet wellbeing task force, practice-based champions and clinical audit

2020 ◽  
Vol 187 (8) ◽  
pp. 316-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Wensley ◽  
Vicki Betton ◽  
Nicola Martin ◽  
Emma Tipton
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Veterinary Practice ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
New Policies

BackgroundVeterinary animal welfare advocacy can be undertaken at individual, community, national and international levels. The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a veterinary charity with 48 Pet Hospitals UK-wide, created a consultative staff network to put an explicit organisational focus on animal welfare–focused veterinary practice.MethodsPDSA created a national internal committee—a Pet Wellbeing Task Force—composed of veterinary staff representatives. Together with recruited hospital-based Champions who serve as a focus for animal welfare and ethics within their clinical teams, the resulting staff network has described a vision of animal welfare and ethics within companion animal veterinary practice, with accompanying practice-level actions. These actions have formed the basis for national clinical audit, repeated three times since 2013.ResultsThe audit, alongside targeted interventions, has driven organisational change (eg, new policies), led to measurable improvements in pet wellbeing (eg, improved pain assessment and management) and stimulated collaborative practice-based research with universities.ConclusionA dedicated staff network has facilitated organisation-wide communication on animal welfare and ethics; offered a safe space to raise and discuss animal welfare and ethical issues; and fostered leadership, by working towards model veterinary practice with respect to animal welfare and ethics, with benefits for pet patients, staff and the wider veterinary and veterinary nursing professions.

A Survey of Endodontic Practices among Dentists in Burkina Faso

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 641-646
Author(s):  
Babacar Faye ◽  
Wendpoulomdé AD Kaboré ◽  
Valérie Chevalier ◽  
Yolande Gnagne-Koffi ◽  
Carole DW Ouédraogo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
National Board ◽  
Know How ◽  
Single Cone ◽  
Irrigation Solution ◽  
Treatment Procedures ◽  
Rubber Dams

ABSTRACT Aim Dental surgeons must be aware of the most appropriate endodontic treatments and how to properly conduct them. The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of dental surgeons in Burkina Faso in terms of endodontic treatment procedures. Materials and methods This descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed during the regular annual conference of the National Board of Dental Surgeons of Burkina Faso, held on February 27 and 28, 2015 in Ouagadougou, through a questionnaire. Results A total of 33 practitioners took part (52.4% of the dental surgeons of Burkina Faso) in the study. The majority of them (90.9%) used sodium hypochlorite as their preferred irrigation solution. Nearly half of the dental surgeons (48.5%) did not know how to use a permeabilization file, and most did not make use of nickel–titanium (NiTi) mechanized instruments (78.8%) or rubber dams (93.9%). Approximately two-thirds of participants did not perform file-in-place radiography (66.7%) or control radiography of the canal obturation (63.6%). The adjusted single-cone technique was the most commonly used (87.9%). Conclusion This study highlights that the majority of dental surgeons in Burkina Faso are not using the currently recommended endodontic procedures to perform obturations. Clinical significance Dental surgeons in Burkina Faso must commit to regularly upgrading their knowledge and techniques. How to cite this article Kaboré WAD, Chevalier V, Gnagne- Koffi Y, Ouédraogo CDW, Ndiaye D, Faye B. A Survey of Endodontic Practices among Dentists in Burkina Faso. J Contemp Dent Pract 2017;18(8):641-646.

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