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Animal Ethics And Animal Welfare Science: Bridging The Two Cultures, David Fraser

Animal Welfare Collection

Since the 1970s, scientists studying animal welfare and philosophers writing about animal ethics have worked toward the common goal of understanding and articulating our proper relationship to animals of other species. However, the two groups approached this task using such different concepts, assumptions, and vocabulary that they functioned as two distinct ‘‘cultures’’ with little mutual understanding or communication. Some of the best known ethical writing created barriers for scientists because it tended (1) to focus only on the level of the individual rather than making some decisions at the level of the population, ecosystem or species, (2) to advocate single …

Overall Animal Welfare Assessment Reviewed. Part 1: Is It Possible?, M.B.M. Bracke, B. M. Spruijt, J.H.M. Metz

Assessment of Animal Welfare Collection

Several authors have concluded that scientists should not attempt to perform overall animal welfare assessment (OWA). They argue that scientists have continued to fail to make progress in this area and that value judgements are inherently involved in OWA for which science cannot provide answers. We take a more positive attitude toward OWA and argue that scientists should avoid creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. OWA is necessary for making actual moral and political decisions. Science has already accumulated much relevant information about welfare and this information should be applied in decision making.

The task of OW A is to assess welfare …

Overall Animal Welfare Reviewed. Part 2: Assessment Tables And Schemes, M.B.M. Bracke, J.H.M. Metz, B. M. Spruijt

Assessment of Animal Welfare Collection

In the scientific literature several attempts have been made to systematically assess the overall welfare-status of animals in relation to housing and management. This paper reviews assessment tables and schemes that have been constructed to this end. These tables and schemes have a tabular format that allows an assessment of housing systems using a list of welfare-relevant attributes (properties of the housing system). Rather than identifying deficits, the focus of this review is on finding positive recommendations for the purpose of developing a method for overall welfare assessment (OWA) on a scientific basis. The main recommendation is to use the …

Overall Animal Welfare Reviewed. Part 3: Welfare Assessment Based On Needs And Supported By Expert Opinion, M.B.M. Bracke, B. M. Spruijt, J.H.M. Metz

Assessment of Animal Welfare Collection

Welfare concerns what matters to animals from their point of view. What matters to animals is their state of need. Satisfaction and frustration of needs are associated with emotional states, the subjective experience of which directly determines the welfare status of an animal. Because emotional states are difficult to assess, overall welfare assessment (OWA) is best approached as an assessment of needs.

For actual OW A a list of needs must be formulated. Different authors have formulated different lists. From these lists a concept need-list was constructed. For validation the needs-based approach for OWA was discussed in interviews with experts …

Prediction Of Lake-Level Changes For Various Climatic Scenarios Using A Water-Balance Model, Waubay Lakes Chain, Northeastern South Dakota (Task 2), Northern Great Plains Water Resources Research Center, Patrick J. Emmons

Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports and Manuals

From the Executive Summary:

The closed basins area, which includes parts of Day, Marshall, Roberts, Codington, and Clark Counties, in northeastern South Dakota, was declared a Federal Disaster Area in 1990. Under the sponsorship of Region 8 of the Federal Emergency management Agency, an interagency study team was formed to conduct an interdisciplinary scientific investigation of the flooding n the closed basins area. Agencies represented include Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, South Dakota State University, Natural Resources Conservation Service, South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the South Dakota Geological Survey. …

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 23 No. 12, December 1999, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Teaching A Humanities Course: A Mathematician’S View, Bill Marion

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Beautiful Wreckage, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Industrial Resources: Bracken County, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Bracken County

"Resources for Economic Development: Bracken County, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research, Bracken County, and the City of Brooksville, 1999. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Industrial Resources: Boyle County - Danville, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Boyle County

"Resources for Economic Development: Danville, Kentucky (Boyle County)" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research, and the Boyle County Industrial Foundation, 1999. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Industrial Resources: Bourbon County - Paris, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Bourbon County

"Resources For Economic Development: Paris (Bourbon County)" prepared by the Paris-Bourbon County Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development Division of Research, December 1999. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

Intervals (Pairs Of Fuzzy Values), Triples, Etc.: Can We Thus Get An Arbitrary Ordering?, Vladik Kreinovich, Masao Mukaidono

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Traditional fuzzy logic uses real numbers as truth values. This description is not always adequate, so in interval-valued fuzzy logic, we use pairs (t-,t+) of real numbers, t-<=t+, to describe a truth value. To make this description even more adequate, instead of using real numbers to described each value t- and t+, we can use intervals, and thus get fuzzy values which can be described by 4 real numbers each. We can iterate this procedure again and again. The question is: can we get an arbitrary partially ordered set in this manner? An arbitrary lattice? In this paper, we show that although we cannot thus generate arbitrary lattices, we can actually generate an arbitrary partially ordered set in this manner. In this sense, the "intervalization" operation is indeed universal.

A Study Of The Thermal Properties Of Peti-5/Im7, Yan Tang

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

PETI-5 (Phenylethynyl-terminated polyimide) is a substance that shows a great deal of potential in the high-speed aircraft and the aerospace industry. PETI-5 has been used for the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), a supersonic passenger aircraft in development at NASA. In this project, four staging samples, one fresh sample, one fully cured sample and one partially cured sample were analyzed and compared using thermal analytical techniques. The sample staged at 450°F with full vacuum showed the highest thermal properties among four staging samples. The results indicated that vacuum is helpful in improving the thermal stability of PETI-5. The mechanism of …

Antitrust - Restraint On Trade - National Football League Relocation Policies Do Not Create An Anticompetitive Environment - St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission V. National Football League, 154 F.3d 851 (8th Cir. 1998)., Angela Scafuri

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Dec. 1999

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Ruffner Roots And Ramblings, Vol. 2, Issue 4, Ruffner Family Association

Ruffner Roots & Ramblings

No abstract provided.

Experiments To Assess The Cost-Benefits Of Test-Suite Reduction, Gregg Rothermel, Mary Jean Harrold, Jeffery Von Ronne, Christie Hang, Jeffery Ostrin

School of Computing: Technical Reports

Test-suite reduction techniques attempt to reduce the cost of saving and reusing test cases during software maintenance by eliminating redundant test cases from test suites. A potential drawback of these techniques is that in reducing a test suite they might reduce the ability of that test suite to reveal faults in the software. Previous studies suggested that test-suite reduction techniques can reduce test suite size without significantly reducing the fault-detection capabilities of test suites. To further investigate this issue we performed experiments in which we examined the costs and benefits of reducing test suites of various sizes for several programs …

The Economic Situation, 1999 December, Bruce Yandle

Publications

Quarterly report on the economic situation of the United States and South Carolina.

1999 December, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in December of 1999.

Aerospace Applications Of Soft Computing And Interval Computations (With An Emphasis On Multi-Spectral Satellite Imaging), Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

This paper presents a brief overview of our research in applications of soft computing and interval computations to aerospace problems, with a special emphasis on multi-spectralsatellite imaging.

What's Happening: December 1, 1999, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

News From Hope College, Volume 31.3: December, 1999, Hope College

News from Hope College

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Analysis Of Policy Issues Relating To Public Investment In Private Freight Infrastructure, Mti Report 99-03, Daniel M. Evans, Norman Kelley

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in the investment of public funds in private freight infrastructure. After thorough legal research, the project team reached the following conclusions: LEGAL ANALYSIS: The California legislature has the legal power to invest public funds in privately-owned freight infrastructure projects State Highway funds, excepting gas tax revenues, may be used for investment in freight infrastructure projects. Gas tax revenues are restricted to highway use by current interpretations of the California Constitution. A challenge to …

Students' Mental Models Of Electricity In Simple Dc Circuits, Andrew C. Isola Iii

Dissertations

This study presents the results of research into middle school students' knowledge about the nature and mechanisms of action of electricity in simple DC circuits. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders (n=99) were asked a series of questions about the roles of bulbs, batteries, wires, and electricity in circuits. Almost half the number of students (n=42) were found to have used detailed, well-defined, and logically consistent mental models based on their responses. A total of 15 different detailed mental models were documented in these students that belonged to one of four different general model types: (1) round trip flow using both …

The Reawakening Of Marriage, Raymond C. O'Brien

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pondering Past Purposes: A Critical History Of American Adoption Law, David Ray Papke

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Breaking New Ground In Kano, Shekhar Trivedi, Rahul Bharadwaj

IIMB Management Review

Shekhar Trivedi documents the experiences of Rahul Bharadwaj, who set up a branch at Kano, Nigeria, a place totally unknown to him, to market the carpets and rugs manufactured by his company. Apart from the hands on experience of putting systems and processes in place, he provides culture specific insights about the country and highlights the sales strategies that were employed.

The Profit Of Scientific Discovery And Its Normative Implications, Sheldon Krimsky

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Genetic Diversity And The Politics Of Difference, Margaret Lock

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty & Staff News - December 1999-January 2000, Prairie View A&M University

Faculty & Staff News

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