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Conventional Science Will Not Do Justice To Nonhuman Interests: A Fresh Approach Is Required, Becca Franks, Christine Webb, Monica Gagliano, Barbara Smuts Jan 2020

Conventional Science Will Not Do Justice To Nonhuman Interests: A Fresh Approach Is Required, Becca Franks, Christine Webb, Monica Gagliano, Barbara Smuts

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. (2019) make a convincing case that conservation efforts need to go beyond an anthropocentric worldview. Implementing that vision, however, will require human advocates to represent nonhuman interests. Where will the knowledge of those interests come from? How can humans know what is in the best interest of another animal, a plant, or an ecosystem? We discuss how the values embedded in current scientific practices may be ill-suited to representing nonhuman interests and we offer some ideas for correcting these shortcomings.

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The Wholeness Of Nature, Marthe Kiley-Worthington Jan 2020

The Wholeness Of Nature, Marthe Kiley-Worthington

Animal Sentience

The target article outlines various positions on conservation and preservation but ignores practical considerations of management since there is no wild habitat left. Population controls, either human or nonhuman mammals, are not discussed. The suggestions for legal changes are vague and will require much more thinking about how to integrate animal welfare with wildlife conservation concerns. “Freedoms” as outlined in the human bill of rights might help with decision making for improving animal welfare. Other commentators have made anthropocentric judgements concerning animal welfare, ignoring the importance of developing other ways of seeing and understanding the “multiplicity within unity,” combining empirical …

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Is Anthropocentrism Really The Problem?, Chelsea Batavia Jan 2020

Is Anthropocentrism Really The Problem?, Chelsea Batavia

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. (2019) highlight what they consider soft forms of anthropocentrism in the practice and philosophy of conservation, e.g., when even professed non-anthropocentrists assert the precedence of human over nonhuman interests. I consider a few philosophical cases for maintaining human precedence, but ultimately offer a more psychological explanation: our explanations for why humans take precedence serve to reduce dissonance and discomfort, which arise because the norms and institutions of society often compel us to act in ways that violate our moral responsibilities to nonhuman beings.

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Toward A Non-Anthropocentric View On The Environment And Animal Welfare: Possible Psychological Interventions, Sarah Gradidge, Magdalena Zawisza Jan 2020

Toward A Non-Anthropocentric View On The Environment And Animal Welfare: Possible Psychological Interventions, Sarah Gradidge, Magdalena Zawisza

Animal Sentience

Treves, Santiago-Avila, and Lynn (2019) argue for adopting a non-anthropocentric worldview to prevent further environmental damage and lack of consideration for animals. We discuss psychological interventions that might help achieve this.

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Selling Just Preservation, Scott W. Danielson, Andrew J. Vonasch Jan 2020

Selling Just Preservation, Scott W. Danielson, Andrew J. Vonasch

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. argue for better representation of voiceless groups in current policy decisions. We agree with the argument but believe it will be challenging to convince enough people of its importance to change policy — especially those political groups who are not predisposed to agreeing with these kinds of arguments. We draw on the social psychology literature to recommend three principles for increasing the persuasiveness of the argument to the public: pre-suasion, framing, and tailoring for the audience. We apply these principles to make concrete recommendations for framing the argument to persuade the American political right.

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Just Preservation, Trusteeship And Multispecies Justice, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, Adrian Treves, William Lynn Jan 2020

Just Preservation, Trusteeship And Multispecies Justice, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, Adrian Treves, William Lynn

Animal Sentience

We are grateful to all the commentators who engaged with our target article. Some commentators have offered important insights into our proposed design and methods for legally intervening on behalf of futurity. Others have focused on theoretical considerations central to our proposal for multispecies justice and trusteeship. All have inspired modifications and further elaboration of our initial proposal. In this Response, we engage with the commentaries, integrating their suggestions, striving for convergence and complementarity, but also discussing points of divergence with our proposed framework where necessary. There is substantial overlap in the points of view of the three co-authors, but …

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Synthesis And Anti-Psoriatic Activity Of A Mycophenolic Acid-Curcumin Conjugate As A Mutual Prodrug, Yonelian Yuyun Jan 2020

Synthesis And Anti-Psoriatic Activity Of A Mycophenolic Acid-Curcumin Conjugate As A Mutual Prodrug, Yonelian Yuyun

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Due to its several mechanisms of action, curcumin (CUR) has been employed as adjuvant therapy in treating psoriasis. Limited oral bioavailability was the problem for the development of CUR for therapeutic purposes. Therefore, many approaches, including the prodrug strategy, have been devised to address Cur's drawbacks. CUR was conjugated with mycophenolic acid (MPA) as a new prodrug in this research. Characterization of MPA-CUR structure was done by FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and MS. MPA-CUR showed water solubility at 0.73 μM and log P at 2.33, respectively. MPA-CUR was found more stable in buffer solutions than CUR and MPA. In vitro anti-psoriatic …

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A Corpus Linguistic Approach To Discursive Representation Of Lgbt Identities In The Bangkok Post Newspaper, Duangkamon Chuaikun Jan 2020

A Corpus Linguistic Approach To Discursive Representation Of Lgbt Identities In The Bangkok Post Newspaper, Duangkamon Chuaikun

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The present study examines how each group of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) is represented discursively in Bangkok Post, a major English-language newspaper in Thailand. The data comprise LGBT-related news articles from 2012 to 2019. Statistically significant collocates of each term were extracted via AntConc and Sketch Engine and were then categorized according to their semantic relations as observed from their concordance lines. Findings from the Bangkok Post corpus show that the key terms share common semantic preference patterns that point to the discourse about LGBT political movement. However, the terms; GAY and TRANSGENDER are also associated with “crime”, …

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Minds Without Spines: Evolutionarily Inclusive Animal Ethics, Irina Mikhalevich, Russell Powell Jan 2020

Minds Without Spines: Evolutionarily Inclusive Animal Ethics, Irina Mikhalevich, Russell Powell

Animal Sentience

Invertebrate animals are frequently lumped into a single category and denied welfare protections despite their considerable cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary diversity. Some ethical and policy inroads have been made for cephalopod molluscs and crustaceans, but the vast majority of arthropods, including the insects, remain excluded from moral consideration. We argue that this exclusion is unwarranted given the existing evidence. Anachronistic readings of evolution, which view invertebrates as lower in the scala naturae, continue to influence public policy and common morality. The assumption that small brains are unlikely to support cognition or sentience likewise persists, despite growing evidence that arthropods …

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No Room For Speciesism In Welfare Considerations, Jennifer Vonk Jan 2020

No Room For Speciesism In Welfare Considerations, Jennifer Vonk

Animal Sentience

Speciesism should play no role in determining welfare outcomes. Cognition may vary within species as well as between species, but broad classifications such as invertebrates are functionally meaningless in this context. Cognition should relate to welfare only to the extent that it relates to the capacity to suffer or to experience pleasure.

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Invertebrates Should Be Given Ethical Consideration, Marie-Claire Cammaerts Jan 2020

Invertebrates Should Be Given Ethical Consideration, Marie-Claire Cammaerts

Animal Sentience

Invertebrates are far more numerous than vertebrates. Most of them are essential to the survival of humanity. Their physiology, behavior, know-how, and cognitive abilities are often as complex as those of vertebrates. Invertebrates should be considered and studied as are vertebrates, i.e., ethically, and cautiously.

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Whether Invertebrates Are Sentient Matters To Bioethics And Science Policy, Michael L. Woodruff Jan 2020

Whether Invertebrates Are Sentient Matters To Bioethics And Science Policy, Michael L. Woodruff

Animal Sentience

Mikhalevich & Powell provide convincing empirical evidence that at least some invertebrates are sentient and hence should be granted moral status. I agree and argue that functional markers should be the primary indicators of sentience. Neuroanatomical homologies provide only secondary evidence. Consensus regarding the validity of these functional markers will be difficult to achieve. To be effective in practice, functional markers of sentience will have to be tested and accepted species by species to overcome the implicit biases against extending moral status to invertebrates.

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Lessons From Miniature Brains: Cognition Cheap, Memory Expensive (Sentience Linked To Active Movement?), Giorgio Vallortigara Jan 2020

Lessons From Miniature Brains: Cognition Cheap, Memory Expensive (Sentience Linked To Active Movement?), Giorgio Vallortigara

Animal Sentience

Studies on invertebrate minds suggest that the neural machinery for basic cognition is cheap, and that bigger brains are probably associated with greater memory storage rather than more advanced cognition. Sentience may be linked to feedforward mechanisms (Reafferenzprinzip) that allow organisms with active movement to distinguish active and passive sensing. Invertebrates may offer special opportunities for testing these hypotheses.

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Sentience In All Organisms With Centralized Nervous Systems, Lori Marino Jan 2020

Sentience In All Organisms With Centralized Nervous Systems, Lori Marino

Animal Sentience

Mikhalevich & Powell (2020) argue for considering the welfare of invertebrates, especially insects, by asking whether invertebrates have the cognitive and neural characteristics necessary for sentience. This approach assumes that human neural and cognitive complexity is the basis of sentience. But insight might also be gained by turning this approach on its head and examining the notion that sentience may be a fundamental biological property, appearing very early in the evolution of life in all organisms with centralized nervous systems.

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Ethical Considerations For Invertebrates, Scarlett R. Howard, Matthew R.E. Symonds Jan 2020

Ethical Considerations For Invertebrates, Scarlett R. Howard, Matthew R.E. Symonds

Animal Sentience

Mikhalevich & Powell (2020) have built on the discussion about which species deserve inclusion in animal ethics and welfare considerations. Here, we raise questions concerning the assessment criteria. We ask how to assess different species for their ability to fulfill the criteria, which criteria are most important, how we quantify them (absolute or on a continuum), and how non-animals such as fungi and plants fit into this paradigm.

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Association Between Salivary Alpha-Amylase And Subjective And Objective Oral Parafunctions In Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals, Koji Morita, Hitomi Kimura, Fumiko Nishio, Hiroki Tsuka, Mitsuyoshi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tsuga Jan 2020

Association Between Salivary Alpha-Amylase And Subjective And Objective Oral Parafunctions In Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals, Koji Morita, Hitomi Kimura, Fumiko Nishio, Hiroki Tsuka, Mitsuyoshi Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tsuga

Journal of Dental Sciences

Background/purpose Stress in the elderly is caused by loss of physical and psychological health. Although there have been many reports on the intraoral environment affecting physical health, few reports exist on stress and the intraoral environment in the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between salivary α-amylase as an index of stress value and the intraoral environment. Materials and methods Three hundred and nineteen participants were community-dwelling independent individuals over 65 years old. The outcome variable was salivary α-amylase. After measurement, salivary α-amylase was classified into four groups (0 = 0–30, 1 = 31–45, 2 …

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Influence Of Psychological Factors On The Prognosis Of Temporomandibular Disorders Pain, Bong-Jik Suh, Won Jung, Kyung-Eun Lee Jan 2020

Influence Of Psychological Factors On The Prognosis Of Temporomandibular Disorders Pain, Bong-Jik Suh, Won Jung, Kyung-Eun Lee

Journal of Dental Sciences

Abstract Background/purpose The leading symptom of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is pain, and psychological factors are involved in the persistence of TMD-related pain. Therefore, this study was aimed to analyze the influence of psychological factors on the prognosis of TMD-related pain. Materials and methods The medical records of 486 patients with TMD-related pain were analyzed. Each patient's psychological profile was assessed using the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Patients were classified into two groups according to a post-treatment numeric rating scale (NRS). Patients with an NRS score of 0 or 1 at the last visit were classified into group G, and those with …

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Local Anesthesia In Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery: A Review Of Current Opinion, Jian Pan, Yu-Hao Wang, Dian-Ri Wang, Ji-Yuan Liu Jan 2020

Local Anesthesia In Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery: A Review Of Current Opinion, Jian Pan, Yu-Hao Wang, Dian-Ri Wang, Ji-Yuan Liu

Journal of Dental Sciences

Abstract Local anesthesia (LA) is the most important pain management process in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Safe and effective LA not only enable patients to obtain high-quality treatment, but also relieve the anxiety of patients when they come to the clinic. The choices of local anesthetic and injection methods determine the success of LA to a great extent. At present, in most countries or regions, common local anesthetics used in oral and maxillofacial surgery belong to amides and they are injected into patients' body mainly through block or infiltration anesthesia. In addition, the operators' technique level, patient's subjective psychology and …

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Does Relative Energy In Sport Undermine Bone Health?, Regina Louise Schimek Jan 2020

Does Relative Energy In Sport Undermine Bone Health?, Regina Louise Schimek

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a term expanded from the female athlete triad the is inclusive to males and females and the negative physiological symptoms impacting athlete health and performance from low energy availability. Bone health is one of the ten health consequences of RED-S. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate RED-S in female and male collegiate athletes and determine if there is an association with bone health. Thirteen participants completed an electronic survey containing the LEAF-Q and EAT-26, a three-day food diary and exercise log, and a DXA scan. Energy intake and exercise expenditure …

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Strategies For The Reduction Of Adipose Tissue And Retention Of Muscle Mass In Overweight Individuals, Christopher Joseph Kotarsky Jan 2020

Strategies For The Reduction Of Adipose Tissue And Retention Of Muscle Mass In Overweight Individuals, Christopher Joseph Kotarsky

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether time-restricted feeding (TRF) was an effective dietary strategy for reducing fat mass and preserving fat-free mass while evaluating potential changes in cardiometabolic biomarkers, hormones, muscle performance, and energy and macronutrient intake after eight weeks of aerobic exercise and resistance training in overweight and obese adults. Methods: This study was a randomized, controlled trial. Sedentary, overweight and obese adults (mean ± SD; age: 44.48 ± 7.28 years; BMI: 29.61 ± 2.62 kg/m2; females: 85.71%; males: 14.29%) were randomly assigned to a TRF or normal feeding (NF) dietary strategy group. The TRF …

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Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy From The Great War To The Great Society, Amanda Belle Biles Jan 2020

Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy From The Great War To The Great Society, Amanda Belle Biles

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played in the American moral and political order, but by the turn of the twentieth century, agriculture’s share of the overall economy had declined, even as it became enmeshed in the emerging class question that was convulsing US politics. Farm policy followed that shift. While many historians of agricultural policy in the twentieth century limited their studies to the so-called farm bills and thus saw only …

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'They Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts': Dark Tourism At Historic Sites, Kaci Lynn Johnson Jan 2020

'They Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts': Dark Tourism At Historic Sites, Kaci Lynn Johnson

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

Dark tourism, a subsection of heritage tourism, is growing in popularity and center around historic sites and museums. Those sites are put in the position to take advantage of the surging popularity of dark tourism by offering programming that complements it. Ghost tours, paranormal investigations, and haunted houses have all been utilized by museums and historic sites to boost revenue and attendance numbers. The implementation of dark programming raises difficult discussions on the role of museums in society and the ethics of profiting off of ghosts, spirits, and the paranormal. The decision to produce dark programming as a complement to …

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Reply To Joshua Mugg’S ‘How Not To Reply To The Tragic Dilemma', Charles Lassiter Jan 2020

Reply To Joshua Mugg’S ‘How Not To Reply To The Tragic Dilemma', Charles Lassiter

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

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Social Justice And Liturgical Practice: Engaging The Earth/ Cultivating Solidarity, Daniel O'Dea Bradley Jan 2020

Social Justice And Liturgical Practice: Engaging The Earth/ Cultivating Solidarity, Daniel O'Dea Bradley

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

In North America, across the political spectrum, we have a strong tendency to reduce religion to nothing more than a tool to promote our own socio-political views. Tis is a natural consequence of our hyper-polarized culture and our impoverished view of “religion.” It is also, however, a problem—particularly for those inspired by the call to renewal through an integration of the quest for social justice and the pursuit of the spiritual life. By focusing on the value of participating in religious liturgy, I show how a renewed respect for religion can help the proponents of social justice fulfill some of …

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Latching On To Information: Effects Of Information-Seeking Behavior On Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, Amy Elaine Duchsherer Jan 2020

Latching On To Information: Effects Of Information-Seeking Behavior On Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, Amy Elaine Duchsherer

Communication

Recommendations on breastfeeding in the United States suggest that infants should be exclusively breastfed for six months with continued breastfeeding in conjunction with complementary foods for at least one year. However, only 22.30% of women are exclusively breastfeeding when their infant reaches the age of six months, which indicates the existence of barriers hindering prolonged breastfeeding. In this study, I consider the factors related to information-seeking behavior that may influence breastfeeding rates. Specifically, I focus on the relationship between the sources a woman selects to receive information about breastfeeding and her level of breastfeeding self-efficacy, which has been shown to …

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Predicting Disclosure Of Student Mental Health Problems To Instructors: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective, Emily Marie Haverkamp Jan 2020

Predicting Disclosure Of Student Mental Health Problems To Instructors: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective, Emily Marie Haverkamp

Communication

The transitional period of attending college marks a shift towards personal independence for students. The management of conversational topics requires students to determine how they share information. Management of mental health information is a critical topic that cannot be overlooked during these re-negotiation periods. The goal of this study was to examine how the five privacy rule development criteria (culture, context, motivation, risk/benefit gender) of Communication Privacy Management Theory predict a college student’s likelihood to reveal a mental health problem to their instructor. Using multiple regression, bivariate linear regression, and factorial ANOVA, this study revealed that the CPM rule development …

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Comparison Of The Effects Of Pulmonary And Extra-Pulmonary Symptoms On Health-Related Quality Of Life In Patients With Severe Asthma, Joseph W. Lanario, Michael E. Hyland, Yinghui Wei, Rupert C. Jones, Matthew Masoli Jan 2020

Comparison Of The Effects Of Pulmonary And Extra-Pulmonary Symptoms On Health-Related Quality Of Life In Patients With Severe Asthma, Joseph W. Lanario, Michael E. Hyland, Yinghui Wei, Rupert C. Jones, Matthew Masoli

More Faculty of Health Research

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Developing And Validating Active Learning Engagement Strategies To Improve Students' Understanding Of Programming And Software Engineering Concepts, Tamaike Mariane Brown Jan 2020

Developing And Validating Active Learning Engagement Strategies To Improve Students' Understanding Of Programming And Software Engineering Concepts, Tamaike Mariane Brown

Computer Science

Introductory computer programming course is one of the fundamental courses in computer science. Students enrolled in computer science courses at the college or university have been reported to lack motivation, and engagement when learning introductory programming (CS1). Traditional classrooms with lecture-based delivery of content do not meet the needs of the students that are being exposed to programming courses for the first time. Students enrolled in first year programming courses are better served with a platform that can provide them with a self-paced learning environment, quicker feedback, easier access to information and different level of learning content/assessment that can keep …

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A Comparative Study On Different Big Data Tools, Sifat Ibtisum Jan 2020

A Comparative Study On Different Big Data Tools, Sifat Ibtisum

Computer Science

Big data has long been the topic of fascination for computer science enthusiasts around the world, and has gained even more prominence in recent times with the continuous explosion of data resulting from the likes of social media and the quest for tech giants to gain access to deeper analysis. This paper discusses various tools in big data technology and conducts a comparison among them. Different tools namely Sqoop, Apache Flume, Apache Kafka, Hive, Spark and many more are included. Various datasets are used for the experiment and a comparative study is made to figure out which tool works faster …

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Developing And Testing A Nurse-Led Intervention To Support Bereavement In Relatives In The Intensive Care (Bric Study): A Protocol Of A Pre-Post Intervention Study, Mol Mmc Van, Sebastian Wagener, Jos M. Latour, Paul A. Boelen, Peter E. Spronk, Uil Ca Den, Judith A.C. Rietjens Jan 2020

Developing And Testing A Nurse-Led Intervention To Support Bereavement In Relatives In The Intensive Care (Bric Study): A Protocol Of A Pre-Post Intervention Study, Mol Mmc Van, Sebastian Wagener, Jos M. Latour, Paul A. Boelen, Peter E. Spronk, Uil Ca Den, Judith A.C. Rietjens

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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