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- March 12, 2014
- 07:41 PM
- 42 views
Canines and Castles: 4th Canine Science Forum Abstract & Early Bird Registration Deadline Friday
by Cobb & Hecht in Do You Believe In Dog?
“Two canine scientists, Julie Hecht and Mia Cobb, met briefly at a conference in Barcelona in late July 2012. They share a passion for canine science, good communication, social media and fun.” So reads the 'About' page at Do You Believe in Dog?. After a brief hello at the 3rd Canine Science Forum in Barcelona, we decided to embark on an adventure as digital pen pals, taking turns blogging on topics related to our own research, that of other research groups and general dog science themes.&n........ Read more »
Cobb Mia, Branson Nick, & McGreevy Paul. (2013) Advancing the welfare of Australia’s iconic working dogs. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 8(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.04.054
Hecht J., & Horowitz A. (2013) Physical prompts to anthropomorphism of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 8(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.04.013
Racca A., Range F., Virányi Z., & Huber L. (2013) Discrimination of familiar human faces in domestic dogs. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 8(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.04.071
Dreschel N.A., & Entendencia K. (2013) Stress during certification testing in prison drug detection dogs and their handlers. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 8(4). DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.04.005
Howell Tiffani J., Toukhsati Samia, Conduit Russell, & Bennett Pauleen. (2013) Do dogs use a mirror to find hidden food?. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 8(6), 425-430. DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2013.07.002
- March 12, 2014
- 04:12 PM
- 32 views
Audience analysis chart
by Olga Vovk in Milchstraße
A helpful way of gathering information about your readers is to conduct an audience analysis using a chart where on the x axis you list all possible and potential audiences you consider and on the y axis list audience analysis questions. ... Read more »
Carrie Ann Koplinka-Loehr. (1984) The Use of Educational Theory in Science Writing: Audience Analysis and Accommodation. Cornell University. info:/
Kibiwott Peter Kurgat. (2011) Needs Analysis in Writing: a study into academic writing needs of undergraduate students. Lambert Acdemic Publishing. DOI: ISBN: 978-3-8443-8735-3
Butcher, G. (2005) Using audience analysis in the development of web sites. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. info:other/#ED53B-01
- March 7, 2014
- 02:15 AM
- 67 views
How intensive care is linked to cognitive defecits
by Rebekah Morrow in United Academics
Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) often develop cognitive deficits. The symptoms are very similar to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. New research focuses on this link. ... Read more »
Pandharipande PP1, Girard TD, Jackson JC, Morandi A, Thompson JL, Pun BT, Brummel NE, Hughes CG, Vasilevskis EE, Shintani AK, Moons KG, Geevarghese SK, Canonico A, Hopkins RO, Bernard GR, Dittus RS, Ely EW; BRAIN-ICU Study Investigators. (2014) Long-Term Cognitive Impairment after Critical Illness. New England Journal of Medicine, 370(2), 184-186. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1313886
Bohannon, R., Maljanian, R., & Ferullo, J. (2013) Mortality and readmission of the elderly one year after hospitalization for pneumonia. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 16(1), 22-25. DOI: 10.1007/BF03324527
- March 6, 2014
- 09:07 AM
- 88 views
What’s My Sex Again? Self-image And Gender Affected By Media
by Eva de Lozanne in United Academics
Study shows that sex-priming substantially influences gender-based self-perception... Read more »
Hundhammer, T., & Mussweiler, T. (2012) How sex puts you in gendered shoes: Sexuality-priming leads to gender-based self-perception and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(1), 176-193. DOI: 10.1037/a0028121
- March 3, 2014
- 10:10 AM
- 71 views
Why People Pay Fortunes For Celebrity Memorabilia
by Agnese Mariotti in United Academics
Objects that belonged to famous personalities are very wanted. People pay incredibly high prices to obtain them. Researchers found that the price of an object was influenced by the estimated amount of physical contact that the celebrity had with it. Two theories may explain this finding. ... Read more »
Newman, G., & Bloom, P. (2014) Physical contact influences how much people pay at celebrity auctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313637111
- March 2, 2014
- 12:13 AM
- 98 views
Tree types of audience
by Olga Vovk in Milchstraße
Interestingly enough, as soon as one starts answering audience analysis questions, one realizes that there is more than one potential audience. Sometimes one can count 3 to 6 (and even more) different groups of people who made up for different audiences. Yes they all will read your communication.... Read more »
Carrie Ann Koplinka-Loehr. (1984) The Use of Educational Theory in Science Writing: Audience Analysis and Accommodation. Cornell University. info:/
Kibiwott Peter Kurgat. (2011) Needs Analysis in Writing: a study into academic writing needs of undergraduate students. Lambert Acdemic Publishing. DOI: ISBN: 978-3-8443-8735-3
Butcher, G. (2005) Using audience analysis in the development of web sites. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. info:other/#ED53B-01
- March 1, 2014
- 07:42 AM
- 67 views
Suicide in organisms can benefit kin
by Flora Brils in United Academics
Researchers found that in single-celled algae, suicide is altruistic and helps the organism’s relatives. An interview with the researcher about his findings and the implications for human suicide.... Read more »
Durand, P., Choudhury, R., Rashidi, A., & Michod, R. (2014) Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects. Biology Letters, 10(2), 20131088-20131088. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1088
- February 28, 2014
- 05:10 AM
- 90 views
Sing me a song: the link between bird song and classical music
by Nura Rutten in United Academics
Researchers define the attractiveness of bird song to humans... Read more »
Blackburn, T., Su, S., & Cassey, P. (2014) A Potential Metric of the Attractiveness of Bird Song to Humans. Ethology. DOI: 10.1111/eth.12211
Watanabe, S., & Sato, K. (1999) Discriminative stimulus properties of music in Java sparrows. Behavioural Processes, 47(1), 53-57. DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00049-2
Hsu, K., & Hsu, A. (1990) Fractal geometry of music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87(3), 938-941. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.3.938
- February 24, 2014
- 03:06 PM
- 78 views
Audience analysis – 1
by olga Vovk in Milchstraße
The audience analysis is an important task, which should be done at the very beginning of the writing process, but which is often overlooked in both scientific, technical, and technology writing.... Read more »
Carrie Ann Koplinka-Loehr. (1984) The Use of Educational Theory in Science Writing: Audience Analysis and Accommodation. Cornell University. info:/
Kibiwott Peter Kurgat. (2011) Needs Analysis in Writing: a study into academic writing needs of undergraduate students. Lambert Acdemic Publishing. DOI: ISBN: 978-3-8443-8735-3
- February 21, 2014
- 08:21 AM
- 106 views
Virtual Customer Service Agents: Any Help?
by Nura Rutten in United Academics
Perhaps you are able to recall this, but there was a time that if you had a question or a complaint, you could go to a building, with a desk, and there was an actual person to talk to and get annoyed with. Nowadays, you type hours of your life away writing emails or filling in contact forms, while being on hold at the customer service for days in a row. However, not long ago, the virtual customer service agent (VCSA) appeared. ... Read more »
Tibert Verhagen, Jaap van Nes, Frans Feldberg, & Willemijn van Dolen. (2014) Virtual Customer Service Agents: Using Social Presence and Personalization to Shape Online Service Encounters. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12066
- February 21, 2014
- 02:51 AM
- 115 views
No Sex Please: Understanding Asexuality
by Elisabeth Buhl Thubron in United Academics
Lack of sexual interest in a highly sexualised Western society: how does that work? Interest in this topic has sky-rocketed in the past decade, yet we still know very little about it. Once thought to be a psychological or biological disorder, asexuality is slowly being accepted as a normal orientation separate from sexual orientations such as heterosexuality and homosexuality.... Read more »
Van Houdenhove E, Gijs L, T'sjoen G, & Enzlin P. (2013) Asexuality: Few Facts, Many Questions. Journal of sex . PMID: 24134401
Van Houdenhove, E., Gijs, L., T’Sjoen, G. And Enzlin. (2014) Stories about asexuality: A qualitative study in asexual women. Journal of Sex . DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2014.889053
- February 20, 2014
- 10:17 PM
- 172 views
Smart Materials from Nanotechnology for Global Challenges
by JNSM in JScholar Publishers
There are several open challenges that our society has to address in the near future: produce sufficient amounts of clean energy from renewable sources, design new technologies that enable a sustainable economic growth, address some relevant environmental issues like quality of air and water or waste recycling, improve our standard of life via more accurate diagnostic tools and new medical treatments, just to mention a few. Most of these challenges deal with the design, synthesis, characterizati........ Read more »
Gianfranco Pacchioni. (2014) Smart Materials from Nanotechnology for Global Challenges. Journal of Nanotechnology and Smart Materials, 1(1), 1-1. info:/1: 101
- February 12, 2014
- 07:47 PM
- 113 views
Scientific Approaches to Enriching the Lives of Sanctuary Wolves and Wolf-Dog “Hybrids”
by Cobb & Hecht in Do You Believe In Dog?
Hi Julie and Mia, I wanted to update you on some unique but exciting research that I conducted while working toward my Ph.D. at the University of Florida’s Canine Cognition and Behavior Lab. This particular research focuses on the welfare of wolves and wolf-dog “hybrids” in private sanctuaries.The common use of the term “hybrid” is perhaps the first indication of how poorly we understand these animals. The term “hybrid” is technically inaccurate – as wolves and domestic dogs are ........ Read more »
Mehrkam Lindsay R., Verdi Nicolle T., & Wynne Clive D. L. (2014) Human Interaction as Environmental Enrichment for Pair-Housed Wolves and Wolf–Dog Crosses. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 17(1), 43-58. DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2014.856246
- February 11, 2014
- 02:49 AM
- 128 views
Is Parapsychology a "Taboo" Subject in Science?
by Scott McGreal in Eye on Psych
An opinion piece recently published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, endorsed by 90 signatories calls for a more “open-minded” consideration of the subject. What particularly struck me about this piece was the claim that investigation into the subject is not just controversial, but actually “taboo”. Examination of the history of parapsychology indicates that the scientific mainstream has shown considerable open-mindedness towards the subject, and that claims that it ha........ Read more »
Cardeña, E. (2014) A call for an open, informed study of all aspects of consciousness. [Opinion]. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00017
- February 4, 2014
- 06:50 AM
- 134 views
Stereotypical dogs: repetitive and pointless?
by Cobb & Hecht in Do You Believe In Dog?
"I'm a labrador" does not = "I'm hungry" (source)Hey Julie,it's great to get an updated view of what's on the canine science cards for you in 2014 - looks like we're both going to be keeping busy - and wouldn't have it any other way!I can't believe we're already into February, to be honest. There are so many great new publications coming out, it's quite exciting to be able to share them with you here! You know I'm always thinking about the welfare of kennelled dogs (because PhD!) and I noticed a........ Read more »
Denham Hamish D.C., Bradshaw John W.S., & Rooney Nicola J. (2014) Repetitive behaviour in kennelled domestic dog: Stereotypical or not?. Physiology . DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.007
DALLAIRE ANDRÉ. (1993) Stress and Behavior in Domestic Animals: Temperament as a Predisposing Factor to Stereotypies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 697(1 Corticotropin), 269-274. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1993.tb49940.x
- January 30, 2014
- 03:29 PM
- 126 views
More Money, More Votes?
by Nura Rutten in United Academics
How a politician’s income influences our votes... Read more »
Campbell, R., & Cowley, P. (2013) Rich Man, Poor Man, Politician Man: Wealth Effects in a Candidate Biography Survey Experiment. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. DOI: 10.1111/1467-856X.12002
Mughan, A. (2009) Partisan Dealignment, Party Attachments and Leader Effects. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion . DOI: 10.1080/17457280903275238
- January 22, 2014
- 09:10 AM
- 143 views
Shy Women At Risk Of Poor Sex Life
by Flora Brils in United Academics
While it is a taboo to talk about, a lot people face troubles in their sex lives. A new study explored whether female sexual dysfunction is related to certain personality traits and coping strategies. Introvert women seem to be at a greater risk for sexual problems.... Read more »
Crisp, C., Vaccaro, C., Pancholy, A., Kleeman, S., Fellner, A., & Pauls, R. (2013) Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study. Sexual Medicine, 1(2), 69-75. DOI: 10.1002/sm2.16
- January 15, 2014
- 09:52 AM
- 162 views
Drug Labeling Influences Effects Of Painkillers
by Agnese Mariotti in United Academics
Researchers discovered surprising placebo effects. For example, properly labeled placebo had a painkilling effect; this observation indicates that the ritual of taking a pill contributes to the treatment’s effect.... Read more »
Kam-Hansen S, Jakubowski M, Kelley JM, Kirsch I, Hoaglin DC, Kaptchuk TJ, & Burstein R. (2014) Altered placebo and drug labeling changes the outcome of episodic migraine attacks. Science translational medicine, 6(218). PMID: 24401940
Finniss DG, Kaptchuk TJ, Miller F, & Benedetti F. (2010) Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects. Lancet, 375(9715), 686-95. PMID: 20171404
- December 23, 2013
- 05:43 AM
- 242 views
Dr. Kevin Beaver the Apostle
by nooffensebut in The Unsilenced Science
Dr. Kevin Beaver followed my advice and was able to show that black men with MAOA-2R are especially likely to shoot or stab. Self-righteous critics sternly wag their fingers.... Read more »
Beaver KM, Barnes JC, & Boutwell BB. (2013) The 2-Repeat Allele of the MAOA Gene Confers an Increased Risk for Shooting and Stabbing Behaviors. The Psychiatric quarterly. PMID: 24326626
Piton A, Redin C, & Mandel JL. (2013) XLID-causing mutations and associated genes challenged in light of data from large-scale human exome sequencing. American journal of human genetics, 93(2), 368-83. PMID: 23871722
Tielbeek JJ, Medland SE, Benyamin B, Byrne EM, Heath AC, Madden PA, Martin NG, Wray NR, & Verweij KJ. (2012) Unraveling the genetic etiology of adult antisocial behavior: a genome-wide association study. PloS one, 7(10). PMID: 23077488
Vimaleswaran KS, Tachmazidou I, Zhao JH, Hirschhorn JN, Dudbridge F, & Loos RJ. (2012) Candidate genes for obesity-susceptibility show enriched association within a large genome-wide association study for BMI. Human molecular genetics, 21(20), 4537-42. PMID: 22791748
- December 8, 2013
- 10:03 AM
- 264 views
The Stupid Stupidity Surrounding the Warrior Gene, MAOA, is Stupid
by nooffensebut in The Unsilenced Science
This is a thorough review of everything stupid ever said about the warrior gene, MAOA.... Read more »
Byrd AL, & Manuck SB. (2013) MAOA, Childhood Maltreatment, and Antisocial Behavior: Meta-analysis of a Gene-Environment Interaction. Biological psychiatry. PMID: 23786983
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