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Journal articles on the topic "Cats and babies"
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Sjölander, Sverre. "Singing Birds, Playing Cats, and Babbling Babies: Why Do They Do It?" Phonetica 57, no. 2-4 (2000): 197–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000028473.
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Okolelov, V. I., S. A. Teplyashina, and N. P. Pokidanov. "CHARACTERISTIC OF TOXOPLASMOSIS AND TSISTOIZOSPOROZ CARNIVOROUS." Innovations and Food Safety, no. 1 (March 28, 2019): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31677/2311-0651-2019-23-1-89-94.
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The carried-out literary review on toxoplasmosis and cystoizosporosis of carnivorous has shown that it is activators from group of protozoa. Types - Toxoplasma gondii, C. felis and C. rivolta parasitize at cats, Cystoisospora ohioensis at dogs, proceed most often in a subclinical form, are registered at all seasons of the year. Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. The disease is quite common and can infect most types of warm-blooded animals,,, including,, humans. Puppies and kittens are most often exposed to disease in the first months of life. This disease is widespread because its carriers could be found absolutely everywhere. Cats and dogs are the most popular pets. People directly contact with them. In Europe, Russia take up a middle position. Up to 30 % of the population is infected. Approximately one in a thousand babies are infected with toxoplasmosis. It can develop completely unnoticed and cause unpleasant complications during pregnancy. The disease can also cause vision impairment or convulsive seizures. That is why it is better to know everything about toxoplasmosis. This is especially important if you have a cat or a dog, because pets are often very close to us. We should properly take care of our pets and keep them healthy.
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Allison, John D., Vivien A. Casagrande, Edward J. Debruyn, and A. B. Bonds. "Contrast adaptation in striate cortical neurons of the nocturnal primate bush baby (Galago crassicaudatus)." Visual Neuroscience 10, no. 6 (November 1993): 1129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952523800010233.
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AbstractIt has been argued that in order for the visual system to detect edges accurately under a range of conditions, the visual system needs to adapt to the local contrast level to preserve sensitivity (Blakemore & Campbell, 1969). Cells in the primary visual cortex of cats adapt to stimuli with low to moderate contrast. Curiously, macaque monkey neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) do not show evidence for similar adaptation. To address the question of whether this differential sensitivity in contrast adaptation might be due to phylogenetic variation between cats and primates or to specializations for visual niche (e.g. nocturnal vs. diurnal), contrast adaptation to temporally and spatially optimized gratings was examined in 30 V1 cells of three nocturnal primate bush babies (Galago crassicaudatus). A second objective was to examine the relationship between the degree of contrast adaptation and cell classification or cell location relative to cortical layers or compartments [i.e. cytochrome-oxidase (CO) blobs and interblobs]. All cells were classified (simple vs. complex) and anatomically localized relative to cortical layers and cytochrome-oxidase (CO) blob and interblob compartments. Two independent measures of contrast adaptation were used. In the first test, contrast was sequentially increased from 3–56% and then decreased. The contrast required to maintain a half-maximum response amplitude in the 30 cells tested increased an average of 0.24 (±0.12) log units during the sequential decrements in contrast. For the second test, four sets of five interleaved contrasts within ±1 octave of a central adapting contrast (10%, 14%, 20%, and 28%, respectively) were presented. The cells produced a mean adaptation index of 0.57 (±0.47) which is very similar to that exhibited by cat cortical neurons (0.54 ± 0.41). Interestingly, cells in interblobs showed a trend toward greater adaptation than did blob cells. Moreover, cells in the supragranular layers exhibited greater adaptation than cells in the infragranular layers. No significant differences in adaptation were found to correlate with other cell classification indices. Taken together, our results suggest that contrast adaptation may be more important for maintaining sensitivity in nocturnal species (primates or cats) than in diurnal species (macaque monkeys), and that in the nocturnal bush baby, cells in cortical layers and compartments may be differentially specialized for contrast adaptation.
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Kidd, Aline H., and Robert M. Kidd. "Reactions of Infants and Toddlers to Live and Toy Animals." Psychological Reports 61, no. 2 (October 1987): 455–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.61.2.455.
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250 infants, 25 boys and 25 girls each in the 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, and 30-mo. age groups, were individually observed with a mechanical toy dog which barked and moved realistically, a contact-comfort mechanical cat which purred and meowed when hugged and petted, and the family dog(s) and/or cat(s), presented in random order. An investigator-generated checklist of proximity-seeking and contact-promoting behaviors was used to record subject responses demonstrating whether the infants attached to pets because of tactual qualities, sounds, movement, familiarity, and/or behavioral qualities. It was hypothesized that as babies age, their responses to the live pet and toy animals would become progressively dissimilar and that older infants would show significantly more attachment behaviors and would spend significantly more time observing and interacting with live pets than with toy animals. Data support the hypotheses and indicate significant differences in the quantity of attachment behaviors toward live pets and toy animals at one year. From one year on, dogs are significantly preferred to cats by both sexes. During the first year, boys show significantly more attachment behaviors than girls; the two sexes are equal at 18 mo., and girls show significantly mote attachment behaviors than boys at 24 and 30 mo.
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Polanunu, Nurul Fadilah Ali, Sitti Wahyuni, and Firdaus Hamid. "Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of Toxoplasma gondii infection among pregnant mother in Makassar, Indonesia." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 4, 2021): e0245572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245572.
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The protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii is estimated to infect one-third of the world’s population. Infection in pregnant women can cause severe conditions for their babies. Until now, there is no data regarding Toxoplasma infection from Makassar pregnant mothers. This study aims to obtain information on Toxoplasma specific antibodies and to measure the risk factor associate with parasite infection. This cross-sectional study conducted in 9 of 47 primary health centres (Puskesmas) in Makassar. Blood samples and questionnaires were collected from 184 pregnant women aged 15–42 years old from September to October 2020. ELISA technique was used to examine the IgG and IgM antibodies. Univariable and multivariable analyses were carried out to measure factors that independently associate with Toxoplasma antibody positivity. Our result showed the range of Toxoplasma IgM and IgG are 0.06–1.01 and 0.09–3.01, respectively. While no one of our participants has an acute Toxoplasma gondii infection (IgM positive), we found 32,6% pregnant mothers are exposed to parasite (positive IgG). Contact with cats [OR(95%CI): 10.45(3.77–28.99)], consume chicken satay [OR(95%CI): 9.72(3.71–25.48)] and consume un-boiled water/ filtered water [OR(95%CI): 5.98(1.77–20.23)] are independently associate with positive Toxoplasma IgG antibody. Based on the result, we conclude that pregnant women in Makassar are exposed to T. gondii and the oocyst and tissue cyst of parasite contaminates food and water in Makassar.
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Penry-Jones, K., D. R. Boswell, and R. Tongue. "Restraint of babies in cars." BMJ 292, no. 6520 (March 1, 1986): 591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6520.591.
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Avery, J. G., and H. R. Hayes. "Restraint of babies in cars." BMJ 292, no. 6525 (April 5, 1986): 959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6525.959-b.
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van den Berg, Axel. "Of Babies and Bath Water." Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 55, no. 2 (April 10, 2018): 319–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cars.12202.
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Raffles, A. "Points: Restraint of babies in cars." BMJ 292, no. 6524 (March 29, 1986): 903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6524.903-e.
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Young, T. B. "Points: Restraint of babies in cars." BMJ 292, no. 6525 (April 5, 1986): 961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6525.961-d.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Cats and babies"
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SAVIO, DAVIDE. "LE CARTE, IL CAOS, IL COSMO: ITALO CALVINO NEL "CASTELLO DEI DESTINI INCROCIATI"." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/3160.
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Nel presente lavoro vengono suggerite nuove strategie di lettura per un’opera che costituisce un unicum, non solo nella produzione narrativa di Italo Calvino, ma certamente anche nella storia letteraria del Novecento. Il castello dei destini incrociati (1973) viene interpretato in senso cartografico, come il tentativo di mappare un mondo labirintico, dai significati inesauribili e comunque destinato a farsi inghiottire dal gorgo della modernità. Pur conservando i tratti del romanzo enciclopedico, viene messo in luce come il Castello si sottragga al desiderio di rappresentare la totalità, scegliendo piuttosto la strada del potenziale e della metamorfosi, nel tentativo di individuare i fattori primi di ogni storia narrabile. Un po’ torre di Babele e un po’ arca dell’alleanza, emerge nel lavoro come il libro nasca dal bisogno di verificare le ragioni della letteratura e di rivisitare il ruolo dell’intellettuale: sul finire degli anni sessanta, Calvino allestisce in chiave allegorica e figurale un’allarmata riflessione sulla convivenza, profetizzando l’apocalisse di un mondo che è chiamato a recuperare l’antica fiducia nella progettazione e nell’utopia.This work suggests new reading strategies for a novel that represents a singular event, not only in Italo Calvino’s narrative production, but also in the history of Nineteenth-Century literature. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) is approached in a cartographical way, as an attempt to give the map of a labyrinthine world, complicated by inexhaustible meanings and, in any case, destined to be swallowed by Modernity’s wheel. Though conserving the features of the encyclopaedic novel, the Castle is shown as a book that tries to dodge the desire to represent the world as a whole, as a totality: on the contrary, it chooses to go through the paths of potentiality and metamorphosis, seeking the prime factors of every possible story. The Castle is a sort of Tower of Babel, an Ark of the Covenant: Savio’s thesis underlines that this novel grows out of the need to check the reasons of literature and to rethink the role of intellectuals: in the end of the Sixties, allegorically and figurally, Calvino sets up an alarmed reflection about the coexistence of mankind, foretelling the apocalypse of a world that is called to rescue its old faith in planning and utopia.
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Stens, Cassandra, Isabella Enoksson, and Sara Berggren. "The CRISPR-Cas system." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171997.
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Derived from and inspired by the adaptive immune system of bacteria, CRISPR has gone from basic biology knowledge to a revolutionizing biotechnological tool, applicable in many research areas such as medicine, industry and agriculture. The full mechanism of CRISPR-Cas9 was first published in 2012 and various CRISPR-Cas systems have already passed the first stages of clinical trials as new gene therapies. The immense research has resulted in continuously growing knowledge of CRISPR systems and the technique seems to have the potential to greatly impact all life on our planet. Therefore, this literature study aims to thoroughly describe the CRISPR-Cas system, and further suggest an undergraduate laboratory exercise involving gene editing with the CRISPR-Cas9 tool. In this paper, we describe the fundamental technical background of the CRISPR-Cas system, especially emphasizing the most studied CRISPR-Cas9 system, its development and applications areas, as well as highlighting its current limitations and ethical concerns. The history of genetic engineering and the discovery of the CRISPR system is also described, along with a comparison with other established gene editing techniques. This study concludes that a deeper knowledge about CRISPR is important and required since the technique is applicable in many research areas. A laboratory exercise will not only inspire but also provide extended theoretical and practical knowledge for undergraduate students.
Books on the topic "Cats and babies"
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ill, Hines Anna Grossnickle, ed. Bean. San Diego, CA: Red Wagon Books/Harcourt Brace, 1998.
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Parrington, John. "The Gene Scissors." In Redesigning Life, 82–110. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766834.003.0005.
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We are currently in the middle of a revolution in the biological sciences. The genome project made it possible to read the sequence of individual genomes, but what was lacking until recently was a way to rewrite particular genes in a living cell in an accurate, rapid, and economical fashion. This is now possible thanks to the invention of molecular ‘scissors’, based on natural mechanisms in the cell, that make it possible to cut the genome at a particular point, after which the cell’s own natural repair mechanisms edit the gene as directed. The most revolutionary of the molecular scissors is one called CRISPR/Cas. This is based on a process discovered in bacteria that normally acts to destroy viruses that invade the bacterium. Reprogrammed, CRISPR/Cas now makes it possible to accurately edit the genome of any living cell of practically any species, for a fraction of the time and cost required by other genome editing approaches. Not only can this approach be used to edit the sequence of genomes but also to switch genes on or off at will. CRISPR/Cas is revolutionising medical research and looks set to do the same for clinical medicine and agriculture. But it is also the source of much controversy as recently a scientific team in China used this approach to create genome edited babies, and in general some people fear the speed at which this new technology is developing and its potential for misuse. These are all issues that are explored in subsequent chapters of this book.
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Fox, Raymond. "Movies: Media as Message." In The Use of Self. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616144.003.0016.
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Media are powerful and creative instruments for stimulating motivation, arousing interest, and sustaining engagement in the educational process. McLuhan stresses the importance of vision in the broadest sense. Movies enhance and enrich the learning atmosphere as they depict universal themes and compel attention to essential interactions. Making visual the radiance of humanity, media unify the learner and teacher in mutual and mindful reflection. Movies constitute one among many forms of media—including music, television shows, and literature—available for you to enliven lessons, to provide variety in class presentations, to augment conceptual frameworks, and to help your students better understand themselves, their clients, and the transactions between them. Movies can shed new light on themes, situations, and dilemmas students face daily. They can also cast into the foreground themes, situations, and dilemmas with which students have no previous firsthand acquaintance. Movies enhance deepened reflection. They endow lessons with added value. This chapter suggests movies suitable for use in courses in family treatment, teaching, and clinical practice. It focuses on the compelling nature of films and offers some guideposts for considering and selecting movies for your own courses. Popular culture engages us with the world. Students are exquisitely attracted and attuned to visual stimulation. Portraying some of the most basic issues in human existence, movies can prompt students to take a more thoughtful look at the dynamics influencing clients and their environment. Such portrayal becomes an indelible lesson. ‘‘Moving pictures’’ are ‘‘moving’’ in a number of respects. They are active. They are compelling. They touch an emotional chord. They move students toward lively discussion. They move, supplement, and augment textual and case material. Movies poignantly capture relevant issues in the human condition—such as the suffering of physical illness and its consequences as portrayed in Lorenzo’s Oil, the emotional isolation of a family as shown in Ordinary People, the tumult depicted in Babe, the question of mental illness as seen in Don Juan DeMarco, and clinicians’ angst as in Equus.
Conference papers on the topic "Cats and babies"
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Saji, Genn. "Estimation of Thyroid Doses From Land Contamination Maps for the Fukushima Disaster." In 2012 20th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering and the ASME 2012 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone20-power2012-55048.
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Starting with sketchy information acquired during the still on-going Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the thyroid doses were estimated, based on the detailed and precise Cs-137 land contamination density maps constructed through a joint effort of MEXT and US DOE/NNEA. The basic methodology has already been benchmarked in the assessment of the radiological consequences of the Chernobyl accident [1]. From the release fraction assessment based on the contamination maps as well as on-site meteorological data obtained and reported by TEPCO’s temporary monitoring cars, the heavy land contamination zone stretching to a NW direction was found induced with the hydrogen explosion which occurred in 1F1 at 15:36 of March 12, only one day after the tsunami. Due to this early iodine release, the shorter half-lived I-133 induced an additional 20% more thyroid doses from I-131 through inhalation. The results, as presented in Table 7 and Figure 3, predicted rather large thyroid doses, comparable but less than the author’ previous estimation of thyroid doses through inhalation pathway among the public living near the Chernobyl NPP during the disaster. However, age specific doses are more widely spreading among children aged less than 15 years old and not distinctively large among babies, thanks to early restriction of fresh milk. It should be noted that, above Zone V (300K-1000K/m2 in Cs-137), the estimated thyroid doses with a range of several tens of mGy are already of concern in a possible future outbreak of hypothyroidism. However, if the exposed individuals happened to be staying indoors at the time of plume passage, an order of magnitude of reduction is expected, although the alleviating effects depends on the airtightness of buildings. Even with these uncertainties, the estimated thyroid dose calls for continued health monitoring of those young residents who happened to be staying in these highly contaminated zones at the time of the plume passage.