Bienestar animal

Documentos de trabajo Dinámicas del Estado del bienestar

The goal in the present paper is twofold, to shed some light on endogenous dynamic of the welfare states, and to provide a procedure to select among several equilibria. To this end, a dynamic model is presented, in which private agents are assumed to be "locked" to current decisions for a while. If "frictions" are large enough, the economy might exhibit more than one stable Paretorankable stati...

Animal communication, animal minds, and animal language

The communication systems of nonhuman animals are reviewed, together with a discussion of their relevance for the evolution of human language. The teaching of language to nonhumans, as well as signs of mind and consciousness outside our species, are considered as possible bridges between us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Impact of the Bienestar school-based diabetes mellitus prevention program on fasting capillary glucose levels: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a school-based diabetes mellitus prevention program on low-income fourth-grade Mexican American children. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial with 13 intervention and 14 control schools. SETTING Elementary schools in inner-city neighborhoods in San Antonio, Tex. PARTICIPANTS Eighty percent of participants were Mexican American and 94% were from economi...

Animal Mycoplasmosis in Iran

Animal cognition and animal behaviour

Cognitive processes such as perception, learning, memory and decision making play an important role in mate choice, foraging and many other behaviours. In this review, I summarize a few key ideas about animal cognition developed in a recent book (Shettleworth 1998, Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour) and briefly review some areas in which interdisciplinary research on animal cognition is curren...