Bioremediation: Step towards Improving Human Welfare

One Welfare - a platform for improving human and animal welfare.

Adopting the concept of One Welfare could help to improve animal welfare and human wellbeing worldwide, argue Rebeca García Pinillos, Michael Appleby, Xavier Manteca, Freda Scott-Park, Charles Smith and Antonio Velarde.

Breeding Focus 2016 – Improving Welfare

Immune responses to improving welfare

The relationship between animal welfare and the immune status of an animal has a complex nature. Indeed, the intuitive notion that "increased vigilance of the immune system is by definition better" because it is expected to better keep the animal healthy, does not hold up under scrutiny. This is mostly due to the fact that the immune system consists of 2 distinct branches, the innate and the ad...

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Latin America’s indigenous women are as diverse as the land they inhabit. Their uniqueness is shaped by belonging to groups that have their own distinct history, traditions, and identity. Yet despite this diversity, indigenous women confront the same human rights challenges: racial, gender, and socio-economic discrimination. Without ignoring the diversity of indigenous women, a better understan...

One Step towards Virtual Human Management for Urban Environment Simulation

In this paper , we present an approach to integrate different applications for a virtual human simulation in a complex environment. We present the design of one system and the integration of the various features: creation and use of information extracted from the environment and crowd management.