To those who primarily associate the word “humane” with “humane society”, its connection to criminology might appear be unrelated. The origins of and society” are complex reflect an abiding interest in human societal welfare rather than animal welfare. Consequently, evolution current American association humane societies protection—as contrasted British rescuing victims drowning—remain shrouded...

In many educational institutions, animals historically have been and commonly remain the subjects of markedly invasive procedures, which sometimes result in death. these are conducted in order to demonstrate scientific concepts or teach practical skills to students of surgery, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, and parasitology. Hundreds of humane teaching methods have been develo...

The overwhelming majority of farmed fish produced throughout the world are killed with little or no consideration for their welfare. Fasting periods can be excessive, transport stressful and killing inhumane. At the time of writing, the salmon industry is the only sector in which consideration of the welfare of the fish at slaughter has resulted in significant improvements throughout most of th...

Humane OWL (HOWL) is a syntax for RDF and OWL designed for manual editing. By allowing human-readable labels to be used in place of IRIs, and providing convenient syntax for OWL annotations and expressions, HOWL files can be used like source code with tools such as GitHub, then translated into any other RDF or OWL format for use with other tools. Keywords—RDF, OWL, syntax, source code