The Canadian seal hunt is the world’s largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals and, as such, has been the subject of veterinary scrutiny for half a century. In that time, veterinary experts have made multiple recommendations to improve welfare at the seal hunt, some of which have been included in Canadian sealing regulations. Yet analysis of video material and studies on the outcomes of t...

The standard Bowen model of political competition with single-peaked preferences (Bowen, 1943) predicts party convergence to the median voter’s ideal policy, number equilibrium policies not exceeding two. This result assumes majority rule and a unidimensional policy space. We extend this static dynamic economies where voting is supermajority rule, space totally ordered. show that exact equilibr...

Research describing physical therapy interventions for patients diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is limited. [1,2]. Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is a rare, devastating diagnosis that involves unilateral peripheral facial paralysis and in some cases vesicular rash on the ear or in the mouth. Physical therapy treatment for facial paralysis includes transcutaneous electrical stimulation, massage, neuro...

Studies of gastric emptying in dogs, rats, and man have demonstrated that solutions of various substances empty in a characteristic manner. This topic has been reviewed by Hunt (1963). The rate of emptying of test meals from the stomach is influenced by many factors, including volume (Hunt and Macdonald, 1954), osmotic pressure (Hunt, 1956), titratable acidity (Hunt and Knox, 1962), and chemica...

Studies of gastric emptying in dogs, rats, and man have demonstrated that solutions of various substances empty in a characteristic manner. This topic has been reviewed by Hunt (1963). The rate of emptying of test meals from the stomach is influenced by many factors, including volume (Hunt and Macdonald, 1954), osmotic pressure (Hunt, 1956), titratable acidity (Hunt and Knox, 1962), and chemica...

The Lacandon Maya of Chiapas (Southern Mexico) conceive animals as subjects endowed with a soul (pixan) and agency. Therefore, they are considered to be ‘persons’ (winik) whose mode living is analogous the humans’: they’re socially organized, work in their milpas, perform rituals worship gods. attribution personhood becomes an ethical problem during hunt, when hunter kills prey ‘fellow man’. Co...