BACKGROUND Dog walking is a strategy for increasing population levels of physical activity (PA). Numerous cross-sectional studies of the relationship between dog ownership and PA have been conducted. The purpose was to review studies comparing PA of dog owners (DO) to nondog owners (NDO), summarize the prevalence of dog walking, and provide recommendations for research. METHODS A review of pu...

Risk factors associated with canine obesity include the amount of walking a dog receives. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between canine exercise requirements, socio-demographic factors, and dog-walking behaviors in winter in Calgary. Dog owners, from a cross-sectional study which included a random sample of adults, were asked their household income, domicile type, ge...

To provide molecular and virologic evidence that domestic dog rabies is no longer enzootic to the United States and to identify putative relatives of dog-related rabies viruses (RVs) circulating in other carnivores, we studied RVs associated with recent and historic dog rabies enzootics worldwide. Molecular, phylogenetic, and epizootiologic evidence shows that domestic dog rabies is no longer e...

We have seen equivalence query, split query and merge query. In this lecture, we want to talk about ordinal query and hierarchical clustering in Zadeh and Kempe [1]. For a set of elements, we can cluster the elements that are “similar to each other”. Moreover, for a same set of elements, we can have different way of clustering based on smaller concept or broader concept. For example, cat and do...

SUMMARY hydatic cyst is a serious disease of man. That cause by a worm called taenia echinocococus, the adult worm lives in small bowel of dog and other canine host. The dog is the usual definitive host of this parasite and is important for transmition of this disease. In this study a total of 283 stray dags Teheran country were investigated for the present of intestinal metazoan parasites. T...

Almost all cases of human rabies result from dog bites, making the elimination of canine rabies a global priority. During recent decades, many countries in the Western Hemisphere have carried out large-scale dog vaccination campaigns, controlled their free-ranging dog populations and enforced legislation for responsible pet ownership. This article reviews progress in eliminating canine rabies f...

Este caso narra a história real de Ricardo e sua trajetória vivida, durante anos, como camelô, marcada pelo processo empreendedor que culminou com fundação consolidação da Monster Dog. Após 16 anos crescimento um modelo negócio essencialmente pautado na localização privilegiada seus pontos venda, Dog depara-se dilema ímpar, ao ver continuidade expansão ameaçada por novos entrantes operação conc...

For the reduction of JPEG compression artifacts, there have been many methods using deep neural networks. Most them use quality factor (QF) as prior knowledge in designing and training However, since images we get from Internet are often recompressed, given QF is not so informative or misleading. Also, early works validated their on low QFs less than 50, while recent smartphones high larger equ...

A 7-year-old castrated male German shepherd dog was presented with a 10-day history of intermittent lethargy, weakness and episodic seizures. Laboratory findings after admission revealed hypoglycaemia and hyperinsulinaemia. Provisional diagnosis of insulinoma was made based on the presence of concurrent hypoglycaemia and elevated insulin level. In exploratory laparotomy a small nodular mass was...

Case Description- A seven-year-old female terrier dog with a large mass in the posterior aspect of the right thigh was referred to the Veterinary Clinic of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Clinical Findings- The hyperpigmented mass without any sign of inflammation, pain and redness was seen at the right thigh. Treatment and Outcome- The abnormal mass was removed surgically. Histopathlo...