Many captive animals show forms of pelage loss that are absent in wild or free-living conspecifics, which result from grooming or plucking behaviours directed at themselves or at other individuals. For instance, dorsal hair loss in primates such as rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in research facilities, results from excessive hair-pulling or over-grooming by cage-mates. This behaviour appears ...

Explanations of adult involvement in sex work typically adopt one of two approaches. One perspective highlights a variety of negative experiences in childhood and adolescence, including physical and sexual abuse, family instability, poverty, associations with "pimps" and other exploiters, homelessness, and drug use. An alternative account recognizes that some of these factors may be involved, b...

166 Ulcerative dermatitis (UD) is a common syndrome of unknown etiology that results in profound morbidity in C57BL/6 mice and strains on a C57BL/6 background.18,26,41 Ulcerations generally present on the dorsal scapulae, although torso, shoulder, and facial lesions are seen also, and may be single or multifocal in distribution.2,18,22 The lesions are due to severe pruritus-induced self-trauma,...

BACKGROUND Several health hazards including communicable diseases and skin conditions are associated with Barbers' profession to which their visitors are exposed. Thus, knowledge and practice of Barbers would play a vital part in prevention and control of these health hazards. So, the aim of this study is to assess knowledge and practice, and associated factors among barbers about biological ha...

In this speech, my aim is to explore how design and media research relate and to point out ways in which these disciplines could benefit from closer contact than what they seem to have today. The paper is primarily written for researchers in communication by a sociologist who has grown increasingly familiar with design over the past decade through his work at a design school. Whenever we discus...

BACKGROUND Blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have some common epidemiological characteristics, and have infected millions of people throughout the world. Patients infected by acute hepatitis or HIV infections may not be aware of the disease, and thereby cause transmission to others. During haircut, shave, or pedicure, barbers may accide...

results in the study, 281 hairdressers participated. there was a statistically significant relationship between education level and knowledge score of hairdressers (p < 0.001). we found a statistically significant relationship between knowledge level and job history of hairdressers according to the pearson’s correlation coefficient (p = 0.004). the results did not show any statistically signifi...

An information system is not merely a container for documents; through the ways that resources are selected, organized, and made available to users, information systems themselves work as expressive media, enabling the communication of a specific point of view on the collected materials. By analyzing information systems themselves as documents, we can better understand how information systems c...