Nonhuman animal welfare is a complex concept that encompasses an animal's biological functioning, emotional states, and opportunities to experience a natural life, including the performance of natural behaviors. Further, animal welfare can be viewed as quality of life from the perspective of the animal and thus must consider the animal's subjective experiences. Therefore, assessing and enhancin...

Lexical access difficulties are frequent in normal aging and initial stages of dementia.Verbal fluency tests are valuable to detect cognitive decline, evidencing lexico-semantic and executive dysfunction. Objectives To establish which language tests can contribute in detecting dementia and to verify schooling influence on subject performance. Method 74 subjects: 33 controls, 17 Clinical Dem...

This longitudinal study on recommended children's books translated into English and published in the United States between 1990-2003 allowed researchers to identify trends translations based language, genre subject. The most frequent language of translation was German, followed by French Swedish. Animal Personification popular genre, Realistic Fiction Information books. A majority were picture ...

Proponents of entomophagy have argued that the farming insects offers many advantages when contrasted with more traditional practices. This article explores place insect within a wider Christian food ethic and argues has much to recommend it. However, through exploring role animal agriculture ideological structures anthropocentrism, ambiguous picture ethics emerges. belies simple endorsement or...

we describe, the first case of phenobarbital-induced dress syndrome presenting as a lichenoïd eruption. a 49-year-old man had received phenobarbital for a cerebral metastasis. twenty-five days later, he developed a purplish skin eruption, odynophagia, oral mucosal erosion and fever. physical examination revealed a cervical lymphadenopathy and facial edema associated to a diffuse violaceous macu...

this is a picture presentation of myeloproliferative disorder developing to longitudinal melanonychia as a side effect of hydroxyurea. keywords: melanonychia, hydroxyurea, side effect.

this is a picture review of a case of orbital rhabdomyosarcoma. the course of patients diagnosis, treatment and outcome is briefly presented.

background: one of the domains of scientific activities is working on animals. performing experiments on animals is per­missible only with the purpose of obtaining necessary information for saving and improving life of human be­ings or ani­mals. principally, all religions believe that human life is more valuable than animal life and humans have a god-given au­thority over animals, but they shou...