This study examined young children’s empathy towards interacted entity and none agent, whether the interaction or appearance of agent is more relevant on empathy, entities include an robot, a stuffed toy dog stone. Preschoolers (5-6 years age, N=69) watched videos three agents, including introducing cuts, struck by human hands placing in box cuts. All these agents are non-living entities, robot...

Reports reveal various benefits of animals – especially dogs for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, not all ASD display the same interest in animals. Dogs are most common pets households that have and they only species to be used as service these children. They also commonly animal-assisted interventions. Despite key role both behaviors displayed toward might play their ASD...

Context. Reconstructing images from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data with a sparse sampling of the Fourier domain ( uv -coverage) constitutes an ill-posed deconvolution problem. It requires application robust algorithms, maximizing information extraction all sampled spatial scales, and minimizing influence unsampled scales on image quality. Aims. We develop new multiscale wavelet a...

We describe the relationships between dog owners’ personality attributes (assessed via questionnaire), their behaviours and the dog’s behaviours observed during brief dog-owner and dog-stranger interactions (N = 78). Interactions comprised the owner commanding the dog to sit, and the stranger showing a ball to the restrained dog and then hiding it. Owners scoring higher on neuroticism and openn...

This study examines demographic, cognitive and behavioral factors that predict pediatric dog-bite injury risk in rural China. A total of 1,537 children (grades 4-6) in rural regions of Anhui, Hebei and Zhejiang Provinces, China completed self-report questionnaires assessing beliefs about and behaviors with dogs. The results showed that almost 30% of children reported a history of dog bites. Chi...

Parents interact with children following specific styles, known to influence child development. These styles represent variations in the dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness, resulting in authoritarian, authoritative, permissive or uninvolved parenting. Given the similarities in the parent to child and owner to dog relationships, we determined the extent to which parenting styles exis...

Physical inactivity during childhood and adolescence is a serious health concern. There are few studies of the activity undertaken by adolescents when walking with the family dog, and the effect of this on objectively measured physical activity levels. Objective measures of physical activity using accelerometers were recorded at age 11-12, 13-14, and 15-16 years in the Avon Longitudinal Study o...

Antirenin to hog renin produced in the dog neutralizes the acute pressor effect of dog as well as hog renin. A course of intramuscular injections of hog renin in chronic renal hypertensive dogs produces an antihypertensive effect which is correlated with the antirenin titers of the plasma. Passive transfer of high titer homologous antiserum to hog renin produces an anti-hypertensive effect in c...

Abstract Evidence for social pathways to health benefits dog owners appears positive but less well-developed. Our study aimed estimate the differences in capital by ownership and walking status among young-to-middle-aged adults older Japan. Data from 3606 residents living Japan were used. on capital, ownership, collected questionnaires. Age-stratified multivariable linear regression models used...

Birth cohort studies have suggested that early exposure to furred pets protects from later asthma and allergy. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between exposure or sensitization to cat or dog in infancy, and later asthma and allergy assessed at the median ages of 4.0, 7.2 and 12.3 yr, in children who have wheezed at <24 months of age. Exposure to cat and dog in infan...