A Children's book about the speed of animals. Fun facts and colored photographs of animals that children will love. Famous animal racers, fast animals, slow animals and some odd animals are portrayed in this well written easy to understand book. See what animals you could beat in a race. The enhanced edition contains 6 videos. Fast Animals is the first book in a new series of fun while learning children's books that are absolutely awesome.
A Children's Book About Military Cargo Planes. Pictures and info about cargo planes, air drops, aerial refueling and much more. 58 photos and 4 videos Cargo and troop transport planes are an important part of the military. Without these planes, it would be almost impossible to deliver troops and supplies to a war zone.
A Children's Book About Heavy Military Equipment. Pictures and info about Earth Movers, Tactical Trucks, Heavy Equipment Transport, the Assault Breacher Vehicle and much more. 51 photos and 4 videos. Military heavy equipment is used for construction, moving earth, digging, excavation, grading, filling, clearing and pushing. These machines remove obstacles and also put obstacles in the path of the enemy. Heavy equipment is also used to move, transport, lift and carry cargo, supplies and materials. When equipment is needed in a war zone the operator of the vehicle has to be protected. And that is the big difference between military heavy equipment and the commercial equipment. The vehicles must be mine resistant, ambush protected, armor plated and still usable off road. They will have a reinforced cabin. These vehicles are so specialized that the military even gives them their own names.
A Children's Book about military amphibious vehicles. Getting from ship to shore. Pictures and info about landing craft air cushioned (hover craft), amphibious assault vehicles and much more. 60 photos. One of the ways the military delivers troops, cargo and equipment is by ship. The ships in a war zone can't pull up to a dock and unload. They must unload at sea. A look at the process of getting troops and supplies from the ship to shore.
A Children's Book About Armored Military Vehicles. Pictures and info about light armored vehicles, mine resistant ambush protected vehicles, fighting vehicles and much more. Over 45 photos and 4 videos. When the military builds a base in a war zone it's the size of a small city. The base needs all of the vehicles a small city would need. Vehicles that stay inside the base don't need as much armor as vehicles that are used outside of the base.
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 20: Advances in Animal and Comparative Physiology covers the proceedings of the symposia of the 28th International Congress of Physiology. The book discusses several studies that tackle issues about the advances in animal and comparative study. The text is comprised of 61 chapters in which Chapter 4 and the succeeding chapters are grouped into eight parts based on the topic of the studies. The opening chapter explains sensory modalities beyond human perception, while Chapter 2 discusses trends in the physiology of domesticated animals. Chapter 3 reviews muscles in living animals, which is followed by topics grouped into parts. The first part deals with fetal homeostasis, while the second part discusses control of corpora lutea function of ruminant and non-ruminant domesticated animals. The third part deals with the comparative physiology of lactation in farm animals, while the fourth part tackles digestion in non-ruminant herbivorous animals. Parts 5 and 6 cover topic on diving, which includes metabolism, physiology, and control. The seventh part discusses phylogenesis of hormones and hormone receptors, and the last part covers neuromuscular transmission in invertebrates. Researchers whose line of work concerns the physiological properties of animals will find this book as a great source of related literatures.
The collection of articles in this eBook focuses on important issues related to environmental enrichment including standardization, neurobehavioral and physiological effects across the age axis, neuroprotection and plasticity, and implications for translation. Evaluation of key parameters and issues related to standardization is important for promoting species-typical behavior and broader adaptation and translation to clinical settings. Furthermore, understanding seminal mechanisms contributing to the effects of environmental enrichment in both biological sexes is also important for the application of this housing condition to preclinical models of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Taken together, this body of work points to the relevance of enriched housing environments in laboratory practice and the potential for translation to clinical populations.
This book promotes the use of reference materials by offering simple guidance to the often baffling subject of how to use reference tools. The worksheets can be completed with minimal assistance from the teacher, but students will require access to the reference books presented. The intriguing subjects on the worksheets were chosen to challenge the imagination and lead to further independent study. The study skills presented here will also help students proceed toward more efficient and productive work habits.
This book offers a thorough revision and update to the first landmark book that presented a standardized approach to focused point-of-care ultrasound exams of the abdomen, thorax, musculoskeletal and eye in veterinary practice. Now incorporating new applications for focused ultrasound exams and additional species, this Second Edition continues to be a state-of-the-art reference for using abbreviated ultrasound exams in clinical practice. A companion website features supplementary video clips of these point-of-care techniques depicting actual ultrasound exams for comparison and comprehension. New chapters in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner, Second Edition cover ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, musculoskeletal, brain imaging, and applications of focused ultrasound techniques in cats, exotics and marine mammals—making it an essential purchase for veterinarians wanting to incorporate point-of-care ultrasound techniques into their veterinary practices. Presents a standardized approach to point-of-care ultrasound as an extension of the physical exam, including trauma, non-trauma, and monitoring applications Includes coverage of new techniques for focused ultrasound exams, including lung, anesthesia and ultrasound guided nerve blocks, transcranial brain imaging, musculoskeletal, volume status evaluation, and rapid assessment for treatable forms of shock Adds cats, exotic and wildlife mammals, and marine mammals to the existing canine coverage Emphasizes the integration of point-of-care ultrasound techniques for optimizing patient care and accurate patient assessment Offers access to a companion website with supplementary video clips showing many clinically relevant didactic examples The second edition of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner is an excellent resource for veterinary practitioners, ranging from the general practitioner to nearly all clinical specialists, including internal medicine, oncology, cardiology, emergency and critical care, anesthesiology, ophthalmology, exotics, and zoo medicine specialists, and veterinary students.
Rodent behavioral testing has been used to study brain functions since the 1890s and has become a gold-standard model in modern neuroscience. Up to the 1950s, most behavioral tests on laboratory rodent models were based on punishments and rewards. Both approaches can lead to a certain degree of animal pain or suffering. Punishments involved the employment of painful stimuli, typically electric shocks. Passive avoidance and fear conditioning tests, among the most widely used behavioral paradigms used to evaluate learning and memory in rodents, can be performed using only a single brief shock. Other tests, such as the active avoidance, might require up to tens or hundreds of shocks, strongly challenging the psychological welfare of the model animals. On the other hand, tests based on rewards, which apparently may seem more ethical, actually still induce suffering in the animals, as food rewards are almost always associated with a food restriction protocol, in order to motivate food-seeking behavior. Rodents are starved for days before starting the test and kept under food restriction for the whole duration of the test. The distress during the testing session is only a minimal part compared to the stress lived outside of the testing session, which is prolonged and continuous. Analogously, liquid rewards commonly rely on a previous water restriction protocol to use thirst as motivation. Animal stress is not only an ethical issue per se, but also an important factor potentially impacting on the reliability and reproducibility of experimental results.
