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Natali, Fabrizio, Carla Difranco, and Roberto Gatti. "Enriched environment or enriched therapy? Time for clarification." Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 36, no. 11 (October 12, 2020): 1175–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2020.1827706.

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Nore??a, Arnaud Jean, and Sylviane Chery-Croze. "Enriched acoustic environment rescales auditory sensitivity." NeuroReport 18, no. 12 (August 2007): 1251–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282202c35.

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Butrimienë, Edita, and Nida Stankevièienë. "Enrichment of the educational environment with information and communication technologies: State of art at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine." Medicina 44, no. 2 (November 28, 2006): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina44020020.

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Both traditional and new educational environments, the latter enriched with information and communication technologies, coexist in today’s university. The goal of this article is to present the concept of educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies, to reveal the main features of such environment, and to present the results of certain investigation on the application of information technologies in teaching/learning processes at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine. The discussion object of this paper is the educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies. In designing the environments of this type, positive aspects of traditional teaching models are being developed by integrating them into the new educational environment. The concept of educational environment enriched with information and communication technologies is reviewed in the first part of this paper. The structure and main features of educational environments enriched with information and communication technologies are highlighted in the second part. The results of the study on the application of information technologies in teaching/learning processes at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Kaunas University of Medicine are presented in the third part.

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Beattie, V. E., N. Walker, and I. A. Sneddon. "Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Behaviour and Productivity of Growing Pigs." Animal Welfare 4, no. 3 (August 1995): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600017802.

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AbstractThis study examined the effects of enriching the environment on the behaviour and productivity of pigs, in an attempt to assess changes in welfare. A total of 102 pigs were housed in either barren or enriched housing from birth to slaughter. The barren environments were defined as intensive housing and the enriched environments incorporated extra space, an area which contained peat and straw in a rack. Enriching the environment reduced both the amount of time pigs spent inactive and the time involved in harmful social and aggressive behaviour. Tail biting was absent from the enriched environment but four pigs were removed from barren pens with severe tail damage. Pigs housed in enriched environments spent longer durations in exploratory behaviour than those in barren housing, and young pigs in enriched environments performed locomotory behaviour more frequently than their counterparts in barren environments. Overall growth rates were similar in both treatments. These results indicate that welfare is improved by enrichment with substrates and suggest that barren pens should be modified to provide these facilities.

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Mkwanazi, M. V., A. T. Kanengoni, and M. Chimonyo. "Pen enrichment and sex interaction on growth performance and metabolite concentrations of autochthonous Windsnyer pigs kept in a high stocking density." Canadian Journal of Animal Science 98, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 826–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjas-2018-0019.

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The objective of the study was to determine the interaction of pen enrichment and sex on growth performance and blood metabolite concentrations of Windsnyer pigs. Forty-eight growing Windsnyer pigs of both sexes, with an average initial body weight of 21.6 (±9.01) kg were used. Daily feed intake and weekly body weights for each pen were measured. Blood was collected at the end of the experiment. Pen environment did not affect average daily feed intake (ADFI) and average daily gain. There was a pen environment and sex interaction on ADFI. Females in barren pens had higher ADFI than enriched females but ADFI in barren and enriched pens was similar for male pigs. Pigs in enriched environment were more efficient in converting feed into body weight than those in barren environment. There was an interaction of pen environment and sex on glucose, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and alkaline phosphatase. Enriched males had higher albumin than males in barren environment. Enriched females had higher BUN than females in barren environment. It was concluded that enriched Windsnyer pigs housed at a density of 0.39 m2 per pig, particularly females, perform better than those in barren environments.

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González Fleitas, María F., Julián D. Devouassoux, Marcos L. Aranda, Juan S. Calanni, Monica S. Chianelli, Damián Dorfman, and Ruth E. Rosenstein. "Enriched environment provides neuroprotection against experimental glaucoma." Journal of Neurochemistry 152, no. 1 (October 21, 2019): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.14885.

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Crawford, L. E., L. E. Knouse, M. Kent, D. Vavra, O. Harding, D. LeServe, N. Fox, et al. "Enriched environment exposure accelerates rodent driving skills." Behavioural Brain Research 378 (January 2020): 112309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112309.

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Wang, Juan, Longyi Shao, and Xuetian Wang. "The Coal-Forming Environment at the End of the Late Permian and Its Control on Trace Elements: The Upper Xuanwei Formation in Eastern Yunnan, China." Processes 11, no. 10 (October 9, 2023): 2936. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr11102936.

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Forming environments have important effects on the dispersion and enrichment of trace elements in coal. The C3 coal seam of the Xuanwei Formation in eastern Yunnan was used as a case study to reconstruct the peat-forming environment based on coal facies parameters and geochemical characteristics, and its influence on trace element (including rare earth elements and yttrium, REY) enrichment was investigated. The C3 coal was classified as medium rank bituminous coal with an ultra-low moisture content, medium-high ash yield, and medium-low volatile content. Compared to the average values for Chinese coal, Cu and V were enriched and Co was slightly enriched in the C3 coal. Compared with the average values for world coal, Cu and V were enriched while several other trace elements were slightly enriched in the C3 coal, including Co, Hf, Nb, Sc, Ta, Zn, and Zr. The C3 coal was deposited in the limno-telmatic environment with fresh water, and reducing conditions. Trace elements, including Cu, V, Hf, Nb, Sc, Ta, Zr, Zn, Co, and REY, were typically enriched in the limno-telmatic environment with fresh water and reducing conditions. Additionally, REY and V were also significantly enriched in brackish water limno-telmatic conditions with the same depositional environment.

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Grońska-Pęski, Marta, J. Tiago Gonçalves, and Jean M. Hébert. "Enriched Environment Promotes Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis through FGFRs." Journal of Neuroscience 41, no. 13 (February 26, 2021): 2899–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2286-20.2021.

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Rosenstein, RuthE, MaríaF González Fleitas, and Damián Dorfman. "A novel viewpoint in glaucoma therapeutics: enriched environment." Neural Regeneration Research 17, no. 7 (2022): 1431. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.330594.

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Kryanev, A. V., R. B. Balashov, and D. E. Sliva. "Enriched uranium market portfolio optimization in fuzzy environment." Applied Mathematical Sciences 9 (2015): 5629–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ams.2015.57470.

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Begara-Morales, Juan C. "Nitric oxide signalling in a CO2-enriched environment." Journal of Experimental Botany 67, no. 3 (February 2016): 560–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw010.

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Melani, Riccardo, Gabriele Chelini, Maria Cristina Cenni, and Nicoletta Berardi. "Enriched environment effects on remote object recognition memory." Neuroscience 352 (June 2017): 296–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.006.

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Ando, Susumu, Yasushi Ohashi, and Satoru Kobayashi. "1416 Enhancement of learning ability by enriched environment." Neuroscience Research Supplements 18 (January 1993): S150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8696(05)81098-9.

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Sale, Alessandro, Elena Putignano, Laura Cancedda, Silvia Landi, Francesca Cirulli, Nicoletta Berardi, and Lamberto Maffei. "Enriched environment and acceleration of visual system development." Neuropharmacology 47, no. 5 (October 2004): 649–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2004.07.008.

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Yang, Shu, Wei Lu, De-Shan Zhou, and Yong Tang. "Enriched Environment and White Matter in Aging Brain." Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 295, no. 9 (July 7, 2012): 1406–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.22526.

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Rio, Okada, and Yuji Ikegaya. "Enriched environment modulates sharp-wave ripples in hippocampus." Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society 97 (2023): 3—B—P—083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1254/jpssuppl.97.0_3-b-p-083.

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Flint, M., and P. J. Murray. "Lot-fed goats - the advantages of using an enriched environment." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 41, no. 4 (2001): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea99119.

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By reducing the stress associated with high stocking density in a feedlot it is likely that goats will utilise their feed more efficiently and suffer fewer health problems. One possible method of reducing stress is to enrich the feedlot environment. In a feedlot of 160 castrated goats (average weight 24.6 ± 2.6 kg), 2 types of feedlot structures were compared; a typical feedlot and an ‘environmentally enriched’ feedlot, and goats stocked at 2 densities; a high stocking density (1667 goats/ha) and a relatively low stocking density (897 goats/ha). Over a 42-day period, environmental enrichment (old car/truck tyres and wooden railway sleepers to climb on and PVC piping to mouth and butt) increased weight gain by 83% (P = 0.04) and reduced the occurrence of inanition by 36%. Aggressive behaviour at the feed trough was reduced by 30% (P = 0.03) in pens of lower density when compared with pens of higher density. We conclude that lot feeding goats in environmentally enriched surroundings will increase feed conversion and reduce the number of non-eaters when compared with typically bare pen structures. Doubling in liveweight gain of goats within enriched feedlot surroundings when compared with typical structures shows promise as a cost effective, animal-welfare-orientated practice.

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Nygren, Josefine, and Tadeusz Wieloch. "Enriched Environment Enhances Recovery of Motor Function after Focal Ischemia in Mice, and Downregulates the Transcription Factor NGFI-A." Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 25, no. 12 (May 25, 2005): 1625–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600157.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of enriched environment on motor function after experimental stroke in mice, and to determine whether time in enriched environment affects functional recovery. Earlier investigations have shown that rats placed in an enriched environment after focal ischemia, remarkably improve motor function, but similar observations in mice have not been reported. In this study, we show that placing mice in an enriched environment for 3 h daily for 2 weeks, after transient (50 mins) occlusion of the middle cerebral artery, enhanced neurologic outcome. Continuous postischemic housing in the enriched environment likewise improved motor function, but mortality increased. Two weeks exposure to enriched environment followed by housing the mice in standard cages for 2 weeks, resulted in a loss of the improved motor function. In contrast, 4 weeks exposure to enriched environment led to an improved motor function and to a better maintenance of neurologic recovery. The expression levels of the immediate-early gene nerve growth factor-induced gene A at 2 to 3 weeks of recovery decreased in animals housed in enriched environment, implying this transcription factor in the recovery process. We conclude that housing mice in an enriched environment after experimental stroke improves functional outcome. Also, the presented experimental procedure is useful for further studies of the genomics of functional recovery after experimental stroke.

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Yu, Shuyang, and Meng Wei. "The Influences of Community-Enriched Environment on the Cognitive Trajectories of Elderly People." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 16 (August 23, 2021): 8866. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168866.

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To examine the influences of community-enriched environment on the cognitive trajectories of the elderly in China, using panel data of 10,057, 3994, 2387, and 1749 older persons aged 65–104 years of the 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014 waves from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and a growth curve model, the authors analyzed the changing trend of elderly people’s cognitive abilities with age. The influences of community-enriched environments on cognitive abilities were also investigated. Results show that when all the factors are out of consideration except age, for an older person aged 82.5 years, as he/she grows one year older, his/her cognitive abilities will be reduced by 0.139 points, while for one aged 92.5 years, they will be reduced by 0.199 points, which means cognitive abilities decline rapidly as the individuals grow older. The elderly people from communities with enriched environments have higher cognitive levels and slower declining speeds of cognitive abilities than the other elderly people, proving the long-term ability of such environments to facilitate cognitive abilities. An increase in the stimulation of the enriched environment is needed to prevent or slow down the degeneration of cognitive abilities.

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Brazdeikis, Vaino. "Informacinėmis ir komunikacinėmis technologijomis papildytų edukacinių aplinkų kaita." Informacijos mokslai 50 (January 1, 2009): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/im.2009.0.3305.

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Šiandien edukacinės aplinkos sparčiai keičiasi. Tam didelę įtaką daro informacinių ir komunikacinių technologijų plėtra. Straipsnio tikslas – apžvelgti edukacinių aplinkų kaitos, susijusios su technologijų plėtra, ypatumus kintant pedagoginei paradigmai. Kaip mokslinio darbo rezultatas parengtas teorinis informacinėmis ir komunikacinėmis technologijomis papildytų edukacinių aplinkų kaitos modelis. Naudojant SITES2006 tyrimų duomenis įvertinta Lietuvos bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos edukacinė aplinka ir jos kaitą lemiantys veiksniai.Change of Educational Environments, Enriched with Information and Communication TechnologiesVaino Brazdeikis SummaryEducational environment is changing rapidly. Information and communication technology (hereinafter – ICT) are doing a large infl uence in it. The goal of the article is to analyze change of educational environment enriched with ICT in context of the change of the pedagogical paradigm. The conclusion was made: the educational environments enriched by ICT are a dynamic, new quality–oriented education teaching and learning spaces, which created and managed of the ICT competences’ teachers and where used ICT – based methods and tools are. As a result of scientifi c work prepared the four stage model of change of educational environments, enriched by ICT. In the model each stage are characterized by teacher competence, teaching method and infrastructure. Secondary analyze of data from SITES2006 research, allowed to make issue on educational environment in Lithuanian school. Analysis shows that the implementation of ICT in Lithuania schools meets in second (application) stage. Discussion on development of educational environments, enriched by ICT is proposed to achieve a balance between the various ongoing processes on infrastructure solutions and the teaching of ICT competence development and on updating learning objectives, content and methods.18px;">

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Ramis, G., S. Gómez, FJ Pallarés, and A. Muñoz. "Comparison of the severity of esophagogastric, lung and limb lesions at slaughter in pigs reared under standard and enriched conditions." Animal Welfare 14, no. 1 (February 2005): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096272860002889x.

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AbstractTwo hundred and ten pigs were reared in three groups (according to genotype) under enriched conditions of large open-front sawdust-bedded barns. Eight hundred and twenty pigs were reared under standard conditions of small 15-animal pens in a conventional barn with partially slatted floors and natural ventilation. Production parameters including percentage mortality, feed conversion rate and average daily weight gain were calculated at the end of the fattening period. Stomachs, limbs and lungs were examined at slaughter in order to compare the number and severity of lesions between the enriched environment groups and the standard environment group. There was a significantly greater number of esophagogastric lesions in the standard environment group than in the enriched environment groups. No esophagogastric ulcers were observed in any pigs from the enriched groups, while 17.5% of stomachs from pigs in the standard environment group displayed this condition. There were no significant differences in the number of lung lesions associated with enzootic pneumonia between pigs from the standard and enriched environment groups. The limbs of animals reared in the standard environment had more lesions, especially in floor-contact areas, than those reared in the enriched environment (23.84% versus 1.08%). The production parameters measured were improved in the pigs from the enriched environment. These results suggest that the welfare of fattening pigs may be improved by the provision of enrichment in their housing environment. Evaluation of esophagogastric ulceration could be a useful indicator of welfare in pigs.

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Beattie, V. E., N. Walker, and I. A. Sneddon. "Effects of early environment on the subsequent behaviour of the pig." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) 1994 (March 1994): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0308229600027392.

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Seitz (1954) claimed the infant animal is more susceptible to the long-range effects of experience than the adult animal. The effects of infantile experience has been observed in the pig. Wood-Gush and Beilharz (1983) found that pigs reared in a bare environment did not use substrate, that was provided in later life, to the same extent as pigs which always had access to it. Schouten (1991) found that pigs which had spent the first few weeks of life in a barren environment were more restless in the growing and fattening periods than pigs which had spent their early life in enriched environments.This study investigated the effects of the housing environment in the first six weeks of life on the behaviour of pigs in the growing and fattening stages.In a cross-over study, which examined the effect of change of environment at weaning, 96 piglets in 16 groups each of six littermates were allocated to a 2 x 2 factorial experiment. There were two environments (barren and enriched) and two growth periods, birth to weaning at six weeks and weaning to slaughter at 20 weeks. Intensive husbandry conditions were defined as barren environments. The enriched environment changed at weaning.

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Nilsson, M., and M. Pekny. "Enriched environment and astrocytes in central nervous system regeneration." Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 39, no. 5 (2007): 345–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2340/16501977-0084.

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Cobo, Pedro, María Cuesta, and Carlos de la Colina. "Customised enriched acoustic environment for sound therapy of tinnitus." Acta Acustica 5 (2021): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2021028.

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Tinnitus is an auditory disorder very difficult to treat. Whereas up until now there is not a “cure” for tinnitus, the most extended treatment combines counselling with sound therapy. When this sound is a broadband noise in the audio frequency band, this protocol is named tinnitus retraining therapy. Even though broadband noise was proposed at the beginning as the stimulus for sound therapy, many other sounds have been subsequently proposed and used, including tones, noise bands, music, and nature sounds. Although any sound, low enough to avoid annoyance, discomfort or hearing damage, is better than silence for tinnitus treatment, it is not still clear the relationship of the success of the therapy with the properties of the sound stimuli. The aim of this article is to propose an optimal sound treatment that provides a precise and selective stimulation of the whole auditory system. The proposed sound stimulus, Enriched Acoustic Environment, consists of sequential tones or broadband noise matched to the HL curves of the patients. The acoustical characteristics of these stimuli are analyzed and their positive effects in the treatment of subjects with tinnitus are reported.

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Rodriguez, Francisca S., Tobias Luck, and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller. "Enriched environment at work: Disassociated from stress and burnout." Work 60, no. 1 (June 20, 2018): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-182722.

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Julie, Cyril. "Learning novel mathematical concepts in a computer-enriched environment." British Journal of Educational Technology 22, no. 2 (May 1991): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.1991.tb00294.x.

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Sato, Yoshiaki, Francois Bernier, Ikumi Suzuki, Sadaharu Kotani, Makoto Nakagawa, and Yoshiya Oda. "Comparative lipidomics of mouse brain exposed to enriched environment." Journal of Lipid Research 54, no. 10 (July 6, 2013): 2687–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.m038075.

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Shinohara, Yoshiaki, Aki Hosoya, and Hajime Hirase. "Enriched environment enhances left-right asymmetry of the hippocampus." Neuroscience Research 71 (September 2011): e176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2011.07.762.

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Levy, O., D. M. Michaelson, and Y. Assaf. "High Resolution MRI of Enriched Environment Induced Brain Changes." NeuroImage 47 (July 2009): S77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1053-8119(09)70515-4.

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Janssen, Heidi, Julie Bernhardt, Janice M. Collier, Emily S. Sena, Patrick McElduff, John Attia, Michael Pollack, et al. "An Enriched Environment Improves Sensorimotor Function Post-Ischemic Stroke." Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 24, no. 9 (September 12, 2010): 802–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1545968310372092.

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Kapoor, Bhushan, and Joseph Sherif. "Human resources in an enriched environment of business intelligence." Kybernetes 41, no. 10 (October 12, 2012): 1625–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03684921211276792.

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Xie, Hongyu, Kewei Yu, Naiyun Zhou, Xueyan Shen, Shan Tian, Bei Zhang, Yuyang Wang, et al. "Enriched Environment Elicits Proangiogenic Mechanisms After Focal Cerebral Ischemia." Translational Stroke Research 10, no. 2 (April 26, 2018): 150–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12975-018-0629-8.

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Yin, Bo, Hongyuan Jiang, Xishi Liu, and Sun-Wei Guo. "Enriched Environment Decelerates the Development of Endometriosis in Mouse." Reproductive Sciences 27, no. 7 (April 21, 2020): 1423–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43032-019-00117-1.

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Jong, I. C. de, I. T. Prelle, J. A. van de Burgwal, E. Lambooij, S. M. Korte, H. J. Blokhuis, and J. M. Koolhaas. "Effects of rearing conditions on behavioural and physiological responses of pigs to preslaughter handling and mixing at transport." Canadian Journal of Animal Science 80, no. 3 (September 1, 2000): 451–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/a99-130.

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The physiological and behavioural responses of slaughter pigs reared in either a barren environment or in an enriched environment (larger pens with straw bedding) to preslaughter handling and mixing at transport were studied. Enriched-reared pigs had higher salivary cortisol concentrations in the home pen before and after transport than barren housed pigs, but at the end of the lairage period salivary cortisol concentrations did not differ between enriched- and barren-housed pigs. In pigs reared in a barren environment, salivary cortisol concentrations increased significantly after transport and being in lairage, as compared to home pen salivary cortisol concentrations. In pigs reared in an enriched environment, salivary cortisol concentrations did not significantly change after any stage of preslaughter handling and transport as compared with home pen salivary cortisol concentrations. In the truck, pigs reared in a barren environment tended to spend more time walking, standing and manipulating other pigs than enriched-reared pigs. Moreover, pigs reared in a barren environment tended to spend more time walking and fighting in lairage than enriched-reared pigs. Results showed that rearing conditions may affect the behavioural and physiological responses of pigs to preslaughter handling and mixing at transport. The tendency for increased manipulation of pen mates and fighting, and the significant increases in salivary cortisol in response to mixing at transport and being in lairage in pigs reared in a barren environment indicate that pigs reared in a barren environment are likely to experience more stress during common preslaughter procedures than pigs reared in an enriched environment. Key words: Behaviour, cortisol, housing conditions, pigs, slaughter

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Rosbergen, Ingrid C. M., Sandra G. Brauer, Sarah Fitzhenry, Rohan S. Grimley, and Kathryn S. Hayward. "Qualitative investigation of the perceptions and experiences of nursing and allied health professionals involved in the implementation of an enriched environment in an Australian acute stroke unit." BMJ Open 7, no. 12 (December 2017): e018226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018226.

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ObjectiveAn enriched environment embedded in an acute stroke unit can increase activity levels of patients who had stroke, with changes sustained 6 months post-implementation. The objective of this study was to understand perceptions and experiences of nursing and allied health professionals involved in implementing an enriched environment in an acute stroke unit.DesignA descriptive qualitative approach.SettingAn acute stroke unit in a regional Australian hospital.ParticipantsWe purposively recruited three allied health and seven nursing professionals involved in the delivery of the enriched environment. Face-to-face, semistructured interviews were conducted 8 weeks post-completion of the enriched environment study. One independent researcher completed all interviews. Voice-recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed by three researchers using a thematic approach to identify main themes.ResultsThree themes were identified. First, staff perceived that ‘the road to recovery had started’ for patients. An enriched environment was described to shift the focus to recovery in the acute setting, which was experienced through increased patient activity, greater psychological well-being and empowering patients and families. Second, ‘it takes a team’ to successfully create an enriched environment. Integral to building the team were positive interdisciplinary team dynamics and education. The impact of the enriched environment on workload was diversely experienced by staff. Third, ‘keeping it going’ was perceived to be challenging. Staff reflected that changing work routines was difficult. Contextual factors such as a supportive physical environment and variety in individual enrichment opportunities were indicated to enhance implementation. Key to sustaining change was consistency in staff and use of change management strategies.ConclusionInvestigating staff perceptions and experiences of an enrichment model in an acute stroke unit highlighted the need for effective teamwork. To facilitate staff in their new work practice, careful selection of change management strategies are critical to support clinical translation of an enriched environment.Trial registration numberANZCTN12614000679684; Results.

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Calvert, Sheena, Marie Haskell, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Alistair B. Lawrence, and Michael T. Mendl. "The Effect of Substrate-Enriched and Substrate-Impoverished Housing Environments On the Diversity of Behaviour in Pigs." Behaviour 133, no. 9-10 (1996): 741–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853996x00459.

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AbstractIn intensive farming situations, growing animals are housed in relatively barren environments. The lack of opportunity to perform substrate-interactive and manipulative behaviour patterns may affect the expression and organization of these behaviours. However, making direct comparisons of the behaviour expressed in environments of differing physical complexity is difficult. In this experiment a relative diversity index was used to compare the behavioural repertoires of pigs housed in two different environments for a period of five months. One group of pigs (substrate-enriched) had straw, forest bark and branches added to the standard pens and the other group (substrate-impoverished) did not. The pigs were individually housed, and their behaviour was focal sampled in these pens on one day each month. It was shown that the relative diversity of manipulative behaviour shown by the pigs in the substrate-impoverished environment was lower than in the pigs in the substrate-enriched environment (p < 0.05). The relative diversity of the whole behavioural repertoire shown by the pigs in the substrate-impoverished environment also tended to be lower than that in the substrate-enriched environment (p = 0.06). It is concluded that this may be due to a difference between the two groups in motivation to interact with and manipulate objects, or a function of the manipulable quality of the substrates available to them. Alternatively, exposure to substrate-impoverished environments may interfere with the ability to express manipulative behaviour. Both situations pose a threat to the welfare of growing pigs resident in barren environments.

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Li, J., Q. Han, R. Liu, P. Wen, W. Ji, L. Pan, C. Wang, P. Zhao, H. Liu, and J. Bao. "Effects of environment and breed on growth performance and meat quality of fattening pigs." Animal Welfare 29, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7120/09627286.29.2.177.

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Meat quality is not only influenced by breed but also rearing environment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of different housing environments on growth performance, carcase traits, meat quality, physiological response pre-slaughter and fatty acid composition in two pig breeds. A total of 120 growing pigs at 60–70 days of age were arranged in a 2 × 2 factorial design with the breeds (Duroc × Landrace × Large White [D × L × LW] and Duroc × Landrace × Min pig [D × L × M]) and environmental enrichment (barren concrete floor or enriched with straw bedding) as factors. Each treatment was performed in triplicate with ten pigs per replicate. The pigs housed in the enriched environment exhibited a higher average daily gain, average daily feed intake, saturated fatty acid percentage and backfat depth than the pigs reared in the barren environment. Plasma cortisol levels were lower and growth hormone higher in enriched compared to barren pens. The D × L × M pigs showed lower cooking loss compared with the D × L × LW pigs. Moreover, the D × L × M pigs exhibited poor growth performance but had a better water-holding capacity. Only carcase traits and meat quality interaction effects were observed. We concluded that an enriched environment can reduce pre- slaughter stress and improve the growth performance of pigs and modulate the fatty acid composition of pork products.

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Sneddon, I. A., V. E. Beattie, L. Dunne, and W. Neil. "The Effect of Environmental Enrichment on Learning in Pigs." Animal Welfare 9, no. 4 (November 2000): 373–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096272860002296x.

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AbstractThis study examined the effects of enriching the environment on the learning abilities of growing pigs. Eighty-four pigs were housed in either barren or enriched environments from birth to 14 weeks. The barren environments were defined as intensive housing and the enriched environments incorporated extra space, including areas which contained peat and straw in a rack. The learning abilities of pigs from both environments were tested at 15-17 weeks using an operant task which involved pigs learning to push a panel for a reward and a maze test which involved spatial learning. Pigs from enriched environments learned both the operant task and the maze task more rapidly than their counterparts from barren environments. These results suggest that the cognitive development of pigs may be impaired in intensive housing systems.

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Alig, Benjamin N., Peter R. Ferket, Ramon D. Malheiros, and Kenneth E. Anderson. "The Effect of Housing Environment on Egg Production, USDA Egg Size, and USDA Grade Distribution of Commercial White Egg Layers." Poultry 2, no. 2 (April 3, 2023): 204–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/poultry2020017.

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The housing environment has become a critical issue for consumers of eggs and egg products. Therefore, it is imperative to understand how various housing environments can affect the modern laying hen. In this study, alongside the 40th NC layer performance test, four different housing environments were chosen based on industry prevalence, which include conventional cages, barren, enrichable colony cages, enriched colony cages, and cage-free environments. Hens in these environments were raised following standard feeding and lighting practices. This study found that conventional cage and enriched colony cage hens had the highest egg production level, while hens from the barren colony cages had the lowest production level. Feed efficiency followed a similar trend, where conventional cage and cage-free hens had the best feed efficiency, followed by enriched colony cage and barren colony cage hens. This study also found that conventional cage hens had the largest eggs, while cage-free hens had the smallest eggs. Cage-free and conventional cage hens had the lowest mortality rate, while hens in the barren colony cage had the highest mortality rate. From the data shown, it appears that standard, conventional cages provide white egg layers with the most optimal environment for production performance. However, a further evaluation of health and stress is needed to determine which environment provides the hen with optimal welfare.

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Wojtaś, Justyna, Piotr Czyżowski, Kamila Kaszycka, Klaudia Kaliszyk, and Mirosław Karpiński. "The Impact of Environmental Enrichment on the Cortisol Level of Shelter Cats." Animals 14, no. 9 (May 6, 2024): 1392. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani14091392.

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Enriching cats’ living environment in shelters is crucial in reducing their stress. Easier access to resources allows cats to display natural behavior. This study aimed to assess whether cats staying in an enriched environment would be less stressed than cats staying in a standard environment. The first group consisted of cats living in an environment with fewer resources (standard environment)—103 cats. The second group consisted of cats living in an enriched environment—76 cats. The research material consisted of hair collected to determine the cortisol level. The results indicate that cats from a more enriched environment have almost half the level of cortisol in hair than cats from an environment with fewer resources (0.059 ng/mg vs. 0.101 ng/mg; p = 0.000001).

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Kruty, Kateryna, Oksana Holiuk, Nataliia Rodiuk, Oksana Popovych, Larysa Zdanevych, Olha Bilska, and Natalia Pakhalchuk. "VERIFICATION OF ASSESSMENT SCALES OF THE SENSORY ENRICHED ENVIRONMENT ECERS-R AND SSTEW OR IMPLEMENTATION IN UKRAINE." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (May 28, 2021): 756–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol2.6317.

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The quality of education in general and preschool education in particular remains relevant both in the light of current reforms in the educational sphere of Ukraine and in the international context. Scientists pay attention to solving the problem of organizing comfortable environment, in particular the lack of internal space for each child. So far, the problems of teaching educators of preschooleducation establishments for the assessment of a high-quality sensory enriched environment have not been fully resolved. The purpose of the article is to determinate the effective quality scales of preschool education, to verify the most acceptable scales for assessment of the sensory enriched environment, to compare analysis of the obtained experimental data. During the research we used the following methods: observation, analysis, interviews, mathematical statistics, scales ECERS-R (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised) and SSTEW (Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being).The assessment of the condition of the sensory enriched environment was conducted by the 3rd year undergraduate students studying at the educational program «Preschool Education» at Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Mukachevo State University, Khmelnytskyi Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy. At the stage of experimental activity, 21 experts, 30 educators were involved, 15 environments in preschool establishments were evaluated.The analysis of the main features of the external and internal sensory enriched environment, which was carried out on the basis of the proposed parameters of the ECERS and SSTEW scales, allows us to determine the features that set out the possibility of further enrichment of this environment. The authors propose to focus on the enrichment of the environment as a special means of integrating the accumulated pedagogical experience into a holistic pedagogical system, as well as the complexity of the child’s development situation, which is taken into account by adults.

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Zhao, Yuan-Yu, Xiao-Yan Shi, Xuan Qiu, Lei Zhang4, Wei, Shu, Chen Li, Guo-Hua Cheng, Zheng-Wei Yang, and Yong Tang*. "Enriched environment increases the total number of CNPase positive cells in the corpus callosum of middle-aged rats." Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 71, no. 3 (September 30, 2011): 322–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.55782/ane-2011-1854.

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It had been reported that enriched environment was beneficial for the brain cognition, neurons and synapses in cortex and hippocampus. With diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), several studies recently found the trained-induced larger corpus callosum. However, the effect of enriched environment on the oligodendrocytes in corpus callosum has not been explored with the unbiased stereological methods. In current study, the effect of enriched environment on the total number of 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNPase) positive cells in middle-aged rat corpus callosum was investigated by means of immunohistochemical techniques and the unbiased stereological methods. We found that, when compared to standard rats, the spatial learning capacity of enriched-environment rats was significantly increased. The total number of the CNPase positive cells in the corpus callosum of enriched-environment middle-aged rats was significantly increased when compared to standard rats. The present study provided, to the best of our knowledge, the first evidence of environmental enrichment-induced increases in the total number of CNPase positive cells in the corpus callosum of middle-aged rats.

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Popovych, O. M. "THE PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FUTURE EDUCATORS’ TRAINING OF YOUNG CHILDREN FOR WORK IN A SENSORY ENRICHED ENVIRONMENT OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION." Scientific Herald of Sivershchyna. Series: Education. Social and Behavioural Sciences 1, no. 9 (April 27, 2023): 192–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.32755/sjeducation.2023.01.192.

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The article has substantiated the pedagogical conditions for the formation of readiness of future educators of young children for work in a sensory enriched environment of preschool educational institution, namely: integration of humanitarian disciplines with the disciplines of methodological and practical training necessary for the implementation of further professional activities by future educators in groups of young children (stages of training – propedeutic and motivational; motivational and emotional component of readiness); ensuring of practical implementation of the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities in the sensory enriched environment of preschool educational institution (preparation stage – activity; cognitive and activity component of readiness); activation of students’ creative potential by engaging them in interaction with children, parents, and colleagues, relying on various communication functions (preparation stage – communicative; communicative and creative component of readiness); modeling of educational situations aimed at mastering students’ reflexive design of sensory enriched environments (stages of preparation – reflexive, professional self-realization; reflective and participatory component of readiness). The pedagogical conditions we have chosen ensure the effective training of future educators in higher educational institutions and contribute to the formation of future educators’ readiness for professional activity, which has become an extremely urgent problem today. Key words: pedagogical conditions, professional training, educator of preschool educational institution, children of early age, sensory enriched environment.

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Yoshikawa, Misato, Hiroaki Aso, Masahiko Watanabe, and Katsuya Suemaru. "Enriched environment reverts decreased sociability in prenatal folate deficiency mice." Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society 94 (2021): 2—P1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1254/jpssuppl.94.0_2-p1-43.

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Baron, J. J., and S. F. Gorski. "Response of Eggplant to a Root Environment Enriched with CO2." HortScience 21, no. 3 (June 1986): 495–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.21.3.495.

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Abstract Several elevated concentrations of CO2 were injected into the root atmosphere to determine the influence of CO2 concentration in the soil on the growth of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Elevated CO2 levels in the root atmosphere consistently increased stem diameter while a significant increase in plant total dry weight and leaf area only occurred during long day/warm temperature conditions. Under periods of short days and low light levels, 15% CO2 reduced total dry weight and leaf area. Applications of 14CO2 to the root zone demonstrated that 14C eggplant roots absorb CO2 from the soil environment and translocate labeled compounds into the shoot.

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Korhonen, Hannu T., and Pekka Eskeli. "A Study on Multi-Enriched Housing Environment in Blue Foxes." Open Journal of Animal Sciences 05, no. 02 (2015): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojas.2015.52010.

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Gurfein, Blake T., Burcu Hasdemir, Jeffrey M. Milush, Chadi Touma, Rupert Palme, Douglas F. Nixon, Nicholas Darcel, Frederick M. Hecht, and Aditi Bhargava. "Enriched environment and stress exposure influence splenic B lymphocyte composition." PLOS ONE 12, no. 7 (July 12, 2017): e0180771. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180771.

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Riquelme, Carlos, Alejandro Rojas, Verónica Flores, and Juan A. Correa. "Epiphytic bacteria in a copper-enriched environment in northern Chile." Marine Pollution Bulletin 34, no. 10 (October 1997): 816–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-326x(97)00086-6.

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Schneider, J. S., M. H. Lee, D. W. Anderson, L. Zuck, and T. I. Lidsky. "Enriched environment during development is protective against lead-induced neurotoxicity." Brain Research 896, no. 1-2 (March 2001): 48–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-8993(00)03249-2.

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