Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Cats of Catthulhu (Game)"

The purpose of this research is to improve of gross motor skills of children through the traditional game of cats and mice at TK B Cifor Ceria Kota Depok 2017. The subject of research were 10 children. This research method was based on the research action class of Kemmis and Mc Taggart model included of four steps: (1) planning (2) action (3) observation and evaluation (4) reflection. The study consisted of one cycle, with two times meetings. Data analysis technique were used qualitative and quantitative data. The data were collected used observation instruments, interview non structur and documentation. Results of this research are showed an increased in gross motor skills of children through traditional games, evidenced by the average score of early motor skills crude children 63.61% and cycle I 79.33%. Research findings that the traditional game of cats and mice could increase children gross motor skill in TK B Cifor Ceria

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the measurement of acute phase proteins (APPs) as a diagnostic tool to differentiate between feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) and other diseases in cats with body cavity effusions. Methods Cats with pleural, abdominal or pericardial effusion were prospectively enrolled. Cats were classified as having or not having FIP based on immunohistochemistry (if available) or a sophisticated statistical method using machine learning methodology with concepts from game theory. Cats without FIP were further subdivided into three subgroups: cardiac disease, neoplasia and other diseases. Serum amyloid A (SAA), haptoglobin (Hp) and α1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) were measured in serum and effusion, using assays previously validated in cats. Results Serum and effusion samples were available for the measurement of APPs from 88 and 67 cats, respectively. Concentrations of the APPs in serum and effusion were significantly different in cats with and without FIP ( P <0.001 for all three APPs). The best APP to distinguish between cats with and without FIP was AGP in the effusion; a cut-off value of 1550 µg/ml had a sensitivity and specificity of 93% each for diagnosing FIP. Conclusions and relevance AGP, particularly if measured in effusion, was found to be useful in differentiating between FIP and other diseases, while SAA and Hp were not. The concentration of all three APPs in some diseases (eg, septic processes, disseminated neoplasia) was as high as in cats with FIP; therefore, none of these can be recommended as a single diagnostic test for FIP.

Serological and clinical evidence of human toxoplasmosis in the Canadian Arctic indicates a food safety risk associated with the consumption of wild game meat. Such meat often is eaten raw or partially cooked in locally prepared traditional (country) foods, but no data have been collected to describe survival of Toxoplasma gondii forms in these foods. The muscle of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) experimentally infected with T. gondii oocysts was used to prepare three country foods: igunaq, a fermented product; nikku, a dried product; and sausage, a salted and spiced product. Igunaq and nikku were stored at 4°C and bioassayed in cats at 49, 95, and 140 days postpreparation (DPP) and 41, 84, and 132 DPP, respectively. Raw and cooked sausages were stored at −20°C and bioassayed at 50, 92, and 141 DPP. The source seal meat was infective for cats, but none of the foods prepared with this meat were infective for cats. Some cooked sausages did not reach internal temperatures considered lethal for T. gondii. Data from studies in domestic animals suggested that the negative results in this experiment were due to temperature and duration of storage. Because of the possibility that T. gondii of arctic origin might be more freeze tolerant than the swine-origin isolate used in this experiment, additional studies are necessary to clarify the risks of toxoplasmosis associated with consumption of arctic country foods.

Toys of the Butcher: Slaughter Animals and Children’s Play in Early Mod-ern Dutch LiteratureThis article discusses cultural representations of slaughter animals from the early modern period, setting them against the post-modern approach to animals. The point of departure constitutes a con­temporary story about a girl eating the heart of a deer, which she has shot. Then the author moves on to a discussion of the poem ‘Kinder-spel’ 1618/1625 by the seventeenth-century Dutch poet Jacob Cats and focuses on the socio-cultural notions of humans and animals which these two texts present. When discussing the poem, the author elaborates on the symbolic meaning of two situations where children play with animal body parts — a game of knucklebones and playing with an inflated bladder. The interpretation of Cats’ text shows that the stereotypical social perceptions of slaughter animals which can be found in the early modern Dutch literature are in fact meant to offer a certain view on humans, by which their domination over the natural world and exploitation of animals is justified. The methodologies applied in this study involve the so-called ‘activist ecocriticism’ and the New Historicism, both being the reading methods, which emphasize the topicality of historical research. By placing Cats’ texts in a broad context, it is shown that the motif of children playing with animal body parts refers to early modern polemics about such issues as the relationship between the human and animal, the tension between culture and nature, as well as children and upbringing models.

Mapping the number and distribution of Salmonella on poultry carcasses will help guide better design of processing procedures to reduce or eliminate this human pathogen from poultry. A selective plating media with multiple antibiotics (xylose-lysine agar medium [XL] containing N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N′-(2-ethanesulfonic acid) and the antibiotics chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline, and streptomycin [XLH-CATS]) and a multiple-antibiotic-resistant strain (ATCC 700408) of Salmonella Typhimurium definitive phage type 104 (DT104) were used to develop an enumeration method for mapping the number and distribution of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 on the carcasses of young chickens in the Cornish game hen class. The enumeration method was based on the concept that the time to detection by drop plating on XLH-CATS during incubation of whole chicken parts in buffered peptone water would be inversely related to the initial log number (N0)of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 on the chicken part. The sampling plan for mapping involved dividing the chicken into 12 parts, which ranged in average size from 36 to 80 g. To develop the enumeration method, whole parts were spot inoculated with 0 to 6 log Salmonella Typhimurium DT104, incubated in 300 ml of buffered peptone water, and detected on XLH-CATS by drop plating. An inverse relationship between detection time on XLH-CATS and N0 was found (r =−0.984). The standard curve was similar for the individual chicken parts and therefore, a single standard curve for all 12 chicken parts was developed. The final standard curve, which contained a 95% prediction interval for providing stochastic results for N0, had high goodness of fit (r2 = 0.968) and was N0 (log) = 7.78 ± 0.61 − (0.995 × detention time). Ninety-five percent of N0 were within ± 0.61 log of the standard curve. The enumeration method and sampling plan will be used in future studies to map changes in the number and distribution of Salmonella on carcasses of young chickens fed the DT104 strain used in standard curve development and subjected to different processing procedures.

AbstractSeveral scholars have raised concerns that the institutional mechanisms through which transitional justice is commonly promoted in post-conflict societies can alienate affected populations. Practitioners have looked to bridge this gap by developing ‘outreach’ programmes, in some instances commissioning comic books in order to communicate their findings to the people they seek to serve. In this article, we interrogate the ways in which post-conflict comics produce meaning about truth, reconciliation, and the possibilities of peace, focusing in particular on a comic strip published in 2005 as part of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report into the causes and crimes of the 1991–2002 Civil War. Aimed at Sierra Leonean teenagers, the Report tells the story of ‘Sierrarat’, a peaceful nation of rats whose idyllic lifestyle is disrupted by an invasion of cats. Although the Report displays striking formal similarities with Art Spiegelman's Maus (a text also intimately concerned with reconciliation, in its own way), it does so to very different ends. The article brings these two texts into dialogue in order to explore the aesthetic politics of truth and reconciliation, and to ask what role popular visual media like comics can play in their practice and (re)conceptualisation.

The article discusses the non-standard use of the endings of nouns for feminine and neuter words (продавать рыбов), which became popular in the Runet language in 2021. The competition of the zero ending with -ов in the genitive and animate accusative, arising in the Old Russian language as a result of mixing two declensions, in the modern language led to the victory of -ов (нет столов, домов), while maintaining the zero ending for some groups (нет англичан, мальчишек) and variation in colloquial speech for a number of words (нет помидоров/помидор), meanwhile the zero option in the XXI century is clearly less common than the “ов-forms”. Under the influence of a “viral” meme about a conversation between cats and a seller, since the summer of 2021, a language game has become widespread, consisting in intentionally joining of -ов to the “unsuitable” stem: рыбов, книгов, деньгов, etc. Such a language game has existed for a long time (for example, the traditional ironic imitation of the colloquial делов-то), but as rare individual jokes, and in 2021 it became frequent, popular, used in a variety of memes and in advertising, associated with the theme of “kittens” and a certain worldview. The “Language of kittens” began to turn into a new linguoculturological phenomenon, comparable in degree of recognition to the Olbanian, or the Padonkaffsky jargon, the peak of popularity of which occurred in the mid-2000s. Now, instead of the misrepresentation of the orthographic appearance of the word (аффтар), which is characteristic of the Olbanian, referring to the idea of protest, the grammatical form is changing, referring to the idea of quiet touching humility before the injustice of life.

SUMMARYA case-control study comprising 1315Campylobacter jejunicases, 121Campylobacter colicases and 3409 frequency-matched controls was conducted in The Netherlands in 2002–2003. Risk factors for bothC. jejuniandC. colienteritis were consumption of undercooked meat and barbecued meat, ownership of cats and use of proton pump inhibitors. Consumption of chicken was a predominant risk factor forC. jejunienteritis, but many additional risk factors were identified. Unique risk factors forC. coliinfections were consumption of game and tripe, and swimming. Contact with farm animals and persons with gastroenteritis were predominant risk factors forC. jejunienteritis in young children (0–4 years). Important risk factors for the elderly (⩾60 years) were eating in a restaurant, use of proton pump inhibitors and having a chronic intestinal illness. Consumption of chicken in spring, steak tartare in autumn and winter and barbecued meat in rural areas showed strong associations withC. jejuniinfections. This study illustrates that important differences in risk factors exist for differentCampylobacterspp. and these may differ dependent on age, season or degree of urbanization.

The article presents the results of epizootic monitoring for rabies in the Russian Federation for 2021. The species and number composition of animals with a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of rabies was analyzed. A picture of the spread of the disease and the involvement of many animal species in the epizootic process is shown. In 2021, veterinary laboratories received over 10 000 brain samples from animals suspected of having rabies. A positive diagnosis was laboratory established in 1189 cases in 63 subjects of the Russian Federation. The most intense epizootic situation is in the Volga Federal District (382 cases) and the Central Federal District (257 cases). 47 % of positive results (563 cases) are for dogs and cats; 39 % (459 cases) – for commercial and wild animals; 13,5 % (161 cases) – for farm animals; 0,5 % (rabbit, 2 wild hamsters and 3 hedgehogs) – for other animal species. The main reservoir of the rabies virus in Russia is the red fox. Among game and wild animals, the largest number of cases was registered among foxes (80 % of cases).

This thesis directly approaches intercollegiate football from a cultural perspective. The football’s popularity exploded during the Twentieth-Century. Television, merchandizing, and a national sporting culture are associated with this development. However, controversies often muddied the waters of that popularity. Football’s brutality, athletic scholarships, and controversies within athletics departments overshadowed the immense popularity of intercollegiate football. During the Twenty-First Century, several universities started new football programs. Two of which being Georgia State University and Southeastern Louisiana University. Given the context balancing popularity and controversy, the administrators demonstrated how the image of intercollegiate football has changed over the course of the past century. This thesis analyzes how the administrators sold the new football programs to their respective institutions and concludes that both universities emphasized the sport’s popularity, avoided controversy, recognized the large potential for financial loss, and concentrated the new programs benefit being increased indirect and intrinsic values.

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國立臺南大學
數位學習科技學系數位學習科技碩士在職專班
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One way of dealing with stray dogs and cats for most people in Taiwan is sent them to a public animal shelter. A number of stray dogs and cats have a significant increase in the recent years. The public animal shelter had altered the policy toward euthanasia for stray dogs and cats, from being euthanized if unclaimed after a 7-day period and extending to a 12-day period to being not euthanized. Although the policy toward stray dogs and cats appears to move towards a new milestone to ban euthanizing animals in shelters in Taiwan, the care of abandoned animals in humanized practice does not be given a primary focus. This indicates that zero-euthanasia does not be raise the issue of life education in these abandoned animals, and care life itself for those abandoned animals. Stray dogs and cats roaming the streets cannot be thoroughly solved if people do not change their attitudes towards these stray dogs and cats life. This study investigated the relationship among citizens, governments and stray dogs and cat using Experiential Education in a sample of college students. Through the game design using transposition thinking, participants play roles of governments, citizens and abandoned animals to allow practice of difficulties and problem solving in the issue of stray cats and dogs. The game design was mainly adapted by Sci-Flipper 18 using the issue as a primary focus in the content. The qualitative data from participants’ responses to the designed questions in the interview was coded and categorized for versifying the finding and analyzing behaviors in the game playing; this helps answer whether the role play game using transposition thinking can experience the issue of stray cats and dogs associated with roles of citizens, governments and public animal shelters. The findings indicated that the use of role play using transposition thinking, putting participants themselves in animals’ shoes, raised people’s awareness on stray dogs and cats; and this became a primary focus of care of abandoned animals, treating them humanely rather items or commodities. A reflective stage allows participants to make links from the game scenario where stray cats in the Mix family cannot live as in the city as in the nature; this makes participants to think of the problems and difficulties of stray dogs and cats that required human to solve the problem. The role play game using transposition thinking provides players with the opportunities to meet the problems and difficulties and how to solve them in practice. It is expected that the players through the game can place a primary focus on the issue of stray dogs and cats in Taiwan.

Orientação interna: Margarida Alves ; orientação externa: Ana Sofia Santos, Ângela Martins
Os agentes transmitidos por ixodídeos são a causa de doenças emergentes em animais de companhia, em alguns casos com carácter zoonótico, representando um desafio para o médico veterinário, pela grande variedade de sinais clínicos que poderão originar. A população silvestre ao abrigar uma elevada densidade de ixodídeos pode estar envolvida no ciclo de transmissão de alguns agentes patogénicos. Este facto é, particularmente, importante quando se assiste ao aumento descontrolado das populações silvestres, como se verifica, actualmente, com os javalis em Portugal. Os javalis estão descritos como hospedeiros de uma ampla variedade de espécies ixodológicas, contribuindo para a dispersão dos agentes zoonóticos que lhe estão associados, nomeadamente Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma platys, mas também a espécie zoonótica Anaplasma phagocytophilum. O presente estudo, procurou detectar evidência de infecção activa por estes agentes bacterianos, nomeadamente A. phagocytophilum, cuja transmissão poderá estar potenciada com o aumento da população de javalis no Parque Natural da Serra da Arrábida (PNSA). Assim foram considerados 21 javalis de três populações distintas, 36 animais de companhia (35 cães e um gato), com sinais clínicos, laboratoriais e/ou epidemiológicos compatíveis com doença associada a ixodídeos, atendidos no Hospital Veterinário da Arrábida, e 80 ixodídeos capturados na vegetação (N=61) ou a parasitar os animais (N=19). A extracção de ADN foi realizada em 155 amostras biológicas incluindo, 33 amostras sanguíneas de animais de companhia, 42 amostras de baço e fígado de javali e os 80 ixodídeos. Para a pesquisa de ADN bacteriano foi realizada uma PCR convencional genérica para Anaplasma/Ehrlichia spp. e PCR em tempo real específica para A. phagocytophilum. Em nenhuma das amostras foi possível identificar reacções positivas. É, contudo, de salientar que a limitação temporal e geográfica da amostragem, bem como, em alguns casos, a qualidade do ADN obtido, podem ter condicionado os resultados obtidos, não se podendo excluir a circulação do agente e, consequentemente, o risco de doença causada pelo mesmo. Esta dissertação permitiu abrir caminho para a realização de mais estudos de forma a conhecer melhor esta doença, bem como, os seus vectores/reservatórios, alertando para o seu papel na doença veterinária e humana.
Tick-borne agents transmitted by Ixodidae family members are the cause of emerging diseases in companion animals, in some cases with zoonotic potential, posing a challenge for the veterinarian due to the great variety of clinical signs that may arise from these pathologies. The wildlife by harboring a high density of ixodids may be involved in the transmission cycle of some pathogens. This is particularly important when wild animal populations are uncontrolled increasing as is currently the case of wild boars in Portugal. These animals are described as hosts of a wide variety of ixodid species contributing to the dispersion of associated zoonotic agents, namely Ehrlichia canis, Anaplasma platys, but also the zoonotic species, Anaplasma phagocytophilum. The present study sought to detect evidence of active infection caused by these bacterial agents, namely A. phagocytophilum, whose transmission may be enhanced by the increase of wild boar population in the Serra da Arrábida Natural Park (PNSA). Twenty-one wild boars from three different population, 36 companion animals (35 dogs and one cat), with clinical, laboratorial and / or epidemiological signs compatible with ixodidal disease attended at Arrábida Veterinary Hospital and 80 ixodids captured in the vegetation (N = 61) or parasitizing the animals (N = 19) were included in this study. DNA extraction was performed on 155 biological samples including, 33 pet blood samples, 42 boar spleen and liver samples, and the 80 ixodids. A generic PCR for Anaplasma / Ehrlichia spp. and real-time PCR specific for A. phagocytophilum were performed although in none of the samples positive reactions were identify. It should be noted, however, that the temporal and geographical limitation of sampling, as well as in some cases the quality of the DNA obtained, may have conditioned the results obtained and thus the circulation of the agent cannot be excluded and, consequently, the risk of the associated disease. This dissertation was an introduction for further studies to better understand this agent, as well as its vectors / reservoirs, alerting to its role in veterinary and human diseases.