Archaeological study of Indigenous pasts has been characterized by a focus on objects over people. This study attempts to humanize the past by illuminating human agency in the human-dog relationship through a case study of dog health and diet during the Late Ceramic period (ca. …
Os objetivos deste estudo consistiram em identificar possíveis fatores de risco, indicadores de prognóstico e de fatores que pareceram afetar o tempo de hospitalização, através da descrição epidemiológica, dos métodos de diagnóstico, da terapêutica, e das alterações clínicas, la…
Objective. The purpose of this study was to identify the medical issues experienced by Military Working Dogs during their period of deployment in Iraq. Design. This study was a retrospective cross-sectional survey based on database and medical record abstraction. Population. Mil…
Background: Childhood obesity is highly prevalent among the fast-growing Latino communities. Promoting physical activity (PA) is a major measure to obesity prevention. American youth's PA levels have declined over the years and most youth are not meeting the current national PA …
A population-based, cohort study was conducted to determine the importance of Gulf War deployment to Southwest Asia, from 1 August 1990 to 31 December 1991, in explaining neurologic mortality and peripheral nerve disease among United States military working dogs. The study cohor…
My dissertation asserts that the study of animals is integral to the thorough understanding of the ancient military landscape, and three animals in particular warrant particular attention: the elephant, camel, and dog. I place these animals into the broader context of ancient wa…
This dissertation is premised on the theory that the predominant westernized social paradigm is rooted within a system of oppositionality, a way of believing, being, and behaving through which concepts and entities are set against each other in a binarily divided and ranked syst…
There have been increasing reports of Ancylostoma caninum infections that do not clear after multiple treatments in different dog breeds in the United States over the past few years. The cause of the lack of clearance of these infections in the majority of cases was determined t…