Animal Assisted Education (AAE) is een doelgerichte, geplande en gestructureerde interventie met dieren waarbij de focus ligt op onderwijsdoelen, het verbeteren van sociale vaardigheden en het cognitief functioneren. Interventies met dieren en dieren in de klas kunnen diverse positieve effecten hebben …

Common seals (Phoca vitulina) are mostly seen from coastal temperate waters to the Polar Regions. High levels of toxic waste that affect the immune system, fisheries, and new outbreaks of viruses consist of the current threats to the seal populations. The Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre (SRRC) …

Inaugural lecture as Lector Precision Livestock Farming at HAS University of Applied Sciences on October 14, 2016. PLF, Precision Livestock Farming, uses technologies to continuously monitor animal behaviour, animal health, production and environmental impact.

Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te onderzoeken wat de begeleiders van instelling X nodig hebben om op een effectieve manier dierhulpverlening in te zetten bij mensen met autisme die wonen bij instelling X. In de probleem analyse komt naar voren dat dierenhulpverlening veel kan betekenen voor mensen met …

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Awareness regarding the challenges involved in creating a sustainable food system has affected the ways in which businesses market their products and how consumers decide whether to buy these products. Businesses directly communicate different quality aspects of their products to consumers mainly through …

This article focuses on engagements with elephants in diverse contexts, inquiring why some scholars are indifferent or even actively opposed to discourses that emphasise elephant suffering. In order to address this question, this article will explore three interrelated streams within social science: …

The broad field of environmental ethics, animal welfare, animal liberation, and animal rights literature indicate that all encounters between humans and animals are ethically charged. In this article, I shall examine how environmental ethics or animal welfare/rights/liberation literature translate into …

Toxicity outcomes derived in vitro do not always reflect in vivo toxicity values, which was previously observed for a series of phenols tested in the embryonic stem cell test (EST). Translation of in vitro data to the in vivo situation is therefore an important, but still limiting step for the use of …