The use of game elements in non-game contexts (gamification) -has previously been widely explored in contexts such as healthcare and marketing but less extensively in education and training. In this paper we explore the use of gamification in education and training. Traditional training methods often fail to engage or motivate students, especially Digital Natives raised from a young age with ap...

Synopsis In recent years there has been growing interest in uncovering evolutionary and lifetime factors that may contribute to the domestic dog’s (Canis lupus familiaris) success anthropogenic environments. The readiness with which dogs form social attachments, their hyper-social focus, flexibility have all areas of investigation. Prior research demonstrated many pet infant-caregiver type atta...

Walking the dog, and other dog-related practices, have been suggested to be particularly car-dependent. Secondary data analysis presented finds associations between high energy use practices of car travel dog ownership. There is a strong association rate ownership km travelled per person. This relationship holds when controlling for income, level urbanisation housing type demographic variables.

Dog fouling is recognised as antisocial, unhealthy and illegal in England, yet it persists. Much action against dog happens communities impacts are largely unrecorded. Here, we repor...

anaplasma platys, previously known as ehrlichia platys,which causes infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia, has notbeen extensively studied in southeast asia. recent reports in theregion have been limited to ticks and dogs in thailand, and toticks in the philippines. in this report, dnafragments of a. platyswere molecularly detected in a dog in the philippines. apitbullpuppy exhibited pancyt...

canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. they are one of main public health problem. theaim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in zabol city,southeaster of iran. in this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy.then, the intestines was opened by scalpel and their contents pa...