six mixed-breed apparently healthy dogs were intravenously administered a single dose of tetracycline hydrochloride (50 mg/kg) to evaluate the pharmacokinetic parameters of the drug. blood samples were collected before and at various time intervals after the administration of the drug. serum tetracycline concentrations were determined over a 24 h period using fluorescence spectrophotometry. non...

this study represents an unusual case of mucormycosis localized in nasal cavity of a german shepherd dog. the patient was a 1-year-old male guard dog with unilateral nasal epistaxis, mucopurulent nasal discharge, sneezing and nose pawing. the dog had a history of head trauma about 2 months before admission, which was associated with mild self-limited epistaxis. initial nasal rhinoscopy showed s...

The purpose of this study is to offer a multi-disciplinary framework to examine the continuing digital participation divide and within-group use variance among millennials. We focus on millennials due to the size of their population segment. We further critically examine assumptions of homogeneous adoption of emerging Information and communication technologies (ICTs) among “digital natives.” We...

Tree Substitution Grammar rules form a large and expressive class of features capable of representing syntactic and lexical patterns that provide evidence of an author’s native language. However, this class of features can be applied to any general constituent based model of grammar and previous work has done little to explore these options, relying primarily on the common Penn Treebank annotat...

In this paper we investigate how teaching programming to the modern generation of students, “digital natives” who grew up with Google and Facebook and do not know the world before the Internet, can be improved through a highly visual game-like approach. Many programming teachers report that modern programming students have short attention span, lack concentration and have poor motivation to lea...

Guide dogs are sense-able agents that can assist Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) to achieve mobility. But could a guide dog be replaced by robot dog? Based on video recordings and ethnomethodological ‘conversation analysis’ of VIPs who mobile in street environment with remotely operated robodog or dog, respectively, this paper shows the multisensory semiotic capacities non-human as assistants n...

evaluation of the cardiovascular system of canine pediatrics requires awareness of the anatomical and physiological changes occurring from birth to six months of age. the aim of this study was to report electrocardiographic changes in the littermate mongrel dogs from birth tosix months. serial six-lead electrocardiograms were recorded from ten normal littermate mongrel dogs kept on right latera...

two male dogs at the age of 3 and 5 months of doberman pinscher and german shepherd breeds were referred to the veterinary hospital of ahvaz university with clinical signs of depression, vomiting, haemorrhagic diarrhoea, profound dehydration, fever and anorexia. the affected dogs had not the history of vaccination. concurrent infection of canine parvovirus and coronavirus was detected in dogs b...

We report on an experimental study of the processing of noun-noun compounds by native and non-native speakers of English, based on Event-Related Potentials recorded during a maskprimed lexical decision task. Analysis was by generalised linear mixed-effect modelling and generalised additive mixed modelling. Non-native processing is found to display headedness effects induced by the mothertongue....

Although the term “digital native” by Prensky is not appreciated by all pedagogical researchers, it perfectly describes the nowadays students that continuously deal with technology. Over the last ten years, the way in which education and training are delivered has considerably changed due to the introduction of new technologies. One of them, very promising, is Game-Based Learning. The work prop...