There has been a recent trend towards keeping non-traditional companion animals, also known as exotic pets. These pets include parrots, reptiles, amphibians and rabbits, as well as small species of rodent such as degus and guinea pigs. Many of these exotic pet species are not domesticated, and often have special requirements in captivity, which many owners do not have the facilities or knowledg...

− Future society must be utopia in which every constituent can share equal welfare. In particular, it should be a society where the elderly and the physically handicapped can lead their lives happily along with the normal. In order to realize such a welfare-driven society, it is essential to build an infrastructure with a variety of facilities based on advanced technology or devices and systems...

Recent revisions to international legislation and guidelines on the care and use of animals in research and testing emphasise the importance of minimising suffering and improving welfare. Achieving this requires effective systems for recognising, recording, analysing and assessing animal behaviour, in order to identify relevant indicators of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm so that any...

Human resources are the most valuable capital of an organization, and managers are trying to provide motivation and productivity along with preserving the workforce. One way to motivate and increase productivity is to provide welfare services to employees. Using Adams' theory of equality, the current research attempts to design a desirable model for providing welfare services in the organizatio...

introduction: at the present time, information dissemination is one of the important functions of the libraries. and every library must adjust itself with the increasing development. therefore in order to effectively provide their users with sufficient information, university library managers must examine job-satisfaction of librarians in esfahan university and esfahan university of medical sci...

urban effete textures are multiple problems at conspectus skeletal, environmental, social and economic that encounter life of inhabitants with problem in this texture. according to the research, almost 90% of population in country exposed hazard of occurrence earthquake. in this face, by reason of problems, effete textures are over damage if the earthquake happened. nonetheless, to make provisi...

Housing of pregnant sows is currently being revolutionised around the world. Group housing enhances opportunities for improved sow health and welfare through enabling exercise and social interactions. However, because it enables social interactions, group housing can also be detrimental to welfare and production, particularly if sow aggression occurs. Detrimental effects of adverse interactions...

the main purpose of this descriptive–survey research was to analysis of improvement mechanism of wheat consultant engineers' project in isfahan province. the main population consisted of 87 extension experts’ and 164 of wces in isfahan province and through randomized sampling 55 samples of extension experts’ and 95 of wces were selected to answer the questionnaires. the validity of questio...

The farmer and the animal: a double mirror X. Boivin*, B. J. Lensink and I. Veissier 5 Qualitative welfare assessment: reading the behavioural expressions of pigs F. Wemelsfelder 14 The effect of the operational environment and operating protocols on the attitudes and behaviour of employed stockpersons M. F. Seabrook 21 Daily practice and dialogue-aspects of stockmanship and inter-human relatio...

background: resilience is a quality that affects an individual’s ability to cope with tension. the present study was conducted to determine resilience and its contributing factors in high-risk adolescents living in residential care facilities affiliated to tehran welfare organization in order to help develop effective preventive measures for them. methods: the present descriptive study was cond...