The bond dogs develop with their owner received increased attention in the last years but no study aimed at characterizing the way in which owners interact with their dogs in their daily life and how this might influence dog behavior. In order to examine how dog owners interact with their dogs, we first analyzed the behavior of 220 dog owners in 8 different standardized situations involving the...

"Corporate governance" includes mechanisms to monitor CEO's performance assure efficient decision adoption and maximize firm value. One of the most effective aspects is degree risk-taking. This study investigates relationship between CEO power institutional ownership with risk-taking behavior member firms Tehran Stock Exchange Iran Fara Bourse during 2010-2019 by utilizing quintile regression. ...

Behavioral problems in cats have drawn more attention in recent years since they affect the cat-owner relationship. This study was designed to study the rate of cats with undesirable behaviors according to their owners. Frequency of behavioral problems in 167 cats attending Small Animal Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, was evaluated using a questionnaire. Accordin...

Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis Carlos Siordia1* & Hilario Molina II2 1 PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2 PhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Siordia was supported by grant numbers T32 AG000181 and U01 AG023744 from the National Institute of ...

The institutional Personal Learning Environment (iPLE) constitutes our vision of how Web 2.0 tools and services, and people arrangement and data sharing could be applied for delivering open, flexible, distributed and learner-centred learning environments to university members. Based on the iPLE, this paper explores a strategy that universities could follow in order to take advantage of the bene...

OBJECTIVE This study included 54-month-old children with a history of institutional care. Our goal was to: (1) examine differences in indiscriminate social behaviors in children with a history of institutional care compared with home-reared children; (2) test whether foster care reduces indiscriminate social behaviors in a randomized controlled trial; and (3) examine early predictors of indiscr...