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| Author | Dall, S.R.X.; Giraldeau, L.-A.; Olsson, O.; McNamara, J.M.; Stephens, D.W. | ||||
| Title | Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Personal Edition) | Abbreviated Journal  |
Trends Ecol Evol |
| Volume | 20 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 187-193 |
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| Abstract | Information is a crucial currency for animals from both a behavioural and evolutionary perspective. Adaptive behaviour relies upon accurate estimation of relevant ecological parameters; the better informed an individual, the better it can develop and adjust its behaviour to meet the demands of a variable world. Here, we focus on the burgeoning interest in the impact of ecological uncertainty on adaptation, and the means by which it can be reduced by gathering information, from both 'passive' and 'responsive' sources. Our overview demonstrates the value of adopting an explicitly informational approach, and highlights the components that one needs to develop useful approaches to studying information use by animals. We propose a quantitative framework, based on statistical decision theory, for analysing animal information use in evolutionary ecology. Our purpose is to promote an integrative approach to studying information use by animals, which is itself integral to adaptive animal behaviour and organismal biology. | ||||
| Address | Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter in Cornwall, Tremough Campus, Penryn, UK, TR10 9EZ. sashadall@iname.com | ||||
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| ISSN | 0169-5347 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:16701367 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 2128 | |||
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| Author | Conradt, L.; Roper, T.J. | ||||
| Title | Consensus decision making in animals | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Personal Edition) | Abbreviated Journal |
Trends Ecol Evol |
| Volume | 20 | Issue | 8 | Pages | 449-456 |
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| Abstract | Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species, however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members because the group will split apart unless a consensus is reached. Here, we review empirical and theoretical studies of consensus decision making, and place them in a coherent framework. In particular, we classify consensus decisions according to the degree to which they involve conflict of interest between group members, and whether they involve either local or global communication; we ask, for different categories of consensus decision, who makes the decision, what are the underlying mechanisms, and what are the functional consequences. We conclude that consensus decision making is common in non-human animals, and that cooperation between group members in the decision-making process is likely to be the norm, even when the decision involves significant conflict of interest. | ||||
| Address | Department of Biology and Environmental Science, John Maynard Smith Building, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, BN1 9QG. L.Conradt@sussex.ac.uk | ||||
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| ISSN | 0169-5347 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:16701416 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4802 | ||
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| Author | Huebener, E. | ||||
| Title | Hilfen für Übergänge von einer Gangart in eine andere ? Die Bewegungen von Pferderumpf und -rücken als Zeitgeber für reiterliche Einwirkung | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Trakehner Hefte | Abbreviated Journal |
Trakehner Hefte, |
| Volume | 5-11 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Übergänge von einer Gangart in eine andere sind nach Ludwig Koch jeweils nur aus einer ganz bestimmten Phase einer Bewegungsfolge (oder Bewegungsfolgen-Hälfte) der einen in eine ganz bestimmte Bewegungsfolge (oder Bewegungsfolgen-Hälfte) der anderen Gangart möglich. Diese Phasen dauern nur Bruchteile einer Sekunde an. In diesen Momenten muß die Hilfe nach europäischer klassischer Lehre gegeben, nur in diesen Momenten kann sie vom Pferd blitzartig-automatisch umgesetzt werden. Um die Hilfe im “passenden” Moment geben zu können, braucht der Reiter einen Zeitgeber. Den einzigen verfügbaren, zuverlässigen Timer bilden die Bewegungen des Pferderückens und des Pferderumpfes. Die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Bewegungsphasen in den Grundgangarten, dem mit frei beweglichem Beckenring allen Bewegungen des Pferderückens folgendem Sitz des Reiters, und dem Schenkel, der von Schritt zu Schritt, von Tritt zu Tritt, von Galoppsprung zu Galoppsprung an den wegschwingenden Pferderumpf fallen möchte bis er das im rechten Augenblick – vom Reiter gesteuert – dann auch darf, sind erstmals in piktogrammartigen Miniaturbild-Folgen leicht verständlich dargestellt. |
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| Language | German | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 426 | ||
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| Author | Huebener, E. | ||||
| Title | Rider's Aids for Transitions Between Different Gaits ? The Movements of the Horse's Trunk and Back as Timers for the Rider's Influence | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Trakehner Hefte | Abbreviated Journal |
Trakehner Hefte |
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| Abstract | Abstract According to Ludwig Koch, the horse's transition from one gait to another is only possible during a particular phase in its' movement cycle (respectively in a half of it's movement cycle) in one gait to a particular phase in its' movement cycle (respectively in a half of it's movement cycle) in the other gait. It only takes a fraction of a second for these movements to occur. It is precisely in these moments that according to the European classical riding school principles the rider has to give the appropriate aids, because only then the horse can execute them in a flash. In order to give the aids in the “fitting” moment, the rider needs a timer. The only available and reliable indicators of the right timing are the movements of the horse's trunk and back. The connections between the different phases of the movements during the basic gaits, the rider's seat which follows all the movements of the horse's back with a freely rotating pelvis, and the rider's leg which – from step to step, from footfall to footfall, from canter beat to canter beat – wants to follow the horse's swinging trunk (until it is finally – controlled by the rider – free to do so, at the right moment), are being shown for the first time in easy to follow miniature picture sequences. |
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| Language | German | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 427 | ||
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| Author | Wells, P.G.; Bhuller, Y.; Chen, C.S.; Jeng, W.; Kasapinovic, S.; Kennedy, J.C.; Kim, P.M.; Laposa, R.R.; McCallum, G.P.; Nicol, C.J.; Parman, T.; Wiley, M.J.; Wong, A.W. | ||||
| Title | Molecular and biochemical mechanisms in teratogenesis involving reactive oxygen species | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Toxicology and applied pharmacology | Abbreviated Journal |
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol |
| Volume | 207 | Issue | 2 Suppl | Pages | 354-366 |
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| Abstract | Developmental pathologies may result from endogenous or xenobiotic-enhanced formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which oxidatively damage cellular macromolecules and/or alter signal transduction. This minireview focuses upon several model drugs (phenytoin, thalidomide, methamphetamine), environmental chemicals (benzo[a]pyrene) and gamma irradiation to examine this hypothesis in vivo and in embryo culture using mouse, rat and rabbit models. Embryonic prostaglandin H synthases (PHSs) and lipoxygenases bioactivate xenobiotics to free radical intermediates that initiate ROS formation, resulting in oxidation of proteins, lipids and DNA. Oxidative DNA damage and embryopathies are reduced in PHS knockout mice, and in mice treated with PHS inhibitors, antioxidative enzymes, antioxidants and free radical trapping agents. Thalidomide causes embryonic DNA oxidation in susceptible (rabbit) but not resistant (mouse) species. Embryopathies are increased in mutant mice deficient in the antioxidative enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), or by glutathione (GSH) depletion, or inhibition of GSH peroxidase or GSH reductase. Inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice are partially protected. Inhibition of Ras or NF-kB pathways reduces embryopathies, implicating ROS-mediated signal transduction. Atm and p53 knockout mice deficient in DNA damage response/repair are more susceptible to xenobiotic or radiation embryopathies, suggesting a teratological role for DNA damage, consistent with enhanced susceptibility to methamphetamine in ogg1 knockout mice with deficient repair of oxidative DNA damage. Even endogenous embryonic oxidative stress carries a risk, since untreated G6PD- or ATM-deficient mice have increased embryopathies. Thus, embryonic processes regulating the balance of ROS formation, oxidative DNA damage and repair, and ROS-mediated signal transduction may be important determinants of teratological risk. | ||||
| Address | Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
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| ISSN | 0041-008X | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:16081118 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 68 | ||
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| Author | Huebener, E. | ||||
| Title | Der Natur abgelauschte Erkenntnisse: Der Weg zum Balancesitz und zum Begreifen des Timers für Signale an das Pferd; | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Tierärztliche Umschau | Abbreviated Journal |
Tierärztl. Umschau |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | Pages | 90-99 | |
| Keywords | Bewegungen des Pferdes – Fundament des Reiter-Sitzes – Timer für Signale an das Pferd – Reflexe – Kommunikation – Forschungsbedarf | ||||
| Abstract | Zusammenfassung Mit dem Beitrag “Die Bewegungen von Pferderumpf und -rücken aus der Sicht des Reiters” (TU 59, 327-334, 2004) wurde um universitäre Forschung zur Ermittlung gemessener Werte für diese Begleiter der Fortbewegung geworben. Die Entdeckung des Ranges der Rumpf-Rücken-Bewegungen für pferdgerechtes und kultiviertes, feinfühliges Reiten ist mit der Entwicklung des Balancesitzes und der Technik des vom Pferd Zeitvorgaben Empfangens und ihm Signale Sendens (Reiter sagen: des Fühlens und Einwirkens) eng verbunden. Ihre Geschichte läßt sich über viereinhalb Jahrhunderte verfolgen. Ein kurzer Abriß wird hier nachgeliefert. Er mündet erneut in ein Plädoyer für interdisziplinäres universitäres Forschen, weil auch bei Sitz und Hilfengebung, weiteren Grundlagen des Reitens – im Interesse effektiveren Unterrichts an der Basis unseres “Sports” – dringender Klärungsbedarf besteht. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 421 | ||
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| Author | Huebener, E. | ||||
| Title | Listening to Nature: Ways to A Balanced Seat and Understanding the Correct Timing for the Rider's Aids. | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Tierärztliche Umschau | Abbreviated Journal |
Tierärztl. Umschau |
| Volume | 2 | Issue | Pages | 90-99 | |
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| Abstract | In the publication “Movements of trunk and back of the horse from a riders view” in the TU 59, 327-334, 2004 the author suggested that academic research is necessary to determine measurable parameters for these agents of the horse's movement. The discovery of the importance of the trunk-back-movements for a sensitive and horse-oriented riding style is closely connected to the development of the balanced seat and the technique of receiving signals from and sending signals to the horse at the right time (riders would say: “the feel and the impact”). The history of this interaction between horse and rider can be traced for four and a half centuries. A short digest will be published here later. Again the studies result in a demand for interdisciplinary academic research. There is an urgent need to clarify the impact of the riders's seat and aids (two more pillars in the art of riding) in the interest teaching riding correctly and more efficiently at the so-called 'basis' of our sport. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 436 | ||
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| Author | Quesada, J; Kintsch, W.; Gomez, E. | ||||
| Title | Complex problem-solving: a field in search of a definition? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science | Abbreviated Journal |
Theor Issues Ergon Sci |
| Volume | 6 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 5-33 |
| Keywords | Problem solving; Dynamic decision making; Micro-worlds; Expertise | ||||
| Abstract | Complex problem-solving (CPS) is as an area of cognitive science that has received a good amount of attention, but theories in the field have not progressed accordingly. The reasons could be the lack of good definitions and classifications of the tasks (taxonomies). Although complexity is a term used pervasively in psychology and is operationalized in different ways, there are no psychological theories of complexity. The definition of problem-solving has been changed in the past to reflect the varied interests of the researchers and has lost its initial concreteness. These two facts together make it difficult to define CPS or make clear if CPS should reuse the theory and methods of classical problem-solving or on the contrary should build a theoretical structure starting from scratch. A taxonomy is offered of tasks using both formal features and psychological features that are theory-independent that could help compare the CPS tasks used in the literature. The adequateness is also reviewed of the most extended definitions of CPS and conclude that they are in serious need of review, since they cover tasks that are not considered problem-solving by their own authors or are not complex, but ignore others that should clearly be included. | ||||
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| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Ltd | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 604 | ||
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| Author | Feh, C. | ||||
| Title | Relationships and Communication in Socially Natural Horse Herds | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | The domestic horse : the origins, development, and management of its behaviour | Abbreviated Journal |
The domestic horse : the origins, development, and management of its behaviour |
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| Abstract | Horses are quite unique. In most mammals, sexes segregate and maintain bonds only during the breeding season (Clutton-Brock, 1989). Some canids, a few rodents and primate species such as gorillas, hamadryas baboons and red howler monkeys are the exception, where the same males stay with the same females all year round and over many breeding seasons. Typically, both sexes disperse at puberty in these species. In horses, it was clearly shown that the causes for female dispersal were incest avoidance and not intra-specific competition (Monard, 1996). As a rule, this is confirmed for mammal species where tenure length by males exceeds the age at first reproduction in females (Clutton-Brock, 1989). When horses are allowed to choose their mating partner freely, the inbreeding coefficient of the offspring is lower than expected should they mate randomly (Duncan et al, 1984). | ||||
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press 2005 | Place of Publication | Cambridge | Editor | Mills, D. S. ; McDonnell, , S. M. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @; Equine Behaviour @ team @ room B 3.092 | Serial | 472 | ||
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| Author | Macfadden, B.J. | ||||
| Title | Evolution. Fossil horses--evidence for evolution | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2005 | Publication | Science (New York, N.Y.) | Abbreviated Journal |
Science |
| Volume | 307 | Issue | 5716 | Pages | 1728-1730 |
| Keywords | Animals; Body Size; DNA, Mitochondrial; Diet; *Equidae/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics; *Evolution; Feeding Behavior; *Fossils; *Horses/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics; Paleodontology; Phylogeny; Time; Tooth/anatomy & histology | ||||
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| Address | Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu | ||||
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| ISSN | 1095-9203 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:15774746 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 1892 | |||
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