The document discusses the long-standing relationship between humans and dogs, and argues that dogs may help save mankind by developing empathy in children. It notes that emerging research shows interacting with dogs can positively influence child development, and reduce bullying and aggression. Furthermore, Stephen Hawking stated that developing empathy may be key to humanity's survival. The document concludes that connecting children with dogs early on can help increase empathy, which could help address issues like bullying and the millions of dogs euthanized in shelters each year.
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Learning in content based image retrieval a revieweSAT Journals
Abstract
Relevance feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval is an interactive process where the user provides feedback on the systemretrieved
images to bridge the gap between user semantics at high level and machine extracted low level features of images.
RF exploits Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition techniques for Short Term Learning and Long Term Learning to provide
improved performance in retrieval. Intra query and across query learning have received enormous attention over the past
decade. This paper first categorizes the various learning techniques and discusses the intuition behind each of these techniques.
State-of-art learning techniques ranging from Feature Relevance learning to manifold learning in STL and Latent Semantic
Analysis used in text processing to recent kernel semantic learning in LTL are discussed.
Keywords: Relevance Feedback, Short Term Learning, Long Term Learning, Sematic Gap, High Level Features
2016 Place Conf - Case Study: Understanding Customer Behavior with Location I...Localogy
YP and agency Ansira explain how a regional network of car dealerships gained new insights into customer behavior and changed its thinking about media and even operations, with a campaign that sought to drive oil change visits.
Rifkin, A Change of Heart about Animals”They are more like us t.docxmalbert5
Rifkin, “A Change of Heart about Animals”
They are more like us than we imagined, scientists are finding
Jeremy Rifkin, Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2003. Rifkin is an American economist whose work explores the way science and technological change influence the economy, jobs, culture, and the environment. In a 1989 interview published in Time Magazine, Rifkin argues against some technologies, claiming that in America,[w]e’re so skewed toward efficiency that we’ve lost our sense of humanity. What we need to do is to bring back a sense of the sacred.”
[1] Though much of big science has centered on breakthroughs in biotechnology, nanotechnology and more esoteric questions like the age of our universe, a quieter story has been unfolding behind the scenes in laboratories around the world — one whose effect on human perception and our understanding of life is likely to be profound.
[2] What these researchers are finding is that many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we had ever imagined. They feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love — and these findings are changing how we view animals.
[3] Strangely enough, some of the research sponsors are fast food purveyors, such as McDonald's, Burger King and KFC. Pressured by animal rights activists and by growing public support for the humane treatment of animals, these companies have financed research into, among other things, the emotional, mental and behavioral states of our fellow creatures.
[4] Studies on pigs' social behavior funded by McDonald's at Purdue University, for example, have found that they crave affection and are easily depressed if isolated or denied playtime with each other. The lack of mental and physical stimuli can result in deterioration of health.
[5] The European Union has taken such studies to heart and outlawed the use of isolating pig stalls by 2012. In Germany, the government is encouraging pig farmers to give each pig 20 seconds of human contact each day and to provide them with toys to prevent them from fighting.
[6] Other funding sources have fueled the growing field of study into animal emotions and cognitive abilities.
[7] Researchers were stunned recently by findings (published in the journal Science) on the conceptual abilities of New Caledonian crows. In controlled experiments, scientists at Oxford University reported that two birds named Betty and Abel were given a choice between using two tools, one a straight wire,
the other a hooked wire, to snag a piece of meat from inside a tube. Both chose the hooked wire. Abel,
the more dominant male, then stole Betty's hook, leaving her with only a straight wire. Betty then used her beak to wedge the straight wire in a crack and bent it with her beak to produce a hook. She then snagged the food from inside the tube. Researchers repeated the experiment and she fashioned a hook
out of the wire nine of out of 10 times.
[8] Equally impressive is Koko, the 300-p.
Running head ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEWANIMAL RIGHTS LITER.docxSUBHI7
Running head: ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEW
ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEW 2
Introduction
Animal rights movement advocates for animal’s wellbeing, free from pain, cruelty and abuse as they are living beings and they have the right to live in liberty. Abuse of animals has become a major issue worldwide therefore becoming a problem that can be solved only through obtaining a clear comprehension of what the rights entail. Animal rights as a movement challenges the society’s old view that all animals only exist for human use like in experimentation and agriculture (Sunstein 388). Despite the comprehension of what animal rights entail, it is crucial for individuals to understand the potential causes of animal abuse. While those who display these practices of viciousness and disregard towards animals must be dissected and, if vital, liberatingly analyzed, they should likewise be considered responsible for their activities, which is done by specific laws and controls that endeavor to forestall animal cruelty. This way, the harmful effects of animal abuse is lessened and stopped.
Many individuals trust that animals do not have rights, and that the general populations who support animal rights are liberals who need to discover different channels for their persuasions while others feel it is our ethical commitment to nurture animals as they cannot act or talk for themselves. Protecting animals is, imperative for some reasons, including the help they provide for plant ecosystems, the emotional and psychological bolster they can offer to people, and the knowledge picked up from the sociological studies of them and therefore they have the right to experience their lives free from exploitation and misery. We as human beings however do take speciesism to extremes, making new species through farming and domestication, invading most climates and environments, and utilizing our intelligence to expand or sort term gains at the detriment of long-term sustainability. Animals have rights to live free of pain, abuse and suffering.
Literature Review
The fight against animal brutality, the advocacy of animal rights and the welfare of animals has occurred to some degree over the span of history. It's vital to comprehend that owning animals as property to be eaten or killed is the defining core of our consciousness, and that every human being is routinely indoctrinated into the attitude of control, reductionism, avoidance, elitism, and disconnectedness required by the sustenance practices of our culture (Cochrane 37). This review discusses the existing literature in regard to animal rights. The section contains history, terminology and the pros and cons of the controversies involved in animal rights.
All around the world the “animal research controversy” is capturing community attention by storm. Many are the individuals who emphasize on different con ...
Learning in content based image retrieval a revieweSAT Journals
Abstract
Relevance feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval is an interactive process where the user provides feedback on the systemretrieved
images to bridge the gap between user semantics at high level and machine extracted low level features of images.
RF exploits Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition techniques for Short Term Learning and Long Term Learning to provide
improved performance in retrieval. Intra query and across query learning have received enormous attention over the past
decade. This paper first categorizes the various learning techniques and discusses the intuition behind each of these techniques.
State-of-art learning techniques ranging from Feature Relevance learning to manifold learning in STL and Latent Semantic
Analysis used in text processing to recent kernel semantic learning in LTL are discussed.
Keywords: Relevance Feedback, Short Term Learning, Long Term Learning, Sematic Gap, High Level Features
2016 Place Conf - Case Study: Understanding Customer Behavior with Location I...Localogy
YP and agency Ansira explain how a regional network of car dealerships gained new insights into customer behavior and changed its thinking about media and even operations, with a campaign that sought to drive oil change visits.
Rifkin, A Change of Heart about Animals”They are more like us t.docxmalbert5
Rifkin, “A Change of Heart about Animals”
They are more like us than we imagined, scientists are finding
Jeremy Rifkin, Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2003. Rifkin is an American economist whose work explores the way science and technological change influence the economy, jobs, culture, and the environment. In a 1989 interview published in Time Magazine, Rifkin argues against some technologies, claiming that in America,[w]e’re so skewed toward efficiency that we’ve lost our sense of humanity. What we need to do is to bring back a sense of the sacred.”
[1] Though much of big science has centered on breakthroughs in biotechnology, nanotechnology and more esoteric questions like the age of our universe, a quieter story has been unfolding behind the scenes in laboratories around the world — one whose effect on human perception and our understanding of life is likely to be profound.
[2] What these researchers are finding is that many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we had ever imagined. They feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love — and these findings are changing how we view animals.
[3] Strangely enough, some of the research sponsors are fast food purveyors, such as McDonald's, Burger King and KFC. Pressured by animal rights activists and by growing public support for the humane treatment of animals, these companies have financed research into, among other things, the emotional, mental and behavioral states of our fellow creatures.
[4] Studies on pigs' social behavior funded by McDonald's at Purdue University, for example, have found that they crave affection and are easily depressed if isolated or denied playtime with each other. The lack of mental and physical stimuli can result in deterioration of health.
[5] The European Union has taken such studies to heart and outlawed the use of isolating pig stalls by 2012. In Germany, the government is encouraging pig farmers to give each pig 20 seconds of human contact each day and to provide them with toys to prevent them from fighting.
[6] Other funding sources have fueled the growing field of study into animal emotions and cognitive abilities.
[7] Researchers were stunned recently by findings (published in the journal Science) on the conceptual abilities of New Caledonian crows. In controlled experiments, scientists at Oxford University reported that two birds named Betty and Abel were given a choice between using two tools, one a straight wire,
the other a hooked wire, to snag a piece of meat from inside a tube. Both chose the hooked wire. Abel,
the more dominant male, then stole Betty's hook, leaving her with only a straight wire. Betty then used her beak to wedge the straight wire in a crack and bent it with her beak to produce a hook. She then snagged the food from inside the tube. Researchers repeated the experiment and she fashioned a hook
out of the wire nine of out of 10 times.
[8] Equally impressive is Koko, the 300-p.
Running head ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEWANIMAL RIGHTS LITER.docxSUBHI7
Running head: ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEW
ANIMAL RIGHTS LITERATURE REVIEW 2
Introduction
Animal rights movement advocates for animal’s wellbeing, free from pain, cruelty and abuse as they are living beings and they have the right to live in liberty. Abuse of animals has become a major issue worldwide therefore becoming a problem that can be solved only through obtaining a clear comprehension of what the rights entail. Animal rights as a movement challenges the society’s old view that all animals only exist for human use like in experimentation and agriculture (Sunstein 388). Despite the comprehension of what animal rights entail, it is crucial for individuals to understand the potential causes of animal abuse. While those who display these practices of viciousness and disregard towards animals must be dissected and, if vital, liberatingly analyzed, they should likewise be considered responsible for their activities, which is done by specific laws and controls that endeavor to forestall animal cruelty. This way, the harmful effects of animal abuse is lessened and stopped.
Many individuals trust that animals do not have rights, and that the general populations who support animal rights are liberals who need to discover different channels for their persuasions while others feel it is our ethical commitment to nurture animals as they cannot act or talk for themselves. Protecting animals is, imperative for some reasons, including the help they provide for plant ecosystems, the emotional and psychological bolster they can offer to people, and the knowledge picked up from the sociological studies of them and therefore they have the right to experience their lives free from exploitation and misery. We as human beings however do take speciesism to extremes, making new species through farming and domestication, invading most climates and environments, and utilizing our intelligence to expand or sort term gains at the detriment of long-term sustainability. Animals have rights to live free of pain, abuse and suffering.
Literature Review
The fight against animal brutality, the advocacy of animal rights and the welfare of animals has occurred to some degree over the span of history. It's vital to comprehend that owning animals as property to be eaten or killed is the defining core of our consciousness, and that every human being is routinely indoctrinated into the attitude of control, reductionism, avoidance, elitism, and disconnectedness required by the sustenance practices of our culture (Cochrane 37). This review discusses the existing literature in regard to animal rights. The section contains history, terminology and the pros and cons of the controversies involved in animal rights.
All around the world the “animal research controversy” is capturing community attention by storm. Many are the individuals who emphasize on different con ...
1. Could Canines be Mankind's Salvation?
By Chris P. Janelli, Executive Director, Center for Canine Behavior Studies
March 9, 2015
Whether you fall into the 10,000 years or 30,000 years camp of how
long the human-canine relationship has existed, there is near
universal agreement that the man-dog relationship is the most
unique in the animal kingdom. It is quite possibly the most
symbiotically beneficial one and in certain circumstances, perhaps
even more beneficial than the human-to-human relationship. The
brilliant scientist Stephen Hawking might even agree based upon his
recent discourse on the human failing that “now threatens to destroy
us all.”
As Dr. Nicholas Dodman, Chief Scientific Officer at the Center for
Canine Behavior Studies, says repeatedly, whether it’s the bond
between humans, or between humans and their companion dogs, the
strength or weakness of the bond comes down to one thing, behavior. Sadly, because the bond between
man and dog is behavior based, it is unacceptable behavior to the owner that is # 1 killer of dogs under
the age of 3 years old.
The question, however, remains—if, according to Hawking, mankind’s own failings now threaten to
destroy us all, how much of a companion dog’s misbehavior that leads to relinquishment and possible
euthanasia is due to its human owner?
The Dodman & Serpell Animal Ownership Interaction Study at The Simon Foundation – Center for
Canine Behavior Studies will investigate that question and more. Any dog owner in the world is invited
to volunteer to participate in this groundbreaking Study by registering at the Center.
The bond between canines and mankind is so strong and intertwined that domesticated dogs, which are
all descendants of a common wolf ancestor, have evolved dietetically to be able to
assimilate the primary food staples of mankind worldwide—grains (carbohydrates and starches). A
research article entitled “The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet”
was published in Nature Magazine on this subject.
While the dogs’ behaviors and characteristics were naturally evolving to support mankind’s survival
endeavors—from migratory hunter-gatherers to sedentary agricultural societies, inter-species
communication—both verbal and non-verbal—was also developing. Human manipulation of canines for
specific “pure” breed characteristics, behaviors and conformation is a relatively recent human endeavor.
Important as mankind’s influence has been on canine development, the dogs have always been ahead of
us humans in understanding us, versus us understanding them.
Most people do not recognize the level of communication—both vocal and sensed—between humans
and dogs. Human and dog brains share common “voice” regions within the brain, which allow dogs like
humans to understand subtleties in human voice tones that express our emotional state. We also share
“similar brain mechanisms to process social information. This may support the successfulness of vocal
communication between the two species.”
Research has also shown that canines and human share many of the same emotional experiences. For
example, while jealousy is assumed to be unique to humans “because of the complex cognitions often
involved in this emotion,” dogs exhibit it as well. Dogs coming out of war zones can also exhibit PTSD
despite the fact that veterinary medicine doesn’t yet fully recognize PTSD in animals and many animal
2. behaviorists still question it as well. However, there is near universal agreement that “animals can suffer
lingering after-effects of trauma.” Research has also proven that dogs can not only identify an
individual as being a liar, but more fascinating is that they won’t transfer that realization about one
human being to another new human they meet.
Researchers today are investigating not only the amazing cognitive abilities of dogs, but are delving
deeper into the realm of the health and wellness benefits for humans that come from a human-canine
relationship. There is a growing body of clinical and empirical evidence of the beneficial effects of the
relationship between dogs (and other pets) and their humans.
From sniffing out diseases like cancer or detecting in a human’s sweat or breath from a faraway distance
rising cortisol levels due to increasing stress, dogs can do amazing feats that make Superman look like
an earthling wimp.
While much of the emerging canine (companion pet) health research is being qualified with statements
such as, “strong specific” or “sound scientific evidence to support these effects is still lacking,” what is
undeniable is that dogs are delivering very specific health and preventive wellness benefits to humans.
Research is proving that dogs (and other pets) are providing social support that reduces stress, lowers
blood pressure, lessens anxiety, mitigates loneliness, reduces the sense of isolation, and much more. I
almost wrote unprecedented social support, but as amazing as this emerging research is and will
continue to be, the fact is that it’s been going on for thousands of years even if we humans haven’t
recognized it for what it is.
A recent article in the Journal of the British Veterinary Association entitled Animal-assisted
interventions: making better use of the human-animal bond enumerates a lot of the “still lacking
evidence” research that enumerates the enormous benefits dogs can have on a child’s emotional and
societal development. It should surprise no one that the words dog and cat are among the earliest and
most frequently used words in the budding vocabulary of infants.
Emerging evidence from interactions by children with dogs has lead to one hypothesis that “the human-
animal bond is instrumental in shaping a child's emotional development.” This evidence, even if “strong
specific evidence is still lacking,” is indicating a “positive influence on child development in terms of
task accomplishment and responsibility,” “help[ing] to build a child's self-esteem, which is essential for
social competence and academic achievement,” fostering “better social encounters,” being “more
popular with their peers,” “reducing negative human emotions and increasing positive emotions” and
helping develop “more positive attitudes towards school and learning,” and most importantly,
developing exactly what Stephen Hawking says the world needs more of to survive.
Another hypothesis is that companion animals fulfill a basic biological need in human beings, which is
based on the biophilia hypothesis introduced and popularized in 1984 by the renowned Edward O.
Wilson regarded as the “father of sociobiology and biodiversity.” The biophilia hypothesis “is
predicated on the assumption that people have adapted to attend to and have empathy with human and
non-human life in their environment.”
So what exactly did Stephen Hawking have to say about the threat to humanity and what it needs to
survive?
Hawking said, “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival
advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it
threatens to destroy us all.” According to Hawking, the solution to aggression and more of what the
world needs is EMPATHY.
So if connecting children and dogs can help develop empathy, wouldn’t it be great if every home in
America with children had at least one dog?