Top Research Papers on Cats

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An unusual case of small bowel obstruction in an elderly man recently admitted having suddenly developed expressive dysphasia, who was found to be in heart failure and fast atrial fibrillation, who made a satisfactory recovery.

CATS—clustering after transformation and smoothing—is a technique for nonparametrically estimating and clustering a large number of curves for screening out flat curves, clustering curves with similar shape, and nonparametrically inferring the clustering estimation error rate.

This article is the first work to maximize data sharing among continuous interval sampling tasks by jointly optimizing task allocation and scheduling of sampling intervals in WSNs by formalizing the joint optimization problem and proving it NP-hard.

Among the domestic pets kept in the towns of England, the cat probably tops the list so far as numbers go. But unlike other domesticated animals its association with man has been relatively short and, in spite of the mouse-catching propensities of some breeds, domestication was in this case only in part guided by economic considerations.

The Fauna Preservation Society's Week will be from 28th May to 2nd June, and the Duke of Bedford has graciously consented to open Woburn Park to the public for a week in conjunction with the Society during the Festival of Britain.

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The Welfare of Cats is the third book in a series on animal welfare, with the first in this series to deal with the most popular pet animal species, and deals with various aspects of welfare such as behavior and behavior problems, the human–cat relationship, feral and unowned cats, nutrition, and health.

The origin, history and effects of domestication, behaviour and relationship with humans of cats are described.

Familiarity, ease of access, and trust will be important for the long-term future.

This English version of 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Sōseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke (1867–1916), and translated by Kan-ichi Ando (1878-1924), was published by Hattori Shoten, Tokyo, in 1906. It begins: "I am a cat; but as yet I have no name." Its sardonic feline narrator describes his origins, his settlement in the household of a Meiji teacher-intellectual, and the goings-on and conversations among the cats and humans about the neighborhood. Of the men he concludes: "They are miserable creatures in the eyes of a cat. Japanese nov...

The subject of the 1995 meeting was the cat, and the full text of the eight papers presented have now been published as part of Volume 208, Issue 4 of the Journal of the AVMA.

Reviewed by vet nurse Sarah Ginger who is currently studying for the diploma in feline nursing.

These models are very good: they beat all previously published results on the challenging ASIRRA test (cat vs dog discrimination) when applied to the task of discriminating the 37 different breeds of pets, and obtain an average accuracy of about 59%, a very encouraging result considering the difficulty of the problem.

Children's Laureate Lynne Garner looks at ways to encourage a greater understanding of these much loved companion animals.

about them ; every one is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they are like children in their power of discovering, by a rapid and sure instinct, who likes them and who docs not. It is difficult to win their affection ; and it is easy to forfeit what it is hard to win. But when given, their love, although less demonstrative, is more delicate and beautiful than that of a dog. BVho that is on really intimate terms with a cat has not watched its dismay at the signs of packingup and leaving home ! BVe ourselves have known

As a small boy, I lived on a farm outside Melbourne and it wasn’t long before the authors had to sell up and move to the city, and my beloved cat, Tabby, came with us, but she was livid when she disappeared.

A teenage gang from outwith Amsterdam leave a trail of damage each time they turn up. Their calling card is a grafito that reads the Cats won't like it. As Detective Van der Valk probes the case unravels, but not without a final, violent explosion.

有这样一则英语成语:“To rain cats anddogs.”如果望文生义,则会被译为“下猫下狗”,因而会弄出许多笑话来,这应当是值得引以为戒的。其实这句成语的真正含义是:“下倾盆大雨”。那么下雨为什么会与cats和dogs联系在一起呢?

China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs’ ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management of SOEs by granting SOEs’ managers autonomy and their employees profit incentives. Utilising a data set on 680 SOEs over 1980-94, we tested the relative effectiveness of two kinds of reform measures. Our results show that ownership diversification had a significant impact on the performance of SOEs while efforts to improve SOE’s management had very little effect. Moreover, t...