Training Shelter Dogs for Service and Therapy Work

Are shelter dogs’ reliable candidates for service work, and what is the best way to utilize the dogs selected to be successful in the field of work? In this research project we were able to broaden our data by temperament testing more dogs in the Putnam County Animal Shelter, using three steps of evaluation. We tested behavioral issues such as fear, fear aggression, food aggression, dog aggression, lack of confidence, etc. With the selected few dogs, we were able to pursue training in the areas or diabetic detection, cancer detection, peanut detection, and therapy work. With these selected dogs, the goal was to remove them from a shelter setting as quickly as possible; to increase chances of success with this project, some of the researchers adopted the dogs to further train in the tasks assigned to the dog. For the full duration of the research project, the team continuously evaluated dogs as they cycled into the shelter. The most important attribute of the dogs was confidence and ability to engage with the handler in new environments. Throughout the entire process of evaluations, the dogs were introduced to new environments slowly to decrease the amount of stress and help with developing communication with the handler. The dogs had to pass through four phases of evaluations. For conditioning dogs to odor and scent discrimination we have investigated designing a scent wall to minimize the contact the handler has with the odor source

Novel Tandem Reaction to Synthesize 2-Formalphenylboronic Acids

Undergraduate Basi

Barriers to Identifying Trafficked Youth in the Vermont Healthcare Setting

Introduction. Human trafficking affects victims’ physical and psychological health. This study aimed to identify the barriers to access, disclosure, and identification in a healthcare setting for potential trafficked youth in Vermont.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/comphp_gallery/1190/thumbnail.jp

Naloxone administration by addiction & homeless service providers in Ireland: 2018-2020. Drug insight report 2.

The aim of the new report is to provide an assessment on the impact of the provision of naloxone, and training to addiction and homeless services. The study reviewed data collected by service providers for each incident where naloxone was administered during the period of 2018-2020, and uses cost benefit analysis calculations to demonstrate the return on the investment as a result of the Naloxone Programme over the last number of years

Case studies for the Danish EUDP project “IEA OES Task 10 Phase III – WEC Modelling”:Milestone M1 report

The project “IEA OES Task 10 Phase III – WEC Modelling” is a publicly-funded research project under the Danish Energy Agency EUDP grant with Journal no. 134232-510153. As part of the initial period of the project, a selection of three test cases has been defined under WP2. The present report forms the deliverable for Milestone “M1: Case studies defined”

Observable Unruh Effect and Unmasked Unruh Radiation

The Unruh effect, thereby an ideally accelerated quantum detector is predicted to absorb thermalized virtual photons and re-emit real photons, is significantly extended for laboratory accessible configurations. Using modern influence functional techniques, we obtain explicit expressions describing the excitation and relaxation of the quantum levels of an Unruh detector as a general noninertial open quantum system. Remarkably, for controllable periodical motions, an exact master equation is found for the Unruh detector within the prevailing framework of quantum optics with a well-defined Unruh temperature for given acceleration ($\alpha$), acceleration frequency ($\omega_\alpha$), and transition frequency ($\omega_0$) of the detector. We further show that the measurable Unruh temperatures and corresponding transition rates are comparable or higher than their values for the ideally accelerated cases if $c\omega_0$ and $c\omega_\alpha$ have similar orders of magnitude as $\alpha$. This allows us to select the transition rates of the detector to unmask Unruh radiation against Larmor radiation which has been a major competing noise. Our work suggests experiments with such settings may directly confirm the Unruh effect within the current technology, based on which a laboratory test of black hole thermodynamics will become possible.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Observable Unruh Effect and Unmasked Unruh Radiation

6 pages, 3 figure