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Distinguishing personal belief from scientific knowledge for the betterment of killer whale welfare – a commentary
We contest publication of Marino et al. regarding captive killer whale (Orcinus orca) welfare because of misrepresentations of available data and the use of citations that do not support assertions. Marino et al. misrepresent stress response concepts and erroneously cite studies, which appear to support Marino et al.’s philosophical beliefs regarding the cetacean hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. To be clear, these misrepresentations are not differences of scientific opinion, as the authors’ conclusions lack any scientific basis. More extensive review of Marino et al.’s citations reveal a dearth of empirical evidence to support their assertions. Further, Marino et al.’s approach to animal welfare is not consistent with conventional veterinary approaches to animal welfare, including their apparent opposition to use of preventative and therapeutic veterinary interventions. While Marino et al. argue that killer whales’ cognitive and spatial needs preclude management of this species under human care, misrepresentation of the citations used to support this opinion invalidates their arguments. Misleading interpretations of data relative to killer whales’ cognitive and emotional needs and specious and unsubstantiated comparisons with states experienced by humans with posttraumatic stress disorder and other conditions, represent a number of strategies used to misrepresent knowledge regarding killer whale welfare. These misrepresentations and fallacies are inconsistent with scientific ethical standards for credible, peer-reviewed journals (ICMJE, 2018), and are barriers to rigorous discourse and identification of strategies for optimizing killer whale welfare. Assertions in the paper amount to nothing more than a compilation of conclusory, philosophical statements. We would also like to mention that manuscripts such as Marino et al.’s do great damage to the fields of comparative psychology and to behavioral science as a whole
PatologÃa escapulo-clavicular en un sujeto de Morella
X Congreso Nacional de PaleopatologÃa. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200
Logarithmic electroweak corrections to hadronic Z+1 jet production at large transverse momentum
We consider hadronic production of a Z boson in association with a jet and
study one- and two-loop electroweak logarithmic corrections in the region of
high Z-boson transverse momentum, p_T >> M_Z, including leading and
next-to-leading logarithms. Numerical results for the LHC and Tevatron
colliders are presented. At the LHC these corrections amount to tens of per
cent and will be important for interpretation of the measurements.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures; one reference added; minor improvements.
Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
PatologÃa de ligamentos en la meseta tibial
X Congreso Nacional de PaleopatologÃa. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200
Electroweak Sudakov Logarithms and Real Gauge-Boson Radiation in the TeV Region
Electroweak radiative corrections give rise to large negative,
double-logarithmically enhanced corrections in the TeV region. These are partly
compensated by real radiation and, moreover, affected by selecting
isospin-noninvariant external states. We investigate the impact of real gauge
boson radiation more quantitatively by considering different restricted final
state configurations. We consider successively a massive abelian gauge theory,
a spontaneously broken SU(2) theory and the electroweak Standard Model. We find
that details of the choice of the phase space cuts, in particular whether a
fraction of collinear and soft radiation is included, have a strong impact on
the relative amount of real and virtual corrections.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figure
Miositis calcificante: estudio antropométrico y paleopatológico de tres casos
X Congreso Nacional de PaleopatologÃa. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200
PatologÃa traumática: estudio anatómico y paleopatológico de fracturas de miembros superiores e inferiores de la antigua población de Castielfabid (Rincón de Ademuz, Valencia)
X Congreso Nacional de PaleopatologÃa. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200
TendinopatÃa del radio: estudio anatómico y paleopatológico
X Congreso Nacional de PaleopatologÃa. Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, septiembre de 200
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