Animal Practice Research Articles

The Phenomenology of Animation

This paper presents a framework for a phenomenology based on pure transcendental phenomenology that examines the nature of both the experience of viewing and creating animation. The technological innovation of film and cinema in general is based upon two overarching principles. The first is the phenomenon of the captured frame and the second is the spectator’s phenomenological experience of sequences of such captured frames. It is argued among animation and film theorists alike that the insights offered by the consideration of the phenomenon of the cinematic frame should form the nexus of all film theories. This paper argues that a complete theory of film and cinema should start by explaining this fundamental conceptual bedrock, and that the ‘already-created’ frame of film restricts insight into the phenomenology of cinema spectatorship. The article also shows how the practice of animation is instrumental to the proposition and elaboration of a phenomenology of animation.

An Overview of Future Development Methods of Infectious Bronchitis Vaccines

Vaccines are major disease-controlling tools in human and animal practices. Vaccination controlled or even eradicated a long list of diseases worldwide. Classic viral vaccines are usually composed of live or inactivated whole viruses and have been produced for many years. However, they are unsuccessful, especially in persistent infections, fast-evolving viruses, complex and compound antigens, and emerging agents. Novel vaccine development technologies such as DNA, protein, or viral vector vaccines have revolutionized vaccine development and opened a new horizon for study and research in vaccine research and production vision. Newly-developed vaccines, or even most traditional ones, are based on new technologies, especially in human diseases where cost and complications in production can be ignored. However, in animal health, especially for commercial poultry production, the cost of development, simplicity, and mass application of large-scale production cannot be overlooked. In recent years, the significance of producing novel vaccines has been highlighted in parallel with technological advancement, especially with emerging novel variants of infectious bronchitis viruses—serious poultry pathogens for years. In this review, we will introduce some studies on novel vaccine development techniques and investigate the results of those vaccines in the protection of chickens and their clinical outcomes.

Swine Colibacillosis: Global Epidemiologic and Antimicrobial Scenario.

Swine pathogenic infection caused by Escherichia coli, known as swine colibacillosis, represents an epidemiological challenge not only for animal husbandry but also for health authorities. To note, virulent E. coli strains might be transmitted, and also cause disease, in humans. In the last decades, diverse successful multidrug-resistant strains have been detected, mainly due to the growing selective pressure of antibiotic use, in which animal practices have played a relevant role. In fact, according to the different features and particular virulence factor combination, there are four different pathotypes of E. coli that can cause illness in swine: enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that comprises edema disease E. coli (EDEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC). Nevertheless, the most relevant pathotype in a colibacillosis scenario is ETEC, responsible for neonatal and postweaning diarrhea (PWD), in which some ETEC strains present enhanced fitness and pathogenicity. To explore the distribution of pathogenic ETEC in swine farms and their diversity, resistance, and virulence profiles, this review summarizes the most relevant works on these subjects over the past 10 years and discusses the importance of these bacteria as zoonotic agents.

Animating Goethe

Metamorphosis is frequently cited as an inherent feature of animation, but scholars who make this claim have routinely disregarded the influence of Goethean morphology on animation practice and theory. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s initial conception of morphology, as outlined in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, has had a significant effect on our understanding of the transformative nature of animation. In this article, the author engages with the theory and practice of figures including Sergei Eisenstein, André Bazin, Alla Gadassik, Caroline Leaf and others in order to insist upon animation’s critical but hitherto unacknowledged role in an ongoing history of morphological reception. Morphology’s sensitivity to the continuous coming-into-being of form allows us to think through, in newly productive ways, the intrinsic practices, aims and intimations of animation, not to mention the sometimes vexed discourse about its place in cinema studies.

Dénouement: A Subjective Reflection on Death, Loss and Grief through Animation Practice

Death, a universal human experience, has been represented and understood in numerous ways throughout time and across cultures. Dénouement is a practice-based research project that engages with the emotionally fraught and complex experience of losing a loved one. The research positions the medium of hand-drawn animation as rich territory for exploring visual expressions of the internal, psychological, and abstract dialogue when grieving. As a personal reflection of in-articulable feelings, the aim is not to show the world as it is but as it is travelled through psychologically.
 The final short film underpins the practitioner’s passion for drawing the world (as they see it), moving it in time and moving those who view the work, emotionally.
 This article is a reflective dénouement of the author's Master's journey. The full Master's thesis can be accessed here: https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/15296
 

Point-of-care ultrasound educational interventions in the neonatal intensive care unit: A systematic review.

The benefits of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have been widely recognized, but education on this area of practice remains variable. We reviewed published educational interventions regarding POCUS use in the NICU and whether they have led to sustainable increases in POCUS use. A systematic search of 6 databases was performed for publications from January 2000 to March 2021. Studies with quantitative data related to POCUS educational interventions in the NICU were included. Data on number of participants and roles, educational intervention, curriculum description, and project outcome measures (including sustainability) was extracted. The search resulted in 686 articles, of which nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Educational interventions included didactic sessions, simulation practice, animal practice, and practice in real patients. The most common assessment was based on the quality and accuracy of the images. At the participant level, the average time to reach proficiency ranged from eight hours and thirty-six minutes to five months, and none of the studies evaluated sustainability of POCUS use after the intervention. There is a lack of standardized training modules and assessments for POCUS use in the NICU. Given that none of the studies addressed sustainability or standardized training, we recommend that a standardized training protocol and assessment tool is developed and studied longitudinally; and that barriers to sustainable POCUS use in the NICU (such as billing issues and a lack of POCUS machines and instructors) be systematically addressed as part of this work.

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Alternatives in Animal Practice

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Alternatives in Animal Practice

A case–control study of agricultural and behavioral factors associated with leptospirosis in Vietnam

IntroductionLeptospirosis is a neglected disease in Vietnam. Until now, there has been limited knowledge about risk factors of this disease in Vietnam. The study was carried out to identify agricultural and behavioral factors associated with the transmission of leptospirosis in Vietnam.MethodsThis matched retrospective hospital-community-based case–control study was conducted from 1 October 2018 to 31 October 2019. We recruited cases from 11 selected government hospitals in three provinces of Vietnam, while controls were selected from the same communes of cases and matched by age (± 2 years) and sex. Microscopic agglutination test (MAT) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were applied to determine confirmed cases, while only MAT was used to identify controls with a single high MAT titer < 1:100.Results504 participants (252 cases and 252 controls) were identified. Cultivating (OR 2.83, CI 1.38–5.79), animal farming (OR 8.26, CI 2.24–30.52), pig owners (OR 10.48, CI 5.05–21.73), cat owners (OR 2.62, CI 1.49–4.61) and drinking unboiled water (OR 1.72, CI 1.14 –2.59, p = 0.010) were significantly associated with human leptospirosis in Vietnam. Hand washing after farming/ gardening (OR 0.57, CI 0.38–0.86, p = 0.007) and bathing after farming, gardening, contact with cattle and poultry (OR 0.33, CI 0.19–0.58, p = 0.000) were determined as protective factors for this disease.ConclusionsIn short, the case–control study has revealed the risks in agricultural and animal practices and protective behavioral factors related to human leptospirosis in Vietnam. The findings suggested promotion of communication and health education programs targeting health behaviors in daily life and agricultural practices. Using personal protective equipment such as gowns, gloves, and boots during agricultural practices, especially cultivating and animal farming, is most recommended.

Gestalt, Animation, and the Culture of Design

This article explores the affinities between animation practice and experiments in perception by Gestalt psychologists. By drawing out a Gestalt style of seeing — a sensitivity to the visual forces that scaffold an image — we can better describe movements, figures, and spaces in animation. Although these affinities make Gestalt appropriate for discussing animation, they do not necessarily imply that animated films merely illustrate or independently verify Gestalt laws of perception. Rather, they suggest two branches of cultural practice sharing what philosopher of science Ian Hacking calls a ‘style of reasoning’: a regularized procedure whose consistent results form a basis for knowledge in a given culture. This article argues that Gestalt and animation are co-participants in the ‘culture of design’: a project of shaping sensory arrangements in order to shape populations, which began in the nineteenth century and has gained force through the present day. It is this culture of design, which includes the exploration of cinema as an art of graphic arrangement, that has become all-but-ubiquitous in the 21stcentury and has led to the ubiquity of animation.

Interview with Emily D. Myers, ShadowMachine armaturist on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio

In this article, Emily D. Myers, ShadowMachine armaturist on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (GdTP), is interviewed by Animation Practice, Process and Production (AP3) co-editor Miriam Harris. Myers has significant experience as an armaturist in the stop-motion animation industry: she is a veteran of four LAIKA-animated feature films, has worked at Bent Image Lab, and spent a year and a half working on GdTP at ShadowMachine in Portland, Oregon. The article provides insights into Myers’s training, her experience working at LAIKA, reflections on the ShadowMachine environment and production process while working on GdTP, and her thoughts about analogue/digital hybridity and stop-motion’s future potentialities. An insider’s perspective is offered regarding the amount of personal creativity that might be exercised when working on a large-scale stop-motion animation production.

Laparoscopy training in Turkey through the view of residents; Turkish European Society of Residents in urology questionnaire

Objective: Laparoscopy is a minimal invasive surgery technique and getting more important nowadays. The success rate of the techniques used in laparoscopy education and the qualification of urology residents who finished their urology training, is unclear. In our study, qualification of Turkish urology residents for laparoscopy, the preferred educational techniques and the education models were investigated with a national survey. Material and Methods: The laparoscopy questionnaire that is used in our study has been prepared by modification of a questionnaire which was formed by Belgium European European Society of Residents in Urology. The techniques used in laparoscopy education, qualification of the education and the expectations from laparoscopy education were the main focus. All of the questions were Turkish and was sent to a total of 295 residents who are registered to the ESRU database. A total of 70 (23%) residents answered. SurveyMonkey was used for composing and distribution. All the data gathered from the survey was statistically investigated. Results: The biggest contribution was from the Marmara Region (39.29%). Laparoscopy is used in 91,07% of the clinics all around Turkey. The distribution of the residents in regards of year of urology training were: 14% 1st year, 23% 2nd year, 23% 3rd year, 12.7% 4th year, 25% 5th year. Training and Research Hospital and University Hospital participation rates were 46.77% and 53.23% respectively. The rate of residents who feel they will become capable of doing laparoscopic surgery after their residency period finished, was 28.5% and 71.4% of the residents expressed the laparoscopic training they take would not be sufficient. Assistance and observing are used as a training method by nearly all residents (91.07%). In addition being the primary surgeon, training videos, training boxes, animal practices are used by residents with the rate of 26.7%, 25%, 21.4%, 3.5% respectively. According to participants, to be given less opportunity, educational disinterest and limited laparoscopic cases were defined as the major 3 problems in laparoscopy training. Conclusion: The laparoscopy education differs between the urology clinics in Turkey without any standardization. An appropriate standardization of laparoscopy training can improve laparoscopy education and urology training

Coyote Killing Contests: Persistence of Differences among Oregonians

Management practices of nonhuman animals in nature (“wildlife”) are globally controversial. In some places, individuals believe it should be up to individual landowners to “manage” wildlife. In others, wildlife is seen as belonging to everyone and should be respected, or least hunted ethically. Wildlife killing contests are legal in most U.S. states. Coyote killing contests take place in many of them and several states have enacted legislation to ban them. In Oregon, efforts have failed three times. This paper is a critical discourse analysis of testimonies in the 2021 Oregon hearings. Opposition to the bill is analyzed according to five psychological rationalizations to unpack the pro-contest arguments as an example of rural resistance. The findings suggest unpacking these as more productive for activist groups when creating strategies to counter pro-killing beliefs.

Fraud and Deceit in Medical Research

Fraud and Deceit in Medical Research

The Abstracted Real: Speculations on Experimental Animated Documentary

Max Hattler is an artist, researcher, curator and educator who works with abstract and experimental animation, video installa­tion, and audio-visual performance. After studying in London at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, he completed a doc­torate in fine art at the University of East London. He is an assistant professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Hattler’s work has been shown worldwide, receiving prizes from Annecy Animation Festival, Prix Ars Electronica, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Punto y Raya Festival, Cannes Lions and London International Animation Festival, among others. He has published on expanded stereoscopic approaches in experimental filmmaking and the narrative potential of abstraction in animation. He has spoken widely at international conferences such as CONFIA, the Society for Animation Studies Conference, Animafest Scanner, Ars Electronica’s Expanded Animation Symposium and the Annual China Animation Studies Conference in Chengdu. Max Hattler is the co-founder and chairman of Relentless Melt, a Hong Kong-based society for the promotion, production and dissemination of abstract and experimental animation, which presents screenings in Hong Kong and internationally. He serves on the board of directors of the iotaCenter and the editorial boards of Animation: An Interdisciplin­ary Journal, and Animation Practice, Process &amp; Production.

C: (Maintenance) Animation is a Drag: It takes all the f****** time*

Animation and motherhood are parallel acts. There are striking overlaps between animation practices and the maternal time of maintenance and caregiving: repetitive acts and gestures, interruption, incremental and elongated time, the embodied experience of slow mundane practices, the durational drag of staying alongside something or someone. The pooled time of caregiving and maintenance, and the pooled time of animation production have a lot in common. In this paper, I want to pull apart some of the ways that an expanded animation practice-as-research shows how animation’s formal self-reflexiveness and media specific histories can start to reveal where value is placed (and not placed) on the time of their shared invisible labours. Possibilities emerge from thinking these invisible labours together, revealing the problematics of what constitutes a rightful subject or object of mothering, and what can be said to constitute animation. * Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Maintenance Manifesto, 1969! Proposal for an exhibition “CARE,” 1969.

Autoethnographic Animation and The Metabolism of Trauma: A Multimethod Investigation

This paper provides an overview of my practice-based doctoral research: Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma, which uses a multimethod approach (cognitive focus, thematic analysis of qualitative data and artistic practice), to investigate autoethnographic animation’s capacity to moderate psychological trauma. Traumatic events such as child abuse, domestic violence and military conflict often present a major health challenge for survi­vors, with many experiencing significantly impaired function due to symptoms such as nightmares, emotional dysregulation, negative cognitions and dissociative states. The symptoms most commonly reported are intrusive memories-sensory-perceptu­al impressions that involuntarily intrude into consciousness, causing distress and a sense of reexperiencing the trauma. A number of cognitive studies have measured how these intrusions may be moderated through models that either interfere with imagery, simulate trauma, or change its narrative. My research uses interviews, thematic analysis and artistic practice to inves­tigate whether animation may similarly moderate intrusions through processes that utilise the medium’s visuospatial capacities and its potential for rescripting, or changing, the trauma narrative. The desire to use personal experience as data motivated my interest in autoethnography as a methodology for qualitative inquiry. Autoethnography is a reflexive approach that explores autobiographical stories and connects these to wider socio-cultural-polit­ical issues through writing, performance and other media. In this research I am using autoethnography to both address my lived experience of trauma and to moderate its symptoms through my animation practice.

PRACTICE OF ANIMALS TRADING IN ISLAMIC LAW &amp; POSITIVE LAW OF BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES &amp; ITS ECOSYSTEMS

Indonesia is a country that is very rich in the diversity of its natural resources. Both in terms of flora and fauna. However, Indonesia is an emerging country for the circulation of endangered animals that have been protected by law. The Animal Market is one of the places where several protected animals are circulated. In this study, the authors found a unique incident in the practice of buying and selling endangered animals that have been protected by this law, where the practice of buying and selling rare animals is carried out in markets managed by the government, namely under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The focus of this research is to find out how the practice of buying and selling endangered animals in the Animal Market and how the review of Islamic law and Act No. 5 of 1990 concerning the Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems. Through qualitative research methods and through a juridical normative approach, the researcher tries to uncover the focus of the problem above by going directly to the field to find facts which then leads to an analysis of Islamic law and Act No. 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems. Data were taken through documentation, observation, and interviews. The data that has been obtained is presented in the form of a description in order to obtain conclusions. The results of the study explain that the sale and purchase of endangered animals protected under Islamic law is a sale that does not bring benefits, contains najis, does not belong to the seller wholly, causes damage to nature, and contains fraud. Meanwhile, when viewed from Act No. 5 of 1990 concerning the Conservation of Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems, the practice of buying and selling endangered animals that are protected illegally is a criminal act of wildlife crime in which the legal consequences of this crime are a maximum criminal sanction of ten years in prison and a fine of between 100 million and IDR 200 million rupiahs.

Animal Welfarism in American Law: Animal Farming, Privilege, and Disempowerment

The instrumentalization of rights and interests for furthering political and economic ends is a common phenomenon in contemporary societies. Routinely, these are a trojan horse to political goals that involve discrimination of disempowered groups. This phenomenon of instrumentalization is present in many social phenomena; a less explored phenomenon where this has been researched is this instrumentalization with respect to animal protection law. In this article, I explore how American animal law is instrumentalized to privilege the animal farming industry and disadvantage disempowered groups. I explain how American animal law tends to further disempower individuals according to class and perceived ethnicity. I present this argument by showing that the United States’ law treats animal farming practices differently from other animal practices, especially those practices of disadvantaged class and ethnic groups. Although some differences are sometimes morally justified, I argue that there is no plausible moral justification for this difference in treatment. Instead, all the arguments for exceptionalism can be refuted. I finish by presenting two sets of arguments to show that the hidden purpose of this different treatment is to facilitate and maintain the ongoing functioning of the animal farm industry while at the same time scapegoating disempowered groups as the agents of animal cruelty.

Small Animal Veterinarians' Communication With Dog Owners From a Motivational Interviewing Perspective.

Veterinary communication skills are fundamentally important in animal practice. Despite client-centered communication being recommended as the optimal medical communication style, a paternalistic approach is still common in veterinary medical encounters with pet owners. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, evidence-based counseling method aiming to strengthen a person's motivation and commitment to behavior changes. In this exploratory study, the aim was to investigate Swedish small animal veterinarians' use of client centered communication with dog owners regarding dental home care in dogs. This was achieved by analyzing the use of MI-techniques among veterinarians without previous training or knowledge of the method. Individual telephone calls, reflecting a veterinary clinical scenario, between small animal veterinarians (n = 8) and a trained professional actor playing a dog owner were recorded and coded according to an MI coding protocol (MITI 4.2.1). In the present study, the degree of spontaneously used MI was low. From an MI-communication perspective, with a simulated dog owner, the veterinarians predominantly relied on asking questions, giving information, and persuasive talk. The veterinarians dominated the conversations and made minimal attempts to involve the dog owner resulting in a power imbalance between veterinarian and client. As the degree of spontaneously used MI was found to be low, MI-training may be required in order to apply the method in professional counseling. The veterinarians' communication pattern suggested a paternalistic communication style, when attempting to motivate a client to brush his or her dog's teeth. We suggest that Motivational Interviewing (MI) has a potential to improve veterinary communication and adherence to medical recommendations if introduced and implemented in veterinary practice.

Off label use of human approved drugs in treatment of dogs in the Republic of Serbia.

Since drug companies are driven by the need to produce profit they are unwilling to make large investments in the development of new drugs if there is no market large enough to justify such investment. For this reason, veterinarians face a major obstacle - the veterinary drug market is not very profitable, which sometimes leads to not having a licensed drug available for treatment in veterinary practice. In this case, the cascade procedure allows veterinarians to, under certain circumstances, prescribe human approved drugs. The aim of our study was to analyze the pattern of human approved drugs prescription for 150 medical records of dogs participating in the survey. The results show that antimicrobial agents were the most commonly prescribed drugs for animals (50%) of all human approved drugs, and beta-lactams (38.6%) were the most widely used antibiotic classes. The most common general conditions for therapeutic use of antimicrobials in this study were digestive, skin and respiratory disorders. Our study shows that the frequency of bacterial culture, susceptibility testing and cytology was very low. Even though the off-label use of human approved drugs in animal practice is regulated by law, the results of this study indicate the need for more specific strategies and guidelines for such use. This may represent a potential for improvement by raising veterinarians' awareness toward more prudent use of human drugs.