KML: study conception, animal study execution, virus stocks, data collection, and manuscript preparation and writing.
II was responsible for study conception and design, animal experiments and data collection, PET data analysis and interpretation and manuscript writing.
So integral is movement to the conception of animals that sponges, which lack muscle tissues, were long considered to be plants.
Descartes' conception of animals as automata seems to make phenomenal consciousness superfluous at best — a connection whose philosophical development was traced by T.H. Huxley (1874).
Although his conception of animals treated them as reflex-driven machines, with no intellectual capacities, it is important to recognize that he took mechanistic explanation to be perfectly adequate for explaining sensation and perception — aspects of animal behavior that are nowadays often associated with consciousness.
Contact with contaminated products of conception from animals has been shown to be an important factor in the transmission of brucellosis to humans [7].
This study strictly examines gene expression between high and low conception rate animals without influence from any exogenous metabolites, either dietary or pharmaceutical.
Given this complexity, we are left with a conception of animal welfare shown in Figure 1 which provides a summary of three key points: that animal welfare involves different components that can be grouped roughly under three headings; that these involve considerable but imperfect overlap; and that the pursuit of any one criterion does not guarantee a high level of welfare as judged by the others.
At the center of this common account lies a certain conception of animal and human agency, which also forms the basis for Aristotle's accounts of moral responsibility, of morally good action and akratic behavior.
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of Descartes's twin conceptions of animals as mindless meat machines and the human mind as totally separate from the body, and then nail the coffin shut for good.
