A5080153068- Veterinary Equine Medical Research
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Sports Performance and Training
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Pharmacological Effects and Assays
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Selenium in Biological Systems
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Sperm and Testicular Function
- Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Nuts composition and effects
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2019-2025
University of Florida
2017-2023
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2020
Auburn University
2016
Abstract Heart rate variability (HRV) can be measured as an indicator of autonomic nervous system (ANS) balance and thus, stress affective arousal. Mixed results have been reported in the limited literature addressing effects equine-assisted services (EAS) on HRV human horse participants. The aims present study were to determine ground-based adaptive horsemanship (AH) lessons veterans’ horses’ during weekly well resting outside lessons. Veterans with post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) randomly...
Accurate objective, automated limb lameness detection and pose estimation play an important role for animal well-being precision livestock farming. We present a wearable sensor-based horse walk trot locomotion. The gait event are first built on recurrent neural network (RNN) with long short-term memory (LSTM) cells. Its outcomes used in the estimation. A learned low-dimensional motion manifold is parameterized by phase variable Gaussian process dynamic model. compare RNN-LSTM-based method...
Little literature exists on horses in adaptive horsemanship (AH) despite concerns about their well-being. The study objective was to evaluate behavioral and physiological responses of ground-based AH lessons for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Lessons were expected alter horses' hormone concentrations, behavior, muscle activity. Geldings assigned (n=6; 20.3 ± 1.9 yrs., mean SE) or control (CON; stall arena, n=6; 13.8 1.7 yrs.) conditions 8-week sessions based current...
Little published information exists on the horses in equine-assisted services (EAS), particularly their selection, longevity, and retirement. The purpose of this study was to characterize procedures used EAS. A pilot survey developed using focus group discussions distributed Professional Association Therapeutic Horsemanship, International (PATH Intl) centers Florida (n = 45, Part I) before further modification distribution members PATH Intl., American Hippotherapy (AHA), eagala, Certified...
Horses' muscular tension during acute stress remains unexplored. Our aim was to assess muscular, behavioral, cortisol, and hematocrit responses social isolation (ISO), novel object exposure (NOV), sham clipping (CLIP). Altered were expected. Eight mature Standardbred horses (four mares four geldings) exposed stressors a control period (CON) in balanced, replicated 4×4 Latin Square experimental design with 3 min treatment periods 10 washout periods. Surface electromyography collected from the...
Objective, automated early lameness detection plays an important role for animal well-being. The work in this paper uses horse locomotion data collected by wearable inertial measurement units, extracts gait cycle routines and constructs a multi-layer classifier detection, identification, evaluation. Multi-layer (MLC) is based on support vector machine K-Nearest-Neighbors methods. Each layer independently designed works as binary classifier. Horse classification limb evaluation are then...
Introduction Equine-assisted services (EAS) has received attention as a potential treatment strategy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), existing literature indicates that symptoms may decrease following EAS. Relatively little is known about the mechanisms at play during lessons and if physiological measures are impacted. The objectives of this pilot study were to 1) explore effects adaptive horsemanship (AH) on PTSD, hormone concentrations, social motor synchrony; 2) determine...