A5107991495- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Language Development and Disorders
- Infant Health and Development
- Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Marine animal studies overview
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Infrared Thermography in Medicine
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
University of Pennsylvania
2022-2024
Philadelphia University
2022
University of Maryland, College Park
2019-2020
Carnegie Mellon University
2014
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a universally fatal, transmissible prion disease affecting cervids. Primarily found among deer populations in North America, the has spread across continent and made forays into Europe Asia as well. Currently, accurate methods for detecting CWD infection require post-mortem dissection of lymph nodes brainstem affected animals. New, high-sensitivity living animals are sorely needed to help curb this devastating farmed wild deer. Here, we use two-dimensional...
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that affects both free-ranging and farmed cervid species, including mule deer, white-tailed elk (Odocoileus hemionus, Odocoileus virginianus, Cervus canadensis). Due to the long incubation period variability of clinical signs, CWD can expand spread new areas before they reach diagnostically detectable levels. Antemortem testing methods currently available be difficult obtain applied large numbers required for...
Infants are sensitive to syllable co-occurrence probabilities when segmenting words from fluent speech. However, two languages overlapping at the syllabic level is challenging because statistical cues across incongruent. Successful segmentation, thus, relies on infants' ability separate language inputs and track statistics of each language. Here, we report three experiments investigating how infants statistically segment in a simulated language-mixing bilingual environment. In first...
Working dogs are at a high risk of canine non-pyrogenic hyperthermia, life-threatening condition that can occur due to physical exertion or environmental factors inhibit dogs’ ability cool themselves. Two frequently recommended cooling methods reduce body temperature water immersion and the application isopropyl alcohol paw pads. This cross-over study compared relative efficacy these in 12 working-dogs-in-training with post-exertional heat stress. On each day, had exam performed warm-up...
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a highly infectious, fatal prion that affects cervid species. One promising method for CWD surveillance the use of detection dog–handler teams wherein dogs are trained on volatile organic compound signature fecal matter. However, using matter from CWD-positive deer poses biohazard risk; prions can bind to soil particles and remain infectious in contaminated areas extended periods time, it very difficult decontaminate affected areas. solution noninfectious...
Abstract Humans have an impressive ability to comprehend signal-degraded speech; however, the extent which comprehension of degraded speech relies on human-specific features perception vs. more general cognitive processes is unknown. Since dogs live alongside humans and regularly hear speech, they can be used as a model differentiate between these possibilities. One often-studied type noise-vocoded (sometimes thought cochlear-implant-simulation speech). Noise-vocoded made by dividing signal...
To evaluate field-applicable cooling methods for treatment of exercise-induced hyperthermia in dogs.