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1	Gendering Compassion: Women and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Elves, Erika A Unknown Date No description available. animal welfare animal cruelty gender SPCA RSPCA
2	Harness Electricity, Free the Mules: Animal Rights and the Electrification of the Streetcars in New Orleans Mulla, Brittany Anne 14 May 2010 (has links) Prior to the streetcar lines being electrified in the late 1800s, equines pulled the cars. The quadrupeds that pulled the horsecars in New Orleans, Louisiana, were area specific: New Orleans had mules, not horses. The mule in the South is typically associated with the rural South; however, in nineteenth century urban New Orleans the mule played an integral part in daily commerce and society. New Orleanians admiration for the animals turned into concern when the rigors of work became apparent to the public, as mules suffered from the abuses of drivers, the seedy practices of street railway companies, malnutrition, and exhaustion. As a direct result, the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established and many New Orleanians took to defending the voiceless laborers. Animal rights, not the drive for more modernity, was the central factor to convince the city to electrify the street railway animal rights horsecar SPCA mules streetcar
3	Velká data - extrakce klíčových informací pomocí metod matematické statistiky a strojového učení / Big data - extraction of key information combining methods of mathematical statistics and machine learning Masák, Tomáš January 2017 (has links) This thesis is concerned with data analysis, especially with principal component analysis and its sparse modi cation (SPCA), which is NP-hard-to- solve. SPCA problem can be recast into the regression framework in which spar- sity is usually induced with ℓ1-penalty. In the thesis, we propose to use iteratively reweighted ℓ2-penalty instead of the aforementioned ℓ1-approach. We compare the resulting algorithm with several well-known approaches to SPCA using both simulation study and interesting practical example in which we analyze voting re- cords of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. We show experimentally that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other considered algorithms. We also prove convergence of both the proposed algorithm and the original regression-based approach to PCA. vi
4	Identifying Community Access to Veterinary Services in Southern Dallas O'Neill, Skye J 08 1900 (has links) The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas in Dallas, Texas offers an array of services and programs to residents in southern Dallas and other areas. However, interest in the state of access to veterinary care has been questioned for southern Dallas residents. In an area that faces certain compounding stressors, such as food deserts and transportation difficulties, a lack of access to veterinary care for pet owners is considered an additional possible stressor. Pet owners in southern Dallas, along with the SPCA of Texas, contemplate how to best provide medical care for local pets. In this body of work, I describe community access to veterinary services in southern Dallas. I provide a resident-centered explanation based on in-depth interviews with locals that discuss the current state of access to veterinary services while simultaneously analyzing the links between access to veterinary care, the area of southern Dallas itself, and ongoing issues with roaming and stray dogs. Southern Dallas Veterinary Care Veterinary Services Animals Pets Dogs Stray Dogs Access SPCA of Texas Structural Violence Structural Inequality Right to the City Social Capital Urban Community Anthropology, Cultural

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