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A D Bowd

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PubMed1998

Animal care courses: helping fulfill the mandate of animal care committees in Canada.

Animal Care Committees (ACCs) at Canadian universities and research centers operate under the aegis of the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) and its guidelines for the humane care and treatment of animals in teaching, research, and testing. All Canadian universities have at least one active committee. The committees are expected to assume an educative role beyond the provision of information concerning housing, maintenance, and appropriate conditions for the treatment of animals in research. This includes critical examination of the serious ethical issues involved in animal research within the context of the principles and practices endorsed by the CCAC. One-day animal care courses provided by ACCs at three Canadian universities are described. Comparisons are made between the content and structure of curricula and the ways these relate to the teaching and research mandate in each institution, focusing particularly on the teaching of ethics in each course. The implications for heightening awareness of ethical issues in animal research and improving the effectiveness of these courses are discussed.

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PubMed1975

The relationship between perceptual egocentrism and field-dependence in early childhood.

Fifty-three kindergarten children were administered tests of inductive reasoning and field-dependence and a series of perceptual egocentrism tasks. The principal expectation of the study, that field-dependence would relate positively to perceptual egocentrism, was confirmed. Perceptual egocentrism was found to be independent of induction for the age range studied; however the relatively low correlations obtained between the field-dependence measures and their common relationship with induction led to the questioning of the validity of the field-dependence construct in early childhood.

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PubMed1975

Note on conservation differences for Indian and white children.

Piagetian tasks for the conservation of length and volume were administered to two groups of 7-and 8-yr.-old Canadian Indian and white children (ns = 35, 33). There was no significant difference across groups for the conservation of length; however, conservation of volume and the ability to conserve both length and volume resulted in a higher proportion of successful performances for the white group.

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