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Overpopulation of animals vs. Mechanical engineering

Joshua Miranda

The University of Texas at El Paso

December 14, 2017

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Overpopulation of animals vs. Mechanical engineering

What is the effect of humans with other species?

How animals help students learn: Research and practice for educators and mental-health

professionals.

According to the authors of this article, the interaction of humans with animals has help

them understand the influence of animals in a humans ability to learn. Gee, Fine, and McCardle

focus on their research of how an animal can be used to increase a students performance in

school and with that they also look at the issues they face. The issues being faced with this study

is how many educational systems are not allowing the involvement of animals in their campus.

The reason for this will be the cause of injuries caused by the animals, if an animal injures a

minor the district can be sued. By providing evidence that having an animal in school help

students to learn, they can fight against letting pets in classrooms.

TNR Is Dangerous Both to Cats and to Other Animals.

Daphna Nachminovitch states in her article that humans who practice trap-neuter-release

(TNR) decrease the life probability of a stray animal. The author provides information about how

practicing TNR does not only hurt the animal, but it endangers human lives as well. According to

her, neutering a stray animal and then releasing them, does not increase their live rate. What this

practice does is help the animal for a while before putting them back to the streets where they life

expectancy is six times less than an animal living among humans. As for the humans, a stray

animal is infected with various diseases that can be harmful and easily spread to any humans that

have contact with the animal.

How does the community of El Paso, Texas handle stray animals?

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Campus cats find support through community programs

Lorain Watters writes in his article how the TNR group from The University of Texas at

El Paso has helped strayed cats to be disease-free and mostly safe around campus. The author

talks about how his team is against the catch and kill technique and they rather keep these cats

alive in campus. In more detail, they have chipped, spay and neuter about 46 cats around campus

and they set them free in the same place where they caught them. This organization is not only

trying to protect the stray cats around campus, but they are a non-profit organization that helps

other stray animals around El Paso, Texas.

"El Paso Animal Services Survey: Support for a 'No Kill' Community"

Carlos Olmedo, Camacho and Caries survey determines what the community of El Paso,

Texas thinks should be done when dealing with stray animals. The survey contained questions

about stray animals around peoples neighborhoods and what do they thought it should be the

solution to this issue. After many questions from The Institute for Policy and Economic

Development at The University of Texas at El Paso and looking at the results, the community of

El Paso is in favor of making their city a no kill community. The authors of this survey went

through several techniques to identify that their results are reliable and to understand what is the

most important variable of the overpopulation of animals at El Paso.

What is the relationship between animals and mechanical engineering?

Clinical Validation of Pain Management Manipulative Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis With

the Squeeze-Hold Technique: A Case Series.

The authors of these journal explain the possibilities or changing a life by using

mechanical engineering to produce tissue and joints in the body of a living organism. Maasaki
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explains the procedure of the importance of mechanical engineering to produce cells that will

help the body accept the new joint or tissue that has been transplanted to the body. Their

procedure explains the various defects that the whole procedure that can contain, but they are

looking for the results after. The authors also mention how the environment of the specie also

contributes to the development of the cellular process.

Mechanical studies of the bone bioglass interfacial bond.

In this article the author talks about the research made with an artificial femoral

replacement. Piotrowski, Hench, Allen, and Miller study the performance of their artificial

femoral replacement on several squirrel monkeys by examining the results of every jump made

by these animals. They look at different variables to determine their conclusion at the end, some

of these variables are, energy of fracture, fracture torque, and stress produced. The authors also

provide more information of different materials they used to produce the femoral replacements.

Falling into conclusion that some materials are three times stronger and more reliable than

others.

Why do humans abandon animals?

Why People Abandon Animals.

Lisa Towell talks about the reason on why animal owners sometimes abandon their pets.

Some of the most common reason why these animal owners leave animals behind is because of

behavioral issues or sickness related. According to the author, humans main reason to abandon

an animal is because they dont get along with their other pets, they are destructive, they bite

their owners and/or other people, or they do not meet with their expectations. Towell explains
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how staff from the animal shelter should help reduce the number of abandon animals by helping

the owner to solve the issues with their pets and this way they avoid animal suffering.
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References

Olmedo, Carlos; Corral-Camacho, Guadalupe; and Caire, Mario E., "El Paso Animal Services
Survey: Support for a 'No Kill' Community" (2008). IPED Technical Reports. Paper 76.
http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/iped_techrep/76

Towell, L. (2017, January 12). Why People Abandon Animals. Retrieved October 12, 2017, from
https://prime.peta.org/2017/01/why-people-abandon-animals

Watters, L., & A. (2013, October 22). Campus cats find support through community programs.
Retrieved October 12, 2017, from
https://www.theprospectordaily.com/2013/10/22/campus-cats-find-support-through-
community-programs/

Nachminovitch, D. (2017, March 09). TNR Is Dangerous Both to Cats and to Other Animals.
Retrieved October 12, 2017, from https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2017/03/08/tnr-
is-dangerous-both-to-cats-and-to-other-animals/

Gee, N. R. (2017). How animals help students learn. [electronic resource] : Research and
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Piotrowski, G., Hench, L. L., Allen, W. C., & Miller, G. J. (1975). Mechanical studies of the

bone bioglass interfacial bond. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 9(4), 47-61.

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Nakajima, Masaaki (2017). Clinical Validation of Pain Management Manipulative Therapy for

Knee Osteoarthritis With the Squeeze-Hold Technique: A Case Series. Journal of

Chiropractic Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 122-130. Retrieved from

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcm.2016.12.005