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People can develop true, bonding relationships with horses. And when they do, the horses become “happy,” so to speak, to be near and touched by those people.
A new study by Italian researchers reveals that horses enter a positive emotional state essentially, being more relaxed when they see a familiar human who’s developed a good relationship with them. And that positive emotional state increases when the person gently brushes the horse, said Chiara Scopa, PhD, research fellow at the National Reference Centre for Animal Assisted Interventions, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Venice in Padua, Italy.
“By defining a ‘familiar human’ as someone whom animals have had multiple occasions to interact with and establish a relationship of a positive emotional valance, we can positively affirm that horses are able to develop a bond with them,” Scopa said.
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Sider Releases Recommended Rules, a Coding Guide Based on Analyzing 1,000 Projects, for Public Use
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TOKYO, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sider, a developer and provider of software development support tools, has created an optimized recommended coding guide Recommended Rules and has integrated them to its automated code review service. By analyzing hundreds of existing coding guidelines, this guide contains only the essential rules followed by many open-source projects and was developed based on joint research with Professor Shingo Takada of the Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University and Associate Professor Seigo Nakura of the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Nanzan University. The Recommended Rules are already a part of the default setup of Sider, but the configuration files can also be downloaded separately from the following url and appl