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norvegicus, or the brown rat, is an animal that is unsurpassable in experimentation and research. This animal has proven to be an accurate model for human diseases, and has been successful in helping humans discover characteristics regarding illnesses such as heart disease and cancer that plague a significant portion of our population. Understanding the diseases that harm humans is extremely important for the future of science and medicine. However, genetics is not the only thing that rats share…

Positive Reinforcement of Rats in Operant Conditioning Chamber Phebe Crane Western Illinois University Abstract In order to successfully shape the behavior of pressing a lever for delivery of a food pellet, consecutive days of training must take place with the use of fixed-ratio scheduling for the rat to successfully press the lever repeatedly. In a 4 day study over the span of four weeks, it is difficult to achieve shaping a rat to press a lever consistently for the reward of food pellet…

Cat and Rodents Have you ever wondered how cats, rats, and mice became great enemies? There are two theories. There is the ancient Chinese legend “Cat and Rat Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” and “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies.” In Cat and Rat It is about a race and the first twelve to get to the finish line gets a year named after them. In Cats and Mice is about the conflict that happens between cats and mice to make them despise each other. I will give the similarities and differences…

Have you ever read the Mouse and Cat and the Rat and Cat? In this essay, you will have a good understanding about them. Both stories started a long time ago, and the theme is don’t be selfish or mean to a friend, and not expect a consequence. Cat and Rat and Cat and Mouse are similar and different stories with the same alternative. This essay will compare the similarities and differences between How Cats and Mice became enemies and Cat and Rat the Legend of the Chinese Zodiac. First, this essay…

11th week of the Fmr1 training, we have 1 wild type rat that was running on the Short ITI-2.5sec challenge trials. It performed with an accuracy rate of 92% and had less than 7% omission. It still has last challenge trial-Shorter ITI - 1.5sec in the upcoming week. - We also have 2 rats running on the challenge trials this week. We ran these rats on Short Random ITI and found that both rat showed 50% omission rate with accuracy around 22%. Both rats are male Knockouts and we are expecting to see…

their own version of a rat; the people live as rats, the novel 1984 the rats symbolize Winston's fears and the reason he loved Big Brother, Big Brother way to survive, manipulate and dominate the people and the power. In other words Big Brother IS the rat,. It is the Party’s way of discovering the peoples rat and use it against them causing fear, and dominance over them. winstons fear that led him to subdue to the party and changed his hatred to love were the rats, big brother know…

sources of information. Students who rely on incorrect information often draw incorrect conclusions. The scientific paper “Biological Impact Of Feeding Rats With A Genetically Modified-Based Diet” demonstrates a professional academic research paper appearing to look accurate, listing studies and facts. In this essay “Biological Impact Of Feeding Rats With A Genetically Modified-Based Diet” will be examined to see if it is a reliable scientific source consisting of accessible academic evidence, a…

In order to make more of the rats he would throw them at a wall that made all of their organs split into two. The rats hated the pain of being thrown at the wall and then they hated humans too. They decided that one night they would escape their cages and leave the lab. When the night came around, the rats all helped each other escape and ran from Patchy. When Patchy woke up the next morning he went into the laboratory and saw that all of the rats had left. Patchy McGee was flaming and…

novel The Plague centers its focus on a deadly epidemic of disease and the course it took throughout Oran. This disease was spread through bacteria carried by fleas that lived on rats. Due to the fleas, the rats were able to rapidly spread this malady worldwide resulting in millions of deaths globally. In the novel, various rats stumbled into the open and began to die hastily. When a strange fever began to ensue, Dr. Rieux's colleague, Castel, identified the illness as the plague. This resulted…

stories, “Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” and “How Cat and Mice Became Enemies”. Both of these stories are legends. They have many differences and things that are alike, and I am going to compare and contrast them in this essay. First, there are many things that are similar in these two stories. The cat and the rat started as best friends, and ended as enemies. You had to cross a “wide” river. Rat was selfish, and cheated/had a negative personality character trait. Also, rat was…