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List of works by Alistair B. Lawrence

A comparison of management practices, farmer-perceived disease incidence and winter housing on organic and non-organic dairy farms in the UK

scientific article published on 16 October 2008

A note on the effect of handling quality prior to mixing on behaviour at mixing in pigs

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Alternative farrowing accommodation: welfare and economic aspects of existing farrowing and lactation systems for pigs.

scientific article published on January 2012

Alternative farrowing systems: design criteria for farrowing systems based on the biological needs of sows and piglets.

scientific article published on February 2011

Assessing pig body language: agreement and consistency between pig farmers, veterinarians, and animal activists.

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Assessing the welfare challenges to out-wintered pregnant suckler cows.

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Associations between Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms, Empathy towards Animals and Implicit Associations towards Animals

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Bayesian analysis of genetic associations of skin lesions and behavioural traits to identify genetic components of individual aggressiveness in pigs.

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Behavioural responses to amphetamine and apomorphine in pigs

scientific article published in 1992

Characterization of the dairy farm environment in Great Britain and the effect of the farm environment on cow life span

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Dairy cow feeding space requirements assessed in a Y-maze choice test.

scientific article published in July 2012

Diversity of behaviour during novel object tests is reduced in pigs housed in substrate-impoverished conditions

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Does prolactin mediate induced nest-building behaviour in pseudopregnant gilts treated with PGF2alpha?

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Early weaning results in less active behaviour, accompanied by lower 5-HT1A and higher 5-HT2A receptor mRNA expression in specific brain regions of female pigs.

scientific article published on 23 July 2008

Effect of ewe and lamb genotype on gestation length, lambing ease and neonatal behaviour of lambs

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Emotionality in growing pigs: is the open field a valid test?

scientific article published on 2 June 2011

Enhancing collaboration in the UK animal welfare research community

scientific article published in February 2016

Environmentally enriched pigs have transcriptional profiles consistent with neuroprotective effects and reduced microglial activity

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Estimation of genetic associations between reproduction and production traits based on a sire and dam line with common ancestry

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Evidence for litter differences in play behaviour in pre-weaned pigs.

scientific article published on November 2015

Ewe-lamb bonding behaviours at birth are affected by maternal undernutrition in pregnancy

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Genetic parameters of piglet survival and birth weight from a two-generation crossbreeding experiment under outdoor conditions designed to disentangle direct and maternal effects.

scientific article published on 4 December 2009

Genetic validation of postmixing skin injuries in pigs as an indicator of aggressiveness and the relationship with injuries under more stable social conditions

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

Genetics of animal temperament: aggressive behaviour at mixing is genetically associated with the response to handling in pigs.

scientific article published in November 2009

Hock injury prevalence and associated risk factors on organic and nonorganic dairy farms in the United Kingdom.

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Injurious tail biting in pigs: how can it be controlled in existing systems without tail docking?

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Investigating the behavioural and physiological indicators of neonatal survival in pigs

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Investigation of the relationship between farrowing environment, sex steroid concentrations and maternal aggression in gilts.

scientific article published in February 1998

Lameness prevalence and risk factors in organic and non-organic dairy herds in the United Kingdom

scientific article published on 06 May 2008

Naloxone prevents interruption of parturition and increases plasma oxytocin following environmental disturbance in parturient sows

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Odour conditioning of positive affective states: Rats can learn to associate an odour with being tickled

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Opioid-mediated changes in nociceptive threshold during pregnancy and parturition in the sow.

scientific article published on August 1997

Physiological correlates of maternal-offspring behaviour in sheep: a factor analysis.

scientific article published in September 1999

Pigs' aggressive temperament affects pre-slaughter mixing aggression, stress and meat quality.

scientific article published on April 2010

Playful pigs: Evidence of consistency and change in play depending on litter and developmental stage

scientific article published in January 2018

Pre-natal social stress and post-natal pain affect the developing pig reproductive axis

scientific article published on 7 October 2011

Pre-natal stress amplifies the immediate behavioural responses to acute pain in piglets.

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Prenatal stress produces anxiety prone female offspring and impaired maternal behaviour in the domestic pig.

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Prepartum plasma estradiol and postpartum cortisol, but not oxytocin, are associated with interindividual and breed differences in the expression of maternal behaviour in sheep.

scientific article published in December 2004

Quality of life and adolescents' communication with their significant others (mother, father, and best friend): the mediating effect of attachment to pets.

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Relationship between feeding, stereotypies, and plasma glucose concentrations in food-restricted and restrained sows.

scientific article published in July 1993

Relationship between plasma cortisol and stereotypic activities in pigs

scientific article published on 01 December 1991

Resident-intruder trait aggression is associated with differences in lysine vasopressin and serotonin receptor 1A (5-HT1A) mRNA expression in the brain of pre-pubertal female domestic pigs (Sus scrofa).

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Sociodemographics of Pet Ownership among Adolescents in Great Britain: Findings from the HBSC Study in England, Scotland, and Wales

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The effect of delayed feeding on the post-feeding behaviour of sows.

scientific article published in April 2000

The effect of environment on plasma cortisol and beta-endorphin in the parturient pig and the involvement of endogenous opioids

scientific article published in August 1998

The effect of group housing on feeding patterns and social behaviour of previously individually housed growing pigs

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

The effect of organic status and management practices on somatic cell counts on UK dairy farms.

scientific article published in August 2009

The effect of parity and environmental restriction on behavioural and physiological responses of pre-parturient pigs

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

The impact of prenatal stress on basal nociception and evoked responses to tail-docking and inflammatory challenge in juvenile pigs.

scientific article published on 23 July 2011

The responses of growing pigs to a chronic-intermittent stress treatment.

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Understanding Adolescents' Categorisation of Animal Species.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Up-regulation of IGF-1 in the frontal cortex of piglets exposed to an environmentally enriched arena.

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

What Are the Positives? Exploring Positive Welfare Indicators in a Qualitative Interview Study with Livestock Farmers

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

What Is so Positive about Positive Animal Welfare?-A Critical Review of the Literature

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Why are most EU pigs tail docked? Economic and ethical analysis of four pig housing and management scenarios in the light of EU legislation and animal welfare outcomes

scientific article published on 2 November 2015