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The characteristic ingredients of Ganoderma lucidum, such as polysaccharides, triterpenoids, nucleic acids and small proteins, have been found and proved to have many special pharmacological properties. Mice and rats have been extensively used to investigate the effects of G. lucidum. Experiments with horses as an animal model for investigating the effects of G. lucidum have never been reported. The purpose of this investigation was to understand the influence of G. lucidum feeding on blood biochemistry and immunocompetence in horses. Complete blood count (CBC) and blood biochemistry were surveyed routinely. Cellular-mediated immunity was monitored by flow cytometry to survey the percentage changes of CD5+, CD4+, CD8+ T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes in the peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs). The effect of G. lucidum on humoral immunity was experimented by fast plate agglutination test to survey the change and manifestation of the titer of specific anti-egg albumin antibodies in the serum after egg albumin injection. The findings on CBC and blood biochemistry indicated that G. lucidum was quite safe to horses. Experimental result on cell-mediated immunity showed that G. lucidum could increase the percentage of CD5+, CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocytes in PBLs (p<0.001). Experimental result on humoral immunity showed that G. lucidum could help the horses to produce a significantly higher quantity of specific antibodies in a shorter time (p<0.001).

Knowledge about non-invasive methods for early diagnostics in equine orthopedic disorders is economically important and has been widely studied. In this study, bone mineral density determined by radiographic absorptiometry was correlated to bone resistance of the equine third metacarpal bone submitted to biomechanical testing. Thirty pairs of third metacarpal bone of adult horses were collected, dissected, radiographed, analyzed by the radiographic absorptiometry technique, and submitted to tomographic study and biomechanical testing. No significant linear correlation between radiographic bone density values and measured biomechanical properties was observed. Therefore, bone mineral density of the third metacarpal bone determined by radiographic absorptiometry does not predict bone capacity to resist compression and flexion loads. Further studies should be developed to establish which techniques are reliably capable of giving such predictive information.

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This chapter reviews the self-regarding tradition as taught in Western business schools concerning the assumed process by which the concept of “management” entered our discourse. It is usually presented as a product of the Renaissance and subsequently the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in which Cartesian dualism and Taylorian scientific management were logical staging posts. Some add Adam Smith and his frame of the market economy as central parts of this canonical tradition (Crowley and Sobel, 2010). However, etymological analysis places “management” as a term of art rather earlier and as a borrowing from an Italian term related to the taming and control of horses introduced to Europe through the Arabian horse lineages from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean with their Arab and Andalucian trainers. These horse trainers were known by a term derived from the Latin “manus,” a hand. Thus, “management” entered our vocabulary as a term for a craft based on handwork rather than as a demonstration of a scientific cognitive consciousness. These words came through stables rather than studies, through fields and farms rather than offices. Similarly, Machiavellian politicking literature follows a borrowing from an extant tradition already widespread in the Islamic world.

The bio-inspired robotics use functional elements of natures for inspiration. The development of the TB-Horse II prototype is the main target of this work. It is a bio-inspired quadruped robot with biological features in horse of the breed Mangalarga Marchador. In future, the robot can be used to rescue injured people, to carry fragile loads, among others applications. With the study of horse biodynamic, it was possible to propose the TB-Horse II. The gait marcha was implemented and validated using the Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform (V-Rep). Finally, the robot prototype was developed and the experimental validation was realized on a flat ground without obstacles.