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Ryo Kusunose
Researcher at Japan Racing Association
Publications - 36
Citations - 713
Ryo Kusunose is an academic researcher from Japan Racing Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Single-nucleotide polymorphism & Anxiety. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 36 publications receiving 660 citations.
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Assessment of equine temperament by a questionnaire survey to caretakers and evaluation of its reliability by simultaneous behavior test
Yukihide Momozawa,Tomoko Ono,Fumio Sato,Takefumi Kikusui,Yukari Takeuchi,Yuji Mori,Ryo Kusunose +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a questionnaire survey of the caretakers, using 86 riding horses kept in the Equestrian Park, Tokyo (Japan Racing Association), and found that the horses evaluated as highly anxious by the care-takers tended to show greater HR increases and defecate more often during exposure to the balloon stimuli than did the other horses.
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Association between equine temperament and polymorphisms in dopamine D4 receptor gene.
TL;DR: Results suggested that the SNP in the VNTR region of the equine DRD4 gene might be related to individual differences in equine temperament.
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Assessment of equine temperament questionnaire by comparing factor structure between two separate surveys
TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was used to assess equine temperament by use of a questionnaire and five factors were extracted and four of them were common between the two surveys: anxiety, trainability, affability, and gate entrance.
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A horse identification system using biometrics
Masahiko Suzaki,Osamu Yamakita,Shinichi Horikawa,Yuji Kuno,Hiroko Aida,Naoki Sasaki,Ryo Kusunose +6 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes region extraction appropriate to the equine eye structure, a stable coordinate model for pupil variation, and recognition using orthogonal wrinkles in the iris pattern, and shows that highly accurate horse identification is possible.
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A note on a behavioural indicator of satisfaction in stabled horses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed the behavior of six stabled horses (stallions n = 3; geldings n= 3) in an attempt to identify behavioural measures of eating satisfaction.