Explosive trace detection (ETD) technologies play a vital role in maintaining national
security. ETD remains an active research area with many analytical techniques in …

The impact of health, management, and microbiota on olfactory function in canines has not
been examined in review. The most important characteristic of the detection canine is its …

Detection dogs are widely considered the most effective and adaptive method for explosives
detection. Increases in emerging sophisticated threats are accelerating the demand for …

Working dogs are prevalent throughout our societies, assisting people in diverse contexts,
from explosives detection and livestock herding, to therapy partners. Our scientific …

Dogs are increasingly used in a wide range of detection tasks including explosives,
narcotics, medical, and wildlife detection. Research on detection dog performance is …

Scent detection dogs are used in a variety of contexts; however, very few dogs successfully
complete their training, and many others are withdrawn from service prematurely due to both …

Dogs can discriminate stressed from non-stressed human odour samples, but the effect on
their cognition is unstudied. Using a cognitive bias task, we tested how human odours affect …

Simple Summary Detection dogs and their handlers must be a bonded team. Changing a
dog's handler, which occurs in certain organisations or through change of ownership, may …

Human scent identification is based on a matching-to-sample task in which trained dogs are
required to compare a scent sample collected from an object found at a crime scene to that …

The canine detection community is a diverse one, ranging from scientific fields such as
behavior, genetics, veterinary medicine, chemistry, and biology to applications in law …