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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Biosecurity"”.
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… a Decision Support System (DSS) to improve biosecurity response decisions affecting indigenous biodiversity. The key elements of the DSS are a synthesis of three components of non-market valuation: choice modelling, a systematic database of values and benefit transfer, with risk simulation …
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Biosecurity for the New Zealand Education Curriculum
… around the world as a result of a lapse in biosecurity led to the outbreak of SARS-COV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) which causes severe respiratory disease (Covid-19) leading to death in some people who contract the virus. The many measures taken to contain the virus, …
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Structure-Based Drug Design Against a Biosecurity Pathogen
Coxiella burnetii, a gram-negative Gammaproteobacterium, causes the human disease Q-fever. It displays a biphasic lifestyle, with a metabolically constrained small cell variant form enabling survival in the environment. Infection through aerosolization triggers conversion to the metabolically …
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Making biosecurity, making Mexico : an ethnography of biological invasion
… of people, animals, plants, and microbes, biosecurity measures are concerned with regulating circulation and seek to work against such possibly homogenizing forces by both documenting and maintaining the distinctiveness of life forms in different places. Through ethnographic research in …
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Efficacy and biases In inspections for biosecurity threats In South Africa
… border controls in South Africa. To promote good biosecurity, further studies should be conducted to analyse control bias based on sampling effort data than interceptions relative to TV, to improve phytosanitary controls on agricultural imports, especially fresh fruit.
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Evaluating biosecurity law and regulation in developing countries: case studies from Belize
Biosecurity is the term used to refer to the management of risks to human, animal and plant health and safety from cross-border movement of living organisms and goods. The implementation of national legal and regulatory frameworks for Biosecurity will be affected by the various international …
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Microorganisms associated with ulva grown in abalone effluent water: implications for biosecurity
… grown Ulva as feed. This study addresses the biosecurity implications associated with the use of Ulva as a biofilter and feed within an integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) system along with the abalone Haliotis midae by assessing the bacterial communities associated with Ulva and its …
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Xenobiology in synthetic biology: From non-standard amino acid incorporation to biosecurity implications
… field grow in a responsible way, biosafety and biosecurity regulations need to grow at the same pace. Since biosecurity governance is mainly limited to pathogen-related research, the assessment and mitigation on the xenobiology field needs to be done by the researchers. This work shows that …
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Advancing Biosecurity in the Age of AI: Integrating Novel Detection, Suppression, and Evaluation Approaches
… transmission. This thesis argues that robust biosecurity enables, rather than hinders, progress, and advances three key defensive capabilities. First, it evaluates blood metagenomics for pathogen-agnostic surveillance, reanalyzing public datasets to quantify viral signatures and guide the …
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Biosecurity in the Recirculation Sector of Finfish Aquaculture in the United States and Canada
In aquaculture, biosecurity consists of policies, procedures and measures used to prevent or control the spread of fish disease. The focus of this research was the practice of biosecurity in the recirculation sector of finfish aquaculture in the United States and Canada. Specifically, this …
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Biosecurity and risk analysis for cow-calf enterprises: a simulation model for Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
… to determine the cost-effectiveness of different biosecurity strategies for Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) on cow-calf farms. Where possible, risk distributions were defined in the course of a critical literature review covering all publications since 1990 relevant to BVDV on cow-calf farms. …
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Rapid and portable molecular detection tools for reptile pest priority species in Australian environmental biosecurity scenarios
… species have been identified for environmental biosecurity prioritisation and included as highest risk on the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry National Priority List of Exotic Environmental Pests, Weeds and Diseases. Limited attention has been directed at …
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Place-based Management for Post-border Biosecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand - Giving Effect to Mana Whenua Informed Decision-making
… in the Waikato River. These and other biosecurity threats pose serious risk to the New Zealand economy, the natural environment, social amenity values, and to mana whenua communities and their culture. To manage biosecurity threats, New Zealand’s biosecurity system provides …
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Essays in the economic implications of select animal health and crop production issues
… global threat to human health and safety and the biosecurity of livestock production in the United States in the form of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. An equilibrium displacement model (EDM) of the U.S. meat industry (i.e., beef, pork, lamb and poultry) is used to analyze welfare implications …
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Prevalence of antibodies to Bovine Leukemia virus, Neospora caninum and risk factors, and biosecurity practices in beef cow-calf herds in Canada.
… herds. Beef herd managers might consider biosecurity practices such as preventing the access of wild canids to fetuses and stillbirths thereby preventing pasture contamination and controlling contamination of water source with oocyst of N. caninum thereby reducing chances of infection. A …
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Assessing and improving Illinois swine producers’ and veterinarians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward biosecurity by using online surveys and an educational website
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Phytophthora diversity in the Cape Floristic Region
… and an example of an approach to enhance the biosecurity with public engagement in South Africa. Through independent sampling and a newly developed citizen science program, this body of work revealed the presence of seventeen described Phytophthora species, one informally described …
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Global Health Security Agenda Legal Landscape Assessment
… zoonotic diseases, national biosafety/biosecurity and immunization. The prevention action package included establishing a national laboratory system, strengthening real-time biosurveillance, advancing timely and accurate disease reporting and establishing a trained global health …
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Risk-Benefit Assessment of Pandemic Virus Identification
… critics raise concerns about biosafety and biosecurity risks. This thesis presents a comprehensive mathematical framework to evaluate the benefits, biosafety risks, and biosecurity risks associated with PVI research. Using a combination of mathematical modeling and expert elicitation, we …
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