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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Disease diffusion"”.
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Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
This research argues that infectious disease diffusion ahead of its introduction at a frontier cannot be assumed to have been a uniform, wave-like-process. Instead, diffusion probably took an idiosyncratic path that followed the kinds of interaction that best promoted transmission. The results of …
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The Dynamics of the Spread of COVID-19 in Kansas
… health related factors that may influence the diffusion of the virus. Most of these studies, however, used a cross sectional approach at a national scale. Such analysis may hide region specific temporal, spatial, and societal dynamics of the disease that influence its spread. My two part-study …
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Mechanisms of vascular cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease and stroke
Introduction: Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) affects small vessels in the brain and is a major contributor to stroke and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). Although VCI poses a significant public health burden, the underlying biological processes and mechanisms remain poorly understood. The …
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Component diffusion tensor analysis suggests disparate temporal stem and fornix white matter pathology in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. The progressive development of specific cognitive deficits, initially affecting short-term memory and spreading to more global cognitive decline, is paralleled by the progressive deterioration of specific brain regions. In this way, …