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Showing 1 to 20 of 333 for “"Epidemiological studies"”.
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BIOMEDICAL, IMMUNOLOGICALS AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON LEISHMANIA
… Investigated Area of Northern Italy: Emerging Epidemiological Scenarios? [pubblicato in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases] Questo studio indaga la circolazione e distribuzione di L. tarentolae e L. infantum nel Nord Italia, con focus su flebotomi e campioni di sangue di rettili. È stata …
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Human Papillomavirus vaccination: Immunological and epidemiological studies
This thesis has evaluated the immunological- and epidemiological aspects of human papillomavirus transmission dynamics and its effect on circumcision. Effective prophylactic vaccines are based on type-specific neutralizing antibodies. A major neutralizing epitope is defined by the monoclonal …
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Infectivity and Epidemiological Studies on Bovine Parvovirus
… Tissues submitted for virus isolations and FA studies were all negative. The widespread distribution of BPV and its presence during respiratory disease outbreaks implies its involvement in the respiratory disease complex.
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Accounting for spatial confounding in large scale epidemiological studies
Epidemiological analyses of environmental risk factors often include spatially-varying exposures and outcomes. Unmeasured, spatially-varying factors can lead to confounding bias in estimates of associations. In this dissertation, I present a comparison of existing and new methods that use thin …
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Molecular and Epidemiological Studies of Trichoderma aggressivum f. europaeum
Trichoderma aggressivum is the causal agent of severe green mould disease in the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Samuels et al., 2002). This fungus was First isolated in Ireland in 1987 during an epidemic of green mould disease and has subsequently been isolated from mushroom farms across …
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Epidemiological studies of risk factors for injuries in an adult population
… drug use in both men and women. Three of the studies in this thesis were longitudinal in that sense that the levels of the independent variables were measured before the onset of the injury and one study was a case-control study. The studies were register-based and comprised the whole adult …
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Efficient Spatio-Temporal Network Analytics in Epidemiological Studies using Distributed Databases
… Analytics has become an integral part of Epidemiological studies. The size of the spatio-temporal data has been increasing tremendously over the years, gradually evolving into Big Data. The processing in such domains are highly data and compute intensive. High performance computing …
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Epidemiological studies and sustainable approaches for the control of strawberry powdery mildew
Strawberry powdery mildew, caused by Podosphaera aphanis, is one of the most destructive diseases of strawberries worldwide, particularly under protected cultivation. Difficulties in detecting and managing early infections result in rapid development and yield losses up to 70%. Control still relies …
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Epidemiological Studies Of Childhood Onset Type 1 Diabetes In Devon And Cornwall
… of the disease in this region and to allow epidemiological studies. Basic descriptive studies on the occurrence of the disease based on the CPCDR between 1975-1996 have been carried out for this thesis. In addition, space-time clustering analysis of the disease has been conducted, as well as …
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Epidemiological studies of whole blood donation in the UK: Donor safety and retention
… a portfolio of complementary quantitative epidemiological studies, which aimed to: (i) assess temporal trends and contemporary patterns in blood collection and adverse events; (ii) identify individual and collection site characteristics associated with return behaviour; (iii) characterise …
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Epidemiological studies on primary inoculum of Venturia inaequalis and V. asperata for apple scab management
Apple scab, caused by the ascomycete Venturia inaequalis, is the most important disease of apple, causing great losses worldwide. Its management is largely based on fungicide treatments, especially targeting ascosporic infections. To reduce the pesticide input, sanitation practices against …
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Traffic pollution and chronic respiratory disease. Epidemiological studies in children and adults in southern Sweden.
This thesis investigate if long-term exposure to traffic pollution is a risk factor for development of chronic respiratory disease and allergy in adults and children in southern Sweden (Scania). Information about health was obtained from surveys and health care registers. Traffic pollution exposure …
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Epidemiological Studies of Northern Corn Leaf Blight on Corn Inbreds: Loss Assessment and Disease Modeling
… control were also investigated. Data from these studies were used to develop a simulation model to help students conceptualize disease effects on corn yields and management effects on disease and yields. In three inbreds studied, total yields were inversely proportional to areas under the disease …
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Epidemiological studies of the aetiological associations between nutritional biomarkers and cardiometabolic risk factors in Cameroon
… 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Most epidemiological studies of the associations between diet and nutritional factors and metabolic outcomes have relied on self-report instruments. Nutritional biomarkers offer a complementary objective approach but have not been widely applied in …
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Epidemiological studies of sociodemographic factors, early life factors, health, and medical care consumption among small children
… investigated among small children in Malmö. The studies in the thesis were population-based and cross-sectional, and the study populations comprised children who visited the Child health care (CHC) centers for their 8-month or 4-year check-up during 2003-2008 and whose parents answered a …
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COFFEE AND TEA CONSUMPTION AND GASTRIC CANCER: A POOLED ANALYSIS IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES.
… pooled analyses in a unique global consortium of epidemiological studies on gastric cancer - the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) project- were carried out. The StoP project included thirty case-control (CC) studies and five nested case-control within the cohort (NCC) studies, from seventeen …
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Muscle strength and physical education: epidemiological studies of factors in adolescence and their association with later morbidity
Although Physical Education (PE) is a part of the school curriculum in many countries, the association between the performance in PE and later morbidity is largely unknown. An important marker of health, cardiorespiratory fitness is inversely associated with future cardiovascular disease (CVD) and …
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On Falls in the Elderly –Epidemiological Studies from the Longitudinal General Population Study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), Sweden
In a ‘greying world’ with aging populations, falls in the elderly are a challenge to the health care system as they are associated with substantial mortality and morbidity. Apart from physical injuries, the consequences of falls are broad, with additional psychological and social consequences. The …
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Information on emergent insect associated tree diseases including epidemiological studies of drippy blight disease of oak and thousand cankers disease of walnut
… to better understand these disease complexes, studies were initiated to identify the causal agents, symptomology, and epidemiology of drippy blight disease as well as determine if multiple fungi were involved in thousand cankers disease. Chapter I, published in the Journal of Arboriculture and …
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