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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"HIA"”.
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Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Thailand: a case study of a Potash mine HIA in Udon Thani, Thailand
While health impact assessment (HIA) theory and practice has emerged worldwide to consider ‘human health’ as a core component of sustainable development, the benefits gained from HIA have been questioned. The ways people perceive HIA seem to be context specific and, therefore, this research aims at …
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Development and Application of Strategies for Health Impact Assessment of Projects and Policies
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a combination of procedures, methods and tools used to evaluate potential health outcomes associated with proposed projects, programs and policies. An HIA differs from other types of assessments in its consideration of both positive and negative health outcomes, …
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Dynamics of Naturally Acquired Antibody Against Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype 'A' and the Impact of Vaccination
… infections caused by H. influenzae serotype a (Hia) has increased in several parts of the world, particularly in Aboriginal populations of North America. Currently, there is no vaccine available to prevent Hia infection. While efforts continue to develop an anti-Hia vaccine candidate, a number …
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Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy
… healthcare realm. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a decision support tool that identifies and promotes the health benefits of policies while also mitigating their unintended negative consequences. Despite numerous calls to do so, the Ontario government has yet to implement HIA as a required …
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Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Escherichia coli K1 and Haemophilus influenzae Type a Blood-Brain Barrier Impairment
… caused by different pathogens, including Escherichia coli K1 (E. coli K1) and Haemophilus influenzae type a (Hia). During E. coli K1 meningitis, CNS cells release pro-inflammatory mediators, while the bacterium promotes the association between Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 1 …
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Planning Out Obesity
… levels of commitment by planners in the use of HIA in the planning process - even though through a web-based questionnaire there was a consensus of opinion that HIA facilitated a focus on health and wellbeing. This research suggests that further interdisciplinary collaboration between the …
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The Effect of Punishment Threat on Children's Ability to Resist Temptation to Transgress and Lie
… attention problems, and conduct problems (HIA-CP) had the highest levels of psychopathic traits compared to all others. In addition, spanked children were rated as having significantly more behavioral problems than non-spanked children. Limitations of the current study and suggestions for …
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Secure SNMP-Based Network Management in Low Bandwidth Networks
This research focuses on developing a secure, SNMP-based network management system specifically tailored for deployment in internetworks that rely on low-bandwidth backbone networks. The network management system developed uses a two-level hierarchy of network management applications consisting of …
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Cumulative Effects on Human Health within the Hydroelectric Sector: A Case Study of Manitoba Hydro
… of the practice of health impact assessment (HIA) was also evident by the lack of health-related indicators and the poor consistency in the use of indicators across projects and over time for measuring and predicting changes in the health conditions of the communities due to project …
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Geographic distributions and vertebrate host specificity of genetic lineages of Borrelia burgdorferi
… C (ospC) gene (“human infectious alleles”; HIAs). We tested 272 individuals of 11 mammalian species for B. burgdorferi and sequenced ospC alleles. Multiple allele (“mixed”) infections were common in individuals of all species. HIAs were most common in mice (Peromyscus spp.) with only one HIA …
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Desarrollo de métodos analíticos y de predicción para informática molecular basados en técnicas de aprendizaje automático y visualización
… intestinal humana (Human Intestinal Absorption, HIA) y el pasaje de la barrera hemato-encefálica (Blood-Brain Barrier, BBB), ambas esenciales para el desarrollo de nuevos fármacos. En el campo de los materiales poliméricos, se exploraron varias propiedades mecánicas, que proporcionan información …
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Cha-Cha-Cha: Variable Adhesive Activity of the <italic>Haemophilus</Italic> Cryptic Genospecies Trimeric Autotransporter Cha
… presenting a heterologous passenger domain (Hia) in a functional form, thus confirming that Cha is a trimeric autotransporter. Southern analysis revealed that <italic>cha</italic> is unique to the <italic>Haemophilus</italic> cryptic genospecies and is ubiquitous among these strains. …
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Te whakatau i te mita o Ngāti Kahungunu; tōna hītori, tōna whanaketanga me tōna ahunga whakamua
… o Ngāti Kahungunu. Koinei anō tētahi take i kaha hiahia ahau ki te rangahau i te kaupapa nei. Kai reira anō ētahi rangahau pēnei i ā Dr. Joseph Te Rito rāua ko Lee Smith, engari, kāore anō kia āta whakatauhia he aha oti te mita o Kahungunu, mehemea rānei he mita tōna, ōna rānei. Kāore anō kia āta …