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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"High mortality rates"”.
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From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations
… parishes of Louisiana, enslaved people endured high mortality rates and declining populations at the height of the harsh slave regime in the mid-twentieth century. This resulted from regional disease, brutal working conditions, and a skewed sex ratio where enslaved men consistently outnumbered …
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The development of probiotics for use in the ostrich farming industry in South Africa
… an important industry but it often suffers from high mortality rates among the ostrich chicks. This is thought to be due in part to environmental stress, leading to the delay in the development of the microbiota, thus making invasion by pathogens likely. Very little is known about the …
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Adult demography and larval processes in coastal benthic populations : intertidal barnacles in Southern California and Baja California
… Horizontal and vertical distributions, and the mortality rates of larvae, were assessed from short term (i.e. days) small- scale observations (0.1-1 km) in nearshore waters. Observations on spatial variability of adult barnacle demography were gathered over 1.5 years at scales of hundreds of …
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Identification of Human Adrenal Carcinoma Cells Using Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry
<p>With consistently high mortality rates in patients with adrenal cancer, lack of early detection and diagnosis are an ever increasing problem in fighting the deadly disease. Currently, very few patients are diagnosed with adrenal cancer within the early stages due to the absence of symptoms until …
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Utility of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis using human urine
… TB. In these vulnerable patientgroups with high mortality rates, sputum-based diagnostic tools are unhelpful. Urine-based diagnostics offer an attractive, easily available alternative for rapid diagnosis. We evaluated the point-of-care urine LAM strip test (Determine TB LAM Ag test, Alere) …
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Poultry Husbandry Training to Improve Indigenous Chicken Production by Safina And Shalom Women Groups In Arusha Municipality
… lead to poor nutrition, poor housing system and high mortality rates due to existence of different poultry killer diseases in the area. The project implementation have focus on one major area of training on better animal husbandry practices, in which 60 members for Safina and Shalom women groups …
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Health and development in the Maltese Islands
… basis of the thesis. The transition from high mortality rates to high morbidity rates in the past forty years reflects Malta's late and uneven development. Health policy to overcome disease is limited because health and disease are manifestations of the mode of production. Health in …
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Ability of Klebsiella spp. mastitis isolates to produce virulence factors for enhanced evasion of bovine innate immune defenses
… cause mastitis in dairy cattle and account for high mortality rates in infected cows leading to a significant financial loss. Recent outbreaks indicate that within farms a single strain can be responsible for clinical signs in multiple animals. Identification of the virulence of factors enabling …
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Opioid overdose trends in children, adolescents and young adults
… problem in the United States, reaching record high mortality rates during the pandemic. While trends have been documented in adults, there is a need to examine these patterns among younger populations. Aim: This study analyzes opioid overdose mortality in children, adolescents, and young adults …
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Mir-484 Functions As An Onco-Mir In Triple Negative Breast Cancer
<p>Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive subtype of breast cancer (BC), with a poor prognosis with currently used therapies, and thus represents an unmet therapeutic challenge. Lack of molecular targets (i.e. ER, PR, HER2) and significant genetic heterogeneity are the major …
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Poultry Keeping for Sustainable Livelihood: A Case of Mwakuda Women Group in Pugu Bombani, Ilala District Dar es Salaam
… to low income, unemployment, poor nutrition and high mortality rates due to existence of different poultry killer diseases in the area. The project implementation has focus on improving community Income for sustainable livelihood through poultry keeping as a priority project. The objectives of …
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Evaluating Bias in Machine Learning-Enabled Radiology Image Classification
… Learning for Healthcare. We analyze the 10 highest-performing models from a competition hosted by the Radiological Society of North America in 2022. In this competition, teams competed to design and train machine learning models to detect and locate cervical spine fractures, a severe injury …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
… distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered bigger exchange rate crises, more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect the causal effect of …
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Different Methodologies to Characterize and Diagnose Sickle Cell Disease in Both Developed and Developing Nations
… people globally. SCD affected individuals have high mortality rates. Early detection and constant monitoring of this disease is essential. The following review focuses on various methodologies that have emerged in the diagnosis of SCD. Also, low cost methods that can be easily adopted in …
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Over-Winter Mortality Of Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma Cepedianum) In Oneida Lake, New York
… provides the ideal location to study over-winter mortality in fishes. In Chapter 1, I provide a review of current methods used throughout the literature to address questions involving over-winter mortality in fishes. Specifically, I address methods used, their pros and cons, and what has been …
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Outcomes after thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in patients with traumatic thoracic aortic injuries (TTAI) - a single center retrospective review
… surgical emergencies that are attended with high mortality rates. Most patients do not survive long enough, post injury, to reach a hospital. On-site mortality rates may approach approximately 85%. Two main treatment options for blunt thoracic aortic injuries (BTAI) are open surgery and …
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Construction, characterization, and evaluation of CLH001 as a vaccine candidate against respiratory glanders
… of glanders, an incapacitating disease with high mortality rates in respiratory cases. Its endemicity and ineffectual treatment options emphasize its public health threat and highlight the need for a vaccine. In this study, we constructed and characterized B. mallei ∆tonB ∆hcp1 (CLH001), a …
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Untangling the evolutionary history of endogenous retroviruses in anuran genomes
… Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List) and high mortality rates in captivity, with evidence of retroviral involvement in disease. In all anuran genomes, ERV families had characteristics of recent activity (intact genes and little divergence between their long terminal repeats). Through …
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Adult demography and larval processes in coastal benthic populations intertidal barnacles in Southern California and Baja California
… Horizontal and vertical distributions, and the mortality rates of larvae, were assessed from short tenn (i.e. days) smallscale observations (0.1-1 km) in nearshore waters. Observations on spatial variability of adult barnacle demography were gathered over 1.5 years at scales of hundreds of …
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The Role of Epigenetics in Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Tumorigenesis: Validation of Genome-Wide Methylation Array Results through Bisulfite Sequencing
… a considerable global health challenge, with high mortality rates despite advancements in cancer research. Approximately one in ten CRC cases have a hereditary basis, with Lynch syndrome and Familial adenomatous polyposis standing as the two predominant cancer-predisposing syndromes. These …
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