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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Mad cow disease"”.
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Essays on Price Analysis of Livestock Market
… change. The second chapter, ``Impact of Animal Disease Outbreaks on The U.S. Meat Demand'', examined the impact of the mad cow (BSE) and bird flu (AI) outbreaks on the demand for beef, pork, and broilers in the U.S from 1997 to 2019. Using time-varying elasticities obtained from a Rotterdam …
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Millennium Bugs and Weapons of Mass Fear: Dialogs Between Science and Popular Culture in the 1990's
… between representations of epidemics and disease threats, and the actual outbreaks themselves, a point of considerable interest for this research. For example, the increase in media attention to Ebola virus actually preceded the actual 1995 outbreak of this disease in Zaire, which occurred …
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Discovery and characterization of prions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
… or prions, are the infectious agents behind diseases like Kuru and mad-cow disease. In yeast, however, prions act as epigenetic elements that confer heritable alternative phenotypes. Prion-forming proteins create bistable molecular systems whose semi-stochastic switching between functional …
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Deciphering the Molecular Basis of the Species Barrier in Prion Disease Using Bank Vole PrP
Prion disease is an infectious and fatal neurodegeneration condition which depends on the structural reconfiguration of a predominantly α-helical cellular protein called PrPC into a β-sheet rich conformer referred to as scrapie or PrPSc. The infectious nature of this conformer enables it to …