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Showing 1 to 20 of 699 for “"Outbreak"”.
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Plagiarism : the cultural outbreak
The aim of this study is a conceptual and theoretical exploration of literary plagiarism. Chapter One traces various definitions of plagiarism and contrasts plagiarism with copyright infringement. It is argued that plagiarism is a social construct which cannot be defined solely in terms of textual …
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A universal outbreak risk prediction tool
The pandemic outbreak situation has become more serious in the 21st century. Diseases have become more likely to spread across borders and pose a greater threat than before. In order to handle this new situation, the ability to predict the risk of pandemic outbreaks is a necessary. Existing …
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Predicting diarrhoea outbreak with climate change
… change is expected to exacerbate diarrhoea outbreak in South Africa, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the region. In this study, we modelled the impacts of climate change on diarrhoea with machine learning methods. We applied two deep learning techniques, convolutional neural …
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An exploration of a new heroin outbreak
… in the field of addiction, by examining a heroin outbreak in a context that has a combination of features rendering it, and the data produced from it, including theoretical insights, original.
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Study of ageostrophic flow in a polar outbreak
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1961.
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Fast But Right: Outbreak Surveillance And Foodborne Knowledge Infrastructure
… for detecting and investigating national outbreaks of foodborne disease. Drawing on archival and ethnographic material from US public health and regulatory agencies, I investigate how officials have built and used surveillance systems to make foodborne outbreaks visible, reflecting the …
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Applying Time-Valued Knowledge for Public Health Outbreak Response
… the research response to novel pathogenic outbreaks. First, we define the C4 Response Model as a progression from an initial data-hungry collect stage, iteration between open-science-centric connect stages and machine-learning centric calibrate stages, and a final visualization-centric …
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The Effects of Avian Influenza Outbreak on U.S. Poultry Prices
… or excretions from infected birds during an outbreak of avian influenza among poultry. On May 8, 2006, WHO reported on 207 cases that resulted in 115 people's deaths. The best way to control the outbreak is to destroy infected poultry or suspected infected poultry. Bird Flu would influence a …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
This thesis is a study of the Bengal Army from c. 1800 to c. 1870. Its central aim is to explain why the majority of the Bengal Army's native troops mutinied in 1857. It begins by comparing the pre-mutiny trends in the Bengal Army to those in its sister armies of Madras and Bombay: in particular …
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Theoretical epidemiology analysis of Plague, Polio, and Covid-19 outbreak
… in predicting the long-term behavior of an outbreak. By analyzing the stability of these states, researchers can determine whether an outbreak will be self-limiting or persist within the population over time. By studying diseases like Plague, Polio, and Covid-19, this research aims to …
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Examining the use of infectious disease modelling in outbreak response
… in different country settings in three recent outbreaks. The first two research chapters are primarily technical modelling chapters while the third is a unique qualitative study assessing the role of modelling in Covid-19 policy. Overall, the thesis aims to assess current practices on the use …
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A citywide, clonal outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during a drought
Background Outbreaks of community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa are typically small and localized. We investigated an increase in P. aeruginosa clinical isolates in Cape Town, South Africa during a severe drought. Methods Cases were defined as P. aeruginosa isolated from any clinical sample, and …
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The wind field at lower levels during a cold outbreak
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1961.
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Equine Herpesvirus Type 1: Filling Gaps Toward Improved Outbreak Management
… which can lead to the initiation of devastating outbreaks. Some variants of EHV-1 have been associated with more severe disease outcomes. Appropriate outbreak management focuses on minimizing the movement of potentially exposed horses. This approach lacks a strategy for prevention at the level of …
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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.
In recent years, explanations for the occurrence of civil war have mainly emphasized state weakness as providing an opportunity for greed-based rebellions. Yet, this explanation leaves many questions open, as it cannot distinguish between weak states that do and those that do not experience civil …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
… examines the ways in which the ‘truth’ about an outbreak of zoonotic disease stabilises through the labour of sampling animals. While scarcely any case of Ebola had ever been reported in West Africa, the deadliest epidemic to date started in 2013 in the southeastern region of Guinea called …
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Pātangaroa: Co-developing management strategies for a starfish outbreak in Ōhiwa Harbour
… the best management approaches for a starfish outbreak. These included investigation into the predation impacts of P. regularis on mussel recruitment, identification of alternative restoration sites less susceptible to starfish predation pressures and investigation of potential drivers of the …
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Participatory epidemiology : harnessing the HealthMap platform for community-based disease outbreak monitoring
… worldwide. Early warning and detection of outbreaks plays an important role in protecting against disease, allowing public health authorities, organizations, and citizens to implement control measures rapidly. Due to its global reach, 2009 pandemic HiNi represented not only a unique call to …
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Initiation and Evolution of the South Dakota Tornado Outbreak of 24 June 2003
<p>The outbreak that occurred in eastern South Dakota on 24 June 2003 provides an excellent opportunity for the study of tornadoes because they were significant in number, yet concentrated in a small area over a short period of time. Precursors were examined, particularly the differential advection …
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