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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Quarantine"”.
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Quarantine: A Bioethics Game
… be effective tools for teaching and learning. Quarantine is a game designed as a complementary tool for learning and applying bioethical theories, principles, and methods to unique bioethical situations. It creates a format for players to discuss and resolve bioethical issues such as patient …
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My First Year of Teaching (Quarantine Teacher)
<p>This ethnography is the narrative compiling my time as a first year Intern teacher. While this document is just the beginning of my journey as an educator, it proved extremely beneficial when I was able to look at how much growth had occurred. It is vital to know who and where you teach in order …
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Public Health Policy: An Ethical Analysis of Quarantine
<p>As a public health measure quarantine has both historical and contemporary significance both in the United States and abroad. On the surface it represents a low-cost, low-tech way in which the spread of disease can be mitigated as its core requirement is that those who may have been exposed to …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
The past four decades of research in the contemporary paganism faith movement in the United States have focused on the creation of cosmologies based on scholarship, reclamations of heritage, counter-culturalism, and environmentalism. However, the dialogue has changed drastically in recent years due …
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Quarantine and Mental Health During COVID-19: Exploring the Impact on Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation Among Adults in Canada
… public health measures, including mandatory quarantine, which had potential mental health implications. This thesis investigated the association between mandatory quarantine and mental health outcomes, specifically depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, among adults in Canada. Objectives: …
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Quarantine evaluation of Eucryptorrhynchus brandti (Harold) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent of tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima in Virginia, USA
Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle is a tree native to Asia that was intentionally introduced into the United States in the late eighteenth century. Ailanthus altissima has become an invasive species that has spread throughout most of North America. Lack of effective management tactics for …
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A multi-objective sequential stochastic assignment problem for Ebola entry screening
… from West Africa should be managed. A 21-day quarantine requirement for deplaning passengers, based on their risk factors, was implemented at five international airports in the United States in late 2014. This thesis formulates the multi-objective sequential stochastic assignment problem …
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The Illinois Pseudorabies Eradication Program and Factors Associated With Selection of Intervention Strategies and Success in Eradication
… found to exist for the spatial distribution of quarantines among Illinois counties. This finding indicates that counties in close proximity tend to have similar numbers of herds under PrV quarantine. It was also found that space-time interaction or clustering was present for the date of …
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Energy Reserves in Native Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia:Unionidae) with and without Attached Zebra Mussels: Effects of Food Deprivation
… feeding and body condition, 2) how starvation in quarantine affects body condition of unionids, and 3) what feeding regime maintain unionid condition in quarantine. The effects of zebra mussel infestation on two mussel species were evaluated through glycogen analyses of mantle tissue and gut …
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Efficacy and biases In inspections for biosecurity threats In South Africa
… to South Africa. Pest interception data for quarantine and non-quarantine insects from fresh fruit imports between 2008 and 2018 from the South African Department of Agriculture, Land reform and Rural Development was analysed. For this analysis, trade pathways were analysed to have three …
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The System of Lazzaretti in the Early Modern Mediterranean
… examines the history of lazzaretti - quarantine centres - in the early modern Mediterranean. Merchants, travellers, sailors and goods were quarantined and disinfected inside vast complexes built in port cities and trading posts on the most trafficked trade routes of the Republic of …
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Asylum story
… new respiratory disease and being held in a quarantine facility near a fictional town in the Karoo. The novel spans a six-month period during which the protagonist becomes involved in an ultimately failed attempt to escape. The novel is partly inspired by the Department of Health's decision …
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Prediction of safety and effectiveness of a candidate biocontrol agent : quarantine evaluation of the root-feeding, Mexican flea beetle, Longitarsus bethae, for potential release against the noxious weed, Lantana camara, in Africa
… Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), was evaluated in quarantine as a candidate biological control agent for the noxious weed, Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae). The premise was that L. bethae would only be released if it could be ascertained that it was: (i) safe for non-target plants; (ii) likely to …
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An Agent-Based Model to Study the Spread and Control of Epidemics
… to study the effectiveness of vaccination and quarantine as methods of epidemic control. It is determined that the most effective means of controlling an epidemic is to quarantine individuals with symptoms. In addition, the effect of the adjacent contact coefficient in the model is examined and …
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Studies on Dactuliochaeta Glycines and the Epidemiology of Red Leaf Blotch of Soybeans
… Africa and the causal agent was examined under quarantine conditions in the laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
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Studies on the Effects of Alkalizing Agents on Acid -Base Balance in Horses
… this illegal pre-race procedure by pre-race quarantine and determination of blood pH, bicarbonate ion concentration and other blood gas indices. Our group studied the effects of sodium bicarbonate and other weak acid salts on the acid-base balance of horses. It was found that sodium …
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Application of Spatial Analysis in the Incidence of the Gall Midge in Jamaican Hot Pepper Production
… (Capsicum chinense) export production due to a quarantine pest -- the gall midge (Contarinia lycopersici; Prodiplosis longifila). There is a threat of gall midge introduction into the United States, where the insect pest is not known to occur. This research tests the significance of a range of …
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Studentų fizinio aktyvumo ir streso sąsajos COVID-19 pandemijos laikotarpiu /
… of physical activity of students during the quarantine period. 2. To assess students' stress levels during the quarantine period. 3. To assess the influence of students' physical activity on their mental health. Methodology of the study. A quantitative study was conducted - in which students …
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: The Case of Mexican Avocados
… channels of the WTO for resolving disputes. A quarantine in place from 1914 until very recently banned entry of Mexican avocados into the U.S. market on grounds of risk of pest infestation. Since the early 1970s this quarantine has been a cause of dispute between the Mexican and U.S. …
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