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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Smallpox"”.
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Epidemic modeling techniques for smallpox
… and the underlying mathematics of the models. Smallpox has been modeled extensively in recent years to determine successful response guidelines for a future outbreak. Five models, which range in fidelity, were created for this thesis in an attempt to reveal the differences inherent in the …
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Experiencing smallpox in eighteenth-century England
This thesis explores eighteenth-century smallpox to investigate the course, management and control of the disease by communities, families and individuals. It focusses first on the prevalence of smallpox in Oxfordshire demonstrating that smallpox mortality in the county reduced during the century …
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Mathematical Modeling Of Smallpox Withoptimal Intervention Policy
… this work, two differential equation models for smallpox are numerically solved to find the optimal intervention policy. In each model we look for the range of values of the parameters that give rise to the worst case scenarios. Since the scale of an epidemic is determined by the number of people …
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Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
This research argues that infectious disease diffusion ahead of its introduction at a frontier cannot be assumed to have been a uniform, wave-like-process. Instead, diffusion probably took an idiosyncratic path that followed the kinds of interaction that best promoted transmission. The results of …
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On an epidemic of smallpox of irregular type in Trinidad during 1902-1904
Smallpox was so prevalent in prevaccination times j that hardly anyone escaped the disease. It entered the palace of the king with the same freedom as it did the hovel of the peasant; it penetrated everywhere carrying desolation with it. Those who escaped death were left disfigured or.crippled for …
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Educating Health Care Professionals in the Threat of Biological Attacks: A Digital Guide to Smallpox
… dissertation file. The file named "HernandezA_Smallpox.zip" is a zipped file folder with 352 files (in 2 folders) that are necessary to run the developed website. The file named "index.html" is provided as an example of how the page would be structured, but images do not display and links do …
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Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Aland Archipelago
… of childhood diseases such as measles or smallpox resulted in the infection of nearly every susceptible individual in a community. While smallpox has long been considered the deadlier of the two childhood diseases, research has shown that the immune response to measles infection results in …
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Vaccination and the Law in Ontario and Nova Scotia (1800 - 1924)
Since the discovery of smallpox vaccination in the late eighteenth century, Western societies have often confronted the question of whether the state can justifiably impose the procedure on its citizens in the interest of safeguarding general public health. This question is at the heart of ongoing …
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Integration of Life Sciences and Engineering - Highly Infectious Diseases in Population : Control System Analysis and Synthesis
… the model of a highly infectious disease such as smallpox among a certain metropolitan population. The chosen nonlinear model is simulated using MATLAB and Simulink to obtain input-output relations in the time domain. Next, the nonlinear model is linearized around an equilibrium point to …
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Design of a Tetracycline Operon Inducible System for the Control of Vaccinia Virus Replication: Implications for Vaccine Development
… as a vaccine resulted in the eradication of smallpox in 1979. Characteristics that contribute to the effectiveness of VACV as a vaccine and viral vector include its ability to elicit strong, long-lived humoral and cell-mediated immune responses as a live-replicating virus and to accept large …
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DNA comparisons of the two orthopoxviruses monkeypox and variola
Although smallpox has been eradicated there are animal poxviruses which are closely related. It is desirable to measure the closeness of this relation to assess whether Variola virus could re-emerge as a complex mutant of an animal poxvirus. The most likely candidate is Monkeypox, which can produce …
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Exploring antiviral effector cells in vaccinia virus-infected tissues
… the live vaccine leading to the eradication of smallpox. Despite eradication through global vaccination, the precise immune mechanisms underlying recovery from infection are incompletely understood. VACV is commonly studied after infection of the lung to model human smallpox vaccination; …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF DENGUE NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES USING RECOMBINANT ANTIBODIES TECHNOLOGY
… PREVENTED ONE FROM DEVELOPING DISEASE AGAINST SMALLPOX. A CENTURY LATER, EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING EXPLORED THE POTENTIAL OF PASSIVE IMMUNITY AS AN ANTI-TOXIN THERAPY AGAINST TETANUS. THESE PIONEER WORKS LAID THE CORNERSTONES FOR SUBSEQUENT VACCINE AND THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODY DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
… Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s smallpox scars and injured leg and Victoria’s beautiful but too boldly delineated features—challenge the prevailing structures of aesthetics and expectations of feminine beauty. My thesis questions how eighteenth-century aesthetic theory constructs …
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The 18th century western Cree and their neighbours : identity and territory
… These groups were all obliterated by the smallpox epidemic of 1781, and it was the resultant population shifts which were noted by nineteenth century observers.
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Dialogues with the dead : an osteological analysis of the palaeodemography and life history of the 18th and 19th century northern frontier in South Africa
… individuals, it is related to infection by the smallpox virus is investigated through the analysis of ancient DNA.
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Maximum containment : the most controversial labs in the world
… cause a pandemic like SARS, ebola, or smallpox. The repurposing of these labs could make them an invaluable contributor to the United States public health system.
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The Rhetoric of Blame: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Othering and Blame in Historical Health Crises
… three case studies: the San Francisco smallpox outbreak of 1876, the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s – 1990s. Through this investigation, I demonstrate how the elements of othering and blame in these historic health crises consistently mirror the political …
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Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… suffered from disease. Chronic diarrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, and variola were the deadliest illnesses. While conditions inside the prisons were often harsh, Confederate authorities in charge of the compound provided for the captives to the best of their ability. Often the citizens of …
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