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Showing 1 to 20 of 288 for “"Wasting"”.
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Wasting Time : a leisure infrastructure for mega-landfill
Landfills are consolidating into fewer, taller, and more massive singular objects in the exurban landscape.This thesis looks at one instance in Virginia, the first regional landfill in the state to accept trash from New York City.The landfill will become a starter for Green industrial sprawl, …
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Mass wasting and the Coriolis effect on asteroid Vesta
This work investigates the influence of the Coriolis force on mass motion related to the Rheasilvia impact basin on asteroid (4) Vesta's southern hemisphere. The giant basin is 500km in diameter, with a centre which nearly coincides with the rotation axis of Vesta. The Rheasilvia basin partially …
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Antibiotics and the Wasting Disease in Neonatally Thymectomized Rats
… diminishes the incidence of the so-called "Wasting Disease" in neonatally thymectomized rats.</p> <p>A total of 50 rats were divided into the following groups:</p> <ol> <li>Thymectomy only---nonmedicated 17 rats</li> <li>Thymectomy only---medicated 12 rats</li> …
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Landscape Ecology of Chronic Wasting Disease in Virginia, USA
… occurrence and spread across landscapes. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a neurodegenerative disease in the deer family Cervidae caused by a prion, a pathogenic and misfolded variant of a naturally occurring protein. Managing and controlling CWD is imperative for conservation of ecologically and …
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Molecular ecology and hierarchical models elucidate chronic wasting disease dynamics
… better understand the ecological role of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a northern Colorado population of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). CWD, a fatal prion disease, has been affecting this population for many decades. It has not caused extirpation of the deer, but may play an important …
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Observations on wasting as a sign of disease in infancy
(1) "Wasting" is common amongst poor-class infants. The careful management of pregnancy, labour, the early days of infancy, and of breast feeding, is a factor of vast importance in prophylaxis.
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"Conflicts Experienced by Gifted Women: ""Wasting It"" Versus Being Feminine"
"Using in-depth interviewing, this qualitative investigation examined the messages received by intellectually gifted women regarding their intelligence and femininity, as well as conflicts between these two sets of messages. Interviews were conducted with eight women who had been identified as …
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Investigating genetic vulnerability to chronic wasting disease in endangered cervid taxa
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). TSEs are a group of progressive neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions. Prions are misfolded infectious proteins with a stable altered structure that allows them to induce conformational changes in normal …
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Hunters' responses to chronic wasting disease: specialization, social trust, and perceived risk
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is found in deer, elk, and moose in several states and provinces. CWD causes abnormal behavior, emaciation, and death in all infected animals. Although CWD has not caused human health problems, transmission to humans cannot be dismissed. Little is known about the …
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Plant-Pathogen Interactions Associated with Wasting Disease in the Tropical Seagrass Thalassia testudinum.
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was shown to serve as a strong elicitor of the early defense response in the subtropical seagrass Thalassia testudinum Banks ex König and was capable of inducing an oxidative burst identified at the single cell level. The formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) included …
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Wasting away: the influences of weight management on jockeys’ physical, psychological and social wellbeing
Little research has examined the effects of weight management on jockey’s wellbeing. However, there is a consensus that pervasive weight-loss practices (WLP) in the racing industry negatively impact on jockey’s physical, psychological and social wellbeing. The research reported herein examined the …
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Icy Satellite Tectonic, Geodynamic and Mass Wasting Surface Features: Constraints on Interior Processes and Evolution
<p>Empirical data collected from mapping campaigns combined with modeling of geologic processes improves our understanding of planetary geology. Many planet- or satellite-scale processes cannot be reproduced in labs, thus analyzing surface features provides insights to confirm, discount, or improve …
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Effect of mass wasting on soil organic carbon storage and coastal erosion in permafrost environments
… affected land are characterised by intense mass-wasting processes such as solifluction, active-layer detachments and retrogressive thaw slumping. Our aim is to assess the influence of mass wasting on SOC storage and coastal erosion. We studied SOC storage on Herschel Island by analysing …
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Sea Star Wasting Disease in Pisaster Ochraceus on the Washington Coast and in Puget Sound
… of its intertidal community. Sea star wasting disease is an illness that causes sea star tissues to become necrotic until the creature wastes away and dies. In 2013, a coast wide outbreak of sea star wasting disease caused a mass mortality event in <em>P. ochraceus. </em>The goals of …
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Timing recombinant prion protein conversion as a measure of prion activity in chronic wasting disease
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease affecting cervids caused by prions. Infected cervids shed the CWD prion in bodily fluids and excrement, contaminating the environment and creating an agricultural and ecological calamity. Preclinical antemortem CWD testing method is …
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Sex Differences in Cancer Cachexia and a Novel Mitochondrial Target for Cancer-Induced Muscle Wasting
<p>Cancer cachexia (CC) is a devastating wasting syndrome characterized by marked weight loss including skeletal muscle atrophy that affects approximately 80% of cancer patients. Current therapeutic treatments including pharmacological and nutritional intervention are insufficient to prevent or …
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Effect of Earthquake and Human Migration on Land Cover and Mass Wasting from The 2010 Haiti Earthquake
… millions of people and drastically induced mass wasting. The purpose of this study is to explore comprehensive relationships between population displacement and landslide frequency by comparing land use and land cover (LULC) maps of pre- and post-earthquake. To assess the impact of anthropogenic …
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