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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"health threats"”.
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Cyberchondria and COVID-19 Health Threats Related to Attentional Bias and Safety Behaviors
… is described as excessively searching online for health information that ultimately increases worry and anxiety about one’s health (Starcevic et al., 2019). Research has demonstrated an increased attentional bias in anxious individuals for threat-related stimuli. Attentional bias for health …
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Preparedness and Response to Global One Health Threats: Considering the Case of Viet Nam
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Working models of attachment and health threats: Distress, appraisal, coping and health-related behaviours in colorectal cancer.
… of attachment within the context of a threat to health. Specifically, it tested components of a model proposed by Collins and Read (1994) that attachment models affect relevant behavioural outcomes via cognitive and emotional responses. Working models of attachment, emotional distress, appraisal …
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Elucidating Targets for Infectious Diseases and Cancer: A Computational Approach
Cancer and infectious diseases represent huge health threats to societies around the globe. Bisphosphonate drugs, long known for their ability to treat bone resorption diseases, have also served as the template for designing new agents against a variety of other diseases. In this work, …
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Assessing Public Health Preparedness in Alberta Using a Systems-Level Approach
… critical attention to the Canadian public health system and how prepared the system is to respond to various types of contemporary public health threats. The effective coordination of all agencies at metropolitan, regional, provincial, and federal levels is essential to the management of …
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Thought Suppression Change in Cancer Patients and Survivors After Writing
… form illness representations to make sense of health threats and illness. These representations contain a number of individual, specific attributes about the illness identity, and cause, time-line, consequences of, and cure/control of the illness. Many women who have experienced breast cancer …
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Design and synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors as anti-malarial and anti-serpin agents
… processes. Malaria is one of the top global health threats, and there is a great need for developing effective new chemotherapies. PAI-1 is a major component in the regulation of the plasminogen activation system, and the overexpression of this protein has been implicated in a number of …
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A high speed wearable system for body coupled communication
… implants, such as radio transmission, or pose health threats to the patient, such as connection ports piercing the skin. However, a novel method of transmitting and receiving electronic sensor data is emerging known as body coupled communication (BCC). This method of communication utilizes the …
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Agenda setting, Framing and government's Influence on Tobacco-related News Coverage in China's People's Daily
Tobacco poses one of the most dire public health threats globally. Whereas tobacco control policies and public education in developed countries reduced tobacco consumption in the West, China, as other developing countries, is targeted by the tobacco companies marketing efforts and is facing …
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Global Health Security Agenda Legal Landscape Assessment
<p>The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was created on February 13, 2014, to improve country's ability to detect, prevent and respond to emerging health threats. Eleven action packages were created. The detection action package included antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, national …
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Advancing green practices in the operating room
… gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related health threats. In the United States, healthcare accounts for 10% of national GHG emissions and generates five million tons of waste annually, with operating rooms (ORs) responsible for more than 30% of this burden. Despite well-documented benefits …
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Ribosomal Proteins RPLP1 and RPLP2 are Host Factors Critically Required for Flavivirus Infectivity by Promoting Efficient Viral Translation Elongation.
… several arthropod-borne viruses that pose global health threats, including dengue virus (DENV). We identified two ribosomal proteins, RPLP1 and RPLP2 (RPLP1/2), that are crucial host factors required for translation of flaviviruses and efficient flavivirus infection of human cell lines and Aedes …
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Lessons From Leading During a Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of Public Health Leadership Insights on Training, Preparation, and Experiences From the Field During COVID-19
<p>Context: The public health workforce encountered challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic that exposed areas for improvement in preparation for future public health threats. Key among these is well-trained public health leaders equipped with an array of crisis leadership skills. This study sought …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
Cities today face growing environmental and health threats due to climate change. Building urban resilience requires understanding the complex interplays between environmental and social systems that account for adaptation dynamics. Using new data, computational tools, and economic analysis, this …
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Nanobiotechnology Enabled Environmental Sensing of Water and Wastewater
… been stressed as a means to minimize public health threats caused by such contaminants. Many analytical detection techniques have been developed and applied for environmental sensing. However, these techniques are often reliant upon centralized facilities and require intensive resources. For …
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Developing Interpretable Data Mining Frameworks for Addressing Biomedical Challenges in Genomics and Imaging
… retinopathy (DR). These diseases pose serious health threats – respiratory infections can progress to fatal multi-organ failure, while untreated DR may result in vision impairment or complete blindness. Given the impacts of these conditions on individual quality of life and healthcare systems …
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Microbiological Safety and Quality of Raw, Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Seafood Sold in Orange County, California
<p>Raw, ready-to-eat (RTE) seafood can pose health threats due to the potential presence of foodborne pathogens. <em>Listeria monocytogenes </em>is a known microbiological hazard associated with raw, RTE seafood. <em>Salmonella enterica</em> has not traditionally been recognized as a hazard in …
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Collaborative governance in the face of global change: a social science approach to working effectively at the human-wildlife-environment interface
… environmental conservation issues. Conservation threats in general are often wide-reaching and interdisciplinary, meaning their impacts extend beyond what one organization or field has the resources and capacity to manage. Collaborative governance, a framework that outlines conditions and …
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Identification and functional study of the antimicrobial peptide, QUB- 1985, from the skin secretion of the large odorous frog, Odorrana livida
… resistance is one of the most serious health threats around the world. Therefore, novel antimicrobial agents are urgently needed to alleviate the pressure on conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are widely known for their potent activity towards a broad spectrum of …
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Making an impact in public health through philanthrocapitalism : the PaCT Project and ImPaCT Commercial Ventures
… are a distinct area of epidemiology and public health. To conduct such studies, it often requires exorbitant resources. African collaborators and a team of Harvard scientists have initiated what is groundbreaking to the field of epidemiology and will be the largest investigations into lifestyle …
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