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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"population approaches"”.
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Creating a climate for success?: Does racial composition matter for undergraduate Latina/o STEM retention?
As the United States population approaches a minority majority, the need to address educational inequities is intensified, especially for Latina/o students, who are among the fastest growing ethnic minority group across the United States and at four-year colleges and universities. Concerns for …
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A Population Perspective on Physical Activity and Health
… that is used to characterise the effects of a population ‘shift’ in physical activity on the burden of six major diseases at the population-level. Specifically, it seeks to better describe the effect of increases in physical activity on healthcare need considering not just the effect of …
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Testing new genetic and genomic approaches for trait mapping and prediction in wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rice (Oryza spp)
… have also supported the use of novel mapping approaches, including Multi-parent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross (MAGIC) populations which have increased precision in identifying markers to inform plant breeding practices. In the first part of this thesis, a high density physical map derived …
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The contribution of public health medicine specialists to South Africa's health system
… and policies value public health (PH) approaches, Public Health Medicine (PHM) specialists are largely invisible in the health services. Despite this, many undertake specialist training. The reasons for this mismatch, for doctors' motivations for this training, and the career paths of …
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Hybrid methodology for Markovian epidemic models
… (SIR) model, one of the simplest approaches for describing the spread of an infectious disease. We later extend it to a variant of the Susceptible–Exposed–Infectious– Removed (SEIR) model, a generalisation of the SIR CTMC that is more realistic for modelling the initial stage of …