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Showing 1 to 20 of 333 for “"sickness"”.
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Serotonin-Mediated Sickness Behavior
… how serotonin governs the internal state of sickness. In addition to activating the immune system and remodeling physiology, pathogenic infection results in adaptive behavioral changes that promote survival. These 'sickness behaviors' are observed throughout the animal kingdom. I induced …
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Neural Control of Sickness Behavior
… and changes in temperature, collectively termed sickness, during infections. While these responses have been shown to be adaptive for animal survival during infection and have been attributed to the central nervous system, the underlying control mechanisms for this response have not been …
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Industrial Sickness in Indian Manufacturing
… this phenomenon is referred to as industrial sickness. As of March 2001, the Reserve Bank of India counted over a quarter of a million of sick units with outstanding credit worth more than a quarter of a trillion of Indian Rupees, i.e. about 1.2 percent of Indian GDP. Recognizing that scarce …
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Stationarity Perception and Virtual Reality Sickness
… also tested this stationarity perception and VR sickness during repetitions of the task over three days and across rotational axes. In our first study, we found that perception was most accurate and precise during scene-fixed fixation and during active motion. In the second study, spatial …
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A Pharmacological Strategy Against African Sleeping Sickness
… agent of the disease known as African sleeping sickness, transmitted via the bite of a tsetse fly. If left untreated, the parasite ultimately crosses the blood-brain eventually leading to death. Currently there are 5 approved drugs used to treat it, each with toxic side effects and effective at …
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Antioxidants Facilitate Recovery From Lipopolysaccharide Induced Sickness
… prevent SB but promote recovery from LPS-induced sickness in adult and aged mice. This is particularly important given that the elderly population often experience marginal nutrient deficiencies, are immunocompromised and highly susceptible to infections.
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Sex and Virtual Reality: Posture and Motion Sickness
… postural instability (PI) in addition to motion sickness (MS). While research has found sex differences in motion sickness, the results of experimental studies are equivocal regarding these differences, and previous studies utilizing VME have failed to address the factor of sex differences in …
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Health and great health: Nietzsche on overcoming sickness
… in Nietzsche’s manifold use of the notion of sickness, but also to better understand the ideal of health that runs through his writings. Given this goal, I begin by identifying the primary kinds of sickness that animate Nietzsche’s critical project. Having identified three types of sickness in …
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Development of plant-produced African horse sickness vaccines
African horse sickness is a devastating disease that causes great suffering and many fatalities amongst horses in sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by nine different serotypes of the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and it is spread by Culicoid midges. The disease has significant …
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Analysis of abdominal slow potentials during motion sickness
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987.
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Transfer function analysis of autonomic activity during motion sickness
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Sickness experience and language : aspects of Tongan and Western accounting
… of this study is to understand the ‘doing’ of sickness as a social practice. Two main sociological techniques have been applied. Firstly, a hermeneutic - phenomenological approach was used to attain recordings of, and to analyze, the sickness theorizing of members of Tongan society. The …
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Echocardiographic evaluation of horses challenged with African horse sickness virus
African horse sickness (AHS) is an infectious, often fatal viral disease of equids with a severe impact on the equine industry in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinicopathological mechanisms are poorly understood, and there is limited information on the degree and type of cardiac involvement. This study …
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The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition
Insufficient attention has been given to Nietzsche's critique of Christianity as a disease, while too much has been given to the theme of the death of God. Nietzsche's use of the language of health to describe Christianity is not a mere side-effect of his mid-career embrace of the natural sciences; …
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Slavery and Sickness in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1803-1860
… thesis traces the profound effect of disease and sickness upon the political economy and culture of the slave plantation system of the antebellum US South between 1803 and 1860. Specifically I explore the Lower Mississippi Valley area of the region, sometimes referred to as the ‘Cotton Kingdom.’ …
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Identification Of System Design Features That Affect Sickness In Virtual Environments
… exposure to different VEs indicate that motion sickness-like symptoms are often produced during or after exposure to the simulated environment. These deleterious side effects have the potential to limit the utilization of VE systems if they jeopardize the health and/or safety of the user and …
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Peptidergic Signaling Controls the Dynamics of Sickness Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans
… molecular mechanisms that rule the switch to a sickness behavioral state are an active area of research. One established model for sickness behavior is the interaction between Caenorhabditis elegans and the pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14. After a few hours of exposure to and …
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The role of host cues in the transmission of sleeping sickness
Tsetse (Glossina spp.) transmit species of Trypanosoma which cause trypanosomiases in livestock and humans. To improve the cost-effectiveness of baits used to control tsetse, studies were made of the host-oriented behaviour of the following Palpalis-group species: Glossina tachinoides and G. …
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Sickness and Service: The British Army and the First World War
… by the troops and some of the causes of sickness and disease. The thesis also explores links between the health of the troops and military effectiveness. In order to undertake this assessment in any meaningful way, indicators of military effectiveness need to be determined, and six such …
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Towards an anthropology of childhood sickness : an ethnographic study of Danish schoolchildren
… anthropology, in particular the notion of sickness as cultural performance. The study focuses on children as individual and collective actors in interaction with other children and with adults during everyday illness and minor accidents. The cultural performance approach allows illness to …
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