«Introduction to Population Wildlife Disease Modeling» Workshop was held July 28 and focused on population scale
epidemiological models with examples from wildlife diseases in North America.
Adaptive human behavior in
epidemiological models.
In this way, the researchers believed they could track the movement of the Indo - European languages in the same way that
epidemiological models trace a disease outbreak to its source.
An epidemiological model of schistosomiasis suggested that the increase in snail population from this typical amount of fertilizer would jack up the risk of transmission to humans by 28 %.
The student team investigated the spread of a hypothetical zombie virus using the SIR model —
an epidemiological model that describes the spread of a disease throughout a population.
A pair of researchers has used a simple
epidemiological model to track the use of Facebook and found that it has spread just like a contagion.
Using a simple
epidemiological model, they argue that use of the hegemonic social networking site has spread like a contagion.
An Epidemiological Model of Privational Rickets and Osteomalacia.
Conducted research on taxpayer compliance using
an epidemiological model, simulated in NetLogo.
Not exact matches
We chose to
model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and
epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of
modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22
Dr Kristensen recommends that an inter-disciplinary approach be taken to address this, «by combining
epidemiological data from human studies with more experimental research on
models, such as rodents, it may be possible to firmly establish this link and determine how it happens, so that pregnant women in pain can be successfully treated, without risk to their unborn children.»
This increased risk of neurodevelopmental diseases had been discovered many years ago in
epidemiological studies and confirmed in mouse
models.
The program aims to teach these concepts along with mathematical
modeling and, most importantly, how they both fit into the big picture of
epidemiological research, Bellan says.
Modeling the
epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: Palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium.
«What we've shown in the monkey
model matches a lot of what people have observed in
epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively.
For their study, published in Science, the scientists used a mathematical
model that analyzed genome sequencing and
epidemiological data for 32 types of cancer.
Key words: motricity, movement, PD, attention, vigilance, chronobiology, virtual reality, electrophysiology,
epidemiological cohort, neuropsychology, psychiatry, cognition, sleep, anatomo - pathology, biobank, surrogate marker, animal
models, drug discovery, electrical stimulation, gene therapy, phototherapy, behavioral therapy.
Invasive disease
models in Galleria mellonella and SPEC - sensitive transgenic mice, revealed no difference in overall invasiveness of Lineage C ST15 strains compared to non-Lineage C ST15 strains, consistent with clinical and
epidemiological analysis.
Our mouse
model data are not in conflict with the
epidemiological observation that a first pregnancy before age 22 greatly reduces breast cancer risk (MacMahon et al., 1970), because at this young age, the chance of having already accumulated precancerous cells is small.
Our findings add to the growing body of evidence from
epidemiological (26) and nonhuman
models (27, 28) that indicate that overeating at night may contribute to weight gain.
Our mission is to be the
model for both rural and urban shelters; we reunite, rescue, shelter and secure permanent homes for adoptable companion animals and livestock; we support a healthy and responsible pet community as well as advocate for responsible pet ownership; we fight the pet overpopulation problem; and we protect the community by managing the
epidemiological risks and enforcing the laws and ordinances pertaining to the animals.
More importantly, the EPA estimates — based on dubious
epidemiological evidence and questionable demographic
modeling — that the MACT Rule's Hg emission reductions will avert the loss of 0.00209 IQ points per child in a guesstimated population of 240,000 subsistence fishing households.
There are a lot of opportunities to put your thumb on the scales when combining econometric
models, regional pollution projections, and highly elastic
epidemiological studies.
«Talking About The Smokes (TATS) is a
model for how to do a large national
epidemiological project in partnership with Aboriginal communities, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and the Aboriginal community - controlled health service (ACCHS) sector.
Several studies have supported the original five factor structure of the SDQ in both clinical and
epidemiological samples [15, 20, 30, 32, 45 — 47], others have raised questions about the structural validity of this
model.
This work has recently been extended by the adoption of a public health
model for the delivery of parenting support with parents of younger children.9, 11,40 Various
epidemiological surveys show that most parents concerned about their children's behaviour or adjustment do not receive professional assistance for these problems, and when they do, they typically consult family doctors or teachers who rarely have specialized training in parent consultation skills.10 Most of the family - based programmes targeting adolescents are only available to selective subpopulations of adolescents (those who have identified risk factors) and / or indicated subgroups of youth (those who already possess negative symptoms or detectable problems).