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- 1Bartusiak, Robert
- 1Ding, Yulian
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- 1Fang, Jiarui
- 1Gushue, Danielle L
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Fall 2016
Antemortem identification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients is initially based upon clinical presentation of the disease. Symptoms are assessed in combination with results from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and...
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BSE Impacts on the Canadian Beef Industry-An Application of the Social Amplification of Risk Framework to Consumer and Producer Behaviour
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In this study the dynamics of risk perceptions about BSE held by Canadian consumers and cow-calf operators are evaluated. Since the BSE outbreak in 2003, Canadian consumers and cow-calf operators may have had various different reactions to BSE. These reactions may be related to their different...
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Fall 2019
Human prion diseases present as sporadic, familial, infectious, or iatrogenic forms. They include diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), and Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI). The wide range of phenotypic variation in human prion diseases is...
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Fall 2009
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) belongs to a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) which affect many species. From 1986 more than 184,000 cattle in the UK have been confirmed to be infected with this disease, and in Canada total...
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Spring 2013
Heart disease is a large problem in the United States and Canada. The research conducted in this thesis will examine three things. First, what is the average American parent’s WTP for a reduction in their own and child risk of developing heart disease by age 75, and how do these two estimates...
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Spring 2021
The geographic range of chronic wasting disease, a fatal prion disease of cervids, is expanding throughout North America and northern Europe. The ecological effects of this highly infectious disease are unclear, as the host range and routes of transmission of CWD are not fully characterized. I...
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Fall 2022
Prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders that arise from the misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into the infectious prion protein (PrPSc), resulting in a conformational change in the protein structure. Despite being extensively studied, high-resolution structural information...
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Spring 2021
In this study, we explore how the Canadian public’s risk perceptions regarding Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) are related to their willingness to support increased surveillance for CWD -a neurological disease that affects certain species of deer, elk and moose. In our case, the relationship is...
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Fall 2011
This study has attempted to measure the economic impacts of chronic wasting disease (CWD) on Alberta hunters, in the study region of the Eastern to South-Eastern border of the province. Two years of stated preference and revealed preference data were collected and choice behaviour modelled using...