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- 1Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of
- 1Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of/Journal Articles (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Institute of Health Economics
- 1Institute of Health Economics/Working Paper Series (IHE)
- 2Goddard, Ellen (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 1Adamowicz, Vic (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 1Adamowicz, Vic (Rural Economy)
- 1Gerking, Shelby (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 1McKenzie, Debbie (Biological Sciences)
- 1Roopesh Mohandas Syamaladevi (Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science)
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Spring 2022
Meat products, including ready-to-eat (RTE) ham, fresh poultry meat, and dry pet foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls, due to the occurrence of microbial pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Elimination of these...
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2005
Vogel, Rudi F., Märtlbauer, Erwin, Ehrmann, Matthias A., Gänzle, Michael G., Margosch, Dirk, Moravek, Maximilian
Even though the inactivation of microorganisms by high pressure treatment is a subject of intense investigations, the effect of high pressure on bacterial toxins has not been studied so far. In this study, the influence of combined pressure/temperature treatment (0.1 to 800 MPa and 5 to 121 °C)...
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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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Program and Abstract Booklet. Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge and Northern Community Well-Being
Download2015-02-18
Johnson, Leslie Main, Cardinal, Clifford, Dewitt-Schleifman, Meda, Maloney, Elaine, Waugh, Earle, Ferguson, Gary, Benditt, Riva, Lewis, Peggy
This is the Program and Abstract Booklet for the Gathering.
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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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Surveys of Alberta Hunter Opinions of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) 2007; 2017-2020 Overview of Results
Download2021-01-01
Pattison-Williams, John K., Xie, Lusi, Adamowicz, Vic, Goddard, Ellen, Luckert, Marty
Introduction Since the first documented case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Alberta in 2002, the disease has spread across the province with increasing speed; in 2019 17.5% of wild mule deer heads submitted in the province tested positive1. A research team in the Department of Resource...
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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...
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The Political Economy of Animal Testing and Traceability in Response to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)
DownloadSpring 2015
Transmissible Spongifrom Encephalopathies (TSEs), which include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, are associated with three possible risks. The risks of food safety outbreaks, the risks to economic benefits, and the risks to society's...