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Spring 2014
Pandemics pose a unique set of health risks and ethical concerns. Increased global mobility, coupled with the fast moving nature of pandemics, ensures that these infectious diseases pose a serious health threat to all persons, regardless of geographical location. Some societies, however, are...
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Effectiveness of On-Site Professional Oral Health Care Programs and Service Delivery within Nursing Homes: Preventing Bacterial Mouth Infection and Pneumonia/Aspiration Pneumonia
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Abstract Background: Seniors who are dependent on others to brush their teeth, communicate their dental needs, and provide them access to professional oral health care define dentally dependent nursing home residents in the context of this dissertation. Oral problems in Canadian nursing home...
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Evaluating the Role of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide on Etiology and Pathogenesis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or otherwise known as prion diseases are a class of fatal neurodegenerative diseases related to irreversible brain damage. Presently, there is no effective treatment or preventive strategy for this disease because the etiology and biological...
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From constellations to autoprohibition: everything you wanted to know about Adorno's ethics (but were afraid to ask Zizek)
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This project is centered on two primary concerns. First, to reformulate Adorno’s notion of ethical subjectivity in a way that allows for a clearer articulation of his normative position, and second, to make it more relevant to our contemporary social context and advances in social theory. My...
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Geographic Information Systems as Communication Tools: Environmental Assessment and the Health Impacts of Natural Resource Developments on Circumpolar Indigenous Peoples
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Introduction. The industrialization of circumpolar regions confronts a legacy of disproportionate bio-physical, socio-economic, heritage, and health impacts borne by indigenous populations. As natural resource development continues to accelerate in the north, concerns about impacts to the health...
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Global Problems with Local Impacts: Exploring the Health Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution in Older Adults and Immigrants Living in Canada
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As human actions continue to drive global climate change and increase air pollution, these two closely related environmental phenomena pose a significant threat to public health. Because of Canada’s geographical location, it is warming at twice the rate of the global average, which is expected to...
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Spring 2024
To maintain an effective barrier, intestinal epithelial progenitor cells must divide at a rate that matches the loss of dead and dying cells. Epithelial damage during most enteric infection accelerates cell proliferation and tissue repair via multiple stress responses. However, infection with the...
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Innate Immunity and the Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Disorders
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Background: The photoreceptors are post-mitotic (no longer dividing), so the eye has evolved several unique immunological mechanisms to protect the photoreceptors and prevent vision loss. Inherited retinal disorders occur when mutations disrupt normal retinal function and photoreceptors die....
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Introduction of Competition in Regulated Markets: Analysis of Colombia’s Natural Gas Industry
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This dissertation deals with the introduction of competition in regulated industries such as natural gas. The thesis focuses on the recently developed Colombian natural gas market and uses a more mature market, the deregulated gas market existing in the province of Alberta, Canada, as a benchmark...
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Legionella and free-living amoebae interactions: an ecological perspective of drinking water safety and controlling legionellosis
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Legionnaires’ disease (LD) outbreaks have been a growing concern for public health as well as for the water industry and building management. The number of outbreaks has significantly increased over the last decades worldwide, especially in the United States and Europe. This disease is mainly...