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A Public Policy Advocacy Project to Promote Food Security: Exploring Stakeholders’ Experiences
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Food security is said to exist “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (Food and Agricultural Organization, 2008, p. 1). In the last several...
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Fall 2020
Introduction: ABO-incompatible organ transplants (ABOi-Tx) recipients are at high-risk of rapid rejection mediated by ABO antibodies (ABO Abs). To manage and expand ABOi-Tx, it is necessary to understand the mechanism(s) by which natural and induced ABO Abs develop. Prior studies have used...
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After This, Therefore, Because of This: Refusing Settler Immunity & Abolishing Indigenous Criminality
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According to Statistics Canada, in 2016/2017 Indigenous peoples accounted for 28% of admissions to provincial/territorial prisons and 27% for federal prisons, while representing only 4.1% of the Canadian adult population. The majority of analyses drawn from these statistics continue to follow a...
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Analysis of goldfish innate immunity following exposure to oil sands process affected water
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The acute and sub chronic effects of oil sands process affected water (OSPW) and its toxic component, naphthenic acids (NAs) were examined. I exposed goldfish for one (acute), or 12 (sub chronic) weeks and examined immune gene expression, macrophage function, the ability of exposed fish to...
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Anti-Malarial Strategies Among Vulnerable Populations: exploring bed net underutilization among internally displaced persons and novel adjunctive therapies for cerebral malaria
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Background: Despite declining incidence globally, malaria morbidity and mortality remain elevated among internally displaced persons (IDPs) and children under five, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria prevention and treatment efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are...
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Fall 2012
Teleosts rely on innate immunity to protect themselves from pathogens. Colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) and its cognate receptor CSF-1R control survival, proliferation, differentiation and function of macrophages. Recently, a novel soluble form of CSF-1R (sCSF-1R) was identified in goldfish....
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Clinical impact of submicroscopic malaria on delivery outcomes and the role of VAR2CSA antibodies in pregnant women from Colombia
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Malaria caused by the genus Plasmodium (P.) is one of the oldest and most important parasitic infections globally. Pregnant women are at an increased risk for malaria, where the disease poses a significant risk to both maternal and child health. Better diagnosis of malaria can have an immediate...
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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...