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"Wildlife–vehicle collisions, especially with deer (Odocoileus spp.), elk (Cervus elaphus), and moose (Alces alces) are … numerous and have shown an increasing trend over the last several decades in the United States and Canada. We calculated the … 10 road sections throughout the United States and Canada and compared these to the threshold values. Finally, we …
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Introduction "The recognition of a diversity of conceptual systems is essential to any exploration of the links between social and ecological systems. This paper focuses on caribou co-management as a possible case study of the evolution of conceptual pluralism in practice. While acknowledging...
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Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...
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Objective: To assess and compare the costs and effectiveness of different vaccination strategies against hepatitis B in Switzerland. Design: A birth cohort of 85 000 individuals was followed over their lifetime, using a decision-tree analysis. Published data were used to simulate the risk of...
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Objectives: 1. To project vaccine parameters, economic consequences and market size associated with HIV-1 vaccination of infants in sub-Saharan Africa through the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI); and 2. to assess threshold values for price and effectiveness. Study design and methods:...
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Objective: To analyse the direct medical costs and effectiveness of vaccinating adults aged between 18 and 64 years and elderly persons =65 years of age with the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Design and setting: This was a decision-analytic modelling study from the societal...
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Objective: To assess the cost effectiveness (net costs per life year gained) of pneumococcal vaccination of elderly individuals aged 65 years and over in The Netherlands. Design and setting: A pharmacoeconomic analysis was conducted from the healthcare perspective in The Netherlands. The gender-...
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Multiple sectors within U.S. crop industries - - -growers, elevators, handlers/shell- ers, processors, distributors, and consumers - - -are affected by aflatoxin contamination of commodities, and have the potential to control it using methods developed at both the pre- and postharvest levels....
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