Essays about: "Ticks"

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  1. 6. A statistical approach to understand Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever prevalence in Pakistan

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Internationell hälsa

    Author : Abdul Karim; [2020]
    Keywords : Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; Pakistan regions; literacy rate; livestock; border effect; linear regression;

    Abstract : Geographically, Pakistan is in the western part of south Asia at about 24-37 °N latitudes and62-75 °E longitudes. Livestock and agriculture are two major sectors in Pakistan and play animportant role in the country economy. READ MORE

  3. 7. Species identification and pathogen detection by FLUIDIGM, a high-throughput PCR technique in ticks collected from northern Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Phimphanit Choklikitumnuey; [2020]
    Keywords : ticks; tick-borne diseases; fluidigm;

    Abstract : Due to the environmental climate changes, northern Sweden is potentially a geographical area where new tick species could become established and introduce along with them new tick-borne pathogens. High-throughput real-time PCR, FLUIDIGM, was selected to perform the pathogen detection in this study. READ MORE

  4. 8. Beelining for sustainable transport : analysing accessibility inequities and opportunities connecting trams to bicycles in Greater Manchester

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Megan Richold; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; climate change mitigation; GIS; feminist methodology; environmental justice; urban transport; intersectionality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As the clock ticks on our opportunity to limit catastrophic climate change, mitigation efforts are becoming increasingly essential, especially amongst countries with high current or historic emissions. However, these mitigation attempts are not a guaranteed success, especially when the system within which they operate is not understood due to unacknowledged bias in quantitative data. READ MORE

  5. 9. Tick-borne encephalitis : a food safety risk for humans consuming unpasteurized milk and milk products from goat, sheep and cattle in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Alexander Hanberger; [2020]
    Keywords : TBEV; Tick borne encephalitis; milk; pasteurization;

    Abstract : Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is one of the most important vector-borne human infections affecting the central nervous system and is caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) which is transmitted to humans primarily by ticks, mainly Ixodes spp. The ticks are expanding their distribution in Sweden and the number of reported cases of human TBE in Sweden has been increasing considerably since the end of the 20th century. READ MORE

  6. 10. Tick data clustering analysis establishing support and resistance levels of the EUR-USD exchange market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Karl Tengelin; [2020]
    Keywords : Tick data; Support-and resistance levels; Clustering methods; Gaussian mixture model; Kmeans; EUR-USD exchange rates; Clustering performance metrics; Market activity; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : Our aim is to use clustering algorithms in order to compute support and resistance levels within an intra-day trading setting. To achieve this we use a tick data set from the EUR-USD exchange market during 2019 as a measure of market activity. READ MORE