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Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing use of data‐poor fisheries models provides unprecedented access to compelling stock metrics and management scenarios for coral‐reef fisheries. Yet, it remains unclear how well the assumptions surrounding data‐poor models derived from extensive cold‐water fisheries fit the life histories and ecology of tropical coral‐reef fishes ...
Peter Houk, Brett Taylor
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Smallpox really did reduce height : a reply to Razzell. [PDF]
Razzell argues that the quality of smallpox recording in the Marine Society data set is so poor that ‘the impact of smallpox on average height cannot be settled by analysis of the Marine Society data set’.
Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim
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Deliberate Extinction: Whether to Destroy the Last Smallpox Virus [PDF]
, 2004 The target problem to be examined is smallpox. Specifically, what should we (the United States and the entire world) now do with the last known residual samples of the virus that causes this uniquely horrific disease?
Koplow, David A.
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Modeling of Contact Tracing in Epidemic Populations Structured by Disease Age [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 We consider an age-structured epidemic model with two basic public health interventions: (i) identifying and isolating symptomatic cases, and (ii) tracing and quarantine of the contacts of identified infectives. The dynamics of the infected population are modeled by a nonlinear infection-age-dependent partial differential equation, which is coupled ...
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A guide to heat shock factors as multifunctional transcriptional regulators
The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.The heat shock factors (HSFs) are evolutionarily conserved transcription factors best known as regulators of molecular chaperone genes in response to heat shock and other protein‐damaging stresses. Vertebrate HSFs, HSF1‐5, HSFX, and HSFY, are implicated in various physiological and pathological processes, including organismal development and cancer ...
Hendrik S. E. Hästbacka +3 more
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Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873. [PDF]
In this paper, we re-examine the effect of smallpox on the height attained by those who suffered from this disease. To this end, we analyse a dataset assembled by Floud, Wachter and Gregory on the height of recruits into the Marine Society, 1770-1873 ...
Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim
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Holding on to Culture: The Effects of the 1837 Smallpox Epidemic on Mandan and Hidatsa [PDF]
, 2018 The Mandan and Hidatsa tribes located in modern day North Dakota have a rich history characterized by elaborate social and religions structures and trade based economic systems; however, because of their stationary lifestyles and increased European and ...
Reinhiller, Jayne
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Navigating resistance in global health governance: Certification of smallpox eradication in China
Global Public HealthCertification is an essential stage in disease eradication efforts, encompassing epidemiological, managerial, and political complexities. The certification of smallpox eradication in the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China) exemplifies the ...
Lu Chen
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From local knowledge and science to policy: Lessons learned from Fiji's valuable grouper fisheries
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Pacific Island communities are heavily dependent on fisheries for subsistence and livelihoods. Yet, despite their importance, coastal fisheries are poorly managed and commercial pressures increasingly threaten them. Groupers (Epinephelidae) are exceptionally vulnerable to overexploitation due to aspects of their biology while their economic ...
Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson +3 more
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