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Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Genes and DiseaseIn the intricate world where biology, statistics, and medicine converge lies a field of extraordinary promise: biostatistical genetics and genetic epidemiology. This powerful combination holds the key to deciphering the complex interplay between our genes and the diseases that afflict us. If understanding the origins of illness, revolutionizing...
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Epidemiology plays an all-important role in many areas of medicine, from discovering the relationship between tobacco smoking and lung cancer, to documenting the impact of diet, the environment, and exercise on general health, to tracking the origin and spread of new epidemics such as Swine
Flu. It is truly a vital field, central to the health of society, but it is often poorly understood, largely due to misrepresentations in the media.
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Con la aparición del COVID-19, ha crecido en la población general el interés en los modelos matemáticos de las enfermedades infecciosas. Es común escuchar sobre el número reproductivo básico R, el pico de la pandemia, las políticas de mitigación de la enfermedad, entre otras. Una de las contribuciones más importantes en epidemiología matemática es el modelo comportamental propuesto por Kermack y McKendrick formulado en 1927.
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Get the Summary of Donald McNeil's The Wisdom of Plagues in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Wisdom of Plagues" by Donald McNeil offers an in-depth exploration of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing from McNeil's experiences as a New York Times reporter. The book begins with the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, highlighting the initial underestimation of the virus and the challenges in reporting on the...
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Since Aug 2018 there have been outbreaks of African swine fever in several provinces of China. At the end of 2018, the total amount of culled animals was 650,000. China's pig herd, by far the world's largest, was estimated then at 360 million animals. The pig should be half by the end of 2019 from a year earlier as an epidemic of African swine fever (ASF) sweeps through the world's top pork producer. Up to 200 million pigs have been culled or died...
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A History of Epidemics in Britain in two volumes is the most significant work of Charles Creighton, British physician and medical author. The work is divided in two parts. First volume covers the history of epidemics from 664 A.D., the year of the first pestilence in Britain which was chosen as a starting point, to the extinction of plague in 1665-66, which marks the end of a long era of epidemic sickness, including leprosy, poxes, various plagues,...
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This title presents the history of epidemiology. Vivid text details how early studies of the spread of disease led to vaccines and medications that can halt pandemics. It also puts a spotlight on the brilliant scientists who made these advances possible. A case study on the current Ebola outbreak is also included. Useful sidebars, rich images, and a glossary help readers understand the science and its importance. Maps and diagrams provide context...
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Dissenting Voices-an Imprint of Abundant World Institute-is dedicated to helping create and foster the conditions that enable human flourishing and abundance everywhere. To these ends, we seek to inspire, inform, educate, encourage, enable, and support the application of critical thinking, imagination, and innovation to global challenges. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is one global grand challenge that is on everyone's mind, and is likely to remain...
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Excerpt: "It may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it."
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Excerpt: "Good Councell against the plague. Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Nowe necessary to be obserued of euery Housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this Cittie. Written by a learned Phisition, for the health of his Countrey."
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Excerpt: "Take an Onion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each peece, the which you shall fill with fine Triacle, then set the pieces together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen cloth. Putting it so to roast in the Embers and Ashes, then when it is roasted enough press out all the juice of it: and give the patient a spoonful thereof to drink, and ſo by Gods help he shall feel saſe and most undoubtedly be...
13) Data Types
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Data visualisation is sexy.So is Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian inference and Time Series analysis.As data analysts, we all like to do the sexy things, but it's the boring, more mundane and every day data tasks – like understanding the different types of data – that will make or break your analysis.Few people that have to do statistics as part of their research know and understand the statistical data types, and as a result struggle to get...
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As the world's population expands, so too does the risk of communicable disease and global pandemics. Consequently, healthcare has assumed a greater centrality in the public consciousness both in the United States and around the world. With various national and international organizations dedicated to epidemiological research and disease control, societal welfare has become an increasingly significant aspect of public policy. The historical, legal,...
15) COVID-19 Don't Be an Easy Target: Tips and Strategies to Reduce Your Chances of Getting Infected
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This book is for the person who wants to minimise their chances of catching Covid-19.
This book offers tips on how an individual can protect themselves from the coronavirus.
During pandemics, Governments advise the population what to do on a national level.
This book shows you what you can do on an individual level.
You will get tips and ideas on what measures to take in the home shopping or at work. It makes you aware of how to use wind direction...
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Explore the medical understanding of plague, as seen in the 6th-century Plague of Justinian, the Black Death of the 1300s, and the 19th-century Third Pandemic. Examine the three predominant varieties of plague, the symptomatology of each, and scientific theories as to the nature and transmission of the disease that ravaged Europe in the 14th century.
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Immunity is the ability of the human body or other living beings to resist invasion by pathogenic agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, or to neutralize toxic substances. Immunity is a response from the immune system, which is responsible for protecting the body against disease and infection.The immune system is made up of cells, tissues and organs that work together to recognize, fight and destroy invading agents and foreign substances....
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This book provides an introduction to ethics, research design as the most important part of the qualitative research process, the importance of theoretical frameworks and the relationship between the researcher and the researched in the qualitative research process.It also provides an introduction to epidemiological research and statistical methods covering key concepts and all the main types of epidemiological study. It elicits a critical understanding...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Peste noire en moins d'une heure !
Déjà mise à mal par les guerres et famines à répétition, l'Europe doit lutter, en 1347, contre un fléau venu d'Asie : la Peste noire. Cette pandémie se répand comme une traînée de poudre à travers le continent, déstabilisant pour longtemps l'économie médiévale. Largement incomprise, nombreux sont ceux qui perçoivent la maladie comme un châtiment...
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La inmunidad es la capacidad del cuerpo humano o de otros seres vivos para resistir la invasión de agentes patógenos, como virus, bacterias, hongos y parásitos, o para neutralizar sustancias tóxicas. La inmunidad es una respuesta del sistema inmunitario, que es responsable de proteger el cuerpo contra enfermedades e infecciones.El sistema inmunológico está formado por células, tejidos y órganos que trabajan juntos para reconocer, combatir...
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