• Model of Risk of Exposure to Lyme Borreliosis and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus-Infected Ticks in the Border Area of the Czech Republic (South Bohemia) and Germany (Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate) 

  Hönig V; Švec P; Marek L; Mrkvička T; Dana Z; Wittmann M; Masař O; Szturcová D; Růžek D; Pfister K; Grubhoffer L (MDPI AG, 2019)

  In Europe, Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are the two vector-borne diseases with the largest impact on human health. Based on data on the density of host-seeking Ixodes ricinus ticks and pathogen ...

• Warring identities : the impact of the EU’s strategic narratives relating to the CSDP on European identity amongst security practitioners. 

  Stirland, Katharina (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  European security and defence cooperation has experienced some potentially significant advances since the release of the European Union Global Strategy in 2016. Furthermore, due to recent developments such as more aggressive ...

• Predicting decayed, missing or filled teeth in young children : a comparative use of conventional statistical methods and machine learning. 

  Sonal, Sarah A.; Lee, Martin; Brown Jennifer A.; Schluter, Philip J. (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Background: Early childhood caries is a preventable chronic disease with a strong socio-economic gradient. The overall arching goal of this research is to establish if routinely collected data can be used to predict ...

• An investigation into the anti-tumour properties of resveratrol against ovarian cancer using the CAM model. 

  Singh, Melanie Gabrielle (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest gynaecological cancers. A key contributing factor to its high mortality rate is its non-specific symptoms and lack of early detection, which results in most patients being diagnosed ...

• The impact of domestic cats (Felis catus) living around Travis Wetland, Christchurch, New Zealand. 

  Silvester, Olivia (University of Canterbury, 2018)

  Cats all over the world hunt wild animals and can contribute to the extinction of threatened species. In New Zealand, around half of all households have at least one cat. When cats live close to a natural area, such as a ...

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