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• Effect of resource availability on evolution of virulence and competition in an environmentally transmitted pathogen 

  Pulkkinen, Katja; Pekkala, Nina; Ashrafi, Roghaieh; Hämäläinen, Dorrit M.; Nkembeng, Aloysius N.; Lipponen, Anssi; Hiltunen, Teppo; Valkonen, Janne; Taskinen, Jouni (Federation of European Microbiological Societies; Oxford University Press, 2018)

  Understanding ecological and epidemiological factors driving pathogen evolution in contemporary time scales is a major challenge in modern health management. Pathogens that replicate outside the hosts are subject to selection ...

• Measurement of Physical Fitness and 24/7 Physical Activity, Standing, Sedentary Behavior, and Time in Bed in Working-Age Finns : Study Protocol for FINFIT 2021 

  Husu, Pauliina; Vähä-Ypyä, Henri; Tokola, Kari; Sievänen, Harri; Mänttäri, Ari; Kokko, Sami; Kaikkonen, Kaisu M.; Savonen, Kai; Vasankari, Tommi (MDPI AG, 2022)

  Background: Population studies gathering measured data on fitness and physical behavior, covering physical activity, standing, sedentary behavior, and time in bed, are scarce. This article describes the protocol of the ...

• Efficient design and modeling strategies for follow-up studies with time-varying covariates 

  Reinikainen, Jaakko (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

  Epidemiological studies can often be designed in several ways, some of which may be more optimal than others. Possible designs may differ in the required resources or the ability to provide reliable answers to the questions ...

• Environmental governance towards microplastic pollution : the case of personal care and cosmetics products in Bangladesh 

  Islam, Shariful (2019)

  Recent years have seen increased attention of academics, practitioners and policymakers regarding microplastic pollution, which is posing a severe threat to ecosystems and human health. Microbeads, a subset of microplastics, ...

• Low-level environmental metal pollution is associated with altered gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) 

  Brila, Ilze; Lavrinienko, Anton; Tukalenko, Eugene; Ecke, Frauke; Rodushkin, Ilia; Kallio, Eva R.; Mappes, Tapio; Watts, Phillip C. (Elsevier BV, 2021)

  Mining and related industries are a major source of metal pollution. In contrast to the well-studied effects of exposure to metals on animal physiology and health, the impacts of environmental metal pollution on the gut ...