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| 1201 | Rajib Bhattacharyya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar and Soumyen Sikdar (eds): The COVID-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives: Routledge India, 2022; ISBN: 978-1-032-23353-6 (bbk); ISBN: 978-1-003-22014-5 (ebk) | Indian Econ Rev | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1202 | Multifractality of the standardized precipitation index: influence of pan evaporation and virtual temperature-based potential evapotranspiration Hydrological extremes experience an increase in some regions and a decrease in other zones. The objectives of the present work were (i) to introduce Class A pan evaporation data and virtual temperature-based potential evapotranspiration (PET(v) hereafter) into the Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEIm hereafter) computation and (ii) to describe small and large fluctuations of SPI and SPEIm through multifractal detrended fluctuation (MF-DFA) and multifractal detrended cross-correlation (MF-DCCA) analyses. We used 40 years data (1974–2013) of monthly rainfall (P), mean, minimum and maximum air temperature, pan evaporation (E), relative humidity (RH) and relative sun brightness (RSB). Meteorological variables were collected from Puyo meteorological station, Pastaza Province, Ecuador. SPI time series for 1 and 6 months timescales were determined following two approaches. We computed SPI values using precipitation as the only input variable. Additionally, we incorporated pan evaporation and virtual temperature-based potential evapotranspiration into the standard SPEI computation (SPEIm). The SPEIm revealed some differences as compared with the classical SPI methodology. Five out of fifteen Asymmetry Index (AI) values were positive (0.095 ≤ AI ≤ 0.419).This indicates the relevance of high fluctuations at different time scales. Joint multifractal spectra between SPI (1,6)/SPEIm(1,6) versus RH and RSB rendered negative AI values which suggests the importance of low fluctuations at shorter time scales. The DCCA cross-correlation coefficient allows one to identify those time scales where SPI and SPEIm are influenced by other meteorological variables. Long-term correlation and sub-Gaussian behaviour of meteorological variables (apart from air temperature) are the main causes of multifractal structures. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1203 | Immune mediated inflammation and perfusion in lungs of Covid-19 patients studied with [11C]GW457427 and [15O]water: a first-in-man pilot study | Nucl Med Biol | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1204 | COVID-19 in children with severe aplastic anemia Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects children but mostly has mild course. There is meagre published data on the impact of COVID-19 illness in children with Severe Aplastic anemia (SAA). We describe our experience of managing COVID-19 in children with SAA. Method Three children of SAA who developed SARS-CoV-2 infection are included in this study. Results Patient 1 was post Immunosuppressive therapy (IST) for SAA and had an asymptomatic course and uneventful recovery. Patient 2 was several months post IST with no response and had an asymptomatic COVID-19 illness but had delayed viral clearance, however he succumbed to bacterial sepsis soon after. Patient 3 was awaiting IST and while he contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, he had symptomatic COVID-19 illness followed by bacterial and fungal sepsis to which he succumbed. Conclusion: COVID-19 in children with SAA can be mild to fatal course and virus may have delayed clearance. It can lead to delay in therapy of SAA. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1205 | Interactive influence of work-life balance benefits, employee recommendation and job attributes on employer attractiveness and job pursuit intentions: two experiments Drawing on signaling theory (Spence 1978), we propose that communicating work–life balance benefits offered along with favorable employee recommendations and valued job attributes could be construed as signals organizations deliberately use to influence potential applicants' perceptions of employer attractiveness and enhance job pursuit intentions. We test these ideas in two experiments. In study 1, using carefully constructed vignettes to manipulate work–life balance (WLB) benefits, employee recommendation, and job attributes in a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects design and with data gathered from 320 Indian MBA students, we found support for the direct and interactive effects of these variables on employer attractiveness. In study 2, using a 3 × 2 × 2 between-subjects design and data from 360 Indian MBA students, we examined the influence of three different alternative work arrangements, a form of WLB benefit, and how such benefits interact with employee recommendations and job attributes to influence job pursuit intentions. We discuss implications for theory, research, and practice. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1206 | Effect of Different Forms of Silver on Biological Objects Silver has been known since ancient times on account of its pronounced antiseptic properties. Currently, its antibacterial, antiviral, and fungicidal properties are highly desired in the food and cosmetic industries, in medicine, and pharmacology. Silver exhibits toxic effects not only on pathogenic organisms but also on healthy cells. Over the past 20 years, nanosilver, a new form of silver, has been introduced in various areas of industry. The transition to the nanoscale form results in the revision of standard approaches to items, including those based on this element, and the emergence of such a novel research area as nanosafety. In this review, we address the history of using different forms of silver, the mechanisms of its interaction with living cells, toxic properties, biokinetic parameters, capability for accumulation in different organs, effects on cognitive functions, and the clinically known argyrosis condition. Relevant publications are critically analyzed and conclusions are drawn. The broader incorporation of such a weakly biophilic element as silver in the biosphere and ecosphere calls for our understanding of biochemical processes underlying the interaction of this element, in its different forms, with living cells and multicellular organisms. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1207 | Inactivation of Influenza Viruses with Heteropolyacids The antiviral activity of Keggin heteropolyacids (HPAs) against the human influenza A/California/07/09 (H1N1) pdm09 virus is studied in MDCK cell culture. Transmission electron microscopy reveals new features of the destruction of viral particles by HPAs. A proton-anion model that considers the main biochemical processes leading to the destruction of enveloped viruses: the depletion of membrane cholesterol by HPA anions, acidification of the M1 matrix protein by protons of the medium, and anion lysis of lipid membranes, is proposed. The Arrhenius dependences of the biological properties of HPAs on temperature are predicted. The general mechanism for the formation of high biological activity HPAs is described, which is underlined by the anion depletion of cholesterol in bilipid membranes, a new effect in the biochemistry of polyoxometalates. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1208 | An overview of the impact of COVID-19 on road traffic safety and travel behavior The COVID-19 epidemic caused global roads and highway networks to be disrupted to historic proportions. While the world is focused on combating COVID-19 pandemic, people are still dying and being injured as a result of traffic collisions on the highways owing to movement restrictions. Although the impact of shutdown mechanisms on traffic safety is still being studied, initial studies reveal a decrease in traffic flow and a rise in risky driving behaviors. On the other hand, it is important to investigate how the epidemic has influenced travel behavioral characteristics in order to design mobility regulations for the post-COVID-19 future. Considering numerous investigations, the present study attempts to provide an overview of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on road traffic crashes, deaths, and injuries, as well as road travel behavior. The magnitude of COVID-19 was found to result in fewer crashes and injuries, as well as a reduction in road safety performance, but substantially greater serious accidents. According to a study of many papers, Travel objective, method of transportation, mileage traveled, and numbers of trips for principal travel were considerably different before and during the epidemic. The result of this study have significant legislative ramifications and also can help to guide how further lockdowns are managed in terms of traffic safety and travel behavior. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1209 | Third Pole Culture Dialogue 2020 | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1210 | COVID-19 and tinnitus-a tertiary care Centre experience BACKGROUND: COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 by WHO. Due to person-to-person transmission of this infection, majority of countries of world introduced lockdown to ensure people stay at home. A complex bidirectional interaction exists between tinnitus and emotional distress, as they can exacerbate one another. Also, COVID-19 infection can cause damage to outer hair cells. The aim of this study is to find out relationship between COVID-19 and initiation or exacerbation of tinnitus. METHODS: The present retrospective study, after approval by Institutional Ethics Committee, was conducted in Department of ENT, GMC Jammu, from June 2020 to March 2021 on 90 patients with primary complaint of tinnitus. All 90 patients were asked to complete the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory. Also, all patients were asked COVID-19-related questions (history of contracting virus/history of grief/anxiety/depression/stress/nervousness/financial status/ physical exercise/sleep routine/ social interactions). RESULTS: Out of 90 patients, 72 patients (80%) had chronic longstanding tinnitus and 18 patients (20%) experienced tinnitus during pandemic. Out of 72 patients who gave history of longstanding tinnitus, 41 patients (56.9%) reported tinnitus to be stable during COVID-19 pandemic, 26 patients (36.1%) reported it to become more bothersome and 5 patients (6.9%) reported that tinnitus was improved. Out of 90 patients, 21 patients (23.3%) were diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. Of these 21 patients experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, 16 patients (76.2%) gave history of exacerbation of tinnitus, 4 patients (19%) gave history of tinnitus remaining stable and 1 patient (4.7%) said that tinnitus was improved. Out of 90 patients, history of negative psychological impact due to COVID-19 restrictions was seen in 65 patients (72.2%). CONCLUSION: With our study, we concluded that ENT specialists should be fully aware that not only pre-existing tinnitus may be exaggerated due to COVID-19 infection, but also, there can be development of new-onset tinnitus due to COVID-19 infection and the negative psychological impact due to COVID-19 pandemic. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1211 | Between everyday politics and political elites: transmission and coupling within Westminster's parliamentary e-petitions system Popular dissatisfaction with representative democracy has encouraged governments and legislatures worldwide to experiment with democratic innovations. However, despite calls for a ‘systemic’ approach to the study of democratic engagement and participation, empirical knowledge is limited about the diffusion of democratic innovations within civil society, and, in particular, about the connective mechanisms that bring the ‘voice’ of citizens to the ‘ears’ of political elites. This article responds to this gap, presenting original empirical research examining the UK House of Commons’ e-petitions system. This research maps public engagement with parliamentary e-petitions across a range of expressive spaces, and highlights the facilitative role of non-institutional intermediaries. However, it also underlines the predominant role of institutional actors in structuring public participation, and shows that effective transmission between the informal public and formal political spheres remains contingent on both ‘designed-in powers’ of institutional coupling and ‘developed practices’ of public engagement. Through this analysis, the article makes an important contribution to debates concerning democratic innovations, political participation, and institutional design. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41293-022-00208-9. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1212 | Perspectives post-COVID-19: le point de vue des pneumologues Plus de 5 millions de personnes en France ont présenté une infection par le SARS-CoV-2. Lors des précédentes épidémies de coronavirus (SARS-CoV, Mers-CoV), les patients ont développé des séquelles pulmonaires avec une dyspnée, une diminution de la capacité de diffusion du monoxyde de carbone et/ou des lésions de fibrose. Le but de cette revue était d’évaluer les séquelles respiratoires et de faire une synthèse des principaux symptômes respiratoires après une infection au COVID-19 et de leurs étiologies. Les quatre principales causes de dyspnée sont les séquelles respiratoires, le déconditionnement, l’hyperventilation et les causes classiques de dyspnée. Les principales séquelles respiratoires étaient l’altération de la capacité de diffusion du monoxyde de carbone et le schéma de fibrose. La prévalence de ces séquelles respiratoires est actuellement inconnue. More than 5 millions of people in France have presented a SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the previous coronavirus epidemics (SARS-CoV, Mers-CoV), patients have developed pulmonary sequelae with dyspnoea, DLCO decrease and/or fibrosis lesions. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the respiratory sequelae and to do a summary of the main respiratory symptoms after a COVID-19 infection and their aetiologies. The four main causes of dyspnoea are respiratory sequelae, deconditioning, hyperventilation and classical causes of dyspnoea. The main respiratory sequelae were DLCO alteration and fibrosis pattern. Actually, the prevalence of these respiratory sequelae is unknown. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1213 | Contagion effects in ASEAN-5 exchange rates during the Covid-19 pandemic The aim of this study is to examine the pure and fundamental-based contagion effects in ASEAN-5 exchange rates during Covid-19 period using daily exchange rates from June 2019 to December 2020. We adopt VECM within the structural VAR framework and higher time-frequency wavelet analysis. The VECM findings show that ASEAN-5 exchange rates are cointegrated during this pandemic and should there be any disequilibrium, daily rate of adjustments in the Indonesian rupiah, Malaysia ringgit and Singapore dollar are 6.58%, 1.47% and 2.45% respectively. The wavelet power spectrum implies that Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore experience prolonged high degree of exchange rates volatility, Thailand experiences mild volatility in the short run and high volatility in the long run and only Philippines experiences mild volatility in the short run and no heightened long run volatility. The wavelet coherence shows Indonesian rupiah reacts first to the Covid-19 shock leading to fundamental- based contagion to Malaysia and Thailand, and temporary pure contagion based on sentimental to Philippines and Singapore. Only the Philippine peso that insulates itself from the long run shocks. These findings are important as it gives insights into the nature of contagion among ASEAN-5 exchange rates due to global shock of Covid-19 and the need for timely intervention to prevent the short run contagion turning into the long run. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1214 | New Approach on the Quantitative Assessment of Geotouristic Potential: A Case Study in the Northern Area of the Rio De Janeiro Cliffs and Lagoons Geopark Project As a trend in sustainable tourism, geotourism is being increasingly practiced, especially in territories that include geopark areas. The municipalities included in the territory of the Projeto Geoparque Costões e Lagunas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Cliffs and Lagoons Geopark Project) have a geological, historical, cultural, and ecological diversity favoring the development of geotourism. The aim of this study is to carry out an inventory and quantitative assessment of the places with potential for the development of geotourism in the municipalities in the northern part of the territory of this project, namely Quissamã, Campos dos Goytacazes, São João da Barra, and São Francisco de Itabapoana. For the inventory, places listed in the literature or recognized by professionals from different areas of knowledge were used as a premise, together with observations and insights from fieldwork. The quantitative evaluation was carried out considering two methodologies. In the first, the potential tourist use was calculated through the GEOSSIT application for natural attractions. The second was determined through a new approach, combining the methodologies of Brazil (2007) and (Brilha Geoheritage, 8:119-134, 2016), to calculate the attractiveness potential of both natural and manmade attractions. Thus, of the 24 places evaluated in this study, 23 were classified as having high potential to attract visitors. The assessments carried out using these two methods are complementary and provide a broad view of the potential of each location to become a geotourist attraction. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1215 | Prolegomena to the Discussion on Teaching Controversial Issues Numerous articles and books focus on questions about teaching controversial issues in the classroom, and these controversial issues are on the educational agenda in many countries. The modest goal of this essay is to lay the necessary groundwork for a discussion and study of the goals for teaching controversial issues in schools, in order to examine the practicability of achieving them in the educational reality, and to study possible ways for raising such subjects in the classroom. It refines and adds to the concept of “controversial issues” from a particular, timely, perspective. The rise of “fake news” and “illiberal democracy,“ including empowered illiberal subgroups in liberal democratic polities demands a reconsideration and new delineation of some of the major tenets proposed by previous scholarship. The delineation that is proposed here moves through three stages. The first stage separates and distinguishes between the controversial issues and the assertions that according to the criteria that logical positivists have coined are meaningful. The second stage proposes the main criterion for defining a topic as controversial, and this is the epistemic-rational criterion, as defined in this essay. The third delineation stage proposes seeing a subject as being controversial if it is currently relevant for social and political life. Moreover, the essay asserts that the result of the examination of these three stages is dependent upon the context – time and place – in which the educational act occurs. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1216 | Variation in Air Quality over Delhi Region: A Comparative Study for 2019 and 2020 Air quality of highly industrialized cities has shown enhanced potential for adverse impacts upon environment and human health. Spread of the COVID-19 in people suffering from some ailment is one of the examples. Meanwhile, complete and partial lockdown were imposed, nationwide, throughout the globe. This study portrays the spatio-temporal variations of atmospheric pollutants over eight regions in National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi, India, during 2019–2020. It focusses on the entire year with special emphasis on four phases of lockdown and unlock with varying restrictions. As compared to 2019, the results show decrease in relative percent by for fine particulate matters (~ 11.6%), oxides of nitrogen (~ 7%), oxides of sulfur (~ 3.7%), ozone (~ 7.7%), carbon monoxide (~ 20.7%), benzene (~ 11%) and toluene (~ 14%). It was found that strict lockdown phase-I had major contribution to this change. Toluene:Benzene ratios for summer coinciding with strict lockdown confirmed non-operating stationary sources. Later phases were provided with relaxation in certain sectors (mainly vehicular mobility and industrial sector) accompanied with various meteorological impacts, hence did not show much variations. After unlock-IV, anthropogenic activities were found to be accelerated to meet the halted economic demands. Meanwhile, during winter season, biogenic emissions and meteorological factors together affect the air quality in India, aiding air dispersion inhibition due to which the pollutants level showed immediate rise. Restricted human activities prevailing during the lockdown and unlock phases proved to be beneficial in terms of stumping the emission of pollutants into the ambient environment proving that the imposed lockdown healed the environment temporarily. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1217 | Coaching for impact: successful implementation of a multi-national, multi-institutional synchronous research course in Ethiopia PURPOSE: Under the American College of Surgeons’ Operation Giving Back, several US institutions collaborated with a teaching and regional referral hospital in Ethiopia to develop a surgical research curriculum. METHODS: A virtual, interactive, introductory research course which utilized a web-based classroom platform and live educational sessions via an online teleconferencing application was implemented. Surgical and public health faculty from the US and Ethiopia taught webinars and led breakout coaching sessions to facilitate participants’ project development. Both a pre-course needs assessment survey and a post-course participation survey were used to examine the impact of the course. RESULTS: Twenty participants were invited to participate in the course. Despite the majority of participants having connection issues (88%), 11 participants completed the course with an 83% average attendance rate. Ten participants successfully developed structured research proposals based on their local clinical needs. CONCLUSION: This novel multi-institutional and multi-national research course design was successfully implemented and could serve as a template for greater development of research capacity building in the low- and middle-income country (LMIC) setting. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1218 | Empfehlungen zur Ernährung von Personen mit Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1219 | Diabetes und Schwangerschaft-Update 2022 With a share of 80%, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the most common form of hyperglycemia in pregnancy. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes; the longer the duration of breastfeeding, the greater the effect. Women who have had a premature birth or a stillbirth are at increased risk of dying prematurely themselves. The potential of pre-eclampsia prevention with low-dose acetylsalicylic acid in women with diabetes mellitus is far from being adequately used. Pregnant women reduce their risk of a severe course of the disease by being vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The still high rate of perinatal mortality in pregnancies with type 1 and type 2 diabetes may primarily be reduced by improving basic factors in periconceptional care. Two-stage screening for GDM reduces GDM prevalence and medicalization compared to one-stage screening without harm to mothers and their newborns. The approval of metformin for pregnant women since February 2022 does not mean that metformin is recommended as the primary pharmacotherapy for pregnant women. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1220 | Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) for UN sustainable development goals | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1221 | Implementing a cost effective and configurable hybrid simulation platform in healthcare education, using wearable and web-based technologies There are many examples of hybrid simulation models in healthcare education which are designed to simulate specific scenarios. However, there appears to be a need for a cost effective and configurable hybrid simulation platform which can be used by educators of various healthcare disciplines to simulate different scenarios. The purpose of this paper is to develop a proof-of-concept platform that can be easily implemented at little cost and provide flexibility to healthcare instructors to develop a variety of simulation scenarios, and to determine the effectiveness of this platform. Using a standardized patient, a person acting as a patient in a scripted manner, along with wearable and web-based technologies, a congestive heart failure simulation was used as an evaluative exercise for a group of personal support worker students at a Canadian Community College. Personal support workers typically provide care to any person who may require personal assistance with activities of daily living such as feeding, lifting, bathing, skin care and oral hygiene to name a few. Standardized patients are typically used in healthcare education to educate and evaluate soft skills, such as caregiver to patient communication, professionalism, as well as hard skills, such as history taking, examination and diagnostic skills (Rosen in J Crit Care 23:157–166, 2008). Instructor feedback indicated that the platform was easy to use and capable of simulating a large variety of scenarios. Pre and post test results are evidence of initial findings of promise indicating that the platform seemed to be effective in enabling students to meet learning outcomes. Focus group results seem to indicate an increase in student confidence as it relates to their ability to handle a similar scenario in the workplace. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1222 | Diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients: An updated review A group of pneumonia patients was detected in Hubei Province, in China in December 2019. The etiology of the disease was unknown. Later, the researchers diagnosed the novel Coronavirus as the causal agent of this respiratory disease. On February 12th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially named this disease Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Consequently, the disease spread globally and became a pandemic. As there is no specific treatment for the symptomatic patients and several vaccines are approved by WHO, the efficacy and effectiveness of these vaccines are not fully understood yet and the availability of these vaccines are very limited. In addition, new variants and mutants of SARS-CoV-2 are thought to be able to evade the immune system of the host. So, diagnosis and isolation of infected individuals is advised. Currently, real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is considered the gold standard method to detect novel Coronavirus, however, there are few limitations associated with RT-PCR such as false-negative results. This demanded another diagnostic tool to detect and isolate COVID-19 early and accurately. Chest computed tomography (CT) became another option to diagnose COVID-19 patients accurately (about 98% sensitivity). However, it did not apply to the asymptomatic carriers and sometimes the results were misinterpreted as from other groups of Coronavirus infection. The combination of RT-PCR and chest CT might be the best option in detecting novel Coronavirus infection early and accurately thereby allowing adaptation of measures for the prevention and control of the COVID-19. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1223 | De Antwoorden | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1224 | Nieuwe standaard voor nieuwe ziekte: Covid-19 | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1225 | Test je kennis | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1226 | An Extension to the First Order Model of Pulmonary Mechanics to Capture a Pressure dependent Elastance in the Human Lung Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a lifesaving therapy for patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, selecting the optimal MV settings is a difficult process as setting a high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) value will improve oxygenation, but can produce ventilator induced lung injuries (VILI). To find a suitable value is patient specific and depends on different things like the underlying illness and the current state. In this study, a respiratory model that defined constant bronchial resistance and pressure-dependent variable elastance was fitted to pressure volume (PV) responses for 12 datasets of 10 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients which underwent a recruitment maneuver (RM) to open previous collapsed alveoli. We believe that the range of minimal elastance represents that range in which oxygenation can be improved by recruitment with reducing the risk of VILI. The first order model with a variable elastance (Edrs ) described by Chiew et al. (2011) was modified with a factor α to express added end-expiratory volume due to an increased PEEP. Model parameters were identified using a nonlinear least square method that optimized Edrs agreement across PEEP-levels. The model yielded an increase in overlapping quality of pressure dependent Edrs -curves. A best pressure range for PEEP could be identified in 9 of 12 datasets. The model could potentially provide a simple method of decision support at the bedside for clinicians and could prospectively an automated extend in mechanical ventilation devices. | N/A | 2014 | CORD-19 | |
| 1227 | Global pandemic uncertainty, pandemic discussion and visitor behaviour: A comparative tourism demand estimation for the US Tourism is one of the most vulnerable sectors to pandemics. The number of cases and deaths caused by the pandemic directly affects travel decisions. Answering how the public perception of the pandemics affects visitor behaviour can provide important implications for the new normal in tourism. In this context, this paper investigates the impact of global pandemic uncertainty and pandemic discussion on visitor arrivals to the United States from the top 25 origin countries over the period 1999–2020. Non-quantile and quantile panel estimators are employed for heterogeneity and short–long run findings. Accordingly, in the short run, global pandemic uncertainty negatively affects visitor behaviour. However, the pandemic discussion does not have a significant effect. In the long run, pandemic uncertainty and pandemic discussion negatively affect tourist arrivals in all quantiles. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1228 | Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment This paper studies the effect of fan attendance on home field advantage in top European soccer leagues. We exploit exogenous variation in the level of fan attendance driven by COVID-19 mitigation policies and find that the home field advantage, as measured by home minus away (expected) goals, is reduced by more than 50% across the English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, and Spanish La Liga. This leads to a decrease in probability for a home win, indicating that these goals are pivotal with respect to match outcomes. | J Sports Econom | 2023 | CORD-19 | |
| 1229 | Homestay businesses' strategies for adapting to and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic: A study in Vietnam Adaptation and recovery are essential for businesses to survive crises and disasters. Drawing on the concepts of business resilience and hospitality service delivery practices, this study explored strategies employed by owners of Vietnamese homestay businesses for adapting to and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews with 17 purposefully selected homestay owners were conducted during the pandemic. The thematic analysis of the data revealed three major strategies: adapting operational protocols, modifying products and service offerings, and reinstating the authenticity of the homestay experience. A conceptual model illustrating the transformations in homestay businesses was developed from the findings. As the study particularly revealed that the selected Vietnamese homestay businesses showed a strong capacity for adaptation, we discuss several factors influencing the implementation of adaptation and recovery strategies. This study contributes to the understanding of how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises can adapt to external shocks and new externalities, and provides practical implications for homestay owners and stakeholders in relation to their post-pandemic business recovery. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1230 | Early childhood leadership: Risk and protective factors during the COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 has impacted Early Childhood Education (ECE) globally. The cancellation of a final year leadership practicum presented an opportunity to partner with pre-service teachers as co-researchers to investigate the leadership experience of four service directors during COVID-19. A multi-case study design included four focus groups consisting of one early childhood sector leader, final year pre-service teachers and one academic mentor aimed to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on service leadership while identifying the leadership strategies that offered protective mitigation for the risks posed by the pandemic. Leadership challenges included shifting health orders, support for the home learning context and disseminating policy shifts to staff and families, all while maintaining viability, managing anxieties of staff, parents and children, while negotiating lockdowns and service restrictions. Findings spoke to the complexity of the situation for leaders, while spotlighting the protective function of high-quality practice; strong service-based philosophy; and prioritisation of relationships. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1231 | Retirement Pension Financing to Guarantee Older Workers' Rights | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1232 | Gum Health Day 2022 focuses on new guidelines for prevention and treatment | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1233 | RESET-APP: ein App-basiertes Angebot zur Selbstregulation für Schüler*innen der Sekundarstufe I-Akzeptanz und Nutzungsverhalten BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an immense impact on psychic health. Children and adolescents are considered especially vulnerable which is why health promotion and prevention programs are important and should be designed in a motivating way to be attractive to this age group. The aim of this work is to investigate whether young people can be reached with the help of innovative digital formats for health promotion. METHODS: An app-based training to promote self-regulation was offered to adolescents in lower secondary education in autumn 2020. Data were collected using an app. The types of motivation to participate in the training were analyzed. In addition, the students were able to rate the attractiveness of the training with the help of a self-designed evaluation sheet. RESULTS: Of the 91 registered participants, 39.56% completed the study. In all, 40.91% of the students stated that the training was “very” helpful and 36.36% rated it as “quite” helpful. Although 50% of the respondents found the app-based training “modern and motivating”, the other half would have preferred more personal support. CONCLUSION: The results confirm previous study results with health apps in children and adolescents. This age group is interested in digital formats, but health apps are not used continuously in this age group unless obligatory. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1234 | Diffusion of Influence? Detecting China's Footprint in Foreign Policies of Other Countries “Chinese influence” has become a hot topic among politicians, media, and pundits. Academic studies dealing with the subject, however, generally take a much more cautious position. This paper suggests an innovative approach of studying political influence using data from the UN General Assembly voting and speech records. Utilizing the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP), we show how to estimate, quantify, and visualise foreign policy positions using raw textual data. In Europe, it has been argued that China’s growing presence and activity in Central and Eastern European states (CEE) undermines “European unity” as the region allegedly starts shifting towards Beijing. We adopt the CEE region as a case study of China’s potential influence and highlight the positioning of CEE countries towards China, Germany, and the U.S. by visualizing the proximities among them over time. We find no evidence that the CEE countries are strategically pivoting towards China. We have controlled for known positions and trends of other countries from elsewhere in the world to strengthen the case for our methodological approach. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1235 | Gemeinschaftsdiagnose: Ohne russisches Gas droht eine scharfe Rezession in Deutschland The German economy is steering through difficult waters. Tail winds from fading pandemic restrictions, supply-side bottlenecks in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, and shock waves caused by the war in Ukraine are dragging the economy in opposing directions. The common factor is the price-driving effect. Abruptly stopping gas deliveries from Russia to the European Union would drive the German economy into a deep recession. In this case, the accumulated loss of overall economic output would amount to 220 billion euro by the end of 2023. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1236 | Megatrends und Strukturwandel-welche Regionen werden profitieren? Structural change and transformation is not a temporary phenomenon. The regional economic structure decides whether or not structural change has a positive effect on a region. In Germany, the process of structural change encounters heterogeneous regions that differ in terms of e.g. spatial structure, demography or economic strength. Moreover, urban areas can adapt particularly well to current trends, while rural and peripheral areas threaten to fall behind. The article presents the findings of a model that assesses how well regional economic structures in Germany are adapted to upcoming megatrends as well as market and technology trends. The model assesses both future development potential and past development. It concludes that changes should not be halted by structure conserving policies but should rather be taken up proactively in order to shape change. This requires an innovation policy that is increasingly aimed at cooperation and networking. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1237 | Editor's Focus | Pediatr Res | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1238 | A comprehensive easy-to-use techno-human solution for the resource-constrained nations in the fight against communicable disease like the coronavirus pandemic Following the advent of the novel Coronavirus, the governments and authorities introduced various mobile applications in the fight against COVID-19. However, these are either restricted by the developer country or not comprised of certain key features, due to which, a vast population from the low- or middle-income country, remains underprivileged from associated benefits. The purpose of this study is to explore and demonstrate how to build a comprehensive and easy-to-use application for mobile health service delivery especially fabricated to fight communicable diseases like COVID-19. Mostly open-source technologies are used to build a distributed scalable client-server application. Then the application is evaluated with the stress-test and usability-test. Besides COVID-19 advisories and guidelines, the study demonstrates complete conceptualization and development of an IoT-based mobile application. It comprises three key features that bring comprehensiveness. One is the ‘contact logger & tracer’ that enables users to maintain a list of contacts who get notified if any of them reported COVID-19 positive in the last 14 days. Two is the ‘self-assessment' which helps users to predict the chances of COVID-19 infection using a scientific rationale. Three is the ‘infection tracker’ that guides users to identify infected hotspots to plan the route accordingly. The usability-test affirmed that the application is easy-to-use. Further, this study demonstrates how to construct such an easy-to-use application mostly with open-source resources. It can help the needy authorities or groups from resource-constrained countries to adopt and develop such applications quickly. Further research on the post-implementation effect will add value to this study. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1239 | Appraisal of high-stake examinations during SARS-CoV-2 emergency with responsible and transparent AI: Evidence of fair and detrimental assessment In situations like the coronavirus pandemic, colleges and universities are forced to limit their offline and regular academic activities. Extended postponement of high-stakes exams due to health risk hereby reduces productivity and progress in later years. Several countries decided to organize the exams online. Since many other countries with large education boards had an inadequate infrastructure and insufficient resources during the emergency, education policy experts considered a solution to simultaneously protect public health and fully resume high-stakes exams -by canceling offline exam and introducing a uniform assessment process to be followed across the states and education boards. This research proposes a novel system using an AI model to accomplish the complex task of evaluating all students across education boards with maximum level of fairness and analyzes the ability to fairly appraise exam grades in the context of high-stakes examinations during SARS-CoV-2 emergency. Basically, a logistic regression classifier on top of a deep neural network is used to output predictions that are as fair as possible for all learners. The predictions of the proposed grade-awarding system are explained by the SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) framework. SHAP allowed to identify the features of the students' portfolios that contributed most to the predicted grades. In the setting of an empirical analysis in one of the largest education systems in the Global South, 81.85% of learners were assigned fair scores while 3.12% of the scores were significantly smaller than the actual grades, which would have had a detrimental effect if it had been applied for real. Furthermore, SHAP allows policy-makers to debug the predictive model by identifying and measuring the importance of the factors involved in the model's final decision and removing those features that should not play a role in the model's “reasoning” process. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1240 | The social and ethical issues of online learning during the pandemic and beyond This article describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the higher education institutes in developing nations like India to relook at pedagogical approaches. Due to government imposing nationwide lockdown, higher educational institutes were quickly adopting to imbibe online learning medium. This research takes a qualitative thematic analytical approach to explore the facilitators and challenges to online learning from the perspectives of both learners and educators in higher education institutes. We have specifically explored the ethical and social concerns related to online learning and the possible solution for the same. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1241 | The role of specialist physiotherapy in a pain management clinic-traditional and novel approaches There is no doubt that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a drastically negative impact on the NHS, as well as many other public services, individuals and families. The role of physiotherapy in managing chronic pain is challenging; even more so with the added burden of the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases increased many non-urgent outpatient services were suspended: This district general hospital continued to offer some appointments, albeit limited, but were they beneficial? This article not only considers the multidisciplinary approach to manage chronic pain; focusing on the bio-psycho-social model, which incorporates a variety of specialities within a pain clinic but also the impact of COVID-19. It considers both the clinicians' and patients' experiences respectively of offering, and receiving, key physiotherapy treatments such as patient education, patient empowerment, exercise and function; how these were modified, sometimes with digital support. It gives some insight into the differing patient responses and attitudes such as patients who fear exercise; those who expected physiotherapy to be a ‘hands-on treatment’ and the challenges of ‘remote’ patient supervision. Alternatives to educational groups are described and the patients' responses to them. Other treatments such as phased activities, goal setting, cognitive functional therapy, desensitization, mirror therapy, virtual reality, yoga, tai chi, and acceptance and commitment therapy are briefly outlined. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1242 | The Impact of Testing Capacity and Compliance With Isolation on COVID-19: A Mathematical Modeling Study Diagnostic tests can play an important role in reducing the transmission of infectious respiratory diseases, particularly during a pandemic. The potential benefit of diagnostic testing depends on at least four factors: 1) how soon testing becomes available after the beginning of the pandemic, and 2) at what capacity; 3) compliance with isolation after testing positive; 4) compliance with isolation when experiencing symptoms, even in the absence of testing. To understand the interplay between these factors and provide further insight into policy decisions for future pandemics, we developed a compartmental model and simulated numerous scenarios using the dynamics of COVID-19 as a case study. Our results quantified the significant benefits of early start of testing and high compliance with isolation. Early start of testing, even with low testing capacity over time, could significantly slow down the disease spread if the compliance with isolation is high. By contrast, when the start of testing was delayed, the benefit of testing on reducing infection spread was limited, even when testing capacity was high; the additional testing capacity required increased superlinearly for each day of delay, to achieve a similar infection attack rate as in starting testing earlier. Our study highlighted the importance of the early start of testing and public health messaging to promote isolation compliance when needed, for an ongoing effective response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1243 | Peter Hennessy, A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid: Allen Lane, 2022, pp. 256., ISBN: 978-0241491942 | Society | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1244 | The role of green finance in eradicating energy poverty: ways to realize green economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 era Realizing green economic recovery and eradicating energy poverty have become China’s strategic priorities in the post-COVID-19 era. In the context of the active advocacy of green finance, to empirically investigate whether green finance can help eradicate energy poverty, this study utilizes provincial sample data to explore the energy poverty eradication effect of green finance. Our study also examines the regional heterogeneity and mediating effect. The main findings are as follows: (1) Green finance is a powerful weapon to alleviate China’s energy poverty and accelerate green economic recovery, indicating that the green evolution of financial institutions is effective means to facilitate green economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 era; (2) green finance only eradicates energy poverty in low energy poverty regions and the eastern areas, and green finance can alleviate energy poverty in both high and low green finance areas; and (3) improved green finance not only directly eradicates China’s energy poverty, but also alleviates current energy poverty by accelerating technical innovation and optimizing the industrial structure. Following the above main findings, this study advances a series of policy implications in terms of facilitating the green transition of the financial industry and realizing green economic recovery. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1245 | Doxycycline Adsorptive Interaction with Mesoporous MCM-41: Kinetic and Isotherm Modelling with Thermodynamics Antibiotics are bio-accumulating and persistent. its inappropriate disposal can affect human health and aquatic fauna. Development of antimicrobial resistance has been announced as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. In this study, Doxycycline adsorption on to MCM-41 (not reported earlier) was studied. Adsorbent dose (m), Doxycycline solution pH, adsorption time (t) and temperature (T) were considered as process parameters, and %Doxycycline removal and adsorption capacity were measured as responses of the adsorption. Parameters (m, pH and t) interaction, modelling and optimization for %Doxycycline removal and adsorption capacity was performed using Box Behnken Design. Based on this, a suitable model equation and adsorption mechanism was suggested. At optimized parameters, kinetics and adsorption rate controlling mechanism was studied. Further, various isotherm models (Freundlich, Langmuir and Redlich-Peterson) were studied to represent the adsorption equilibrium experimental data. the optimum process parameters were found to be pH = 7.3, m = 0.02 g/L and t = 20 min. At optimized parameters, very high %Doxycycline removal of 99% with 2425 mg/g adsorption capacity was observed (max 835.5 mg/g adsorption capacity for Doxycycline is reported in literature). Thermodynamics study revealed enthalpy (ΔH°) = 23.02 kJ/mol confirming DCL physisorption on MCM-41. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1246 | An Analysis of Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Banking Industry from Taiwan to ASEAN Countries with Gravity Model This paper examined the choice of FDI location of Taiwanese banks’ FDI with a particular on a sample of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. The pattern and the determinants of Taiwanese banks’ FDI in ASEAN are investigated with gravity model framework and examined by panel data analysis from 2000 to 2019. It was found that Taiwanese banks generally preferred to directly invest in countries that had large market size, high economic freedom, closer geographical proximity, larger value of bilateral trade, and large amount of Taiwanese outward direct investment. Unlike previous studies, the results confirm that interest rate spread had relatively insignificant effects on the location choice of Taiwanese banks in ASEAN. Additionally, control of corruption in host countries seemed to have significantly negative effect on location choice of Taiwanese banks. The insights presented in this paper could offer useful suggestions for both governments and investors. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1247 | Track and Field Injuries in Children and Adolescents Presenting to us Emergency Departments-An Updated Review of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System BACKGROUND: Running is a highly popular activity that fosters healthy lifestyle habits in athletes of all ages. Track and field is a popular competitive youth sport with injuries estimated at 0.84 per 1000 athlete exposures among high school athletes. Injury patterns have been noted to vary by age and differ from those sustained in adult runners. Prior work has examined the epidemiology of youth track and field and running related injuries, but data from the recent decade in the setting of increasing sport specialization and year-round participation is lacking. PURPOSE: To examine the evolving epidemiology of track and field and running related injuries prompting emergency department presentation. METHODS: A retrospective review of data obtained from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database was performed identifying children 10-18 with injuries associated with the Track & Field/Running product code (5030) from 2008-2020. National injury estimates were calculated annually and overall. Descriptive statistics were utilized to summarize injury characteristics of the entire cohort. Annual injury estimates were calculated to identify trends over the study period, which included the 2020 season interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: We identified 8,399 track and field associated NEISS cases occurring from 2008-2020 representing a national estimate of 271,788 injuries [95% Confidence Interval: 250,288 to 294,24]. The majority (52%) of injuries occurred among patients 15 to 18 years of age. Injuries occurred most frequently in the lower extremity (52%) and most commonly involved the ankle (17%) and knee (15%). Sprain/strains were the most frequent injury type (40%). The majority of patients (97%) did not require hospitalization. Injury estimates of each demographic and injury characteristic with 95% confidence intervals are reported in Table 1. There was a rising annual frequency of track and field injuries seen peaking in 2017 with a notable decline in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSION: Track and field injuries requiring emergency department presentation appear to be increasing from prior study estimates, but demonstrate similar distribution of injury characteristics. Severe injuries requiring hospitalization remain rare. The majority of injuries involve the knee and ankle and involve older adolescents. This data provides meaningful data for providers caring for and counseling adolescent athletes. | Orthop J Sports Med | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1248 | Customer-centric influence of entrepreneurial marketing on business performance of hotels in Nigeria during the COVID-19 crisis The ravaging COVID-19 pandemic has forced hotels in developed countries to adopt entrepreneurial marketing (EM) practices as a resilience strategy. However, there are few studies in Nigeria on how EM practices have been used in the hotel industry for their survival and growth. The study examines the customer-centric influence of EM on business performance of hotels in Nigeria during the COVID-19 crisis. Using a cross-sectional survey design, we collected primary data from 578 owner-managers and top managers of 66 hotels in Lagos and Yola in Nigeria using structured questionnaires. Respondents were selected based on the purposive sampling technique. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS Version 21). Three regression estimations are reported. The estimation in model 1 indicates that calculated risk-taking dimension has a significant positive influence on general performance, while the proactiveness, innovativeness, value creation, resource leveraging, opportunity to focus and customer intensity dimensions do not. The estimation in model 2 suggests that calculated risk-taking and customer intensity dimensions have a significant positive influence on revenue per room, while the other five EM dimensions do not. The estimation in model 3 indicates that calculated risk-taking dimension has a significant positive influence on market share, while the six EM dimensions do not. The owner-mangers and top managers of hotels should fortify and upscale the weak EM dimensions as a resilience strategy for recovery from the ravages of the COVID-19 crisis. We bridge the gaps in the literature by providing interesting insights into the potential value of the adoption of EM as a post-COVID-19 recovery strategy by the hotel segment of the hospitality industry in the developing context of Nigeria. We also validate the applicability of RBT in predicting the influence of EM dimensions on performance in the developing context. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1249 | Statistik zwischen Data Science, Artificial Intelligence und Big Data: Beiträge aus dem Kolloquium „Make Statistics great again" Statistics as a subject has to sustain its position in a fast changing environment which is characterized by the rise of Data Science, the growth of the importance of Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of new Data Structures. How can Statistics keep its position or even regain lost territory? Under the provoking motto “Make Statistics great again” we sketch under different views developments, strategies and positive examples, how the subject statistics can evolve at universities, in scientific competition and at the labor market. Willi Seidel comments the competition of subjects for resources from the viewpoint of the head of a university. Christine Müller reports the initiatives of the DAGStat umbrella organization, to promote the different subbranches of statistics in the scientific competition and in the public view. Florian Meinfelder documents the rise of the master program of Survey Statistics to one of the most requested master programs at the university of Bamberg. Jürgen Chlumsky and Markus Zwick report the public notion of mandatory surveys of official statistics as well as the development of research data centers and alternative access to new data sources. Joachim Wagner comments the relationship of data producers and data users from the view of a discontent data analyst. Finally, the position of statistics in the subject data science is discussed. Is the term “Data Science” only a modern phrase for statistics? A White Paper of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) has provoked two position papers of the DStatG and the DAGStat which are presented by Ulrich Rendtel. The colloquium took place at the farewell lecture of Ulrich Rendtel at the Economic Faculty of the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2019. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 | |
| 1250 | Oil Products in Lake Baikal and Its Tributaries The results of studying present-day oil product concentrations in water of Baikal and its tributaries are given. The highest concentrations of oil products have been identified in the Southern Baikal. Seasonal and year-to-year dynamics of oil product concentrations in lake tributaries was determined. The level of water pollution by hydrocarbons was evaluated in accordance the sanitary-hygienic standards for water bodies used for fishery. The inflow of oil products from Baikal through the Angara River was calculated, and their approximate budget in the lake was compiled. | N/A | 2022 | CORD-19 |
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