| Title | Venue | Year | Impact | Source |
| 1901 | The determinants of China's outward foreign direct investment: a vector error correction model analysis of coastal and landlocked countries An essential objective of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is to expand international trade and access to overseas markets to garner resources and improve transportation routes. This study identifies the determinants of China’s OFDI activities in the short and long term, focusing on 138 countries that are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It is the first study to evaluate the system’s contribution of location determinants, including the four factors of economy, logistics, energy, and politics, to China’s OFDI by employing a vector error correction model with panel data from 2007 to 2019. In addition, we compare the influence of the variables in coastal and landlocked countries. Panel Granger causality and impulse response tests, variance decomposition, and forecast analysis were conducted to analyze and forecast China’ OFDI. The results show that China’s OFDI in both coastal and landlocked countries is statistically sensitive to the variables of economy, energy, logistics, and politics in host countries engaged in the BRI. It also shows that improving logistics infrastructure and the political investment environment in landlocked countries, this can positively attract China’s OFDI. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10644-022-09407-2. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1902 | Recovery of ro-pax ferry traffic from covid-19 under tightening environmental regulations: case Helsinki-Tallinn In 2020, the number of passengers on international ro-pax ferries collapsed due to the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus and subsequent travel restrictions. At the same time, both the International Maritime Organisation and the European Union are setting stringent regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from ships. In this research, we look at what options companies offering ro-pax services have to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic under-tightening environmental regulations and the future options for the industry. The case under study is ro-pax ferry traffic between Helsinki and Tallinn. It is one of the busiest international passenger ferry connections in the world. The economics of transport are based on large high-speed vessels, the combination of passengers and cargo, and sales onboard. We created four scenarios for the traffic: to continue the same high-speed ro-pax system as in 2019, to reduce the number of vessels, to switch to new types of ships, to slow down the speed of the vessels or to divide traffic into faster and slower ships. The research contributes to discussion of competitive strengths of ro-pax transport. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1903 | Milder COVID-19 in children with inborn errors of immunity | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1904 | Incidence and presentation of COVID-19 in the vaccinated and unvaccinated patients undergoing bariatric surgery Background This study aimed to describe the incidence and clinical presentation of fully vaccinated and unvaccinated patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in the first year after Madina Women’s Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt, resumed bariatric surgery procedures. (The clinic was closed between March 2020 and reopened in mid-October 2020) Methods This prospective cohort study was conducted between November 2020 till the end of December 2021. We identified patients undergoing bariatric surgery infected with COVID-19 with and without vaccination. COVID-19 severity was assessed based on the Egypt Ministry of Health guidelines. Some patients were isolated at home, whereas others were hospitalised. Results During the one year after the restart of bariatric surgery procedures, 606 patients underwent bariatric procedures (n = 280 fully vaccinated, n = 320 unvaccinated). During follow-up, that period, the incidence of COVID-19 in the vaccinated group was 1.07% (n = 3) versus 14.1% (n = 46) in the unvaccinated group. Three patients had mild symptoms in the vaccinated group, and no hospital admission was necessary. In the unvaccinated group, 27 patients (60%) were classified as mild, eight (17.8%) as moderate, eight (17.8%) as moderate with risk, and two (4.4%) as severe; the mortality rate was 0%. Of these, 16 (88.9%) were hospitalised, of which six (33.3%) were admitted to the intensive care unit in the moderate to severe groups. Conclusion Patients with obesity are at increased risk for COVID-19 infection and adverse consequences. Our findings showed a higher incidence of COVID-19 among those unvaccinated versus vaccinated. Therefore, at least during times and locations of a COVID-19 pandemic, vaccinations may be beneficial for patients against COVID-19 prior to bariatric surgery. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1905 | Modelling Barriers for Smart Grid Technology Acceptance in India The numerous challenges faced by the power sector in India, like high transmission and distribution loss, power theft, frequent power outages and under billing, have impelled to adopt new technologies like smart grid to make the power grid more efficient and secure, leading to the need for interdisciplinary research in the area of power systems and management. An ambitious target of the Government of India to produce 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022 has created a drive towards implementing smart grid technology in India. Though the smart grid seems to be a promising solution, it requires considerable investment, infrastructure development and social acceptance by the consumers. Investigation of smart grid pilot projects in India clearly indicates a lack of consumer involvement and poor infrastructure development. This research aims to identify factors that can be considered barriers to smart grid technology acceptance in India and develop a hierarchical model. The present work has implemented a systematic and scientific approach that includes content analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), total interpretive structural modelling (TISM) and Matrice d'impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment (MICMAC) to develop a hierarchical model for smart grid technology acceptance. The result highlights the importance of consumer awareness and various factors affecting the consumer’s participation in the successful delivery of smart grid technology. It will undoubtedly help policymakers frame the long-term strategies for implementing smart grid technology, especially in a developing country like India. This paper’s contribution from a developing country perspective, made by findings on prioritising barriers, can help managers and policymakers plan a strategy for implementing the smart grid. The findings will undoubtedly help understand the significant factors for smart grid development. They can also be used as a reference for other developing countries with similar economic and social conditions that are planning to promote smart grids. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1906 | Rückblick | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1907 | Agent-based modeling and simulation of pandemic propagation in a school environment Spatial behavior is a principal aspect for architects to consider. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to predict, as users of space seldom follow a standard routine. However, predicting user behavior in a space can potentially illuminate the entire design process. Moreover, it is a key factor in fighting the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Until most of the public gets their vaccine, health officials recommend social distancing as the primary means of fighting the pandemic. This paper uses an agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) approach to reproduce, analyze, and predict spatial behavior during the pandemic in a school environment and its impact on disease propagation. The simulation reproduces the behavior of teachers and students at a sample elementary school. By manipulating parameters that simulate the school officials' response to the pandemic, stakeholders can assess the most effective preventive measures. As a result of running multiple scenarios, the study demonstrates how varying starting conditions and alternate spatial behaviors could lead to different results, providing insight to stakeholders on how to handle disease spread in school environments. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1908 | Light at the end of a very dark tunnel: An examination of the survival and recovery strategies of Iranian tourist accommodation businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic enters year three, with no end in sight. Among hoteliers, small family run businesses have been among the hardest hit. We interview owners of small Iranian Eco-tourism lodges (Ecolodges). Using MAXQDA 2020 software, thematic analysis revealed 10 main themes, condensed into five discussion topics. Stakeholder theory shapes our discussion of findings, revealing roles of internal and external stakeholders. Findings also include the reactive and innovative strategies ecolodges use to stay open and generate cash flow, the importance of stakeholder communications and accessing up-to-date government rules, the value of constant learning, and H.R. practices that assure stakeholders’ well-being. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1909 | Embracing the 'inverted commas', or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic 'fieldwork' Qualitative researchers often refer to the sites they study as a ‘field’ and the work they do there as ‘fieldwork’. Setting both terms in inverted commas implies that their meaning stretches beyond clean categorisation of places or methods. Taking the example of ethnographic research during the coronavirus pandemic, I argue that embracing this excess meaning opens new research perspectives when fieldwork gets disrupted. As a more hopeful intervention into a debate currently focused on lost access, immobility and professional frustration, this article puts forward alternative readings of ‘fieldwork’ as a relational and emergent process in which proximity and knowledge production are bound to sensitive research practice more than to physical (co)presence. By tragic serendipity, I argue, COVID-19 has the potential to normalise such readings against the traditional gold standard of fieldwork as extended (and often expensive) research stays in places far-away from ‘home’. | Qual Res | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1910 | CRISPR use in diagnosis and therapy for COVID-19 Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many diagnostic approaches (RT-qPCR, RAPID, LFA) have been adopted, with RT-qPCR being the most popular/gold standard. But, one of the major problems of COVID-19 diagnostics is the presentation of a wide range of symptoms which varies among different patients and needs early diagnosis for better management. Even though RT-qPCR is a precise molecular technique false negative results may be obtained. On the other hand, CRISPR-based SARS-CoV-2 detection approaches are cost and time efficient, highly sensitive and specific, and do not require sophisticated instruments. Moreover, they also show promise for increased scalability and diagnostic tests can be carried out at the point-of-care (POC). The CRISPR can be customized to the target of any genomic region of interest within the desired genome possessing a broad range of other applications and has been efficiently implemented for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. The CRISPR/Cas systems provide the specific gene targeting with immense potential to develop new generation diagnostics and therapeutics. Moreover, with the CRISPR/Cas based therapeutics, multiplexing is possible, where different sgRNAs or crRNAs can be guided to more than one target within the same gene thus decreasing the possibility of viral escape mutants. As an exceptionally efficient tool CRISPR/Cas13 and CARVER (Cas13-assisted restriction of viral expression and readout) systems can be implemented to target a broad range of ssRNA viruses that can be used for both, diagnosis and treatment for a variety of viral diseases including SARS-CoV-2. However, the efficacy and safety of the CRISPR-based therapeutics needs to be assessed in pre-clinical and clinical settings. Although the CRISPR biotechnologies are not very helpful to control the present pandemic of COVID-19 it is hopeful that the limitations of the CRISPR/Cas system can be overcome in the near future. The CRISPR based strategies may lead to a new era in the field of disease diagnosis and therapeutic development that would make us better prepared for future viral threats. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1911 | Facilitation activities for change response: a qualitative study on infection prevention and control professionals during a pandemic in Brazil PURPOSE: Facilitation activities support implementation of evidence-based interventions within healthcare organizations. Few studies have attempted to understand how facilitation activities are performed to promote the uptake of evidence-based interventions in hospitals from resource-poor countries during crises such as pandemics. This paper aims to explore facilitation activities by infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals in 16 hospitals from 9 states in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Primary and secondary data were collected between March and December 2020. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 IPC professionals in Brazilian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public and internal documents were used for data triangulation. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis technique. FINDINGS: Building on the change response theory, this study explores the facilitation activities from the cognitive, behavioral and affective aspects. The facilitation activities are grouped in three overarching dimensions: (1) creating and sustaining legitimacy to continuous and rapid changes, (2) fostering capabilities for continuous changes and (3) accelerating individual commitment. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: During crises such as pandemics, facilitation activities by IPC professionals need to embrace all the cognitive, behavioral and affective aspects to stimulate positive attitudes of frontline workers toward continuous and urgent changes. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This study provides unique and timely empirical evidence on the facilitation activities that support the implementation of evidence-based interventions by IPC professionals during crises in hospitals in a resource-poor country. | J Health Organ Manag | 2021 | | CORD-19 |
| 1912 | AZD-1222: Acute interstitial nephritis: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1913 | Remdesivir: Sinus bradycardia: 10 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1914 | Methylprednisolone/prednisone: Various toxicities: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1915 | Tozinameran: Headache, fever and vaccine failure while breast feeding: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1916 | Remdesivir: Liver function test increased: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1917 | Tozinameran: Reactivation and dissemination of varicella zoster virus infection: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1918 | Azd-1222: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1919 | Tozinameran: Immune-mediated necrotising myopathy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1920 | Non-serious case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1921 | Tozinameran: Leucocytoclastic vasculitis: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1922 | Alteplase: Various toxicities: 4 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1923 | Convalescent-anti-sars-cov-2-plasma/remdesivir: Lack of efficacy following: 2 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1924 | Clenbuterol: Acute myocarditis: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1925 | Heparin/tozinameran: Lack of efficacy: 2 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1926 | Elasomeran/tozinameran: Worsening of hidradenitis suppurativa: 5 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1927 | Mycophenolate mofetil/prednisolone/rituximab: SARS-CoV-2 infection and lack of efficacy: 2 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1928 | Azd-1222: Type 2 lepra reaction: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1929 | Multiple drugs: Mucormycosis, off-label use and lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1930 | Ad26.cov2-s/AZD-1222: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and thrombotic thrombocytopenia: 3 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1931 | Multiple drugs: Maternal exposure during third trimester of pregnancy, lack of efficacy and off label use: 4 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1932 | Anticoagulants: Lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1933 | Tozinameran: Sarcoidosis and uveitis: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1934 | Multiple drugs: Treatment failure: 17 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1935 | Epinephrine/propofol: Low-flow ischemic priapism and lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1936 | Anidulafungin: Lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1937 | Azd-1222/bbibp-corv/covid-19-vaccine-gamaleya-national-research-center-of-epidemiology-and-microbiology: Guillain-Barre syndrome: 9 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1938 | Anti-inflammatories/Antihypotensives/dobutamine: Lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1939 | Enoxaparin-sodium: Lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1940 | Convalescent-anti-SARS-CoV-2-plasma/remdesivir/rituximab: COVID-19 infection and lack of efficacy following off-label use: 20 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1941 | BBIBP-CorV: Vaccine induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1942 | Immunosuppressants: Coronavirus disease of 2019: 3 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1943 | Tozinameran: Worsening of chronic graft-versus-host disease and steroid-refractory immune thrombocytopenia: 2 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1944 | Rituximab/methotrexate: Lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1945 | Immunosuppressants: BK virus nephropathy, Nocardiosis and various toxicities: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1946 | AZD-1222/immune-globulin/methylprednisolone: Autoimmune encephalitis and lack of efficacy: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1947 | A parallel methodology of adaptive Cartesian grid for compressible flow simulations The combination of Cartesian grid and the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technology is an effective way to handle complex geometry and solve complex flow problems. Some high-efficiency Cartesian-based AMR libraries have been developed to handle dynamic changes of the grid in parallel but still can not meet the unique requirements of simulating flow around objects. In this paper, we propose an efficient Cartesian grid generation method and an information transmission approach for the wall boundary to parallelize the implementation of ghost-cell method (GCM). Also, the multi-valued ghost-cell method to handle multi-value points is improved to adapt to the parallel framework. Combining the mentioned methodologies with the open-source library p4est, an automatic and efficient simulation of compressible flow is achieved. The overall performance of the methodology is tested through a wide range of inviscid/viscous flow cases. The results indicate that the capability and parallel scalability of the present numerical methodology for solving multiple types of flows, involving shock and vortices, multi-body flow and unsteady flows are agreeable as compared with related reference data. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1948 | Ad26.cov2-s/tozinameran: Minimal change disease and podocytopathic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: 3 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1949 | Antivirals/corticosteroids/withania somnifera: Rhino-orbital mucormycosis and off label use: 13 case reports | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 1950 | Tozinameran: Myocarditis and pulmonary embolism: case report | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
