| Title | Venue | Year | Impact | Source |
| 2101 | Evan syndrome as initial presentation of COVID-19 infection BACKGROUND: Evans’ syndrome (ES) is a rare and chronic autoimmune disease characterized by the concomitant or sequential association of auto-immune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), and less frequently autoimmune neutropenia with a positive direct anti-human globulin test. ES represents up to 7% of AIHA and around 2% of ITP. Studies have found that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be associated with various hematological complications, i.e., coagulopathies; however, finding of Evans syndrome is a novel case. CASE REPORT: A 54-year-old diabetic man complaining of fever (high grade), arthralgia and myalgia, fatigue, and dark color of urine. He was admitted to isolation sector at Sohag General Hospital on day 6 because of fever with cough, dyspnea, and progressive fatigue, and at admission, he was tachypneic, tachycardiac, jaundiced, febrile (38 °C), and hypoxemic (O2 saturations on room air was 80%). Laboratory studies showed hemoglobin (Hb) 5.43 g/dL, high reticulocyte (12.5%), ↓ed platelet count (54 × 10(3)/μl), hyperbilirubinemia and elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), D-dimer, ferritin, and lactate dehydrogenase. Markers of autoimmune diseases and screening for malignant diseases were negative. HRCT chest showed bilateral small-sized peripheral ground glass opacities in both lungs, with positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the nasopharyngeal swab. Direct Coombs test was positive for immunoglobulin (IgG) and C3d. Evans syndrome secondary to COVID-19 was diagnosed and treatment with packed red cell (PRC) transfusions, favipiravir, dexamethasone, prednisone, ceftriaxone, enoxaparin, oral hypoglycemic, and oxygen using face mask, and then Hb value increased to 10.3 g/dL and he was discharged home without any complications. CONCLUSION: There are few reports of patients with concurrent COVID-19 and Evans syndrome. So, SARS-CoV-2 infection should be considered in any patient presenting with new-onset ES of unclear etiology. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2102 | A Procedural Justice Theory Approach to Police Engagement with Victim-Survivors of Rape and Sexual Assault: Initial Findings of the 'Project Bluestone' Pilot Study In England and Wales, public trust in the police has been damaged by a series of police failings in rape and sexual assault investigations, officer sexual offending, and a police culture of misogyny. Feminist scholars have analysed why police investigations of rape and sexual assault cases rarely result in a charge and documented the poor experiences many victim-survivors have of the police process. In this article, we outline how this scholarship may be integrated into procedural justice theory to advance our understanding of the impact of how officers engage with victim-survivors on their feelings of the status and value as survivors of sexual violence within the nation and society police represent, as well as on their trust in the police and willingness to (continue) engaging with police, or report future victimisation. We present tentative evidence from a pilot study (‘Project Bluestone’) in one English police force that suggests a feminist scholarship informed Procedural Justice framework is a promising tool for assessing and improving police practice in engaging with victim-survivors of rape and sexual assault. The article concludes with directions for future research. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2103 | Literature reviews | Int J Orthop Trauma Nurs | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2104 | The impact of COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination on sexual communication and relationships among Asian individuals in the United States Asian individuals in the United States have experienced heightened racial discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may reduce positive relationship processes and damage intimate relationships, including their sexual behaviors and quality. Guided by the chilling effect and Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction, this study explores how COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination moderates the relationships between sexual relationship power, sexual self-disclosure, and sexual satisfaction. Results (N = 294 partnered Asian adults) showed that as racial discrimination increased, the positive relationship between sexual relationship power and sexual self-disclosure decreased. As people experienced more racial discrimination, the positive effects of sexual self-disclosure on sexual satisfaction also decreased. Sexual power positively predicted sexual satisfaction via sexual communication, only when COVID-19-related discrimination was low or moderate. This study demonstrates how racial discrimination interacts with relational factors to predict Asian individuals’ sexual communication and, in turn, sexual satisfaction. More public attention and efforts should be devoted to combating anti-Asian discrimination during the pandemic and beyond. | J Soc Pers Relat | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2105 | Can employers mandate their employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine? This article considers the legality of employers mandating the COVID-19 vaccination in Australia. A current and pertinent topic of debate, the author explores the multiple avenues an employer may have in order to make the COVID-19 vaccine compulsory and makes comparison to other regularly accepted vaccinations such as the influenza immunisation. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2106 | The Role of Nutrition in COVID-19: Taking a Lesson from the 1918 H1N1 Pandemic In looking for solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, important lessons come from the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1918–1919. During the H1N1 influenza pandemic, the soldiers had better outcomes than the civilian populations, but the best outcomes were reported by a Seventh-day Adventist seminary, where a plant-based diet was provided. The diet has been described as including grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. A few clinical trials have also assessed the role of nutrition in COVID-19. One study with almost six hundred thousand participants showed that those with a high consumption of fruits and vegetables had a reduced risk of COVID-19 of any severity by 9% and a reduced risk of severe COVID-19 by 41%. Another study in healthcare workers who were frequently exposed to COVID-19 in their clinical practice has demonstrated that those who reported being on a plant-based diet had a 73% lower risk of moderate-to-severe COVID-19. Based on the lessons from 1918 and the recent nutrition research in COVID-19, it seems plausible that a healthful plant-based diet may be a powerful tool to decrease the risk of severe COVID-19 and should be promoted as one of the public health safety measures. | Am J Lifestyle Med | 2023 | | CORD-19 |
| 2107 | The shifting educational landscape: science teachers' practice during the COVID-19 pandemic through an activity theory lens In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed all educational institutions. Teachers were called upon to respond quickly to the needs of K-12 students. They had to learn how to navigate online learning systems while simultaneously delivering engaging inquiry-based activities in high-stakes school science courses. To understand how teachers navigated these dual tensions, we have drawn on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to describe how teachers learned and mediated their professional practices to meet the educational needs of their students. We examine the rapidly changing school activity system and how these changes impacted teachers’ epistemological beliefs about student engagement and evaluation. We report that teachers developed new styles and attitudes about teaching that reflected the new educational landscape imposed by the pandemic. We explore the pedagogical shifts that characterize this specific time and how the newly acquired pedagogies could find permanence in teachers’ activities post-pandemic. This study reports on the experiences of ten teachers from two high schools as they adapt to change during the global pandemic. We followed the teachers’ professional journey as they worked in a professional learning community to develop online practices. Professional learning meetings, semi-structured interviews, and participant journals captured teachers’ successes and failures as they struggled to adapt inquiry-based science lessons to meet the challenges of teaching online. Their practices shifted as they engaged students in synchronous collaborative projects and laboratory activities, and they developed alternative formative and summative assessment practices. This study contributes to a growing body of research of teacher practice through a CHAT theoretical framework to understand teachers’ professional learning during a time of change and upheaval. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2108 | Key issues impeding the integration of international faculty at Japanese universities The study is devoted to identifying the key issues impeding the integration of international faculty at Japanese universities via a qualitative approach. Semi-structured interviews with 40 international faculty hired in Japanese universities with various backgrounds were conducted. The interview data were analyzed based on a three-stage coding procedure, namely open, axial, and selective coding, which identifies the main themes through increasing the level of data abstraction. The study identified the key issues from work, cultural, and interpersonal dimensions in the context internal to Japanese universities, and environmental dimension in the context external to Japanese universities. Meanwhile, the study also acknowledged the perceptual differentiation of these issues depending on international faculty’s backgrounds. Based on the principles of Embedded Intergroups Relations Theory, it appears that the key issues differ according to international faculty’s identity (country of origins), cultural backgrounds (previous experiences in Japan), and their organizational characteristics (academic ranks and disciplines). In other words, junior faculty in the Humanities who were not from countries in which Chinese characters are historically used or without previous experiences in Japan tend to perceive themselves as tokens at Japanese universities. Theoretical and practical implications including policies, future studies, and support systems are offered for policymakers, researchers, and university administrators. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2109 | High flow nasal oxygen therapy for COVID-19: an unusual complication BACKGROUND: Acute hypoxemic respiratory failure is the most common complication of COVID 19 infection. Newer ways for oxygen therapy were explored during this pandemic. High flow nasal oxygenation (HFNO) emerged as a novel technique for oxygenation and prevented the need for invasive mechanical ventilation during hypoxia among COVID patients. Using high flow oxygen dries the nasal mucosa and leads to skin disruption. We are presenting this case as this complication has not been reported anywhere to our knowledge. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of a 62-year-old male, who was on HFNO for a long time as a part of treatment for COVID 19 and developed ulceration in the nasal septa. Patient belonged to a geriatric age group and had diabetes mellitus. Close monitoring by ICU (intensive care unit) staff was a big problem during this pandemic. Daily physical assessment, good nutrition, and daily dressing with plastic surgery consultation helped treat our patient. CONCLUSIONS: Geriatric patients with other co-morbidities are vulnerable to mucosal injury. Even in COVID era, everyday general physical surveillance is very vital in such patients to prevent these complications. During this pandemic close monitoring of patients suffered due to scarcity of ICU staff. In spite of that, it is a must to ensure daily physical surveillance and good supplemental nutrition especially in geriatric patients. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2110 | Overcoming the challenges in intra-hospital transport of COVID patients | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2111 | What Is Wrong with Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration Law? In this article, we explore why solidarity has not worked according to expectation in EU migration and asylum law and why it is unlikely to work in the future. First, we consider discourses of burden-sharing and solidarity in EU law from the 1990s up to the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 to identify emergent path dependencies. This period saw the introduction of primary law provisions on solidarity, such as Article 80 TFEU, as French and Dutch electorates had rejected a European constitution. Second, we perform an analysis of Article 80 through the conceptual history of solidarity, in particular, the dominant Roman law tradition of obligation in solidum and the French tradition of solidarism. We submit that the term ‘solidarity’ is actually a misnomer: already on structural grounds, Article 80 should be read as an alliance clause, countering a threat of irregular immigration. Third, we find that the practice under Article 80 as it develops during the period between 2015 and the 2020 European Commission Pact on Migration and Asylum corroborates this finding. Overall, we find that the concept of solidarity in EU asylum and migration law engenders outcome expectations that it cannot deliver as the defence alliance it is. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2112 | T.03.8 SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH COELIAC DISEASE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2113 | T.04.10 EFFECT OF WHEY PROTEINS ON MALNUTRITION AND EXTUBATING TIME OF CRITICALLY ILL COVID-19 PATIENTS | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2114 | OC.02.2 REDUCED EXPRESSION OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTION-RELATED GENES IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2115 | T.07.7 INCREASED NUMBER OF COLORECTAL INTERVAL CANCERS IN LYNCH SYNDROME AFTER THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC. A SURVEY-BASED STUDY | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2116 | PC.01.4 REDUCED IMMUNE RESPONSE INDUCED BY TWO DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: DATA FROM ESCAPE-AN IG-IBD STUDY | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2117 | OC.02.1 SAFETY OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: DATA OF A NATIONAL STUDY (ESCAPE-IBD) | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2118 | T.08.5 THE OVERALL SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-COV-2) PANDEMIC IMPACT ON METABOLIC (DYSFUNCTION) ASSOCIATED FATTY LIVER DISEASE. A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2119 | OC.08.1 THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON HOSPITALIZATIONS FOR DIVERTICULAR DISEASE | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2120 | T.06.3 DOES SARS-COV-2 VACCINATION AFFECT THE COURSE OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN PATIENTS ON BIOLOGICAL THERAPY? | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2121 | T.03.9 MUTYH-ASSOCIATED POLYPOSIS: IS TIME TO CHANGE UPPER GI SURVEILLANCE? | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2122 | T.03.10 HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA FOLLOWING EXPOSURE TO SARS-COV2 MRNA VACCINE: A CASE REPORT | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2123 | OC.15.2 HUMORAL RESPONSE TO 2-DOSE BNT162B2 MRNA VACCINE FOR COVID-19 IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2124 | T.06.5 ONE YEAR OF USTEKINUMAB THERAPY IMPROVES NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2125 | OC.10.2 A SERUM METABOLOMICS ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL THERAPIES IN IBD PATIENTS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SARS-COV-2 INFECTION | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2126 | T.03.7 PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON SARS-COV-2 VACCINATION RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH COELIAC DISEASE AND NON-COELIAC ENTEROPATHIES: A SINGLE-CENTRE CASE-CONTROL STUDY | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2127 | T.06.4 LONG TERM EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ABP 501 ADALIMUMAB BIOSIMILAR ON INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DIESASES: THE ADASWITCH STUDY | Dig Liver Dis | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2128 | Differential Impacts of Pair and Self-Dynamics on Written Languaging Attributes and Translation Task Performance in EFL Context Written languaging (WL) as a facilitator of second/foreign language (L2) learning has remained under-researched in the languaging literature. This study investigated the potentials of pair and self-languaging dynamics to determine (1) the attributes of quantity, focus, and conceptual processes in WL episodes and (2) translation tasks accomplishment. In a pretest–posttest research design, 60 undergraduate English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners were selected and assigned into two groups of pair and self-languagers. For three weeks, they produced WL episodes while completing Persian-to-English translation tasks at three stages of translating, comparing to the model translation, and revising translation. Chi-square analysis indicated significant interactions between (1) languaging dynamics and the quantity of WL, and (2) languaging dynamics and the focus of WL. Accordingly, pair languagers produced more WL than self-languagers, while both groups produced fewer WL through stage-wise translation task performance. Also, while both groups focused on lexis (L-WL) more than grammar (G-WL), pair languagers produced more L-WL than self-languagers who had a higher record in producing G-WL. Moreover, the distribution of conceptual processes underlying WL episodes was uneven and more in favor of self-assessment and hypothesis formation in both groups. Finally, the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated another interaction between languaging dynamics and translation task performance. Accordingly, pair languagers outperformed self-languagers on the posttest despite their mutual language learning progress. Pedagogical implications of the study promote the critical role of WL as a metacognitive mediator and translation as a form-focused task in the L2 context. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2129 | Monitoring COVID-19 Cases and Vaccination in Indian States and Union Territories Using Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm The worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China led to an ongoing pandemic as COVID-19. The disease being a contagion transmitted rapidly in India through the people having travel histories to the affected countries, and their contacts that tested positive. Millions of people across all states and union territories (UT) were affected leading to serious respiratory illness and deaths. In the present study, two unsupervised clustering algorithms namely k-means clustering and hierarchical agglomerative clustering are applied on the COVID-19 dataset in order to group the Indian states/UTs based on the pandemic effect and the vaccination program from the period of March, 2020 to early June, 2021. The aim of the study is to observe the plight of each state and UT of India combating the novel coronavirus infection and to monitor their vaccination status. The research study will be helpful to the government and to the frontline workers coping to restrict the transmission of the virus in India. Also, the results of the study will provide a source of information for future research regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in India. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2130 | Treating COVID-19 patients with EMDR: A pilot study The threatening and unpredictable nature of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic presents unprecedented mental-health challenges worldwide. For those directly affected by the disease, the stress of facing potential death and overcoming fear can overwhelm their personal coping resources and can lead to symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety and depression. The objective of our study was to investigate the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to reduce anxio-depressive symptoms, distress and fear of the unknown in COVID-19 patients hospitalized for intensive care. A pilot study was conducted with 21 participants hospitalized for COVID-19 (11 women and 10 men) who were treated with EMDR therapy and assessed for anxio-depressive symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS), intensity of distress (Subjective Units of Disturbance, SUD scale), and levels of experienced fear (i.e., fear of the unknown) (Multidimensional Assessment of COVID-19-Related Fears, MAC-RF). After the 4-session treatment, the EMDR therapy showed to be effective in reducing all of the evaluated symptoms in all patients and allowed for stabilization. All patients maintained improved psychological states for one week following the four sessions. EMDR therapy has been shown to be an effective strategy for helping patients process exposure to adverse events by relieving symptoms of acute stress and trauma. EMDR is a focused approach that with as few as 4 sessions can strengthen adaptive coping strategies for dealing with an ongoing situation, restore optimism and can rapidly prevent the onset of potentially long-lasting psychological disorders. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2131 | Upper age limit for NEET-UG entrance removed | Indian Pediatr | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2132 | Governance of social responsibility in international infrastructure megaprojects | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2133 | Schulbezogene Einstellungen von Kindern aus bildungsfernen Milieus in der Corona-Pandemie There is widespread consensus that distance learning in lockdown discriminates children and young people from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds in particular. The gap between the privileged and the left-behind, which is already wide open in Germany, is widening more and more as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. Empirical evidence for this pandemic-related effect is, however, still scarce, and the corresponding studies rarely include students themselves, and even less so those who are taught at schools in challenging situations. This paper reports on a quantitative study of elementary schools in particularly disadvantaged settings during the lockdown in spring 2021. It asks about individual attitudes and learning experiences of students during homeschooling. The goal was not to define a group of adolescents as disadvantaged and thus as disconnected, but to empirically investigate which individual factors, framework conditions, and mechanisms of action lead to some of these students being more successful in learning during the lockdown than others with initially equal starting conditions. The data analyses revealed four stable clusters, which are based on different forms of student agency and show potentials and opportunities to support students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds individually—in homeschooling and in face-to-face teaching. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2134 | Erratum to: Early goal-directed therapy with and without intermittent superior vena cava oxygen saturation monitoring in pediatric septic shock: A randomized controlled trial | Indian Pediatr | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2135 | Identifying and ranking risks using combined FMEA-TOPSIS method for new product development in the dairy industry and offering mitigation strategies: case study of Ramak Company Food industry as one of the most important and influential industries plays an important role in the health and well-being of the community. It is also important for the country’s economy, export, and inter-state relations. As the industry expands and competition becomes tougher, the development of new products that can compete in this competitive market has become a major concern for manufacturers but the production of new products is always associated with uncertainties and risks, the management of which is the core of the new product development process and plays an important role in the success of industries. Risks occur in different shapes at every stage of the new product development process from design to consumption. In this study, the new product development process in a dairy company is investigated. A quantitative approach is proposed to identify and rank the risks affecting this process using the combined Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method. Shannon entropy method is also used to weight the criteria in the TOPSIS method. Identified risks by considering expert’s opinion were scored from 0 to 10 regarding FMEA method factors (Severity, Occurrence, Detective), then by utilizing Shannon entropy method in TOPSIS each risk was weighted and ranked. 14 risks are first identified and then ranked based on 30 experts opinions from different parts of the company such as marketing, accounting, engineering, staff, management etc. and prior studies. The results show that ’Mismatching product Specifications with costumer needs and tastes’ and ’The emergence of a new rival’ are the most important risk factors for new product development. Risk reduction strategies based on the standard of project management, firm strengths and weaknesses and expert opinions on all risk factors are provided. At the end, some recommendations are provided to the managers of the company. The proposed approach is applied in Ramak Company and the results are approved by experts, more importantly, they are agree that the proposed approach can be used to identify, evaluate and present risk reduction strategies in the food industry. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2136 | Anti-cheating protection measures in chess: current state of play This article examines recent anti-cheating practices in the sport of chess with a focus on situational crime prevention. On the one hand, anti-cheating protection measures in chess could be considered relatively belated compared with other sports. On the other hand, however, this ‘lag’ might be appropriate since chess governing bodies have not yet introduced overly intrusive rules. These two interacting perspectives shape the aim and objectives of this research designed to protect the chess community from cheating by identifying adequate protection measures in the light of environmental criminology and sports law. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2137 | Mobile Health Technology: From Daily Care and Pandemics to their Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact Mobile health technology is a rapidly growing field with numerous promises to make substantial impact in our lives. To open this special issue, which brings to you many exciting research results in mobile health technology, we discuss two important aspects of this technology. One is how they can be integrated in our daily lives as important care devices, especially during periods such as the more and more frequent pandemics around the world. Having discussed their advantages, we calculate their estimated footprint in the energy consumption and dioxide carbon they produce globally. With that we raise awareness and invite researchers to work on reducing their energy consumption to ensure that they maintain a low footprint even if their numbers explodes in the near future. We finish this article with a brief teaser of the papers published in this special issue and wish you a good read. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2138 | Assessment of Commonly Measured Wastewater Parameters to Estimate Sewershed Populations for Use in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Insights into Population Dynamics in New York City during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Image: see text] Understanding per capita rates of disease incidence or prevalence from wastewater surveillance data requires an estimate of the population contributing to wastewater samples, given that populations in large urban areas are dynamic, especially if major events, such as the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cause large population shifts. To assess whether commonly measured wastewater parameters can be used to estimate sewershed populations, we used wastewater data collected from New York City’s (NYC) 14 wastewater treatment facilities to evaluate the relationship between influent loads of four wastewater parameters—ammonia, total Kjeldahl nitrogen, total suspended solids, and five-day carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand—and census-based population estimates of the corresponding sewersheds during 2019, when populations were assumed to be relatively stable. Ammonia mass load had the most consistent relationship with sewershed population, regardless of wet weather contributions to NYC’s predominantly combined sewer system. Changes in ammonia loads due to COVID-19 restrictions enacted in March 2020 generally reflected population shifts in sewersheds serving areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn, for which previous studies report decreased commuter mobility and residential populations. Our findings highlight the utility of ammonia mass load in influent wastewater as a population indicator to normalize wastewater-based epidemiology data and track sewershed population dynamics. | ACS ES T Water | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2139 | Comparative Analysis of RNA-Extraction Approaches and Associated Influences on RT-qPCR of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a University Residence Hall and Quarantine Location [Image: see text] Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) provides an early warning and trend analysis approach for determining the presence of COVID-19 in a community and complements clinical testing in assessing the population level, even as viral loads fluctuate. Here, we evaluate combinations of two wastewater concentration methods (i.e., ultrafiltration and composite supernatant–solid), four pre-RNA extraction modifications, and three nucleic acid extraction kits using two different wastewater sampling locations. These consisted of a quarantine facility containing clinically confirmed COVID-19-positive inhabitants and a university residence hall. Of the combinations examined, composite supernatant–solid with pre-RNA extraction consisting of water concentration and RNA/DNA shield performed the best in terms of speed and sensitivity. Further, of the three nucleic acid extraction kits examined, the most variability was associated with the Qiagen kit. Focusing on the quarantine facility, viral concentrations measured in wastewater were generally significantly related to positive clinical cases, with the relationship dependent on method, modification, kit, target, and normalization, although results were variable-dependent on individual time points (Kendall’s Tau-b (τ) = 0.17 to 0.6) or cumulatively (Kendall’s Tau-b (τ) = −0.048 to 1). These observations can support laboratories establishing protocols to perform wastewater surveillance and monitoring efforts for COVID-19. | ACS ES T Water | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2140 | Diurnal Variability of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Concentrations in Hourly Grab Samples of Wastewater Influent during Low COVID-19 Incidence [Image: see text] Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been widely deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but with limited evaluation of the utility of discrete sampling for large sewersheds and low COVID-19 incidence. In this study, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was measured in 72 consecutive hourly influent grab samples collected at a wastewater treatment plant serving nearly 500 000 residents when incidence was low (approximately 20 cases per 100 000). We characterized diurnal variability and relationships between SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection and physicochemical covariates [flow rate, total ammonia nitrogen (TAN), and total solids (TS)]. The highest detection rate observed was 82% during the first peak flow, which occurred in the early afternoon (14:00). Higher detection rates were also observed when sampling above median TAN concentrations (71%; p < 0.01; median = 40.26 mg of NH(4)/L). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were weakly correlated with flow rate (Kendall’s τ = 0.16; p < 0.01), TAN (τ = 0.19; p < 0.05), and TS (τ = 0.18; p < 0.01), suggesting generally low RNA sewer discharges as expected at low incidence. Our results elucidated sensible adjustments to maximize detection rates, including using multiple gene targets, collecting duplicate samples, and sampling during higher flow and TAN discharges. Optimizing the lower-incidence bounds of WBE can help assess its suitability for verifying COVID-19 reemergence or eradication. | ACS ES T Water | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2141 | Public Awareness of and Support for the Use of Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring: A Community Survey in Louisville, Kentucky [Image: see text] The majority of sewer systems in the United States and other countries are operated by public utilities. In the absence of any regulation, the public perception of wastewater monitoring for population health biomarkers is an important consideration for a public utility commission when allocating resources for this purpose. We conducted a survey in August 2021 as part of an ongoing COVID-19 community prevalence study in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, US. The survey comprised seven questions about wastewater awareness and privacy concerns and was sent to approximately 35 000 households randomly distributed within the county. A total of 1220 adults were involved in the probability sample, and data from 981 respondents were used in the analysis. A total of 2444 adults additionally responded to the convenience sample, and data from 1751 respondents were used in the analysis. The samples were weighted to obtain estimates representative of all adults in the county. Public awareness of tracking the virus that causes COVID-19 in sewers was low. Opinions strongly support the public disclosure of monitoring results. Responses showed that people more strongly supported measurements in the largest areas (>50 000 households), typically representing population levels found in a large community wastewater treatment plant. Those with a history of COVID-19 infection were more likely to support highly localized monitoring. Understanding wastewater surveillance strategies and privacy concern thresholds requires an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of public opinion for continued success and effective public health monitoring. | ACS ES T Water | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2142 | The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Iranian Oil and Gas Industry Planning: A Survey of Business Continuity Challenges The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected various aspects of life, and its compounding and cascading impacts have been observed in most industries and firms. The oil and gas (O&G) industry was among the first to experience the impacts as the pandemic began due to the global economic recession and a sharp decline in demand for oil. The pandemic revealed major risk management and business continuity challenges and uncovered some of the vulnerabilities of the O&G industry and its major companies during a prolonged global disaster. Examining and understanding how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the O&G sector in different countries, considering their unique circumstances, can provide important lessons for managing the current and future similar events. This study investigated various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the O&G industry using Iran’s Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) as a case study. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with key managers of the company. Qualitative methods, specifically thematic analysis, were used to analyze the data. Findings of this study provide further insights into how the pandemic impacted the operations, risks, and business continuity of the POCG. The results show that the pandemic caused significant operational, financial, and legal impacts by disrupting routine maintenance, reducing the availability of human resources under the public health measures and mobility restrictions, increasing processing and delivery times, increasing costs and decreasing revenues, and delaying contractual obligations. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2143 | Gewissensbits-wie würden Sie urteilen? | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2144 | Identifying Abnormal CFRP Holes Using Both Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Techniques on In-Process Force, Current and Vibration Signals This study aims to conduct abnormality detection by applying machine learning algorithms when drilling a carbon fiber reinforced plastic laminate. In-process signals including current, thrust force, and vibration were captured during the dry drilling experiments using a 6 mm physical vapor deposit diamond-coated drill at the consistent spindle speed of 6500 RPM and 0.05 mm/rev. Across measurements from out-of-process variables, including hole diameter, roundness, surface roughness, entry/exit delamination, and entry/exit uncut fiber area, in-process measurements were most able to find outliers with respect to diameter. Both Principal Component Analysis, an unsupervised dimensionality reduction technique, and Linear Discriminant Analysis, a supervised dimensionality reduction technique, could separate oversize or undersize holes from average-sized holes when using fast Fourier transformation data of in-process vibration. Predictive performance with k-Nearest Neighbors shows that our machine learning pipeline can predict oversized vs. non-oversized holes with over 85% accuracy in this dataset. Peak prediction performance is obtained when in-process measurement data is viewed from the frequency domain, and predictions are weighted based on the relative distances of the nearest neighbors. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2145 | 15th National Congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (AIMN): Rimini (Italy), May, 12-15, 2022 | Clin Transl Imaging | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2146 | Make "Incongruent" to Be "Excellent": Fluid Compensation in Extremely Incongruent New Products Under fierce market competition, firms are accelerating the pace of product innovation, which may bring extremely incongruent new products. Generally, consumers are unfamiliar with extreme incongruence, resulting in passive product evaluation and a low success rate. This study draws on the meaning maintenance model of fluid compensation theory to examine how extremely incongruent new products influence product evaluation. Three experiments indicate that consumers’ product evaluation of extremely incongruent new products is significantly lower than that of congruent products, and it can be notably improved by three ways of fluid compensation. The findings revealed that anxiety moderates the relationship between extremely incongruent new products and product evaluations, and further self-esteem moderates the relationship on the main effects. Overall, our research reconciles divergent findings on the effect of extremely incongruent new products on the effects of product evaluation and further provides rich managerial implications for product innovation management. | Front Psychol | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2147 | Overcoming political risk in developing economies through non-local debt Infrastructure investments are essential in generating sustainable development but also involve extensive political risk and potentially unreliable local partners. We study how banks financing such investments use syndication with non-local partners to pool economic leverage from trade, investment, and FDI. Using 5928 of the world’s largest infrastructure and energy projects in 160 countries between 2000 and 2013, we show that banks pool economic leverage from banks with dominant economic ties to the host country and from supranational institutions. Our findings contribute three distinct elements to the nonmarket strategy literature. First, they highlight the strategic value of macro-economic dependencies in the management of political risk. Second, our study positions non-local alliances as an alternative to alliance partners in the host-country context. Third, our study is the first in IB to acknowledge the value of debt-side pooling of leverage. From a practical and policy point of view, our findings suggest that practitioners and policymakers should strive to improve the efficiency of debt syndication across borders as a means of mitigating political risk and encouraging infrastructure investment. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s42214-022-00137-w. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2148 | Indices of Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change: a Review The objective of this paper is to identify and analyze relevant research of index-based methods for the evaluation of climate change vulnerability and resilience of coastal areas. We searched, retrieved, classified and reviewed papers on climate-change hazards, impacts, vulnerability and resilience of coastal water systems and relevant infrastructure. For this, Scopus, Science Direct, Thompson-Reuters Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed and other relevant databases were used. The analysis of the state-of-the-art presented in this paper acknowledges that using vulnerability and resilience indices in climate vulnerability research is effective, providing a solid, efficient and user-friendly framework. However, selection of index variables should be part of a holistic as well as dynamic approach to identify not only areas in danger, but also the level of social vulnerability. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2149 | Editorial to the special issue "Structured Literature Reviews in Entrepreneurship Research-Taking Stock and Setting the Agenda" Entrepreneurship as a phenomenon has changed a lot over the last years. At the same time entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary research field has seen strong growth and gained importance in management as a discipline. The special issue “Structured Literature Reviews in Entrepreneurship Research-Taking Stock and Setting the Agenda” takes stock of what has been achieved in selected areas of entrepreneurship research. This editorial summarizes the content of the seven articles that are included in the special issue. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 2150 | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being Architect Jørn Utzon is known for his devotion to human well-being and his ability to integrate architectural and structural ideas. Yet, discussions in scholarly circles often emphasise his tectonic genius related to sublime formgiving and structural-material experiments. Less attention is given to how his sense of empathy and concern for the well-being of users influenced his design process. To address this absence, we explored how training students in a user empathic design process can be integrated in an architectural and engineering design approach. First, we outline a theoretical framework grounded in the 1) scholarship on tectonic thinking by Jonathan Hale and Marco Frascari and 2) cognitive-neuroscientific understanding of how human beings interact with their surroundings in an embodied and emotional manner. Architectural experience is thus co-produced in an on-going meeting between structures, spaces, and human bodies. Secondly, we present a case study of an experiment with storyboarding as a technique to visualize the intangible aspects of designing for well-being and emotional experience. Placing the ‘body’ and ‘experience’ at the center of the design process calls for greater sensitivity to diversities within user groups. We argue for an adjusted tectonic design toolbox focused around translating experiences, emotions, and behaviors as a means of joining user-oriented, architectural, and engineering principles in the early design phases. This paper intends to spark a debate about ‘tectonics of well-being’ and to discuss whether storyboarding as a narrative design tool can help join structural-material genius with socio-cultural realms of human experience in tectonic design. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
