| Title | Venue | Year | Impact | Source |
| 3251 | Private equity and Covid-19 We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decision-making and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to maximize value, their actions during the pandemic should indicate what they perceive as being important for both the preservation and creation of value. PE managers believe that 40% of their portfolio companies are moderately negatively affected and 10% are very negatively affected by the pandemic. The private equity managers—both investment and operating partners—are actively engaged in the operations, governance, and financing in all of their current portfolio companies. These activities are more intensively pursued in those companies that have been more severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, they expect the performance of their existing funds to decline. They are more pessimistic about that decline than the venture capitalists (VCs) surveyed in Gompers et al. (2020b). Despite the pandemic, private equity managers are seeking new investments. Rather than focusing on cost cutting, PE investors place a much greater weight on revenue growth for value creation. Relative to the 2012 survey results reported in Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov (2016), they appear to give a larger equity stake to management teams and target somewhat lower returns. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3252 | COVID-19 häufigste Berufserkrankung beim medizinischen Personal | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3253 | Recht: Aus den Gerichten: Aktuelle Urteile kurz erläutert | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3254 | Stigma and Discrimination: the Twain Impact on Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic The real tragedy of COVID-19 is the social and cultural stigma associated with the infected people from the disease. Taking forward from one of the celebrated works of Erving Goffman, known as stigma (1963), this article offers a critical understanding of different fractions created during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indian society. Following the qualitative research method, the study interviewed twenty COVID-19-positive people selected from different age groups, sex, and socio-economic background of the state of Odisha in India. The participants attended the interview through telephonic and video conferencing to throw light on the conundrum of COVID-19 and discrimination. The interview outlined the link between prestige and economically marginalized and how social stigma brought about catastrophe to the different sections of Indian society and culminated in 'Twain Untouchability. Besides this, the article also includes content analysis of some of the newspaper articles published in 2020. The article examines the lived experiences, discrimination, and stigmatization of COVID-19 infected people through phenomenological analysis in the following ways. Firstly, the study analyzes people’s social and emotional experiences in pre, post, and during the COVID-19-positive phase. Secondly, it examines the people and their relatives social and emotional perceptions about COVID-19-affected people. Thirdly, it suggests some ways to mitigate the stigma experiences during COVID 19 pandemic. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3255 | Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic This article is among the first to explore the role and status of the private security industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing on the UK case, it illustrates how even though most private security officers were designated as ‘critical workers’ in this time of crisis, performing a range of functions essential to national infrastructure and law and order, the public have been slow or reluctant to recognise the contribution of the sector. It argues that this disposition is reflective of a longstanding public ambivalence or unease towards the private security industry which can ultimately be traced to the state-centric sociological terrain of the policing field. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3256 | Multi-detector computed tomography and 3Tesla magnetic resonance imaging in assessment of COVID-19 intracranial complications BACKGROUND: The novel worldwide coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, first appearing in Wuhan, China, has allured immense global attention. To our comprehension, this research work accommodates the largest isolation hospital-conducted cohort of coronavirus patients in which neuro-radiological complications were retrospectively assessed. To the present day, our full understanding of COVID-19 and its spectrum of diverse complications still remains insufficient. Moreover, the number of reported neurological complications albeit the global spread of the coronavirus pandemic is also widely lacking due to the constrained implementation of MR neuro-imaging in COVID-19 patients. RESULTS: Forty-eight males and 26 females met the inclusion criteria, with a mean age 60.55 (ranged from 22 to 88 years old). The frequent clinical manifestation has impaired level of consciousness 55.4%. Most commonly recurring radiological findings were ischemic stroke 54.06% and parenchymal hematomas and hemorrhage 25.69%. Other less imaging brain findings were certain diagnostic entities, i.e., PRES, cerebral edema, leuko-encephalopathic WM abnormalities, microhemorrhages, vascular thrombosis and acute necrotizing encephalopathy. Soaring mortality rates correlated with serious neuro-radiological manifestations, being highest with infarction 57.5%, p = 0.908 and hemorrhage/hematomas 63.2%, p = 0.604. CONCLUSIONS: Intra-cranial complications were significantly detectable in COVID-19 infection and correlated with severity of illness. Outstanding higher mortality rates were associated with worsening neuro-radiological complications. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3257 | Book Notes "Law" 1/2022 | J Consum Policy (Dordr) | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3258 | Synthesis and Antimicrobial, Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Activities of New Isatin Deivatives Containing a Hetero-Fused Imidazole Fragment A series of isatin derivatives containing an adenine or theophylline fragment have been synthesized. The corresponding N′-[2-(trimethylammonio)acetyl] and N′-(2-pyridinioacetyl) hydrazones have been found to exhibit neither cytotoxicity nor hemotoxicity. Quaternary salts based on adenine derivatives of 5-methyl- and 5-ethylisatins showed the highest antiplatelet activity which exceeded the activity of acetylsalicylic acid by a factor of 1.5. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3259 | Dynamic Light Weight Recommendation System for Social Networking Analysis Using a Hybrid LSTM-SVM Classifier Algorithm Social media has become one of the significant platforms for information sharing. At that same time, the influence of fake news is a growing cause for all people using social networking platforms. The entire world faces a difficult situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneously, the leaking of info in social media concerning COVID-19 also increases exponentially. These information cause serious worries, which affects people psychologically. Several social media analysis methods are developed over years. However, those had several difficulties due to short text social media comments, which causes significant data sparsity. To overcome such difficulties, this paper proposed a recommendation system for social networking to predict whether the information is fake or real using a hybrid LSTM-SVM classifier. Initially, the proposed model gathered real-time COVID-19 related commands from Twitter social media to form a dataset. The collected data is preprocessed by splitting, stop word removal, lemmatization, and spell correction. After preprocessing, the features from the data are extracted and converted to binary with the assist of a count vectorizer. The obtained features are further classified with a hybrid LSTM-SVM model. The predicted data is compared with the preprocessed data, consisting of real information. If the predicted data is equal to the preprocessed data, it will be real news or else fake news. The proposed model is implemented to attain better performance. Some of the performance metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and error are 90, 88, 97, and 0.1% respectively for the proposed model. The overall expected outcome of the recommendation system using hybrid LSTM-SVM is better than the existing techniques such as CNN-SVM, GRNN, LSTM, CNN, and SVM. The Hybrid LSTM-SVM model attained the best accuracy for predicting fake or real news. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3260 | Effect of Melt Jet Spinning Process on Poly(lactic acid) Disposable Nonwoven Fabric Production In the light of marine microplastic pollution and mounting environmental degradation, this research proposes biodegradable poly(lactic acid) (PLA) nonwoven fabric produced by novel melt jet spinning technology under various process conditions. In the study, the die temperature was varied at 210, 230, and 250 °C and the die-to-collector distance was varied between 30, 60, 90, and 120 cm. The performance metrics included fiber diameter, fiber crystallinity, fabric weight, air permeability, and contact angle. The results revealed that the optimal die temperature was 250 °C. At 250 °C, the fibers were of fine size with high crystallinity, independent of collector distances. Specifically, the die-to-collector distance, given the optimal die temperature, had negligible effect on the fiber diameter and crystallinity. On the other hand, the collector distance played a role in the nonwoven fabric characteristics. The collector distance was positively correlated with the elongation at break and air permeability but inversely correlated with the fabric density and tensile strength. The fabric contact angles were found to be in the range of 124–130 °, indicating the hydrophobicity of PLA nonwoven fabric. Essentially, the novelty of this research lies in the use of biodegradable PLA polymers, as opposed to conventional petroleum-based non-biodegradable polymers; and melt jet spinning technology to realize fine microfibers (1–10 µm). | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3261 | Riech- und Schmeckstörungen This manuscript aims to provide an overview of the etiology and diagnosis of olfactory and gustatory disorders. Not only are they common with about 5% of the population affected, but olfactory and gustatory disorders have recently gained attention in light of the rising SARS-CoV‑2 pandemic: sudden loss of smell and/or taste is regarded as one of the cardinal symptoms. Furthermore, in the early diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases, olfactory disorders are of great importance. Patients with olfactory dysfunction often show signs of depression. The impact of olfactory/gustatory disorders is thus considerable, but therapeutic options are unfortunately still limited. Following a description of the etiology, the diagnostic and therapeutic options are discussed on the basis of current literature. Potential future treatments are also addressed, e.g. autologous mucosal grafts or olfactory implants. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3262 | Role of ultrasound and colored Doppler examination in the diagnosis and the classification of the superficial soft tissue vascular anomalies BACKGROUND: Vascular anomalies are congenital lesions of abnormal vascular development, and a primary distinction have to be made between a vascular tumor and a vascular malformation, hemangiomas are considered the commonest vascular tumor, correct diagnosis is imperative for appropriate treatment. In this report, we tried to verify the role of ultrasonography and Doppler examination in the initial diagnosis, the classification of vascular anomalies and in the post-treatment follow-up. RESULTS (MAIN FINDINGS): This report included cases of vascular anomalies who attended the interventional radiology department as well as the vascular anomaly clinic in Abo El-Rish hospitals during the period 2019 through 2021. Data of all patients attending the clinic were prospectively examined. Files of 60 cases with vascular anomalies were available for review. The diagnosis of vascular anomalies was done according to their history and characteristic findings at clinical examination as well as U/S and color Doppler examinations, MRI and angiographic studies were done as needed. A significant female predominance was noticed. A significant predominance in the head and neck region was noticed (60%). Treatment was individualized according to each case; propranolol was chosen as the first line of treatment in IH. Intra-lesional steroids injections were done in hemangiomas, and intra-lesional bleomycin was done in venous and lymphatic malformations, endovascular embolization was done in high flow vascular malformations. CONCLUSION: Ultrasound and color Doppler examination were effective and accurate methods in the diagnosis, the classification of superficial soft tissue vascular anomalies, the detection of early complications and in the follow-up after different treatment methods applied, it was also beneficial in the exclusion of non-vascular lesions. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3263 | Systemischer Kompetenzerwerb durch das Transkribieren und Interpretieren psychotherapeutischer Sitzungen Students transcribed psychotherapeutic sessions at the ÖAS. Selected key scenes were interpreted in groups and with the project leader. Didactic effects are described, focusing on their awareness through text analysis and elaborating therapeutic constructs, also accepting therapeutic failure and recognizing “key moments” of therapeutic relationships in dyads as compared to those with more participants in therapy. | Psychother Forum | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3264 | Trials by video link after the pandemic: the pros and cons of the expansion of virtual justice The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an enormous increase in the use of technology in the courtroom. This development raises the important question on the potential effects of the digitalisation of criminal justice—especially from the viewpoint of the right to a fair trial. This contribution discusses this complicated question from different angles. It focuses on a number of different assumptions underlying the debate: the assumption that the use of technology in the courtroom diminishes human interaction, impedes an effective defence, influences decision-making and affects the legitimacy of the trial. This is done with the aim to shed light on the lack of evidentiary basis of these assumptions which clearly complicates the current discussion on the future of technology in the courtroom. The author argues that the validity of these assumptions needs to be adequately tested before we can make any long-term decisions on the content and scope of virtual criminal justice. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3265 | Recollections of John Fox: One of the founders of medical AI | Learn Health Syst | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3266 | The silent losers of Germany's export surpluses. How current account imbalances are exacerbated by the misrepresentation of their domestic costs Germany’s excessive current account surpluses mirror domestic problems. They are rooted in inequality and a weak home market, creating an overdependence on exports. Why, then, are policymakers so reluctant to reduce them? This paper argues that a contributing factor is the public misrepresentation of surpluses’ domestic costs. Imbalances are narrated as distributional conflicts between countries, not within them; and bilateral trade is framed as a competition, where surplus countries win. The analysis reconstructs stakeholders’ positions and discursive strategies through media narratives and Bundestag debates, using an original dataset of public statements. It finds evidence for a systematic bias disregarding the domestic losers of surpluses. Whenever imbalances are discussed, the triggering event is outside criticism, mainly from the European Commission and the US. The ensuing debate follows an ‘us versus them’ logic, where foreign critics clash with domestic defenders—mainly the government and export-sector organisations. The success narrative and identitarian discourse about an ‘export nation’ limits left-wing actors’ room to move beyond incremental criticism. The analysis finds an effect of European integration exacerbating imbalances. Germans fend off critics by an arena-shifting strategy: pointing out that exchange rates and trade are European-level prerogatives, disregarding internal policy levers for rebalancing. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3267 | The post-Brexit narrative of the British Council, re-engagement through culture Brexit represents a constantly evolving and complex process. To explore it, this paper proposes a new perspective by applying reputation concept arguments in order to observe the general evolution of the EU-UK relationships investigated it from the cultural policy case and with a study of the British Council. It argues that the UK agency responsible for educational exchanges and cultural relations with international influence can be an example of re engagement. As soon as the referendum was announced, the British Council tried to capitalise on Brexit to strengthen its bilateral ties with the European cultural and educational institutions. The UK and the British Council do not have any motive to withdraw from interstitial spaces like European networks for example. The British Council thus reengages under a new status of third country in some European cultural networks or in some programs like Creative Europe or Erasmus+. The analysis of the British Council’s reputation and soft power provides insights into its capacity to share and implement its post-Brexit story about European integration but also the tensions engendered by the specificity of the cultural field. Focusing first on the British Council’s history and its links with the FCO, this article examines then the “audience networks” that the British Council has developed. Finally, the rupture created by Brexit brings to strengthen its cooperation with its European counterparts and to re-enforce the post-Brexit EU-UK cultural cooperation. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3268 | Posters | J Frailty Aging | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3269 | David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the 'populist hypothesis' in the British Conservative Party Brexit was often associated with a recent upsurge of populism in Western democracies, with the idea of re-engaging with the people being construed as a populist strategy to disengage from Europe. This article seeks to explore the populist hypothesis by stepping outside the dominant literature on populism to take a closer look at Peter Mair's ‘populist democracy’ as applied to two defining moments: David Cameron’s decision to hold a referendum on EU membership and Boris Johnson’s process of implementing Brexit. Mair's notion encompasses two aspects—procedural and substantive populism—which seem to apply to both moments. While Cameron's long leadership (2005–2016) reveals changes in governing practices and party management which have altered the nature of the relationship between the leader and the ‘people’, Boris Johnson’s (2019–) more contemporary leadership can be described as an illustration of a new populist rhetoric in its combination of hard Brexit, anti-immigration and anti-Parliament discourse. Although both leaderships expose ingredients of Mair’s two variants of populism, the ‘populist hypothesis’ does not hold in the light of the type of leaders that Cameron and Johnson have actually turned out to be. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3270 | Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection transmission risk in public buses Public transport environments are thought to play a key role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. Indeed, high crowding indexes (i.e. high numbers of people relative to the vehicle size), inadequate clean air supply, and frequent extended exposure durations make transport environments potential hotspots for transmission of respiratory infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, generic mitigation measures (e.g. physical distancing) have been applied without also considering the airborne transmission route. This is due to the lack of quantified data about airborne contagion risk in transport environments. In this study, we apply a novel combination of close proximity and room-scale risk assessment approaches for people sharing public transport environments to predict their contagion risk due to SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection. In particular, the individual infection risk of susceptible subjects and the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 (expressed through the reproduction number) are evaluated for two types of buses, differing in terms of exposure time and crowding index: urban and long-distance buses. Infection risk and reproduction number are calculated for different scenarios as a function of the ventilation rates (both measured and estimated according to standards), crowding indexes, and travel times. The results show that for urban buses, the close proximity contribution significantly affects the maximum occupancy to maintain a reproductive number of <1. In particular, full occupancy of the bus would be permitted only for an infected subject breathing, whereas for an infected subject speaking, masking would be required. For long-distance buses, full occupancy of the bus can be maintained only if specific mitigation solutions are simultaneously applied. For example, for an infected person speaking for 1h, appropriate filtration of the recirculated air and simultaneous use of FFP2 masks would permit full occupancy of the bus for a period of almost 8h. Otherwise, a high percentage of immunized persons (>80%) would be needed. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3271 | The varied experience of undergraduate students during the transition to mandatory online chem lab during the initial lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic The radical global shift to online teaching that resulted from the initial lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic forced many science educators into the predicament of translating courses, including teaching laboratories, that were based upon face-to-face or practical goals and conventions into ones that could be delivered online. We used this phenomenon at the scale of a research-intensive, land-grant public institution to understand the various ways that the switch was experienced by a large cohort of 702 undergraduate students taking General Chemistry Laboratory. Data was collected over 3 weeks with identical surveys involving four prompts for open-ended responses. Analysis involved sequential explanatory mixed methods where topic modeling, a machine learning technique, was used to identify 21 topics. As categories of experience, these topics were defined and further delineated into 52 dimensions by inductive coding with constant comparison. Reported strengths and positive implications tie predominantly to the topics of Time Management Across a Lab Activity and a Critique of Instruction. Consistent with other reports of teaching and learning during the pandemic, participants perceived Availability of the Teaching Assistant for Help as a positive implication. Perceptions of weakness were most associated with Having to Work Individually, the Hands On Experience, a Critique of Instruction, and Learning by Doing. Hands on Experience, which was interpreted as the lack thereof, was the only topic made up nearly entirely of weaknesses and negative implications. The topic of Learning by Doing was the topic of greatest occurrence, but was equally indicated as strengths, positive implication, weakness, and negative implication. Ramifications are drawn from the weaknesses indicated by students who identified as members of an underrepresented ethnic minority. The results serve as a reminder that the student experience must be the primary consideration for any educational endeavor and needs to continue as a principal point of emphasis for research and development for online science environments. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3272 | Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law The Rule of Law has gained global appeal and recognition, and is one of the fundamental values upon which the European Union (EU) is based, as set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. In Sect. 1, we briefly consider the main elements of the Rule of Law, in particular those definitions used in the context of the EU, the Council of Europe and the United Nations (UN). Whilst acknowledging that there are national differences among EU Member States, there is broad consensus around the core meaning of the Rule of Law. These definitional issues help frame the discussion that follows on measuring the Rule of Law. In Sect. 2, we outline some general considerations regarding the rationale for measuring the Rule of Law, followed by some specific examples of measurement tools in the context of the Council of Europe (e.g., the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) tools on evaluating the efficiency and quality of European judicial systems, and the Venice Commission Rule of Law Checklist); the EU (e.g., the EU Justice Scoreboard, the Special Eurobarometer on the Rule of Law, and the Rule of Law Report); and the UN (e.g., the Sustainable Development Goals). In Sect. 3, we consider current Rule of Law trends in light of results from a range of datasets (including the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) indices, the Democracy Barometer, the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI), and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index). | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3273 | Monitoring the evolution of myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination with serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3274 | Tough times for seasoned equity offerings: performance during the COVID pandemic This study analyzes the wealth effects of SEO announcements in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic and its main determinants. We find significantly negative abnormal returns of − 8.6%. This provides persuasive evidence that capital markets reacted particularly negative during this period, reflecting higher degrees of uncertainty. We furthermore find that larger firms experience a better SEO performance and that COVID-19 related biotech & healthcare firms react particularly negative. This effect is more negative the lower the company valuation beforehand. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3275 | Psychotherapeutische Versorgung in Österreich: Kassenfinanzierte Psychotherapie für Menschen mit chronisch psychischen Erkrankungen im Jahresvergleich 2017 bis 2020 Outpatient psychotherapeutic care (private practice) in Austria is regulated financially through the cost subsidy regulation and health insurance funded psychotherapy hours. The present study examines the proportion of self-financed and health insurance funded psychotherapy units between the years 2017–2020, considering the socio-economic-/disease- and treatment related status of patients. A sample of 6387 inpatients with a mental illness was surveyed during inpatient treatment. The majority (70%) of inpatients had suffered from a mental illness for more than two years and had previously received inpatient (46%) or outpatient (82%) psychotherapeutic treatment. Of the patients with prior outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment, 45% received a health insurance funded psychotherapy. Of the patients who self-financed psychotherapy, the majority of patients (72%) paid up to € 100 for psychotherapeutic treatment—with 70% of patients who were unable to work prior inpatient treatment and 39% of patients whose monthly income is less than € 1000. The study data also show that the number of patients who have been able to use health insurance funded psychotherapy has not increased since 2017. The present study illustrates that the use of outpatient psychotherapy and health insurance funded psychotherapy amongst patients with chronic mental illnesses remained unchanged in the last four years, despite the increase in the health insurance subsidy in 2018 and any increases in health insurance funded psychotherapy hours. Given the limited health insurance funded psychotherapy hours, a transparent system for the allocation of health insurance funded psychotherapy hours is required to enable the use of outpatient psychotherapy for all patients with chronic mental illnesses. | Psychother Forum | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3276 | Referrals for inpatient rehabilitation and the patient selection processes: Pre-pandemic challenges as a guide towards reforms moving forward Purpose: To analyse data related to the referral, selection and admission processes for inpatient rehabilitation at Karin Grech Hospital, Malta. Examining pre-pandemic challenges faced can guide reform towards a more sustainable use of inpatient rehabilitation services. Methods: Referrals and outcomes of all patients referred for inpatient rehabilitation between April and August, 2018 were analysed. Results: 47% of patients referred for inpatient rehabilitation were accepted, with an average time to transfer of 4.84 days. Of the 53% deemed unsuitable, the commonest reasons were: excessively high level of independence (22%), non-weight-bearing restriction (12%) and patient refusal (12%). 90% of inpatients in rehabilitation were discharged home, 7% were transferred back due to acute complications and 1 patient was transferred to a residential home. Out of all referrals, 14 passed away within 1 year, two of these within 8 days of referral. Conclusions: Identifying unsuitable referrals for inpatient rehabilitation can avoid inappropriate admissions that would otherwise decrease bed availability and increase waiting times. Basing patient selection on key principles can thence ensure efficient and sustainable rehabilitation services moving forward. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3277 | Feasibility of hygienic clinical attire for doctors during COVID-19: A university hospital experience | J Infect Prev | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3278 | Towards digitally mediated social work-the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe. The viral outbreak was followed by rapid changes in people’s everyday and working lives. Because of the wide-scale societal restrictions that took place to prevent the pandemic, social work was forced to take a digital leap. In this article, we examine Finnish social workers’ experiences of extending the use of digitally mediated social work (DMSW) in working with clients during the first wave of the pandemic, the spring of 2020. The data consist of 33 social workers’ personal diaries, which are analysed using a qualitative theory-based content analysis. Henri Lefebvre’s theory of spatial triad will be utilised in theorising how social workers represent DMSW through three dimensions of space, that is, how they perceive, conceive and live digital spaces when encountering their clients and how physical, mental and social spaces are embodied in the representations. The results suggest that the three dimensions of space 1) basis of, 2) conceived and 3) lived DMSW intertwine closely together. The results reveal how the physical space, including IT infrastructure, its functionality and applicability, along with the organisational contexts, form a bedrock for the social workers’ DMSW practice and had a decisive impact on their experiences. Second, the conceived space consists of workers’ cognitive and emotional elements, such as competencies, preconceptions and attitudes towards ICT. Finally, the third dimension of spatiality concludes with the social and relational aspects of the user experiences and encounters between clients and social workers. | Qual Soc Work | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3279 | Luce Irigaray's Philosophy of the Child and Philosophical Thinking for a New Era In her book To be Born (2017), Luce Irigaray offers a novel philosophy of the child. Instead of viewing the child as a bearer of rights and in need of adequate care as is common in contemporary philosophies of childhood, Irigaray presents the child as a metaphor of a new human being which represents natural belonging. The rearticulation of the human has been ongoing in Irigaray’s philosophy from its beginnings with its efforts to give voice to the excluded, silenced, repressed feminine. Irigaray’s phenomenological restructuring of subjectivity in her philosophy of sexuate difference is taken to a new level with her philosophy of the child. Her conception of the child is interpreted here in light of the experiential and affective turn within phenomenology and cognitive sciences about philosophical thinking as embodied and embedded thinking for a new era. Irigaray sheds light on the silencing and repressing of the child within us in an effort to enable us as adult beings to think from and with it. Philosophical thinking needs to be more consciously connected with the embodied sources of thought that are already present in early infancy and continue to be present in adult thinking as neglected or repressed experiential and affective layers of thought. Irigaray’s philosophy of the child is a basis for a methodology of embodied philosophical thinking such as has been developed within Claire Petitmengin’s microphenomenology and within Eugene Gendlin’s methodology of philosophical thinking from the felt sense. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3280 | Cybersicherheit in Krankenhäusern-Teil 1: IT-Compliance als Leitungsaufgabe The threat of cyber attacks is a burning issue in all industries. In the case of hospitals, a cyber incident can not only lead to the loss of patient data but can also put patients’ lives in danger. Hospitals are therefore obliged by a large number of laws to maintain sufficient protective measures. Monitoring compliance with these regulations is the responsibility of hospital managers. This is an important compliance task. Cyber insurance can be part of the solution. Particular caution is required when paying ransoms in the event of ransomware attacks. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3281 | Modeling the enablers of online consumer engagement and platform preference in online food delivery platforms during COVID-19 Due to the COVID-19 outbreak globally during 2020, the usage and virtues of food delivery apps (FDA) have increased immensely, facilitating the consumer to access the food and food providers to keep functioning. However, this study aims to investigate the enablers of online consumer engagement (OCE) and platform preference in the foodservice industry, keeping in view the moderating role of peer pressure by following uses and gratifications theory (UGT). The data were collected from 322 FDA's user in China during the COVID-19 lockdown and analyzed employing partial least-square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). PLS-SEM results revealed that consumer’s self-concept and platform interactivity affect OCE and platform preference. Further, OCE mediates the effect of the relationship between platform interactivity, self-concept, and platform preference. Furthermore, peer pressure significantly moderates the relationship between OCE and platform preference. This research contributes to the prevailing body of literature in a novel way by employing UGT on consumer behavior in the FDA. The study has value for online food businesses and implications for consumers, retailers, and practitioners to formulate and implement value-added strategies in a consumption-oriented emerging economy. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3282 | News and Views (3 & 4): JPS Young Scientist Award, 47th AAPPS Council Meeting | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3283 | Unpacking the blackbox of responsible pandemic governance: of COVID-19, multilevel governance and state capacity in Ghana-A Review Attempts at mitigating COVID-19 pandemic’s impact has pushed stakeholders’ resolve to incept variegated measures using socially embedded multilevel government structures. Given Ghana’s pandemic governance success, this paper reviews government’s nuanced and disaggregated roles in galvanizing social support towards developing, implementing and coordinating pandemic measures. By highlighting the diversity of state-society inter-agency relations, the current study unearths varying stakeholder engagements and their imperativeness to pandemic governance, and acknowledges multilevel governance as critical to fighting the pandemic. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3284 | Evaluation of a mobile-based scaffolding board game developed by scaffolding-based game editor: analysis of learners' performance, anxiety and behavior patterns Game-based learning with scaffolding is expected to provide learners with an effective and positive learning environment. This study developed a scaffold-oriented educational game editor that allows teachers to design educational game activities that combine physical board game cards. Players could obtain mobile-based scaffolding by manipulating and scanning the cards. We used the editor to develop a game activity, Return, for a high school chemistry course, and conducted a preliminary empirical evaluation of the mobile-based scaffolding game. Participants were students in a high school in northern Taiwan. The study analyzed the learning effectiveness, anxiety level, and learning behavior patterns of the learners. Results showed that learners' learning effectiveness improved significantly, and their anxiety level decreased after using the game. Analysis of learning behavior patterns revealed that learners were able to fully utilize the mobile-based cognitive scaffolding and real-time feedback provided in the game to try to combine various hidden clues to solve problems. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3285 | Seismic Site Characterization Using Ambient Noise and Earthquake HVSR in the Easternmost Part of Shillong Plateau, India This study provides site characterization results using passive seismic techniques for the easternmost part of Shillong plateau of Northeastern India. The prime objective of this research is to generate the Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratios (HVSR) from earthquakes and ambient microtremor data for generation of 1-D shear wave velocity profiles to reveal the basement depths and fundamental resonance frequencies underneath three stations of Shillong plateau. The earthquake waveforms are recorded for a period of eighteen months (i.e. December 2018 to June 2020) using broadband seismometer; while the ambient microtremor data is collected from a three component highly sensitive velocity meter. The earthquake HVSRs and noise HVSRs are consistent with each other and range from ∼3.6 Hz to ∼14.5 Hz. The Rayleigh wave ellipticity are generated from the corresponding HVSR curves for inversion to determine compressional and shear wave velocity structure. We report that the compressional and shear wave velocity profiles match fairly well for both earthquakes and ambient microtremor data. Overall, Vs30 lies in the range of 480 m/s to 2600 m/s at all locations in the easternmost part of Shillong plateau; while the sedimentary layer velocity lies between 450 m/s and 1100 m/s. The thickness of the sedimentary layer is assessed from the velocity profiles and using an empirical formula makes a good match and varies from 11.3 m to 31.2 m. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3286 | Partitioning of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Coal to Coal Fly Ash in Different Thermal Power Stations (TPSs) of India Rare earth elements (REEs) have been a topic of profound interest for several decades especially in the present age of electronic and digital revolution. India has the world’s richest beach sands with REEs, yet it imports some strategic REEs to fulfil its demand. It’s high time to explore alternative sources to meet its demand and coal ash from Thermal Power Stations (TPS) can be a very good alternative resource. In the present study, coal and coal fly ash (CFA) from seven Indian TPSs have been evaluated for estimation of REEs and variations in minerals compositions. Mineralogy of the samples is estimated using X-Ray diffraction (XRD) technique. Coal samples mostly consist of quartz and kaolinite however phase transformations of minerals occurred due to high temperature treatment during combustion. CFA mostly contains quartz and mullite. REEs have been determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES) and considerable occurrence of any specific REE is not observed. Among the studied TPSs, Pr has the highest concentration among REEs in ash, reaching up to 63 ppm. The Outlook Coefficient (C(out)) of REEs is in the range of 0.3–4.5 and 0.1–1.2 for coal and CFA respectively. In this research paper, Enrichment Coefficient (Δ(e)) has been introduced to see the enrichment of REE in CFA with respect to the mother coal and a graph of Δ(e) vs glassy phase has been plotted to observe the partitioning of REEs. Occurrence of Light REEs is more prominent than Heavy REEs. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3287 | Jahresregister 2021: 39. Jahrgang 2021 | Medizinrecht | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3288 | Network pharmacology and molecular docking analysis on molecular targets and mechanism prediction of Huanglian Jiedu Decoction in the treatment of COVID-19 Objective To investigate and predict the molecular targets and mechanism of Huanglian Jiedu Decoction (黄连解毒汤, HLJDD) in the treatment of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) through network pharmacology and molecular docking analysis. Methods The chemical constituents and action targets of HLJDD were retrieved on Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform (TCMSP), SymMap v2, Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ETCM), a High-throughput Experiment- and Reference-guided Database of Traditional Chinese Medicine (HERB), and Traditional Chinese Medicine Integrated Database (TCMID). UniProt and GeneCards were used to query the target genes that corresponding to the active compounds, and then a compound-target network was constructed using Cytoscape 3.7.2. Gene Ontology (GO) database was used to annotate GO functions. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) was used to predict the possible mechanisms of active compounds. The Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) was used to analysis the tissue enrichment. The main active compounds in HLJDD are molecularly docked with their corresponding related targets. Results Seventy-six compounds were screened and 458 corresponding targets in the network were obtained. Gene annotation showed that the targets were involved mainly in 1953 biological processes. 884 signaling pathways was enriched, involving signaling by interleukins, cytokine signaling in immune system, generic transcription pathway, and RNA polymerase II transcription. The targets mainly distributed in the lung, liver, and placenta, involving a variety of immune cells, such as T cells and B cells. The molecular docking results showed that core compounds such as wogonin, berberine, and baicalein had high affinity with tumor necrosis factor (TNF), insulin (INS), and tumor protein 53 (TP53). Conclusion The active compounds in HLJDD may have a therapeutic effect on COVID-19 through regulating multiple signal pathways by targeting genes such as vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), INS, interleukin-6 (IL-6), TNF, caspase-3 , TP53, and mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3). | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3289 | Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on incidence of maxillofacial fractures: A retrospective analysis COVID-19 lockdown restrictions greatly influenced people's behaviour and movements, and therefore patient presentation may differ in maxillofacial trauma surgery during lockdown. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of a lockdown on the incidence, types and mechanisms of injury of maxillofacial fractures. In this single-centre retrospective cohort study patients who visited the maxillofacial surgeon after traumatic injury between the 15th of March and the 1st of June in the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were included. The primary outcome is the incidence of maxillofacial fractures during the lockdown in 2020 compared to the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown periods. Secondary outcomes are type of fracture and mechanism of injury. A total of 130 patients with maxillofacial fractures were identified. During the lockdown 0.51 (95% CI 0.32–0.84) times less maxillofacial fractures were reported. A significant association was found between mechanism of injury and lockdown compared to the post-lockdown period. No further associations were found between a lockdown and type of fracture or mechanism of injury. In conclusion, the incidence of maxillofacial fractures was significantly lower compared to equivalent time periods in other years, but recovered after lockdown. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3290 | P 7 SARS-CoV-2 infection causes a worsening of the modified ranking scale (mRS) in patients with neuromuscular diseases-first results of the German covid19-nme registry Background: Patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are classified as risk groups for a potentially severe course of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. An online registry (www.covid19-nme.com) was developed to gather information about the severity of COVID19, a potential progression of NMD through the SARS-CoV-2 infection and the possible influence of medication on the course of the infection. Methods: Since February 2021, patients of all ages (children, adolescents and adults) with NMD and an infection with SARS-CoV-2 have been included in this register. In addition to demographic data, pre-existing diseases and therapies, information about the NMD, the course of the SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as the clinical findings before and after the infection are recorded. Results: So far 94 patients (37% female, age: median 60 years (1-94 years)) from Germany and Austria have been recorded. The diagnoses represent the entire spectrum of NMD: different forms of polyneuropathies (PN) including CIDP and hereditary PN, ICUAW, myasthenic syndromes, motor neuron diseases (SMA and ALS) as well as various muscle diseases such as dystrophinopathies and myotonic syndromes. The collected mRS (measure for description of neurological impairment) depicts a significant worsening after the SARS-CoV2 infection (p = 0.02; Wilcoxon), whereby the patients with ICUAW were excluded from the analysis. The duration of symptoms showed a positive correlation with age (r = 0.343; p = 0.005) and weight (r = 0.291; p = 0.030), but not with the type of NMD. In total, 13 patients deceased due to the SARS-CoV2 infection. The probability of a fatal outcome of COVID19 correlates with increasing age (r = 0.313; p = 0.004) but not the type of NMD. The ventilation situation did not change in NMD patients due to the infection with SARS-CoV2. Summary: The first results of the evaluation of the covid-19.nme registry indicate that the clinical symptoms of NMD progress due to an infection with SARS-CoV2. The underlying cause for this remains unclear. Autoimmunological processes and a possible neurotropy can be considered as pathophysiological mechanisms. | Clin Neurophysiol | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3291 | [Translated article] Reply to "Absence of Relevant Clinical Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the Affinity of Hemoglobin for O2 in Patients With COVID-19" | Arch Bronconeumol | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3292 | [Translated article] Pleuropericardial Effusion and Systemic Inflammatory Syndrome Secondary to the Administration of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 | Arch Bronconeumol | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3293 | Drought and flood dynamics of Godavari basin, India: A geospatial perspective Assessing incidence and trends of droughts and floods can provide essential information for better water resource management, particularly in the context of ongoing climate change. The present study has examined the prevalence of drought and flood events of Godavari basin, India, for the last four decades using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) 3 months and 9 months, and their trends using Mann–Kendall’s test and Sen’s slope. The spatial distribution, frequency, and intensity of drought and flood episodes in the basin are not uniform. A 20-year breakdown, 1980–1999 and 2000–2019, shows a drastic increase in drought frequency in Manjra and Pranhita sub-basins, while Godavari Upper, Indravati, and northern part of Weinganga have registered increased flood frequency. The monthly trend of SPEI-3 shows that most of the sub-basins have registered a negative trend (increasing dryness) only during the winter months, while under the SPEI-9 scenario both Manjra and Pranhita registered strong negative trend throughout the year. Sen’s slope estimations detected an increasing trend in severity from SPEI-3 to SPEI-9. Dryness severity trend is highest in Pranhita, followed by Manjra, Wardah, and Lower Godavari sub-basins, and the increasing wetness severity trend is in Upper Godavari, while rest of the sub-basins do not show any significant trend. The interior districts of the basin are more prone to the high drought conditions in near future if the current trends persist. To sustain the future climate change challenges, the vulnerable districts need urgent structural and non-structural changes in their current water resource management practices. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12517-022-10041-5. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3294 | Work from Home Success: Agile work characteristics and the Mediating Effect of supportive HRM Work from home or teleworking, continues to expand not least due to the COVID-19-crisis and poses challenges for employees and companies. In uncertain and dynamic times, organisations wonder what skills make employees successful when working from home and which measures support employees. By performing in-depth research that addresses employee agility as skills and capabilities, a research framework is proposed. Based on an international survey of employees working from home during the COVID-19-crisis (N = 1,016), the impact of agile work characteristics on work from home success and the mediating effect (accounting for 48% of the total effect) of tailored support measures by HRM were investigated. The results of the mediation analysis show that agile work characteristics have a direct, positive and significant effect on the success of working from home. Part of the effect is explained by HRM measures as a mediator. The findings contribute to the research stream of dynamic capabilities by applying the theory to working from home. The comparatively simple research model provides companies with information on how they can best support employees in the dynamics of a crisis and the expansion of work from home and, therefore, has high relevance for practitioners. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11846-022-00545-5. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3295 | Systematic mapping on the importance of vultures in the Indian public health discourse Vultures are of immense ecological significance to forest and urban ecosystems. These birds play a major role in curbing environmental contamination through scavenging on carcasses. Prevention of spread of diseases is pivotal for public health and is an inexorable economic burden for any country. We present the crucial role vultures can play in disease mitigation and public health by regulating or decreasing the spread of zoonotic diseases. We elaborate examples from three zoonotic diseases; rabies, brucellosis and tuberculosis, which spread among dogs and cattle as well as human population. We establish the viable links in the transmission of these diseases from the infected dead and alive animals to humans and their possible exacerbation in the absence of vultures. These indirect links help formulate the case for increased interventions for disease spread and control along with conservation of these scavengers. Their role as natural and effective cleaners of the environment in the Indian health discourse is of importance because they can reduce the expenses of the government in waste management and maintenance of public health. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3296 | Prolonged prone position in pregnant woman with COVID-19 pneumonia The manuscript describes a case report of 2 prolonged prone position cycles (72 h each) of a coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in an intubated pregnant woman (at 22 weeks of gestational age), being successfully discharged from intensive care unit after 20 days. There were no signs of fetal sufferance at daily obstetric monitoring during prone position, and the fetus was born fully vital and without consequences. At our knowledge, this is the first case of prolonged prone position in a pregnant woman, and we feel that our manuscript could be a valuable contribution to the literature and help intensivists in providing intensive care in these patients, confirming that prone position seems to be a valid therapeutic choice, limiting maternal and fetal hypoxia, and reducing their morbidity, even if the oculate risk/benefit should be performed. Further studies are however necessary to increase the knowledge and the good management of COVID-19 in pregnancy. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3297 | Special Issues of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3298 | Economic policy uncertainty and corporate donation: evidence from private firms in Korea This study examines the association between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and private firms’ corporate donations. Based on resource constraints and the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we argue that private firms are constantly facing resource constraints and their resource conservation motive becomes apparent when EPU is heightened. Therefore, we expect that corporate donations are negatively related to EPU. Using audited corporate donations from 48,903 private firms in Korea during 2002–2019, we find that private firms’ donations are negatively related to EPU. We find that private firms operating in more competitive conditions increase their donations, but this positive association between market competition and donations is moderated by EPU. We find that private firms’ donations increased when the progressive party is in power, but this positive relationship is also moderated by EPU. Our results suggest that firms reduce their level of corporate giving to conserve resources as a precautionary saving motive when they face higher EPU. Our paper contributes to the strand of literature on corporate donations and EPU by providing evidence that EPU significantly affects private firms’ donations. We also find that firms’ strategic motives and political pressure to engage in corporate donations are moderated by EPU. | N/A | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3299 | Terahertz Impedance Spectroscopy of Biological Nanoparticles by a Resonant Metamaterial Chip for Breathalyzer-Based COVID-19 Prompt Tests [Image: see text] We propose a tested, sensitive, and prompt COVID-19 breath screening method that takes less than 1 min. The method is nonbiological and is based on the detection of a shift in the resonance frequency of a nanoengineered inductor–capacitor (LC) resonant metamaterial chip, caused by viruses and mainly related exhaled particles, when performing terahertz spectroscopy. The chip consists of thousands of microantennas arranged in an array and enclosed in a plastic breathalyzer-like disposable capsule kit. After an appreciable agreement between numerical simulations (COMSOL and CST) and experimental results was reached using our metamaterial design, low-scale clinical trials were conducted with asymptomatic and symptomatic coronavirus patients and healthy individuals. It is shown that coronavirus-positive individuals are effectively screened upon observation of a shift in the transmission resonance frequency of about 1.5–9 GHz, which is diagnostically different from the resonance shift of healthy individuals who display a 0–1.5 GHz shift. The initial results of screening coronavirus patients yielded 88% agreement with the real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) results (performed concurrently with the breath test) with an outcome of a positive predicted value of 87% and a negative predicted value of 88%. | ACS Appl Nano Mater | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
| 3300 | Reassessing Undergraduate Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Experiments for Virtual Learning Environments [Image: see text] Chemistry laboratory experiments are invaluable to students’ acquisition of necessary synthetic, analytical, and instrumental skills during their undergraduate studies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic rendered face-to-face (f2f), in-person teaching laboratory experiences impossible from late 2019–2020 and forced educators to rapidly develop new solutions to deliver chemistry laboratory education remotely. Unfortunately, achieving learning and teaching objectives to the same caliber of in-person experiments is very difficult through distance learning. To overcome these hurdles, educators have generated many virtual and remote learning options for not only foundational chemistry courses but also laboratory experiments. Although the pandemic challenged high-level chemistry education, it has also created an opportunity for both students and educators to be more cognizant of virtual learning opportunities and their potential benefits within chemistry curriculum. Irrespective of COVID-19, virtual learning techniques, especially virtual lab experiments, can complement f2f laboratories and offer a cost-efficient, safe, and environmentally sustainable alternative to their in-person counterparts. Implementation of virtual and distance learning techniques—including kitchen chemistry and at-home laboratories, prerecorded videos, live-stream video conferencing, digital lab environment, virtual and augmented reality, and others—can provide a wide-ranging venue to teach chemistry laboratories effectively and encourage diversity and inclusivity in the field. Despite their relevance to real-world applications and potential to expand upon fundamental chemical principles, polymer lab experiments are underrepresented in the virtual platform. Polymer chemistry education can help prepare students for industrial and academic positions. The impacts of polymers in our daily life can also promote students’ interests in science and scientific research. Hence, the translation of polymer lab experiments into virtual settings improves the accessibility of polymer chemistry education. Herein, we assess polymer experiments in the emergence of virtual learning environments and provide suggestions for further incorporation of effective polymer teaching and learning techniques into virtual settings. | J Chem Educ | 2022 | | CORD-19 |
