GLOBALIZATION, COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE SITUATION IN AFRICA by ZEKERI MOMOH, JEREMIAH AKAHA GBENDA

“…The studyargues that globalisation contributed to the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic in Africa. This study argues that the Covid-19 virus spread from Wuhan in China, to other parts of the world within a very short time, due to movement of persons across international borders. …”
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A Fractional-Order Model for HIV Dynamics in a Two-Sex Population by Fatmawati, Endrik Mifta Shaiful, Mohammad Imam Utoyo

“…AIDS is the rapidly spreading and becoming epidemic diseases in the world of almost complete influence across the country. …”
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Assessing Deep Learning Techniques for the Recognition of Tropical Disease in Images from Parasitological Exams by Ammar Akram Abdulrazzaq, Asaad T. Al-Douri, Abdulsattar Abdullah Hamad, Mustafa Musa Jaber, Zelalem Meraf

“…Schistosoma mansoni is one of the tropical diseases with the greatest epidemic reach in the world. One of the WHO guidelines is the prior and efficient diagnosis for mapping foci and applying the appropriate treatment of infected people. …”
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Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck by Vivek V. Gurudutt, Eric M. Genden

“…Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck is an epidemic that reaches all parts of the world. Making the diagnosis relies on the acumen of the clinician and pathologist. …”
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The Mathematical Modeling Approach for the Wastewater Treatment Process in Saudi Arabia during COVID-19 Pandemic by Abdullah Ahmadini, Ahmed Msmali, Zico Mutum, Yashpal Singh Raghav

“…The results indicate that our modeling approach may facilitate the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 loads in wastewater for early prediction of the epidemic outbreak and provide significant implications to the public health system.…”
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Restriction of constitutional rights and freedoms by Iraq's cabinet government in handling Covid-19 by Zahraa Abdulalhafudh Mohsin

“…This study investigates the constitutional legitimacy of the measures enacted by Tthe Iraqi government to prevent the COVID-19 spreading, which restricted the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Iraqi Constitution 2005. even though the epidemic is a health emergency, the House of Representatives has not declared an emergency state, as the Cabinet resorted to taking preventive measurement to curb the crisis spreading, that restricted constitutional freedoms and rights even though the Iraqi constitution explicitly states that the rights and freedoms cannot be restricted except by law or based on it,  however, this restriction was governed by administrative orders issued by a committee establish by council of ministers under  Diwani Order 55 of 2020, headed by the minister of health,  which  amended then to become headed by the prime minister, for that purpose we have followed the analytical approach to assess the decisions taken by this committee through interpreting constitutional and legal texts and examining many of their restrictive resolutions imposed for demonstrating its legitimacy or illegitimacy and through this analysis we concluded that the majority of its decision on rights and freedoms under the pretext to preventspread  of Covid-19 unconstitution even though the epidemi was serious it cannot be justified  for violating democratic values.…”
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A Cost-Effective Epidemiological Exposition of Diphtheria Outbreak by the Optimal Control Model: A Case Study of Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh by Zahurul Islam, K. M. Ariful Kabir, M. M. Rahman, Md. Atikur Rahman

“…We consider a deterministic optimal control approach with cost-effectiveness analysis for the diphtheria outbreak in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. A deterministic epidemic dynamical model for diphtheria outbreaks has been developed with three optimal controls: vaccination, latent, and infectious treatment. …”
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Mathematical and statistical approaches in epidemiological investigation of hospital infection: A case study of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in Korea. by Youngsuk Ko, Eunok Jung

“…The impact of mask-wearing in the hospital was significant, with reductions in the epidemic scale ranging from 17% to 77%, depending on the type of mask and intervention intensity. …”
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Kidney Disease and Youth Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Considerations for the General Practitioner by Allison B. Dart, Elizabeth A. Sellers, Heather J. Dean

“…Youth onset type 2 diabetes (T2DM) continues to increase worldwide, concomitant with the rising obesity epidemic. There is evidence to suggest that youth with T2DM are affected by the same comorbidities and complications as adults diagnosed with T2DM. …”
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Knee Osteoarthritis Treatment with the KineSpring Knee Implant System: A Report of Two Cases by David A. Hayes, Larry E. Miller, Jon E. Block

“…This dramatic projected increase in OA reflects, in large part, the alarming obesity epidemic. Indeed, it is now well understood that abnormal loading across the knee joint due to malalignment and/or excessive weight gain is responsible for accelerating OA progression. …”
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Machine learning mathematical models for incidence estimation during pandemics. by Oscar Fajardo-Fontiveros, Mattia Mattei, Giulio Burgio, Clara Granell, Sergio Gómez, Alex Arenas, Marta Sales-Pardo, Roger Guimerà

“…Accurate estimates of the incidence of infectious diseases are key for the control of epidemics. However, healthcare systems are often unable to test the population exhaustively, especially when asymptomatic and paucisymptomatic cases are widespread; this leads to significant and systematic under-reporting of the real incidence. …”
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Analysis of a Delayed SIR Model with Nonlinear Incidence Rate by Jin-Zhu Zhang, Zhen Jin, Quan-Xing Liu, Zhi-Yu Zhang

“…An SIR epidemic model with incubation time and saturated incidence rate is formulated, where the susceptibles are assumed to satisfy the logistic equation and the incidence term is of saturated form with the susceptible. …”
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Signaling Pathway Puts the Break on Fat Cell Formation by Ormond A. MacDougald

“…Obesity is approaching epidemic proportions in the western industrialized world, and is also becoming a major problem among young people in eastern and developing countries [1,2,3]. …”
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THREATS TO INDUSTRIAL POLICY, TRADE AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A GLOBAL EMERGENCY by T. V. Bakhturazova, M. K. Mayorov, N. V. Mayorova, D. A. Edelev

“…The coronavirus epidemic 2019-nCoV in China has already led to a slowdown in the country’s economic growth and the fall of the yuan exchange rate on the stock exchanges. …”
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Challenges in the Management of HIV-Infected Malnourished Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Indi Trehan, Bernadette A. O'Hare, Ajib Phiri, Geert Tom Heikens

“…Even as the care of HIV-uninfected malnourished children has improved dramatically with the advent of community-based care and even as there are hopeful signs that the HIV epidemic may be stabilizing or ameliorating, significant gaps remain in the care of malnourished children with HIV. …”
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What is veteran suicide prevention really about? Questions from the community to researchers by Brandy M. Fox

“…Why won’t the public recognize its part in the veteran suicide epidemic? Why won’t the medical industry listen and collaborate with us? …”
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Optimal Intervention Strategies for the Spread of Obesity by Chunyoung Oh, Masud M A

“…However for R0>1 the model approaches a locally asymptotically stable endemic equilibrium. To control this epidemic and reduce the obesity at the endemic equilibrium, we considered intervention strategies for the spread of overweight and obesity, where Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle is applied. …”
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Machine Learning Based Engagement Prediction for Online Courses by Wang Wanning

“…Within the constraints of the epidemic, the demand for distance learning in education is growing rapidly, and technological advances are opening up new possibilities for online education. …”
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AI based medical imagery diagnosis for COVID-19 disease examination and remedy by Ashraf Aboshosha

“…Is it better to treat COVID-19 as an epidemic or a pandemic?…”
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The next generation of dashboards: a spatial online analytical processing (SOLAP) platform for COVID-19 by David Haynes, Mohsen Ahmadkhani, Joe Numainville

“…The health and societal impacts of COVID-19 have created tremendous interest in the scientific community, resulting in interdisciplinary research teams that combine their expertise to provide new insights into the epidemic. However, spatial computation, exploratory data analysis, and spatial data exploration tools have yet to be integrated into these dashboards. …”
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