Stress et résilience : état sanitaire des enfants victimes de la peste de 1720 (Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône) by Luana Batista-Goulart, Isabelle Séguy, Stefan Tzortzis, Gérald Quatrehomme

“…The Provence region had experienced several crises before this plague epidemic, including extreme climatic events, famines and other epidemics. …”
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Impact of Citrus Greening on Citrus Operations in Florida by Ariel Singerman, Pilar Useche

“…Even though the industry acknowledges that HLB has reached epidemic proportions across the state, estimates of the level of infection and its impact on citrus operations are scarce. …”
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Constitutional court attitudes and the COVID-19 pandemic—case studies of Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia by Katinka Beretka, Áron Ősze

“…However, on the other side, the case law research gave a completely different conclusion, supporting the highly similar reasoning of the constitutional courts that almost without exception have given priority to public interest in combating the epidemic over fundamental rights.…”
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Studying the Role of C-Reactive Protein in Patients with Sleeve Gastrectomy in Baghdad by Mohammed Abbas Fadil, Raya Ezat Maroof, Moayed Abbas Fadil

“… Obesity and severe obesity are increasing serious health problems with an epidemic percentage in most countries. In Sleeve gastrectomy, a part of the stomach structure is removed, limiting its capacity by about two to three. …”
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Realization of Wireless-Controlled Gear Shifter for Shaft-Driven Bicycle Gearbox by Hsiung-Cheng Lin, Elangovan Chelliah

“…Cycling is now a very popular sport and leisure activity or commuting tool around the world, with its popularity growing especially during the epidemic. The traditional bicycle depends on a chain driving mechanism to move forward (This paper is an extended version of our paper published in The 16th Intelligent Living Technology Conference, Taichung, Taiwan, 2 June 2022). …”
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Province-wide Adenovirus Type 3 Outbreak with Severe Cases in New Brunswick by Gabriel Girouard, Richard Garceau, Louise Thibault, Christine Bourque, Nathalie Bastien, Yan Li

“…Life-threatening infections, although rare, are described worldwide. An epidemic spread of an adenovirus type 3 strain occurred in the province of New Brunswick during the fall of 2008 to the winter of 2009; it resulted in three severely ill patients, with one fatality. …”
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CRISIS MANAGEMENT OF HUNGARIAN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS BEFORE AND DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS by Krisztina Keller, Nikoletta Kaszás, Szabolcs Mátyás

“…The aim of the study is to examine how the crisis management of tourist attraction sites evolved before and during the coronavirus epidemic. Eighty-seven in-depth interviews were conducted with managers responsible for crisis management of attraction sites, examining the stages of preparation and response regarding the perception of the crisis, setting up a crisis plan and crisis team, defining priorities and measures during the coronavirus pandemic, and the lessons learned. …”
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Modelling the strategies for age specific vaccination scheduling during influenza pandemic outbreaks by Diána H. Knipl, Gergely Röst

“…Comparing five possible strategies, we found that age specific scheduling can have a huge impact on the outcome of the epidemic. For the best scheme, the attack rateswere up to 10% lower than for other strategies. …”
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Rapid response redevelopment: a study of an English-to-Chinese translation course moving online by Cook Angela, Dianati Seb, Spinelli Franciele, Lai Yen-Ying

“…In early 2020, the tertiary sector in Australia, as in many other parts of the world, was confronted with a series of unforeseen challenges arising from the coronavirus epidemic. As governments responded to the crisis by implementing increasingly strict social distancing and isolation measures, universities had little choice but to adapt their courses for online delivery. …”
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Boredom and Addiction: An exploratory view at university students' digital game playing processes in leisure time by Nazlı Deniz Öz, Abdil Arı

“…In today's world, the busy pace of work, the epidemic process we are in and the many difficulties experienced once again emphasize the importance of effective use of time. …”
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Dynamical Analysis of an SE2IR Information Propagation Model in Social Networks by Qian Zhang, Xianyong Li, Yajun Du, Jian Zhu

“…By borrowing the SEIR epidemic model, this paper proposes an SE2IR information propagation model. …”
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Critical role of nosocomial transmission in the Toronto SARS outbreak by Glenn Webb, Martin J. Blaser, Huaiping Zhu, Sten Ardal, Jianhong Wu

“…We develop a compartmental mathematical model to address therole of hospitals in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) transmissiondynamics, which partially explains the heterogeneity of the epidemic. Comparison of the effects of two major policies, strict hospital infection controlprocedures and community-wide quarantine measures, implemented in Torontotwo weeks into the initial outbreak, shows that their combination is the key toshort-term containment and that quarantine is the key to long-term containment.…”
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Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis B virus: Epidemiological Considerations and Implications for Control with Vaccine by Franklyn N Judson

“…Prior to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, more than 50% of the new hepatitis B virus infections in the United States and Canada were sexually transmitted, approximately one-quarter by heterosexual men and women and one-third by homosexual men. …”
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EWMA Control Chart Integrated with Time Series Models for COVID-19 Surveillance by Chen-Rui Hsu, Hsiuying Wang

“…Several studies have proposed methods to capture the epidemic trend and forecast new daily confirmed cases. …”
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Current strategies in diagnostics and therapeutics against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by ALOTAIBI FAISAL

“…The epidemic of COVID-19 spread quickly through China and engulfed all of the countries across the globe. …”
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CooperSense: A Cooperative and Selective Picture Forwarding Framework Based on Tree Fusion by Huihui Chen, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

“…Our experimental results indicate that the transmission and storage cost of CooperSense are much lower comparing with the traditional Epidemic Routing (ER) method, while their efficiency is almost the same.…”
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Sleep in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Evidence Gaps and Challenges by Rachel Jen, Yanru Li, Robert L. Owens, Atul Malhotra

“…Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence is rising to epidemic proportions due to historical smoking trends, the aging of the population, and air pollution. …”
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AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS: USE OF GENETIC MARKERS IN ANALYSIS OF ITS ROUTES OF SPREAD by A. Mazloum, A. S. Igolkin, N. N. Vlasova, D. V. Romenskaya

“…The present review deals with current epidemic situation for African swine fever and examines features of the virus genomics and genetic differentiation of the isolates. …”
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Dynamical Behavior of the SEIS Infectious Disease Model with White Noise Disturbance by Yuheng Song, Qixing Han

“…To begin with, we propose the deterministic SEIS epidemic model with a saturation incidence rate and obtain a basic reproduction number R0. …”
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Obesity and Trends in Life Expectancy by Helen L. Walls, Kathryn Backholer, Joseph Proietto, John J. McNeil

“…Increasing levels of obesity over recent decades have been expected to lead to an epidemic of diabetes and a subsequent reduction in life expectancy, but instead all-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality rates have decreased steadily in most developed countries and life expectancy has increased. …”
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