Local Spatial Analysis of the Crash Frequency of Food Delivery Motorcyclists vs. Nondelivery Motorcyclists in relation to Points of Interest by I Gede Brawiswa Putra, Pei-Fen Kuo, Dominique Lord

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for online food delivery services (OFDS), leading to an increase in related crashes over the last few years. …”
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Two-Stage Humanitarian Logistics Deprivation Model for the Planning of Scarce KN-95 Facemask Supplies under Agent’s Cooperation by Oscar L. Pineda-Martinez, Carlos D. Paternina-Arboleda, Guisselle A. García-Llinás

“…Our main finding was the adaptability of a previously validated model for humanitarian logistics to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where the externalities had greater relevance in social costs than private costs.…”
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Population dynamics and digitalization: implications for COVID-19 data sources in South Africa—a scoping review by Monica Ewomazino Akokuwebe, Martin E. Palamuleni, Erhabor Sunday Idemudia

“…ObjectivesThe study explores how humanity influences the development of digitalization on population dynamics during the changing times of the Covid-19 pandemic.MethodsA scoping review was conducted using PRISMA guidelines. …”
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Atmospheric pressure plasma jet for respiratory face masks decontamination and re-use: Considerations on microbiological efficacy, material impact and product lifecycle. by Diletta Scaccabarozzi, Jessica Ponti, Sabrina Gioria, Dora Mehn, Taija Sinkko, Fulvio Ardente, Francesco Fumagalli

“…However, lessons learnt from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, FFRs decontamination and reuse may be needed as crisis capacity strategy to ensure availability in medical facilities. …”
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The effectiveness of dexamethasone as a combination therapy for COVID-19 by Namazi Nader

“…Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported as a global pandemic in March 2020 after invading many countries and leaving behind tens of thousands of infected patients in a brief time span. …”
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Teacher Readiness for Digital Transformation by Hamimah Turrohmah, Suryanto Suryanto

“…The acceleration of digitalization in the field of education during the pandemic requires teachers to be quick to adapt. This study aims to describe teacher readiness in the form of mental readiness, self- readiness, and intelligence readiness to face digital transformation in terms of internal and external factors. …”
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A review of COVID-19-related thrombosis and anticoagulation strategies specific to the Asian population by Kai Chin Poh, Victoria Yu Jia Tay, Sarah Huixin Lin, Huei Leng Chee, Suhitharan Thangavelautham

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed an immense burden on healthcare systems worldwide. …”
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Regarding the Current Debate on Aging in Cuba by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…In Cuba, more people die than are born, mainly due to low replacement levels in fertility, a situation aggravated in the years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the negative consequences of population aging, four main ones are identified: health, economic, sociocultural and legal; among the positive ones, there are some reports of cohorts of people who reach advanced ages in better physical and mental condition. …”
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Less Stringent Global Health Treaties: Insights from Various Regimes by Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar

“…The formulation of a pandemic treaty sparked discourse on how the regime's treaties should be designed: whether they should adhere strictly to stringent measures or adopt more lenient approaches. …”
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When lights turn off. Future perspectives to design smart homes by Matteo O. Ingaramo, Mila Stepanovic

“…The Covid-19 pandemic has strongly shown the uncertainty and complexity of our lives. …”
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Assessing the mask-wearing habit as a contributing factor for COVID-19–associated mucormycosis by Bhawna Saini, Ambika Gupta, Suman Bisla, Komal Kumia, Shubhangi Shukla, Kime Yama

“…Context: During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an absurd surge in cases of mucormycosis. …”
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Studi Kualitatif Layanan Kesehatan Yang Diterima Orang Dengan HIV by Gusti Sumarsih, Mahathir, Devia Putri Lenggogeni

“…The findings recommend that healthcare providers further optimize their services to give a real impact in the prevention of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. …”
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The modeling of earnings per share of Polish companies for the post-financial crisis period using random walk and ARIMA models by Wojciech Kuryłek

“…This paper compares forecast errors of different univariate time-series models applied for the earnings per share (EPS) data for Polish companies from the period between the last financial crisis of 2008–2009 and the pandemic shock of 2020. The best model is the seasonal random walk (SRW) model across all quarters, which describes quite well the behavior of the Polish market compared to other analyzed models. …”
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Shaping the conflict by Alan Finlay

“…At the same time, constraints of time, capacity and resources, common in the commercial newsroom, mean it is often illequipped to deal more comprehensively with the complex effects of the pandemic in the country. A quantitative study, conducted as a sister study to this, shows the press took a strongly critical position in relation to the government health policy on anti-retrovirals (ARVs) during the monitored periods (March-May 2002 and March-May 2003). …”
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LOCAL POLISH SELF-GOVERNMENTS AGAINST THE CHALLENGES CREATED BY THE RISK OF NON-FINANCIAL FACTORS (ESG) by Magdalena Zioło, Katarzyna Wójtowicz

“…The risk of climate change, energy transformation, population aging or pandemic risk is just an example of this affecting local government units (LGUs). …”
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Analysis of modern air transportation in Russia by T. A. Petrova, V. A. Kardanov

“…Additionally, in light of recent global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, air cargo has faced additional challenges related to restrictions on passenger flights, changes in airport operating hours and increased health regulations, while the geopolitical situation has had a significant impact on transport and development of transport infrastructure throughout the EAEU. …”
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An Economic Policy Exit Strategy from the Corona Lockdown by Michael Hüther, Hubertus Bardt

“…Abstract The fight against the coronavirus pandemic has led to an insulation of social and economic life and will have considerable economic consequences. …”
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Contemporary experience of education digitalization by V. V. Godin, A. E. Terekhova

“…The paper considers a number of trends in the widely understood process of digitalization of education, the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the development of on-line education, evaluates the existing experience of such education and the limits of its applicability.…”
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A Review of Antibiotic Efficacy in COVID-19 Control by Hamidreza Hekmat, Aziz Rasooli, Zeinab Siami, Kauthar Amir Rutajengwa, Zahra Vahabi, Fatemeh Alsadat Mirzadeh

“…Antibiotics were widely prescribed during the early phase of the pandemic. We performed a literature review to assess the reasons, evidence, and practices on the use of antibiotics in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in- and outpatients. …”
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Confining the margins, marginalizing the confined: The Distress of Neglected Lockdown Victims in Indian Cities by Rémi de Bercegol, Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Shankare Gowda, Antony Raj

“…By revealing the paradoxical effects of a confinement that is not adapted to poor neighbourhoods, this article argues for a better consideration of the latter, during and after the pandemic crisis.…”
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