Guide méthodologique pour l'analyse spatiale du covid-19 dans les zones urbaines non métropolitaines du Brésil by João Pedro Pereira Caetano de Lima, Raul Borges Guimarães

“…To this end, it briefly discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and pertinent questions for making COVID-19 maps in different urban realities. …”
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Confiner les marges, marginaliser les confins : la souffrance des oubliés du lockdown dans les villes indiennes 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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The Relationship Between Inflation and Trade Openness: Evidence from Ghana by Evans Yeboah, Alexander Amo Baffour

“…Recent disruptions caused by events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have significantly affected the global economy, resulting in a notable increase in inflation rates, particularly in developing countries. …”
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Learning while Traveling: Influences of Short-term Cross-cultural Immersion Experiences to High School Students by Bernadette Bugtong

“…However, the limitations brought by the restrictions on movements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lack of pre-immersion and post-immersion activities have presented challenges to the breadth and depth of these changes. …”
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Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century by N.L. deClaissé-Walford

“… This article surveys the imprecatory words in the book of Psalms and examines and questions their place in the faith life of the third decade of the 21st-century world, one that is fraught with the impact of a global pandemic, political uncertainties, and racial injustices. …”
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Development of the it sector in Russia: drivers and stimulation methods by M. V. Ryzhkova, V. V. Spitsin, N. A. Skrylnikova

“…Particular attention has been paid to global external shocks to the industry, namely sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic. The short term specifics of the information technology sector drivers have been highlighted. …”
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Guidance for the clinical management of infants born to mothers with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 in Singapore by Kee Thai Yeo, Agnihotri Biswas, Selina Kah Ying Ho, Juin Yee Kong, Srabani Bharadwaj, Amutha Chinnadurai, Wai Yan Yip, Nurli Fadhillah Ab Latiff, Bin Huey Quek, Cheo Lian Yeo, Yvonne Peng Mei Ng, Kenny Teong Tai Ee, Mei Chien Chua, Woei Bing Poon, Zubair Amin

“…In this paper, we provide guidance to clinicians who care for infants born to mothers with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 during this current pandemic. We reviewed available literature and international guidelines based on the following themes: delivery room management; infection control and prevention strategies; neonatal severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 testing; breastfeeding and breastmilk feeding; rooming-in of mother-infant; respiratory support precautions; visiting procedures; de-isolation and discharge of infant; outpatient clinic attendance; transport of infant; and training of healthcare staff. …”
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Virtual general meetings by Radović Vuk G.

“…Since the end of the recent pandemic, we have seen further liberalisation, which means that an increasing number of countries also allow virtual meetings of shareholders. …”
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COMMUNICATIVE SPACE OF DISTANCE LEARNING FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The development of information technologies, the need to introduce innovative approaches, the emergence of global extreme social situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019–2021years, – intensified the use of distance approach in educational activities. …”
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Does Burnout Due to COVID-19 Affect Resilience? The Sample of Doctors in Turkiye by Aziz Bulut, Aliye Bulut, Çağla Yiğitbaş

“…Objective: The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on doctors are significant. This study was conducted to determine the resilience or burnout status of physicians, the characteristics that make a difference on them and whether burnout predicts resilience. …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The conferences took place in 2018-2019, at a time when neither the coronavirus pandemic nor Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine were foreseeable, and the contributions have not been updated in light of these catastrophes. …”
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“Signing off on the right side of History?” Relating in Louise Welsh’s apocalyptic trilogy by Marie-Odile PITTIN-HEDON

“…Welsh depicts a presentist world, where the chaos of the pandemic has severed all connection to people’s past, which precludes any meaningful projection into the future. …”
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Dynamic Evolution of the Zinc-Nickel Battery Industry and Evidence from China by Xiangze Shi, Xiao Li, Zijian He, Hui Jiang

“…At the end of this paper, we analyze the location of zinc-nickel battery enterprises and the industry development under the COVID-19 pandemic. The finding show that the reduction of raw material cost is of great help to the development of the zinc-nickel battery industry.…”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The conferences took place in 2018-2019, at a time when neither the coronavirus pandemic nor Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine were foreseeable, and the contributions have not been updated in light of these catastrophes. …”
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COVID-19 residual symptoms and adverse drug reactions after oral antiviral therapy in the Singapore primary care setting by Jia Qi Yeo, Poh Ching Tan, Cheryl Wei Yan Tan, Poay Sian Sabrina Lee

“… The COVID-19 pandemic remains a significant public health threat with over 7 million deaths worldwide (as of 14 January 2024).1 In Singapore, oral antivirals (OAVs) nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and molnupiravir were approved in 2022 for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults at risk of progression to severe disease.2,3 Clinical trials in Western populations showed nirmatrelvir/ritonavir having higher efficacy in reducing hospitalisations and mortality by 88% compared to 30% for molnupiravir.2-4 A Singapore study showed nirmatrelvir/ritonavir’s effectiveness in reducing hospitalisation and severe COVID-19.5 However, further research is needed on potential adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and control of COVID-19 symptoms in Asian populations. …”
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Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences by Fakharzadeh Mehrnoosh, Naderi Mohammad Hassan

“…This study aimed to examine what challenges Iranian EFL teachers in the mainstream educational system experienced in distance classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telephone unstructured narrative interview was employed to collect data from 20 teacher participants, and two theoretical frameworks, CoI and TPACK, were used to interpret the results. …”
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Aggregating multiple test results to improve medical decision-making. by Lucas Böttcher, Maria R D'Orsogna, Tom Chou

“…Our approach is relevant to not only clinical settings such as medical imaging, but also to public health, as highlighted by the need for rapid, cost-effective testing methods during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our model enables the development of testing protocols with an arbitrary number of tests, which can be customized to meet requirements for type I and type II errors. …”
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The mediating role of core self-evaluation in the association between perceived peer relationship quality and loneliness in university students. by Hongxiu Tan, Wen Xiao

“…This study investigated the mediating role of core self-evaluation (CSE) in the relationship between the perception of peer relationship quality and loneliness among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was conducted with 462 university students (mean age: 20.7 ± 1.56 years; age range: 18 to 25 years) using the Peer Relationships Satisfaction Scale, Core Self-Evaluation Scale, and UCLA Loneliness Scale. …”
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Performance improvement model in a manufacturing company: job satisfaction as mediator by Santi Riana Dewi, Ratu Erlina Gentari, Denny Kurnia, Deviyantoro Deviyantoro

“…This study’s goal is to determine the effect of work placement and work discipline on performance with job satisfaction as an intervening variable among a manufacturing company during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study design is causal-comparative with a quantitative approach with 100 respondents. …”
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Infliximab in treatment of refractory multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children with severe cardiac dysfunction by Guruprasad Hassan Shankar, Jitendra S Oswal, Bhakti U Sarangi, Ajay Walimbe, Prithvichandra Markal, Karthik V Badarayan

“…Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has emerged as one of the several challenges thrown by the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 pandemic. Although diagnostic criteria of MIS-C have now been established to raise the clinical suspicion for the condition, the Kawasaki disease (KD)-like phenotype of MIS-C presents with additional therapeutic dilemmas. …”
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