THE CHALLENGE OF ONLINE LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING: INCLUSIVE CONTENT AND MOTIVATION ENHANCEMENT by MA Liisa Wallenius, Ieva Brazauskaite-Zubaviciene

“…The pandemics of COVID-19 has reinforced online learning and teaching. …”
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Individualism: the end of social cohesion? The effects of inequality and group identity on cooperation by Sebastian Senn, Nico Mutzner, Vincent Oberhauser, Heiko Rauhut

“…IntroductionGlobal challenges like pandemics and climate change are fundamentally cooperation problems, where individual interests often conflict with the collective good. …”
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Modelling COVID-19 in the North American region with a metapopulation network and Kalman filter by Matteo Perini, Teresa K. Yamana, Marta Galanti, Jiyeon Suh, Roselyn Kaondera-Shava, Jeffrey Shaman

“…Background: Understanding the dynamics of infectious disease spread and predicting clinical outcomes are critical for managing large-scale epidemics and pandemics, such as COVID-19. Effective modeling of disease transmission in interconnected populations helps inform public health responses and interventions across regions. …”
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On the way to resilient information security management: Business Continuity Management (BCM) for public institutions by Christian SCHACHTNER

“…It emphasizes how a well-designed BCP can increase an institution's ability to anticipate potential business interruptions, minimize eventual impacts, resume operations, and ensure basic services during unforeseen events such as natural disasters or pandemics. Prior Work: Reference is made to previous studies and practices dealing with BCM in public institutions. …”
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No Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on Urethral Swab in Patients with Positive Nasopharyngeal Swab by Lorenzo Spirito, Biagio Pinchera, Angela Patrì, Mario Delfino, Ciro Imbimbo, Paola Salvatore, Ivan Gentile, Gabriella Fabbrocini

“…The SARS-CoV-2 infection has caused one of the worst pandemics that history has ever known. SARS-CoV-2 can lead to multiple organ failure, which is life-threatening. …”
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Collaborative research: Potential and limitations of participative social cartography by Pablo Saravia-Ramos, Débora Vega-Valdés, Luis Espinoza-Almonacid, Paulo Gutiérrez-Soto

“…In order to achieve results, it was necessary to employ a mix of virtual and face-to face encounters, adapting the methodology not only to the needs and internal dynamics of the cooperatives, but also to the conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemics. When comparing the different findings it becomes evident that cartographic techniques need to be adapted to the rhythms and peculiarities of each organization. …”
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Influenza A Virus and Influenza B Virus Can Induce Apoptosis via Intrinsic or Extrinsic Pathways and Also via NF-κB in a Time and Dose Dependent Manner by Ibrahim El-Sayed, Khalid Bassiouny, Aziz Nokaly, Ahmed S. Abdelghani, Wael Roshdy

“…Influenza viruses are able to cause annual epidemics and pandemics due to their mutation rates and reassortment capabilities leading to antigenic shifts and drifts. …”
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EBOLA AND COVID-19 EPIDEMICS: A DISCOURSE ON NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY RESPONSES by BARILEDUM KIA, CALISTUS N DUMLE

“…Nigeria, among other nation-states experienced Ebola and Covid-19 pandemics. How Nigeria responded to these epidemics was the focus of the study. …”
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Designing supply chain of blood under uncertainty: A case study by Ali Namazian, Reza Babazadeh

“…As a result, uncertainty plays a crucial role in the blood supply chain, especially during crises such as earthquakes and pandemics. In this regard, designing the  Blood Supply Chain Network (BSCN) under uncertainty is essential for meeting fluctuating demand, addressing logistical challenges, responding to emergencies, and ensuring the quality and safety of blood products throughout the supply chain. …”
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Variant of Organizational and Functional Adaptation Structures of a Typical Situational Centre to the Emergence of Crisis Situations by Volodymyr Mirnenko, Oleh Hudyma, Vadym Artamoshchenko

“… Due to the growing number of crisis situations (CS) in the modern world, such as natural disasters, man-made accidents, pandemics, cyber-attacks, financial crises, wars, and other negative events, it is important for the state to develop and adapt the organizational and functional structures of information and analytical units, including situation centers (SC), to respond effectively to such cases, thereby ensuring the country’s resilience in the face of negative circumstances. …”
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Computer-Based Clinical Examination (CCE) in Surgery: Would It Complement or Replace the OSCE in the Post-COVID-19 Era? by Gamal E H A El Shallaly, Mudather M Bafadni, Hozifa M A Abdelmaged, Maysa H A Hamza

“… Objectives: Surgical clinical assessment of medical students is confronted by many challenges particularly the increasing numbers of students with limited resources, and pandemics. The search for new tools of assessment continues. …”
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A Review on Face Mask Recognition by Jiaonan Zhang, Dong An, Yiwen Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Xinyue Wang, Qiang Wang, Zhongqi Pan, Yang Yue

“…The review underscores the paramount importance of accurate face mask detection, especially in response to global public health challenges such as pandemics. A central focus is placed on the role of datasets in driving algorithmic performance, addressing key factors, including dataset diversity, scale, annotation granularity, and modality. …”
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Research of indicators of sustainable development in the field of healthcare management (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN) by Aygul Tulemetova, Maksat Yelikbay, Aygyl Tulemetova, Madina Sergazieva, Aizharkyn Sadykbekova, Gulzhamal Koptyaeva

“…The main obstacles to achieving the goal are: inadequate health financing, health inequalities, communicable diseases and pandemics, non-communicable diseases, complexity of health services. …”
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Replication-transcription complex of coronaviruses: functions of individual viral non-structural subunits, properties and architecture of their complexes by E. L. Mishchenko, V. A. Ivanisenko

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV), and the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV-2) have been identif ied as causing global pandemics. Clinically tested vaccines are widely used to control rapidly spreading, acute, and often severe infections; however, effective drugs are still not available. …”
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Trust: an essential component in nursing crisis leadership; a hybrid concept analysis by Karin Hugelius

“…Abstract Background Given the increasing trend of disasters, terrorist attacks, pandemics and other crises, crisis leadership is crucial for nurses who lead others and for those working in such situations. …”
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The relationship between compassion fatigue, engagement and decent work among nurses: a cross-sectional study by Yaping Feng, Sui Li, Weilan Ma, Yaqian Chen, Jingxuan Zhang, Hong Luo, Bowen Xue

“…Abstract Background Nurses face significant professional challenges arising from global pandemics, inadequate welfare protection, and declining social status. …”
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Stress and Coping Strategies among Students: Review by J.A. Marakshina, V.I. Ismatullina, L.M. Marina

“… <p>Global socio-economic crises, new pandemics, climate disasters, and other large-scale factors create an unfavorable background for humanity, often involving painful processes that lead to significant changes in personality and the social situation of development. …”
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A Hybrid Artificial Neural Network and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for Detecting COVID-19 Patients by Alla Ahmad Hassan, Tarik A Rashid

“…COVID-19, one of the most dangerous pandemics, is currently affecting humanity. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly due to its high reliability transmissibility. …”
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Correlation between vitamin D levels, individual and socio-demographic characteristics and COVID-19 infection and death rates in 20 European countries: A modelling study by John C. DEARDEN, Philip H. ROWE

“…Discussion and Conclusions: These results help to explain the variability of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and offer guidance in planning against future coronavirus pandemics. Controlling for a wide range of factors reduces the risk that the apparent protective effect of vitamin D might be confounded.…”
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Open government data in health sector: a systematic literature review by Patrícia Nascimento Silva, Sarah Nascimento Silva

“…Most publications evaluated quality and usability requirements, with five related to the COVID-19 pandemics. There is significant heterogeneity in the data formats available, obtaining, on average, a 3-star rating in the Berners-Lee evaluation model. …”
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