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Por una muerte digna para la educación artística
2020
Resumen: El año 2020 ha estado marcado por una pandemia global causante de una situación extraña e impredecible a nivel planetario. Todos los países del mundo se encuentran en procesos de prevención sanitaria contra la COVID-19, un virus que ataca agresivamente el sistema inmunológico de las personas. Intentar llevar a cabo cualquier actividad supone un riesgo de contagio, ya que el coronavirus se propaga sobre todo a través del aliento humano, lo cual ha supuesto la irrupción de nuevos hábitos cotidianos, como usar siempre la mascarilla, o no poder reunirse con otra gente para celebraciones y eventos, ni tampoco dar clase en el aula. Inmersos en esta tesitura, desfavorable para cualquier i…
Le sfide della formazione urbanistica nell’era post-pandemia
2022
La diffusione dell’infezione da Sars-CoV2 e la crisi di sistema, che ne è conseguita, hanno generato una serie di impatti che vanno ben oltre il campo dell’epidemiologia investendo anche l’ambito della formazione accademica dei futuri pianificatori sotto il profilo sia dei contenuti che delle metodologie didattiche. L’articolo restituisce una riflessione critica sull’impatto della pandemia da Covid-19 sull’insegnamento del planning a partire dalle esperienze didattiche condotte dall’autore presso il Corso di laurea magistrale in Pianificazione territoriale urbanistica e ambientale dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo. Un’occasione per avviare un ragionamento più ampio non solo sulle compe…
Le sfide dell'urbanistica nell'era post-pandemica
2022
Il contributo introduce gli atti del Convegno “Post-pandemic Cities: le sfide dell’urbanistica dopo l’emergenza”, illustrando i contenuti e l'articolazione delle sessioni
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urological practice in emergency departments in Italy
2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and the disease it causes, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), are causing a rapid and tragic health emergency worldwide [1,2]. Italy was the first European country to experience a virus outbreak, starting on 21 February 2020. It resulted in a national quarantine, and the official lockdown of the country’s non-essential businesses and services began on 9 March 2020. Although several reports are available in the literature providing recommendations for the reorganization of clinical and surgical activities [3–7], to our knowledge, no data are available on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the outcomes of other medical conditi…
Post-mortem findings in vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia
2021
Greinacher et al.1 and Schultz et al.2 were the first to independently report the main clinical and laboratory features of 11 and five respective patients from Germany, Austria and Norway who developed life-threatening thrombohemorrhagic complications 5 to 16 days after the administration of the first dose of the chimpanzee adenoviral vector vaccine ChAdOx1nCoV-19 against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Subsequently Scully et al.3 reported similar findings in 23 patients treated with the same vaccine in the United Kingdom. More recently, See et al.4 reported a case series of 12 patients from the USA with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis following the vaccination with Ad26.CoV2.S employing a human …
Why have consumers opposed, postponed, and rejected Innovations during a pandemic? A Study of mobile payment Innovations
2021
The highly infectious nature of the COVID-19 virus has made the use of contactless payment methods a health exigency. Yet, consumers are resisting using mobile payments (m-payments) during the pandemic, a confounding behavior that needs to be better understood. The present study explicates this behavior by examining consumer resistance to m-payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it provides more granular findings by measuring three levels of resistance/non-adoption, namely, postponement, opposition, and rejection. In this way, the study adds depth to the literature, which has largely examined resistance at an aggregate level to yield generic findings. Toward this end, the study…
The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
Abstract This study investigates the role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also explores the impact of collaborative knowledge creation on the perceived value of social media crowdsourcing in such crises. PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data and test the research model. The results show that sense of community has a significant role in harnessing the wisdom of the crowd and creating collaborative knowledge. The results confirm a significant impact of sense of community, the wisdom of the crowd, and collaborative knowledge creation on the perceived value of social media crowdsourcing in respondin…
Spatial and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 diversity circulating in wastewater
2022
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has proven to be an effective tool for epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, combining WBE together with high-throughput sequencing techniques can be useful for the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 viral diversity present in a given sample. The present study focuses on the genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in 76 sewage samples collected during the three epidemiological waves that occurred in Spain from 14 wastewater treatment plants distributed throughout the country. The results obtained demonstrate that the metagenomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater allows the detection of mutations that define the B.1.1.…
Parents' Self-Reported Stress and Coping During the First COVID-19 Related State of Emergency in Latvia
2021
Pētījuma mērķis bija noskaidrot kāds ir vecāku pašnovērtētā stresa līmenis, izjustie stresa avoti, un kādus stresa pārvarēšanas paņēmienus viņi izmanto Covid-19 pandēmijas pirmās ārkārtas situācijas laikā, kā arī kādas atšķirības stresā un tā pārvarēšanā pastāv dažādās sociāli demogrāfiskajās grupās. Pētījumā piedalījās 2 559 vecāki, lielākā daļa bija sievietes, kuru vidējais vecums ir 39 gadi. Datu ievākšanai tika izmantota kvalitatīvi-kvantitatīva aptauja par ģimeņu ar bērniem stresu un tā pārvarēšanu pandēmijas laikā, kura tika izveidota starptautiskās pētniecības iniciatīvas “Covid-19-related stress in families with children around the world” ietvaros. Pētījuma rezultāti liecina, ka ģim…
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater anticipated COVID-19 occurrence in a low prevalence area
2020
Preprint disponible en http://hdl.handle.net/10261/209125