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Die durch COVID-19 infizierte Pressesprache. Coronavirus in sprachlichen Bildern
2022
The coranavirus pandemic has changed not only the lives of people around the world, but also the language they use. This paper aims to analyse the metaphors used to describe the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease it causes. It furthermore indicates the extent to which these metaphors determine how the pandemic is portrayed in press articles. The cognitive picture of the coronavirus (or pandemic) will be presented with reference to conceptual metaphors, as these are understood by Lakoff and Johnson (2014) and Jäkel (2003). The analysis considers the timeframe that starts with the outbreak of the pandemic in December 2019 and ends in March 2022, with the resulting corpus including 278 …
Glucocorticoid excess and COVID-19 disease
2020
AbstractThe pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is causing high and rapid morbidity and mortality. Immune system response plays a crucial role in controlling and resolving the viral infection. Exogenous or endogenous glucocorticoid excess is characterized by increased susceptibility to infections, due to impairment of the innate and adaptive immune system. In addition, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and thromboembolism are conditions overrepresented in patients with hypercortisolism. Thus patients with chronic glucocorticoid (GC) excess may be at high risk of developing COVID-19 infection with a sever…
Italian regions and the national recovery and resilience plan
2020
The Covid 19 pandemic has produced and is producing very heavy effects on the economic and social level; triggering the most serious crisis since World War II, of fargreater dimensions than those of the economic-financial crisis of 2007-10.
Risk of Virus Contamination Through Surgical Smoke During Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Systematic Review of the Literature on a Neglected Issue Revi…
2020
Abstract Context The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic raised concerns about the safety of laparoscopy due to the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) diffusion in surgical smoke. Although no case of SARS-CoV-2 contagion related to surgical smoke has been reported, several international surgical societies recommended caution or even discouraged the use of a laparoscopic approach. Objective To evaluate the risk of virus spread due to surgical smoke during surgical procedures. Evidence acquisition We searched PubMed and Scopus for eligible studies, including clinical and preclinical studies assessing the presence of any virus in the surgical smoke fr…
A Comparison of Depression and Anxiety among University Students in Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
The mental health of young adults, particularly students, is at high risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in mental health between university students in nine countries during the pandemic. The study encompassed 2349 university students (69% female) from Colombia, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants underwent the following tests: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), Exposure to COVID-19 (EC-19), Perceived Impact of Coronavirus (PIC) on students’ well-being, Physical Activity (PA), and General Self-Reported Health (GSRH). The one-way…
Cultura per chi? Pratiche artistiche, trasformazioni urbane e innovazione sociale nelle città postpandemiche
2022
In un’Italia fortemente compromessa dall'emergenza sanitaria, la crisi urbana che ne è scaturita ha posto in evidenza come la cultura, declinata attraverso processi e pratiche di produzione artistica e creativa, abbia offerto importanti occasioni di engagement ed empowerment, concorrendo alla costruzione di un welfare di comunità in risposta alle urgenze del presente. Lontano dall'idea di intrattenimento e divertissement, è sempre più chiaro come pratiche di innovazione culturale, sperimentando varie forme di azione e partecipazione, possano giocare un ruolo fondamentale nei processi di coesione sociale e costruzione di comunità, rappresentando in alcuni casi un antidoto all’inasprirsi dei …
The Current State of Remote Physiotherapy in Finland : Cross-sectional Web-Based Questionnaire Study
2021
Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has required social, health, and rehabilitation organizations to implement remote physiotherapy (RP) as a part of physiotherapists’ daily practice. RP may improve access to physiotherapy as it delivers physiotherapy services to rehabilitees through information and communications technology. Even if RP has already been introduced in this century, physiotherapists’ opinion, amount of use, and form in daily practice have not been studied extensively. Objective This study aims to investigate physiotherapists’ opinions of the current state of RP in Finland. Methods A quantitative, cross-sectional, web-based questionnaire was sent to working-aged members …
Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and design responses in public space: Towards strategies for resilient post-Covid cities
2022
The Covid-19 pandemic triggered governments and designers to revalue and redesign public spaces. This paper focuses on the various design responses to Covid-19 proposed and implemented in public spaces. In particular, we identify the kinds of challenges that such design responses address and the strategies that they use. We selected 56 design examples, largely collected from internet sources. By analyzing the design examples we identified five Covid-related challenges that were addressed in public space: sustaining amenities, keeping a distance, feeling connected, staying mentally healthy, and expanding health infrastructures. For each challenge, we articulated 2 to 6 design strategies. The…
Promoting a Syndemic Approach for Cardiometabolic Disease Management During COVID-19: The CAPISCO International Expert Panel
2021
Efforts in the fight against COVID-19 are achieving success in many parts of the world, although progress remains slow in other regions. We believe that a syndemic approach needs to be adopted to address this pandemic given the strong apparent interplay between COVID-19, its related complications, and the socio-structural environment. We have assembled an international, multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinical practitioners to promote a novel syndemic approach to COVID-19: the CArdiometabolic Panel of International experts on Syndemic COvid-19 (CAPISCO). This geographically diverse group aims to facilitate collaborative-networking and scientific exchanges between researchers and …
Mancession to Shecession: Higher Education, Employment, and Gender across Two Economic Recessions
2021
A distance; International audience; In this paper we compare the longitudinal labour market activity of Canadian women and men across the spans of the 2008 ‘great’ recession and the 2020 pandemic recession to determine differential impacts by gender and education on labour market engagement, income, and family household tasks in these two time periods.