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COVID-19, an opportunity for developing countries?
2020
The COVID-19 outbreak was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as global pandemic in March 2020. Considering the necessity to implement rapid response to control the pandemic and the fragility and the state of need of low income countries, it will be mandatory to develop a global approach in order to reduce the spread of infection and the creation of community viral reservoirs. So far, we could hypothesize a worst case scenario in which when the COVID-19 outbreak hits a peak in Africa and in low-income countries, the majority of such countries will be unprepared, with low resources allocated for affording the viral emergency and the consequences will be catastrophic with no lesso…
The Moderation Effects of Comparative Thinking Between Gratitude and Negative Affect During the COVID-19 Outbreak
2021
The aim of this research was to examine the moderation effects of comparative thinking (CT) across the relationship between gratitude and affect during the COVID-19 outbreak. To this purpose, multiple regression as well as moderation analyses were carried out. Age and sex were also addressed as variables of interest as described in previous literature. A sample of 306 north Americans was recruited by crowdsourcing platform ProA to obtain a representative sample based on age and gender. The participants filled in a questionnaire based on comparative thinking in relation to the emotional experience experienced before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, positive and negative affect schedule for …
Why is COVID-19 especially impacting the African American population?
2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, penetrates human cells through direct binding with ...
Tourism recovery amid COVID-19: The case of Lombardy, Italy
2021
Travel restrictions and social distancing imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus have been strongly hitting tourism since March 2020. Tourism forecasting literature addressed the effects of shocks in contexts characterized by a predictable route to recovery. COVID-19 is without precedents. In this article, monthly overnight stays for the period January 2010 to December 2020 are used to estimate the impact of the pandemic in Lombardy, Italy’s most affected region. A model-based approach is implemented, and the number of overnight stays up to December 2023 is forecasted. Four models are compared. Estimation results from an augmented SARIMA model suggest that, provided a new lockdo…
La corruzione tra privati in Italia: un bilancio critico
2017
Benché nell’ordinamento italiano abbia origini ancora relativamente recenti (risalendo al 2002 la sua introduzione), la corruzione tra privati ha da ultimo acquisito un nuovo volto con il d.lgs. n. 38/2017, che - per uniformarla allo standard europeo di incriminazione - ne amplia la portata incriminatrice sia rispetto alla platea di soggetti attivi, sia all’anticipazione della condotta illecita. Il passaggio dalla formulazione originaria, limitata all’ambito societario, all’attuale estensione a tutti gli enti privati, risponde alle esigenze di irrobustire l’azione di contrasto al fenomeno corruttivo, che continua a presentare una pervasività tale nella realtà italiana da richiedere un impeg…
Modification of Diurnal Cortisol Secretion in Women’s Professional Basketball. A Pilot Study
2021
Elite basketball training causes high levels of physiological stress, which can lead to negative physiological disorders in female athletes. The aim of this study was to establish the impact of physical activity on the rhythm of salivary cortisol secretion in elite female basketball players over one week. The population sample included 9 women professional basketball players. The control group was made up of 9 women who did not do any exercise. Saliva samples were collected from all participants at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on training days. Samples from the basketball group showed a significantly higher cortisol secretion. Moreover, from the second night, the pattern of cortisol secretion o…
Breakup and default risks in the great lockdown
2023
Abstract In this paper, we exploit CDS quotes for contracts denominated in different currencies and with different default clauses to estimate the risk of a breakup of the Eurozone and the propagation of breakup and default risks after the COVID-19 shock. Our main result is that the risk of a Eurozone breakup is significant although, quantitatively, it is not larger than in the period before the COVID-19 shock. In addition, we find that an increase in the redenomination risk in one country is associated with an increase in default premia and bond spreads in other Eurozone countries. Finally, we find that a sizeable fraction of the changes in the cost of insuring against redenomination and d…
Impact of COVID-19 of restaurant and bars
2021
Bakalaura darba tēma: “Covid-19 ietekme uz restorānu un bāru darbību” Covid-19 pandēmija izraisīja globālu krīzi visā pasaulē. Covid-19 pandēmijas izraisītā krīze ir izaicinājums ne tikai iedzīvotājiem, bet arī valsts tautsaimniecībai kopumā. Valdībai bija strauji jāsagatavo atbalsta instrumenti tiem, kurus epidemioloģiskās drošības ieviestie regulējumi skāra visvairāk, vistiešāk. Bakalaura darba mērķis: ir izpētīt Covid-19 ietekmi uz restorānu un bāru darbību, izdarīt secinājumus un sniegt priekšlikumus Covid-19 ietekmes mazināšanā. Bakalaura darbs sastāv no trīs nodaļām, pirmajā nodaļā tiek pētīta Covid-19 ietekme uz restorānu un bāru darbību no teorētiskā aspekta. Otrajā nodaļā tiek veik…
Combined endoscopical treatments for tracheo‐esophageal fistula developed during V‐V ECMO for severe COVID‐19: A case series
2021
Identitats de gènere i esport. Masculinitats inductores i resistències a la masculinitat hegemònica al futbol espanyol.
2010
Com a contribució al recorregut històric de la Psicologia social, s'aborda ara el decurs d'un esport universal i l'atribució a un dels gèneres: el masculí, evidentment. L'autor es pregunta si s'ha produït algun canvi en el ethos de gènere del futbol com a conseqüència de la pròpia evolució de les relacions de gènere en la societat espanyola i en relació amb el que s'ha denominat la crisis de la masculinitat. I mira de contestar a abastament, en el contingut del seu detallat i documentat estudi, que es divideix en cinc parts. En la primera s'ofereix una revisió de la literatura sobre la qüestió i es desenvolupa el marc teòric en el qual es recolza la investigació presentada, en les tres segü…