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Mapping the Idea of Europe : Cultural Production of Border Imaginaries through Heritage
2021
In contrast to recent reinforcements of Europe's internal and external borders due to the refugee situation on the Mediterranean and the Covid-19 outbreak, talk of European borders has in the past decades focused on the freedom of mobility guaranteed by the Schengen treaty. In many senses, free intra-European mobility has become a recited truth in the EU discourse: a phrase that hides under its repetition the gap between its implied content and empirical realities of many of those who are affected by European borders’ exclusive tendencies. Through the concept of borderscape, this article focuses on the role that cultural products – especially maps exhibited at heritage sites – have in recit…
Learning from the past in the COVID-19 era: rediscovery of quarantine, previous pandemics, origin of hospitals and national healthcare systems, and e…
2020
Abstract After the dramatic coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on 11 March 2020, a pandemic was declared by the WHO. Most countries worldwide imposed a quarantine or lockdown to their citizens, in an attempt to prevent uncontrolled infection from spreading. Historically, quarantine is the 40-day period of forced isolation to prevent the spread of an infectious disease. In this educational paper, a historical overview from the sacred temples of ancient Greece—the cradle of medicine—to modern hospitals, along with the conceive of healthcare systems, is provided. A few foods for thought as to the conflict between ethics in medicine and shortage of personne…
Impact of smoking on COVID-19 outcomes: a HOPE Registry subanalysis
2021
BackgroundSmoking has been associated with poorer outcomes in relation to COVID-19. Smokers have higher risk of mortality and have a more severe clinical course. There is paucity of data available on this issue, and a definitive link between smoking and COVID-19 prognosis has yet to be established.MethodsWe included 5224 patients with COVID-19 with an available smoking history in a multicentre international registry Health Outcome Predictive Evaluation for COVID-19 (NCT04334291). Patients were included following an in-hospital admission with a COVID-19 diagnosis. We analysed the outcomes of patients with a current or prior history of smoking compared with the non-smoking group. The primary …
Smiltsērkšķu marafivīrusa kodēto proteīnu klonēšana, ekspresija un raksturošana
2022
Smiltsērķšu marafivīruss (SBuMV) ir iepriekš neraksturots, smiltsērkšķus inficējošs vīruss. Tam ir divas atklātās translācijas fāzes (ORF), kur ORF1 kodē poliproteīnu, kas satur četrus proteīnu domēnus, bet ORF2 kodē apvalka proteīnu (CP). Šajā darbā tika izveidotas ekspresijas plazmīdas SBuMV kodētajiem proteīniem, taču E. coli sistēmā izdevās ekspresēt un attīrīt tikai abas CP formas un proteāzes (PRO) domēnu. Tika pārbaudīta PRO aktivitāte, PRO šķelšanas saits un verificēta PRO deubikvitināzes (DUB) aktivitāte. SBuMV mažorais CP E. coli spēj pašsavākties vīrusam līdzīgajās daļinās (VLP), bet minorais CP veido agregātus. Koekspresijas rezultātā, ja abas CP formas ekspresē no vienas plazmī…
Treatment of a stage III rima glottidis patient with the oncolytic virus Rigvir: A retrospective case report: Erratum.
2019
Abstract Rationale: Of all the parts of the larynx, the glottis has the highest frequency of cancer. With disease progression, the vocal cord movement is affected and for advanced stages its anatomical and functional preservation is rarely achievable, if at all. Patient concerns: Here we describe a 72-year-old patient who presented with hoarseness for a year and was only able to whisper. Diagnosis: A computed tomography (CT) scan of the vocal cords (without contrast) showed higher density tissue. Histological examination disclosed a well-differentiated verrucous squamous cell carcinoma of the glottis. Interventions: The patient was treated with the oncolytic ECHO-7 virus Rigvir without any …
A Phase I/II Dose-Escalation Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Safety of Infusion of Natural Killer Cells or Memory T Cells As Adoptive Therapy in C…
2021
Abstract Background: Adoptive cell immunotherapies for opportunistic virus in immunocompromised patients using haploidentical memory T cells have shown to be safe and effective. Since severe cases of COVID-19 present a dysregulated immune system with T cell lymphopenia and a hyper-inflammatory state we have proposed that a similar strategy could be proven to be efficient for COVID-19 patients. This is a study protocol of an open-label, multicenter, double-arm, randomized, dose-finding phase I/II clinical trial to evaluate the feasibility, safety, tolerability, and efficacy of the administration of a single dose of allogenic SARS-CoV-2 specific memory CD45RA - T cells and Natural Killer (NK)…
STABILITY OF A STOCHASTICALLY PERTURBED MODEL OF INTRACELLULAR SINGLE-STRANDED RNA VIRUS REPLICATION
2019
Compared to the replication of double-stranded RNA and DNA viruses, the replication of single-stranded viruses requires the production of a number of intermediate strands that serve as templates for the synthesis of genomic-sense strands. Two theoretical extreme mechanisms for replication for such single-stranded viruses have been proposed; one extreme being represented by the so-called linear stamping machine and the opposite extreme by the exponential growth. Of course, real systems are more complex and examples have been described in which a combination of such extreme mechanisms can also occur: a fraction of the produced progeny resulting from a stamping-machine type of replication that…
Responsabilidad de los administradores y directivos de la empresa por deudas laborales y de Seguridad Social por la crisis económica del Coronavirus
2020
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las posibles responsabilidades por créditos laborales y de seguridad social que pueden reclamarse a administradores y directivos como consecuencia de la crisis económica del coronavirus. Partiendo de la difícil coyuntura, se traza el estado de esta cuestión tras las previsiones establecidas en la legislación de excepción del estado de alarma, para empresas en concurso, como los expedientes de regulación temporal de empleo, y la no obligación de declararse en concurso, convocar la junta general cuando exista causa de disolución o suspender la obligación de disolución de pérdidas. Finalmente, se analiza la más usual vía de derivar responsabilidades a lo…
La multidimensionalidad de una pandemia. Sociedad y Derecho en la era del post-coronavirus
2020
La multidimensionalidad de lecturas que se han abierto derivadas de los efectos del Covid-19 (filosófica, sociológica y jurídica) ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre algunas dicotomías –además de la ya clásica salud/economía- tales como riesgo-miedo/alteridad, individualismo/comunidad, así como a revisar algunos de los relatos y narrativas que han intentado explicar lo que esta crisis ha supuesto y el escenario post-pandémico que podría configurarse. A partir del análisis de las dimensiones filosófica y sociológica, se pretende sentar las bases para identificar qué cuestiones nucleares inciden en la dimensión jurídica y, a partir de ahí, apuntar algunos parámetros acerca de cómo p…
Infección Activa por el Citomegalovirus (CMV) en el trasplante alogénico de precursores hematopoyéticos:Investigación de nuevos factores biológicos p…
2016
Citomegalovirus (CMV) es causa frecuente de morbididad y mortalidad en el marco del trasplante alogénico de precursores hematopoyéticos (alo-TPH). CMV puede ocasionar enfermedad orgánica o tisular (neumonía intersticial o enfermedad gastrointestinal, con mayor frecuencia), en virtud de su “citopatogenicidad” . CMV también puede causar morbididad a través de mecanismos indirectos, relacionados con su capacidad inmunosupresora y pro-inflamatoria; en ese contexto, CMV parece incrementar el riesgo de “superinfección” bacteriana y fúngica y de la enfermedad injerto contra huésped (EICH). La reactivación de la infección crónica persistente por el CMV es un suceso frecuente en el paciente alo-TPH.…