Search results for "amer"

Personal protective equipment and intensive care unit healthcare worker safety in the COVID-19 era (PPE-SAFE): An international survey

2020

Purpose To survey healthcare workers (HCW) on availability and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) caring for COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and method A web-based survey distributed worldwide in April 2020. Results We received 2711 responses from 1797 (67%) physicians, 744 (27%) nurses, and 170 (6%) Allied HCW. For routine care, most (1557, 58%) reportedly used FFP2/N95 masks, waterproof long sleeve gowns (1623; 67%), and face shields/visors (1574; 62%). Powered Air-Purifying Respirators were used routinely and for intubation only by 184 (7%) and 254 (13%) respondents, respectively. Surgical masks were used for routine care by 289 (15%) and 47 (2%) for…

Appropriation et usages des TIC chez des " leaders " politiques en France et en Grande-Bretagne : pratiques et discours

2011

Remote sensing and climate data as a key for understanding fasciolosis transmission in the Andes: review and update of an ongoing interdisciplinary p…

2006

Fasciolosis caused by Fasciola hepatica in various South American countries located on the slopes of the Andes has been recognized as an important public health problem. However, the importance of this zoonotic hepatic parasite was neglected until the last decade. Countries such as Peru and Bolivia are considered to be hyperendemic areas for human and animal fasciolosis, and other countries such as Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela are also affected. At the beginning of the 1990s a multidisciplinary project was launched with the aim to shed light on the problems related to this parasitic disease in the Northern Bolivian Altiplano. A few years later, a geographic information system (GIS…

Davide e Golia. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese e la traiettoria americanista di un esule antifascista

2019

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese was one of the anti-fascist intellectuals who, around the Thirties of the XX Century, let themselves be involved by the American myth. Although inspired by democratic ideals mixed with a profound sense of Risorgimento and libertarian patriotism, he was near the nationalist and interventionist ideology. The decisive turning point in Borgese's life took place during the years in which the dictatorship and the regime of censorship imposed by Fascism, became ever more alive and dominant, causing him to develop the idea of leaving Italy for the United States. Beyond the contradictories relationships that bound him to the two Countries, Borgese, unable to recognize his ho…

Felisberto y Macedonio: estrategias de deconstrucción entre humorístico y fantástico

2017

Basta con adentrarse unas pocas líneas en la obra de Felisberto Hernández, para intuir, percibir, un profundo misterio, como si en cada frase se escondieran las raíces de un entero imaginario poético. Sería restrictivo referirse a una extraordinaria densidad de la escritura para evocar la continua y embriagadora presencia de imágenes y sugestiones que desplazan al lector y lo envuelven en un vórtice de inéditas asociaciones de ideas, de objetos cotidianos que adquieren una existencia profunda, o de acciones simples que a través de una mirada nueva e íntima sobre el mundo se transforman en aventuras oníricas extraordinarias. Una peculiar concepción del genero fantástico rige y multiplica la …

Idee femministe latinoamericane

2016

Traduzione del saggio "Ideas feministas latinoamericanas" di Francesca Gargallo sullo stato attuale della prassi politica e della riflessione teorica del femminismo latinoamericano a partire dagli anni '90.

Amerikas alternatīvā vēsture Filipa K. Dika un Filipa Rota romānos

2019

Vieni no spilgtākajiem alternatīvās vēstures žanra pārstāvjiem ir Filips K. Diks un Filips Rots – “Cilvēks Augstajā Pilī” (1962) un “Sazvērestība pret Ameriku” (2004) romānu autori. Šī bakalaura darba mērķis ir alternatīvās vēstures literārā žanra definēšana, salīdzinot alternatīvās vēstures pazīmes divos romānos un risinot jautājumu par alternatīvās vēstures žanra izpēti literārajās studijās, kā arī raksturot šajās studijās gūto pieredzi. Pētijums tika veikts trīs posmos: attiecīgo literāro pētījumu un teorētiskās literatūras analīze. Salīdzinošās un žanra literārās analīzes metožu pielietojums, pievēršot uzmanību alternatīvās vēstures žanra raksturīgajām iezīmēm divos romānos. Atrasto iez…

Financing public higher education in developing countries : the potential role of loan schemes

1986

The financing of education has emerged as a major topic of discussion among policy makers in recent years. There is evidence that in many developing countries, governments can no longer continue to increase spending on education at the high rates characteristic in the 1960s and 1970s. The macroeconomic environment has worsened, and there is keen intersectoral competition for public funds. Thus unless educational development moves away from its present heavy dependence on public funds, the expansion of education would be frustrated. One policy option is to increase the private financing of education. In this paper, we evaluate the potential effectiveness of loans schemes as a cost recovery i…

Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19

2020

Abstract Aims The risk of mortality from the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19) is increased by comorbidity from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Air pollution also causes excess mortality from these conditions. Analysis of the first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) outcomes in 2003, and preliminary investigations of those for SARS-CoV-2 since 2019, provide evidence that the incidence and severity are related to ambient air pollution. We estimated the fraction of COVID-19 mortality that is attributable to the long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution. Methods and results We characterized global exposure to fine particulates…

Hospitalisation and length of hospital stay following first-episode psychosis:Systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

2019

AbstractBackgroundReducing hospitalisation and length of stay (LOS) in hospital following first episode psychosis (FEP) is important, yet reliable measures of these outcomes and their moderators are lacking. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the proportion of FEP cases who were hospitalised after their first contact with services and the LOS in a hospital during follow-up.MethodsStudies were identified from a systematic search across major electronic databases from inception to October 2017. Random effects meta-analyses and meta-regression analyses were conducted.Results81 longitudinal studies encompassing data for 23 280 FEP patients with an average follow-u…