A message of hope: the challenges of relationship-based practice in a time of social distancing, but why it is more important than ever to come together

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Emilie Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Distancing ◽  
To Come

scholarly journals Modeling the Epidemic Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Einian ◽  
Hamid Reza Tabarraei
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Epidemic Dynamics ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
To Come ◽  
Reported Data

AbstractThe COVID-19 impact on global health and economic system has been profound and unseen since the Spanish flu of 1918-19. Iran is one of the countries that has been severely affected partly because of slow responses to the crisis, ill-preparedness of the health system, and fragile health infrastructure and shortage of protective equipment due to economic sanctions. Due to shortcomings in the reported data, this note tries to estimate a model-based number of infected cases and examines the effectiveness of different policy responses to contain this crisis. Our results show that in an optimistic estimation, the number of unidentified cases can be 3 to 6 times more than the reported numbers. Social distancing alone cannot be an effective policy at this stage of pandemic unless at least 80 percent of the population confine themselves for an extended period of time. An alternative policy is to increase testing extensively and isolate identified cases actively combined with effective social distancing. Otherwise, many lives will be lost and the health system will collapse, adding to the ongoing economic crisis as a result of sanctions for many years to come.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the Rise of the Conspiracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madison Wesenberg
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
To Come

This paper examines the rise of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories through a Durkheimian lens. Specifically, Durkheim’s concepts of anomie, collective consciousness, and religion can be useful in interpreting the increased participation in conspiracy theory groups. It examines how social distancing measures and government restrictions have led to increased anomie, and how conspiracy theory groups have been used to mitigate this anomic state by introducing shared beliefs and norms. These groups have also created opportunities for people to come together physically and virtually, sharing common beliefs and goals creating a distinct collective consciousness. This paper also focuses on social media’s role in perpetuating conspiracy theories and how online communities create an environment where it becomes difficult to decipher fact from fiction. It also focuses on how online communities foster group cohesion in a virtual environment. In addition, the paper also likens conspiracy groups to religious ones using Émile Durkheim’s definition.

scholarly journals Mathematical Description of Social Distancing to Prevent Transmission of COVID-19 between Human to Human

2020 ◽  
pp. 762-771
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Srivastav ◽  
Asoke Nath
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Infected Person ◽  
Preventative Measure ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Or Organization

Social distancing is one kind of preventative measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19 transmits mainly from one person to another during close contact for a prolonged period. Different types of preventive measures like thermal screening, social distancing, hand sanitization, office sanitization, building sanitization etc. are taken by an organization for smooth functioning of the organization. Implementation of social distancing in the organization is really a challenging task. Some work is done by the group of people and some work may be done by the individual. In some cases symptom of COVID-19 is shown but it in some cases its symptoms are not shown. Recent studies indicate that people who are infected but do not have symptoms likely also play a role in the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing helps the limit opportunities to come in contact with infected person and contaminated surface in an organization. The challenging task is taking decision in implementing social distance among employee in the organization. Organization may use different types of sampling methods to check the performance of employee or organization after introducing social distancing in its institution. In the present paper the authors will try to explain the importance of social distancing in mathematical way to combat COVID-19 transmission.

scholarly journals Intuitive Vision and Indigenous Immunity Boosting approaches for COVID19: From the Literature of Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 01-15
Author(s):  
Rahul Kumar Satuna ◽  
Aradhana Negi ◽  
Ravindra Satuna
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Prime Factor ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Experts

The need of the hour, in COVID19 crises, is to take care of the health from all aspects. A huge population of the world has not been only infected by Corona Virus but also a considerable number of persons have been deceased due to the acute symptoms of COVID19.  As far no vaccine or approved medicine for COVID19 has been found by any country to date. So, the only weapon left to break the chain of the infection is to follow the precaution strategy given by various health experts. Along with precautions such as social distancing, wearing masks and gloves etc., the health experts have also revealed that weak immunity is the prime factor to come in the grip of the Corona Virus. In this research paper, the intuitive vision and indigenous immunity-boosting approaches from literature of visionary scholar Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya from India, relevant to the pandemic state, have been compiled. The reason to focus on the writings of Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya is his featured knowledge of the health sector. One hundred twenty-five books out of thirty-two hundred books written by him are focused on various aspects of human health, which actually, is a boon for humanity and society.

scholarly journals Reactive vaccination of workplaces and schools against COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Faucher ◽  
Rania Assab ◽  
Jonathan Roux ◽  
Daniel Levy-Bruhl ◽  
Cécile Tran Kiem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Mass Vaccination ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
To Come ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reactive Vaccination ◽  
Adaptive Approaches

As vaccination against COVID-19 stalls in some countries, increased accessibility and more adaptive approaches may be useful to keep the epidemic under control. Here we study the impact of reactive vaccination targeting schools and workplaces where cases have been detected, with an agent-based model accounting for COVID-19 natural history, vaccine characteristics, individuals' demography and behaviour and social distancing. We study epidemic scenarios ranging from sustained spread to flare-up of cases, and we consider reactive vaccination alone and in combination with mass vaccination. With the same number of doses, reactive vaccination reduces cases more than non-reactive approaches, but may require concentrating a high number of doses over a short time in case of sustained spread. In case of flare-ups, quick implementation of reactive vaccination supported by enhanced test-trace-isolate practices would limit further spread. These results provide key information to promote an adaptive vaccination plan in the months to come.

scholarly journals Monitoring Social Distancing Using a New Social Spread Detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2958-2961
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
World Health ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization

The Novel Coronavirus is the most dangerous and deadly virus in the present century of our living. It brings a serious concern to the life of the person when affected. It is mainly affected when there is less usage of masks and the negligence in following the guidelines that are prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO). After a large number of cases and deaths WHO announced it as a pandemic. Many countries went in Lockdown for several months concerning the number of cases evolving in their region. This directly affected the economic status of those countries. Several studies suggest many waves of the virus are yet to come. To tackle this some countries after the Coronavirus cases gone down, paved way for the economic activities while following the preventive measures like social distancing to boost their economy. There is a need for an application that can alert the people based on location, that how strict social distancing is followed in that particular location hence they can be a bit more cautious when they are traveling to that location. This not only helps the people but also helps the governing authorities to ensure that strict social distancing is being followed in those particular locations and help in reducing the spread of the deadly virus. Our proposed system will be connected to the social distance detector which has access to a stationary camera retrieves the information of the number of people following and neglecting the social distance in that particular location of the stationary camera in real time. By calculating an index showcasing the ratio of people following the social distance to the people detected and setting a threshold an alert is sent to the user through this application.

scholarly journals Community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: from Derrida to Zuboff

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-569
Author(s):  
Peter Westoby ◽  
Verne Harris
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Virtual Meetings ◽  
To Come

Abstract The contours of this article, written as a dialogue between two authors, one in Australia (Westoby) and one in South Africa (Harris), outline a Derridean deconstruction of community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post coronavirus disease 2019. Reflecting on our two countries’ experiences, drawing on theorists such as Zuboff (surveillance capitalism), Freire (critical literacy), Foucault (biopower), Escobar (pluriversality) and Berardi (semio-capitalism), we argue for transformational critical digital literacy work that enables greater community awareness of the consequences of digital lives and also transformative praxis. Riffing off many experiences that readers will be familiar with (lockdown, social distancing, tracing apps, virtual meetings and so on), the dialogue also suggests a soulful community development yet-to-come, foregrounding embodied lives, slowness, place, relationality and connection.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

Scanning Electron Microscopy-cuticular Lesions on the Roundworm Ascaris Suum

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
P. A. Madden ◽  
W. R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Freeze Drying ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
Silver Paint ◽  
To Come ◽  
Scanning Electron

The intestinal roundworm of swine is pinkish in color and about the diameter of a lead pencil. Adult worms, taken from parasitized swine, frequently were observed with macroscopic lesions on their cuticule. Those possessing such lesions were rinsed in distilled water, and cylindrical segments of the affected areas were removed. Some of the segments were fixed in buffered formalin before freeze-drying; others were freeze-dried immediately. Initially, specimens were quenched in liquid freon followed by immersion in liquid nitrogen. They were then placed in ampuoles in a freezer at −45C and sublimated by vacuum until dry. After the specimens appeared dry, the freezer was allowed to come to room temperature slowly while the vacuum was maintained. The dried specimens were attached to metal pegs with conductive silver paint and placed in a vacuum evaporator on a rotating tilting stage. They were then coated by evaporating an alloy of 20% palladium and 80% gold to a thickness of approximately 300 A°. The specimens were examined by secondary electron emmission in a scanning electron microscope.

The microstructure change of low-carbon electrical steels by residual aluminum

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
C.K. Hou ◽  
C.T. Hu ◽  
Sanboh Lee
Keyword(s):  
Annealing Treatment ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Electrical Steels ◽  
Vacuum Degassing ◽  
Spherical Inclusions ◽  
Residual Aluminum ◽  
Average Grain Size ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Fine Size ◽  
To Come

The fully processed low-carbon electrical steels are generally fabricated through vacuum degassing to reduce the carbon level and to avoid the need for any further decarburization annealing treatment. This investigation was conducted on eighteen heats of such steels with aluminum content ranging from 0.001% to 0.011% which was believed to come from the addition of ferroalloys.The sizes of all the observed grains are less than 24 μm, and gradually decrease as the content of aluminum is increased from 0.001% to 0.007%. For steels with residual aluminum greater than 0. 007%, the average grain size becomes constant and is about 8.8 μm as shown in Fig. 1. When the aluminum is increased, the observed grains are changed from the uniformly coarse and equiaxial shape to the fine size in the region near surfaces and the elongated shape in the central region. SEM and EDAX analysis of large spherical inclusions in the matrix indicate that silicate is the majority compound when the aluminum propotion is less than 0.003%, then the content of aluminum in compound inclusion increases with that in steel.

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