scholarly journals Global impact of vaccine nationalism during COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz ◽  
Unaiza Ahmad ◽  
Anmol Mohan ◽  
Ana Carla dos Santos Costa ◽  
Hiba Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Solution ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Moral Commitment ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
The Common ◽  
Short Space ◽  
Pandemic Vaccine

AbstractVaccines are the best chance to control the pandemic—unless leaders succumb to vaccine nationalism. Vaccine nationalism is a frequent recurrence, especially during a brand-new market distribution. The development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in such a short space of time is a testament to modern scientific abilities. It will also test the world's political will and moral commitment to end this pandemic. As desperate as the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine nationalism is already setting a foundation for itself and is considered socially and economically counterproductive. Vaccine equity is not just a theoretical slogan, and it protects people worldwide from new vaccine-resistant variants. Understanding and anticipating the consequences is vital, and creating a global solution approach to avoid them. This article evaluates the common issues previously faced and the plausible ones during this pandemic. A few recommendations are made to warn and accentuate the reality of this dire matter.

LED Street Lighting: A Looking Ahead Perspective

Green ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaria Ciriminna ◽  
Lorenzo Albanese ◽  
Francesco Meneguzzo ◽  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Common Pathway ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Quality Principles ◽  
The Common ◽  
Reduce Carbon Dioxide

AbstractProvided that LED street lighting is guided by quality principles, outdoor illumination using light-emitting diodes will have a significant global impact helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, save relevant amounts of electricity and enhance the quality of life in cities as well as in remote areas. This study summarizes recent findings providing guidelines for further progress in this crucially important technology on the common pathway to sustainable development.

scholarly journals Review: Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common by Harmony Bench (2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaleea Price
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Perpetual Motion ◽  
The Common ◽  
Digital Cultures

Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common takes the reader on a journey through a collection of digital dance works that cumulatively reveal a rich, and ongoing, interplay between dance and digital media.  Available for purchase as a book and as an open-access download, Perpetual Motion details an historical evolution of dance's engagement within shared digital media experiences, focusing on the period from 1996 to 2016.  As a reader, I quickly found within these pages a personal connectivity and, in these isolating times, a renewed membership into the global, online corporeal community.  With myriad works (re)discovered in each chapter, Perpetual Motion shows us the global impact dance and digital media have had upon each other through shared social relationships and interactions, both on- and off-screen.

Dysphagia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Farne ◽  
Edward Norris-Cervetto ◽  
James Warbrick-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Neuromuscular Disease ◽  
Mechanical Obstruction ◽  
Benign Condition ◽  
Motility Disorders ◽  
Food Items ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swallowing Difficulty ◽  
The Common ◽  
Short Space ◽  
Progressive Dysphagia

When a patient says ‘swallowing difficulty’, they could mean: • Dysphagia: difficulty swallowing. If they really mean dysphagia, try to understand when/where exactly it feels as though the food ‘gets stuck’. Those with high dysphagia (oropharyngeal and upper oesophageal) describe difficulty initiating a swallow or immediately upon swallowing. Those with low dysphagia (lower oesophageal) feel the food getting stuck a few seconds after swallowing. • Odynophagia: painful swallowing. Odynophagia may be due to malignancy, but is more commonly a feature of infection such as candidiasis. • Globus: the common sensation of having a lump in the throat without true dysphagia. Globus is very common and its aetiology is poorly understood—however, only a small proportion of affected patients will seek medical help and it is an entirely benign condition. Broadly speaking, high dysphagia is more likely to be due to generalized/systemic neuromuscular disease, whereas low dysphagia is more likely to be due to a local obstructing lesion. New-onset dysphagia in middle-aged to elderly patients is carcinoma until proven otherwise. • What is the duration of the symptoms? This is a key question: a food bolus stuck in the oesophagus will typically appear immediately during a meal; cancer typically presents with a short history of days to weeks (not because the cancer has appeared in such a short space of time, but because it has reached a size where symptoms rapidly become apparent), whereas chronic motility disorders such as achalasia present with symptoms lasting months to years. • Is the dysphagia progressive or intermittent? Progressive dysphagia is highly suggestive of a stricture (benign or malignant), whereas intermittent symptoms are more characteristic of motility disorders. • Is the dysphagia to solids, fluids, or both? If the patient is able to swallow fluid as normal but has difficulty with solid food items (which feel as if they are sticking) this points towards a mechanical obstruction, i.e. a stricture (benign or malignant). Of course, as the stricture becomes more severe, then the dysphagia may start to involve fluids as well.

Data Interactivity in Social Networks as a Strategic Design - An Approach to Fair Trade

2014 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 1203-1206
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Rubio Toledo ◽  
Emiliano Moras Gomez ◽  
Ricardo Victoria Uribe ◽  
Alejandro Higuera Zimbrón ◽  
Arturo Santamaría Ortega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Main Channel ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Strategic Design ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Nowadays, the electronic means of communication have an unprecedented impact in the way of projects are developed. The electronic information –due to its nature– has now a more democratic approach of operation, plummeting the power of the great companies and governments. With the creation of the web 2.0, the common users of Internet have now a huge number of communication tools, which allow them to know –in an immediate, measured and effective way– what they or others think or believe. So, the object that has changed as a main channel is the operation by Internet. This current and simple –for many– phenomena, has a deep implication in the way of replanting the new paradigms with a global impact in productive projects as a commerce target.

scholarly journals Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 371 (6530) ◽  
pp. 741-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie S. Lavine ◽  
Ottar N. Bjornstad ◽  
Rustom Antia
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Benign Nature ◽  
The Common ◽  
Human Coronaviruses ◽  
Pandemic Vaccine

We are currently faced with the question of how the severity of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may change in the years ahead. Our analysis of immunological and epidemiological data on endemic human coronaviruses (HCoVs) shows that infection-blocking immunity wanes rapidly but that disease-reducing immunity is long-lived. Our model, incorporating these components of immunity, recapitulates both the current severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the benign nature of HCoVs, suggesting that once the endemic phase is reached and primary exposure is in childhood, SARS-CoV-2 may be no more virulent than the common cold. We predict a different outcome for an emergent coronavirus that causes severe disease in children. These results reinforce the importance of behavioral containment during pandemic vaccine rollout, while prompting us to evaluate scenarios for continuing vaccination in the endemic phase.

scholarly journals A new modeling and solution approach for the number partitioning problem

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahram Alidaee ◽  
Fred Glover ◽  
Gary A. Kochenberger ◽  
Cesar Rego
Keyword(s):  
Computational Experience ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Heuristic Solution ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Binary Program ◽  
Metaheuristic Methods ◽  
Solution Methods ◽  
Partitioning Problem ◽  
The Common ◽  
Number Partitioning

The number partitioning problem has proven to be a challenging problem for both exact and heuristic solution methods. We present a new modeling and solution approach that consists of recasting the problem as an unconstrained quadratic binary program that can be solved by efficient metaheuristic methods. Our approach readily accommodates both the common two-subset partition case as well as the more general case of multiple subsets. Preliminary computational experience is presented illustrating the attractiveness of the method.

scholarly journals Die Gemeinsame Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik in der Krise? Nationale Rollenkonzepte und Souveränität als Herausforderung europäischer Handlungsfähigkeit

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Klein
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Member States ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The Common ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
The Eu

The objective of this paper is to identify sources of the challenges faced by the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) of the European Union. Based on an actorness approach, the paper offers a systematic and theory-driven framework for the analysis of these challenges. Their investigation is based on publications of thirteen think tanks that were published in the context of the December summit of the European Council in 2013. The paper identifies two main sources at a national level. First, it shows that the significance of national sovereignty in the sensitive domain of security and defence policy is an obstacle to the development of the CSDP. Second, the analysis reveals that foreign policy role conceptions are a fundamental factor: different role conceptions of member states result in a lack of mutual understanding, in missing trust, and finally, in the unwillingness to transfer actorness to the EU level despite a common set of basic interests and values. Yet, the political will of member states will be decisive for the future development of the CSDP.

Catalogue reduction techniques

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 389-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chr. de Vegt
Keyword(s):  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Proper Motions ◽  
Measuring Process ◽  
Aerial Photogrammetry ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Observational Technique ◽  
The Common ◽  
Astrometric Data

AbstractReduction techniques as applied to astrometric data material tend to split up traditionally into at least two different classes according to the observational technique used, namely transit circle observations and photographic observations. Although it is not realized fully in practice at present, the application of a blockadjustment technique for all kind of catalogue reductions is suggested. The term blockadjustment shall denote in this context the common adjustment of the principal unknowns which are the positions, proper motions and certain reduction parameters modelling the systematic properties of the observational process. Especially for old epoch catalogue data we frequently meet the situation that no independent detailed information on the telescope properties and other instrumental parameters, describing for example the measuring process, is available from special calibration observations or measurements; therefore the adjustment process should be highly self-calibrating, that means: all necessary information has to be extracted from the catalogue data themselves. Successful applications of this concept have been made already in the field of aerial photogrammetry.

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