scholarly journals COVID-19 pandemic reflections in philately

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehtap Pekesen ◽  
Ahmet Doğan Ataman ◽  
Elif Vatanoğlu-Lutz

Abstract Contagious diseases have always been a big challenge for so many civilizations in the past and they resulted in numerous numbers of death and big historical changes. Also so many contagious diseases which have been thought to be eradicated still continue to have mutations and endanger health. COVID-19(SARS-CoV-2) endemic started in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019 and turned into a pandemic in a short time. When we look at the history, we see many other corona virus types (e.g. SARS, MERS) causing pandemic. This article provides an overview of the history and progression of the coronavirus through the COVID-19 outbreak, which is rapidly spreading and posing a threat. In addition, it is aimed to thank all healthcare professionals who work with great sacrifice all over the world during the COVID-19 Pandemic process and to use stamps, which are a great cultural treasure in terms of public health awareness.

Author(s):  
Avita Fitri Agustin ◽  
Anggara Tirta Kusuma ◽  
Rommy Sigit Fernanda ◽  
Rohmatus Zazilah ◽  
Ivangga Dwiputra Leksono ◽  
...  

Covid-19 spread rapidly and massively in a short time. Within 1 year, this virus has been able to infect 233 countries in the world. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts to minimize the spread of Covid-19. One way that can minimize the spread of Covid-19 is by doing 3W (wear mask, wash hands, wait until others distanced at 1-2 meters) which is recommended by WHO. However, based on Task Force (SatGas) data, from health protocol disciplinary monitoring shows that the level of community compliance with 3W health protocols is still not satisfactory yet. The health protocol disciplinary monitoring, which has been done since November 18, 2020 shows a trend of decreasing individual compliance in wearing masks, maintaining distance, and avoiding crowds. Non- compliance in implementing this health protocol also occurs in the city of Surabaya, especially in Pucang Market. Based on the results of observations at Pucang Market, there are still many buyers did not wear masks, keep their distance, and did wash their hands intensively. The purpose of this community service is to socialize and make the community (buyers and sellers in Pucang Market) understand the ways to prevent Covid-19 transmission and understand the urgency of implementing 3W in Pucang Market. The method to achieve those purpose is distributing masks and socialization by sticking posters and distributing flyers containing education to prevent Covid-19 transmission with 3W. The result of this community service was the realization of  distribution of 350 masks, sticking posters and distribution  flyers containing  education to prevent Covid-19 transmission with 3W which received a positive response from both market management and market sellers and buyers that shown with their enthusiasm to read immediately and photograph the posters and wore the masks that was distributed to them. Socialization of 3W in this market is very important because the market is a fertile place to transmit the Corona Virus because of its crowded conditions. By socializing information  about  prevention  methods  and  the  importance  of  implementing  health protocols (3W) in this markets, sellers and buyers can prevent the transmission of covid-19. AbstrakCovid-19 menyebar dengan sangat pesat dan masif dalam waktu singkat. Dalam kurun waktu 1 tahun, virus ini mampu menginfeksi 233 negara di dunia. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan serangkaian upaya untuk meminimalisir penyebaran Covid-19. Salah satu cara yang dapat dilakukan untuk meminimalisir penyebaran Covid-19 adalah dengan melakukan 3M (memakai masker, menjaga jarak, dan mencuci tangan) sebagaimana yang direkomendasikan oleh WHO. Namun, berdasarkan data Satuan Tugas Pemantauan Kedisiplinan Protokol Kesehatan menunjukkan bahwa tingkat kepatuhan masyarakat terhadap protokol kesehatan 3M masih belum memuaskan. Pemantauan kedisiplinan  protokol yang dilakukan sejak 18 November 2020 ini memperlihatkan tren penurunan kepatuhan individu dalam memakai masker, menjaga jarak dan menghindari kerumunan. Ketidakpatuhan dalam menerapkan protokol kesehatan ini juga terjadi di kota Surabaya, salah satunya di Pasar Pucang. Berdasarkan hasil observasi di Pasar Pucang, masih banyak pedagang maupun pembeli yang tidak memakai masker, tidak menjaga jarak dan tidak mencuci tangan secara intens. Tujuan dari pengabdian ini adalah untuk memasyarakatkan atau menjadikan masyarakat (pembeli dan penjual di pasar pucang) mengenal dan memahami cara untuk mencegah penularan Covid-19 serta menjadikan masyarakat memahami urgensi penerapan 3M di Pasar Pucang. Adapun metode yang digunakan adalah dengan pembagian masker dan sosialisasi dengan penempelan poster dan pembagian flyer yang berisi edukasi pencegahan penularan Covid-19 melalui 3M. Hasil dari kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah terealisasinya pembagian 350 masker serta penempelan poster dan pembagian flyer edukasi pencegahan Covid-19 dengan 3M yang mendapatkan respons yang positif baik dari manajemen pasar dan pedagang pasar maupun pembeli, ditunjukkan dengan antusiasme mereka untuk langsung membaca dan memfoto poster yang telah ditempelkan dan menggunakan masker yang telah dibagikan. Sosialisasi 3M di pasar ini sangat penting karena pasar menjadi tempat yang cukup subur untuk menularkan Virus Corona mengingat kondisinya yang ramai bahkan sesak pengunjung. Dengan sosialisasi terkait cara pencegahan dan pentingnya menerapkan protokol kesehatan (3M) di pasar, pedagang dan pembeli dapat mencegah penularan covid-19. 


Author(s):  
Melisa B Bonica ◽  
Dario E Balcazar ◽  
Ailen Chuchuy ◽  
Jorge A Barneche ◽  
Carolina Torres ◽  
...  

Abstract Diseases caused by flaviviruses are a major public health burden across the world. In the past decades, South America has suffered dengue epidemics, the re-emergence of yellow fever and St. Louis encephalitis viruses, and the introduction of West Nile and Zika viruses. Many insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs) that cannot replicate in vertebrate cells have recently been described. In this study, we analyzed field-collected mosquito samples from six different ecoregions of Argentina to detect flaviviruses. We did not find any RNA belonging to pathogenic flaviviruses or ISFs in adults or immature stages. However, flaviviral-like DNA similar to flavivirus NS5 region was detected in 83–100% of Aedes aegypti (L.). Despite being previously described as an ancient element in the Ae. aegypti genome, the flaviviral-like DNA sequence was not detected in all Ae. aegypti samples and sequences obtained did not form a monophyletic group, possibly reflecting the genetic diversity of mosquito populations in Argentina.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Li ◽  
Zhongqiu Sun ◽  
Yafei Wang ◽  
Yuxia Wang

Studying urban expansion from a longer-term perspective is of great significance to obtain an in-depth understanding of the process of urbanization. Remote sensing data are mostly selected to investigate the long-term expansion of cities. In this study, we selected the world-class urban agglomeration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) as the study area, and then discussed how to make full use of multi-source, multi-category, and multi-temporal spatial data (old maps and remote sensing images) to study long-term urbanization. Through this study, we addressed three questions: (1) How much has the urban area in BTH expanded in the past 100 years? (2) How did the urban area expand in the past century? (3) What factors or important historical events have changed the development of cities with different functions? By comprehensively using urban spatial data, such as old maps and remote sensing images, geo-referencing them, and extracting built-up area information, a long-term series of urban built-up areas in the BTH region can be obtained. Results show the following: (1) There was clear evidence of dramatic urban expansion in this area, and the total built-up area had increased by 55.585 times, from 126.181 km2 to 7013.832 km2. (2) Continuous outward expansion has always been the main trend, while the compactness of the built-up land within the city is constantly decreasing and the complexity of the city boundary is increasing. (3) Cities in BTH were mostly formed through the construction of city walls during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the expansion process was mostly highly related to important political events, traffic development, and other factors. In summary, the BTH area, similarly to China and most regions of the world, has experienced rapid urbanization and the history of such ancient cities should be further preserved with the combined use of old maps.


Author(s):  
Laura A. Meek

This research article critically interrogates the implications and unintended consequences of the World Health Organization’s purported elimination of leprosy as a public health problem. I explore how leprosy has been portrayed (for nearly a century) as something from the past, recalcitrantly lingering on into the present, but surely about to be gone—a temporal framing I call the ‘grammar of leprosy’. I recount the experiences of Daniel, my interlocutor in Tanzania, whose existence became a problem for his doctors. This problem they ultimately resolved by fabricating negative test results in order to record what they already knew: leprosy had been eliminated. I also analyse how researchers working for Novartis (the supplier of leprosy’s cure) continue to push for an always imminent ‘elimination’, while field researchers repeatedly caution about the potential problems of this approach. Finally, I reveal how the grammar of leprosy operates through a complex set of temporal politics, pulling into its orbit and being enabled by multiple interwoven temporalities. I conclude that—due to this grammar, the impossible subjects it produces, and the temporal politics through which it operates—leprosy elimination campaigns may have dire consequences for the lives of people with leprosy today, impeding rather than enabling treatment.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1251-1264
Author(s):  
Peter E. Tarlow

A short time after the January 2015 Paris attacks, the city was quiet, perhaps too quiet. Associated press reporters noted that the tourists have simply gone. In a mid –January news article by Thomas Adamson perhaps summed up the situation best when it stated: “Among the tourists who were still braving visits, many took comfort in the extra security presences. With 10,000 troops deployed across the country including 6,000 in the Paris region alone, the security operation put in motion after the attacks is the most extensive in French soil in recent history The (Bryan Texas) Eagle, page A-3, January 19, 2015). The dearth of tourists however was short lived, as the French were able to assure the world that they had taken full control of the situation, employed some ten thousand troops to sensitive locales, and have given the impression that the terrorist attacks were an anomaly. The terrorism attacks in many parts of Europe remind us that terrorism is as much about purposeful negative marketing as it is about death and destruction.


Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen

There will be more pandemics. A pandemic might come from an old, familiar foe such as influenza or might emerge from a new source—a zoonosis that makes its way into humans, perhaps. The epilogue asks how the world will confront pandemics in the future. It is likely that patterns established long ago will re-emerge. But how will new challenges, like climate change, affect future pandemics and our ability to respond? Will lessons learned from the past help with plans for the future? One thing is clear: in the face of a serious pandemic much of the developing world’s public health infrastructure will be woefully overburdened. This must be addressed.


2020 ◽  
pp. 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Tarolli ◽  
Julia M. Biernot ◽  
Peter D. Creigh ◽  
Emile Moukheiber ◽  
Rachel Marie E. Salas ◽  
...  

Neurologists around the country and the world are rapidly transitioning from traditional in-person visits to remote neurologic care because of the corona virus disease 2019 pandemic. Given calls and mandates for social distancing, most clinics have shuttered or are only conducting urgent and emergent visits. As a result, many neurologists are turning to teleneurology with real-time remote video-based visits with patients, to provide ongoing care. Although telemedicine utilization and comfort has grown for many acute and ambulatory neurologic conditions in the past decade, remote visits and workflows remain foreign to many patients and neurologists. Here, we provide a practical framework for clinicians to orient themselves to the remote neurologic assessment, offering suggestions for clinician and patient preparation prior to the visit; recommendations to manage common challenges with remote neurologic care; modifications to the neurologic exam for remote performance, including subspecialty-specific considerations for a variety of neurologic conditions; and a discussion of the key limitations of remote visits. These recommendations are intended to serve as a guide for immediate implementation as neurologists transition to remote care. These will be relevant not only for practice today, but also for the likely sustained expansion of teleneurology following the pandemic.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Marsden

This article explores the relevance of the concept of Silk Road for understanding the patterns of trade and exchange between China, Eurasia and the Middle East. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Yiwu, in China's Zhejiang Province. Yiwu is a node in the global distribution of Chinese ‘small commodities’ and home to merchants and traders from across Asia and beyond. The article explores the role played by traders from Afghanistan in connecting the city of Yiwu to markets and trading posts in the world beyond. It seeks to bring attention to the diverse types of networks involved in such forms of trade, as well as their emergence and development over the past thirty years.


10.12737/6572 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
Наталья Гаршина ◽  
Natalya Garshina

Having a look at the tourist space as a cultural specialist, the author drew attention to the fact that the closest to the modern man is a city environment he contacts and sometimes encounters in everyday life and on holidays. And every time whether he wants it or not, it opens in a dif erent way. One way of getting to know the world has long been a walking tour. It’s not just a walk hand in hand with a pleasant man or hasty movement to the right place, but namely the tour, in which a knowledgeable person with a soulful voice will speak about the past and present of the city and its surroundings, as if it is about your life and the people close to you. Turning to the beginning of the twentieth century, the experience of scientists-excursion specialists we today can learn a lot to improve the process of building up a tour, and most importantly the transmission of knowledge about the world in which we live. Well-known names of the excursion theory founders to professionals are I. Grevs, N. Antsiferov, N. Geynike and others. They are given in the context of ref ection on the historical development of walking tours, which haven’t lost their value and attract both creators and consumers of tour services.


Author(s):  
P. Psomopoulos

As a documentation and communication vehicle - part of a broader effort of the Athens Center of Ekistics (ACE) to contribute to the development of a sound approach to the field of Human Settlements - Ekistics makes itself available as a free forum for the exposure of ideas and experiences from anywhere to everywhere, provided they are relevant and transferable. In this effort, writings of members of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE) have quite frequently been considered and published in Ekistics. How could our attitude be different in cases of collective efforts of the WSE such as its meetings last year in Berlin (24-28 October, 2001) with the title "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century"? Actually, we have reported on such events on various occasions in the past, the most recent being in vol. 64, no. 385/386/387, July/August-Sept./Oct.-Nov./Dec.1997 and vol. 65, no. 388/389/390, Jan./Feb.-Mar./Apr.-May/June 1998 on "Mega-Cities ...and Mega-City Regions", a conference of which the WSE was a co-sponsor together with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the University of British Columbia, Canada. We are happy that the World Society for Ekistics welcomed our proposal to consider the large number of documents made available at its meetings in Berlin and select some of the papers presented for publication in Ekistics. However, the amount of material available far exceeded the capacity even of one triple issue. Hence the following two triple issues: Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century - 1 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 412/413/414,January/February-March/April-May/June 2002); and, Defining Success of the City in the 21 st Century - 2 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 415/416/417, July/August-September/October-November/December 2002).


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