scholarly journals Effects of Propolis on Infectious Diseases of Medical Relevance

Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 428
Author(s):  
Nelly Rivera-Yañez ◽  
C. Rebeca Rivera-Yañez ◽  
Glustein Pozo-Molina ◽  
Claudia F. Méndez-Catalá ◽  
Julia Reyes-Reali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Therapies ◽  
Alternative And Complementary Medicine ◽  
The World ◽  
Medical Relevance

Infectious diseases are a significant problem affecting the public health and economic stability of societies all over the world. Treatment is available for most of these diseases; however, many pathogens have developed resistance to drugs, necessitating the development of new therapies with chemical agents, which can have serious side effects and high toxicity. In addition, the severity and aggressiveness of emerging and re-emerging diseases, such as pandemics caused by viral agents, have led to the priority of investigating new therapies to complement the treatment of different infectious diseases. Alternative and complementary medicine is widely used throughout the world due to its low cost and easy access and has been shown to provide a wide repertoire of options for the treatment of various conditions. In this work, we address the relevance of the effects of propolis on the causal pathogens of the main infectious diseases with medical relevance; the existing compiled information shows that propolis has effects on Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, fungi, protozoan parasites and helminths, and viruses; however, challenges remain, such as the assessment of their effects in clinical studies for adequate and safe use.

scholarly journals NanoSen-AQM: From Sensors to Users

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Pedro Lucas ◽  
Jorge Silva ◽  
Filipe Araujo ◽  
Catarina Silva ◽  
Paulo Gil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nano Sensors ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Air Quality Data ◽  
Monitoring Platform

With the raising of environmental concerns regarding pollution, interest in monitoring air quality is increasing. However, air pollution data is mostly originated from a limited number of government-owned sensors, which can only capture a small fraction of reality. Improving air quality coverage in-volves reducing the cost of sensors and making data widely available to the public. To this end, the NanoSen-AQM project proposes the usage of low-cost nano-sensors as the basis for an air quality monitoring platform, capa-ble of collecting, aggregating, processing, storing, and displaying air quality data. Being an end-to-end system, the platform allows sensor owners to manage their sensors, as well as define calibration functions, that can im-prove data reliability. The public can visualize sensor data in a map, define specific clusters (groups of sensors) as favorites and set alerts in the event of bad air quality in certain sensors. The NanoSen-AQM platform provides easy access to air quality data, with the aim of improving public health.

Space Elevator

2011 ◽  
pp. 312-331
Author(s):  
Paul E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cost Saving ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The World ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Cost

Currently, transporting cargo into Outer Space is not only expensive, but a complicated and prolonged process. The Space Shuttles used today are inadequate, overused and obsolete. At this time, there are efforts all around the world to make Space more accessible. There have been many proposals to solve the Space transportation dilemma. One proposal is the creation of a Space Elevator. The Space Elevator would provide low-cost, easy access to Space by dramatically reducing the cost of sending cargo into Space. A $10-$100 per pound the Space Elevator would provide an astounding cost-saving compared to the tens of thousands of dollars per pound it costs today. This low-cost access to Space would make it possible to substantially increase the amount of cargo that could be sent into Space on a daily basis. The first part of this paper describes how the Space Elevator is expected to work, and the advantage of access to space via the SE versus using primarily rockets. A compendium of information from a variety of sources is included in order to explain how the Space Elevator would be designed, constructed, and how it could solve the problems of transporting cargo into Space easily, cheaply, and frequently. The Space Elevator is a relatively new topic in the area of realistic science concepts and was merely science fiction not too long ago. The Space Elevator (“SE”) concept has only been in the spotlight in the last five years due to the work of Dr. Bradley Edwards of Carbon Designs Inc. Acceptance of the SE will be a difficult task for many reasons. One of these is that most people do not know about the SE concept, and those who do, tend to have trouble believing it is possible to build. In order to determine the best way of integrating the SE concept into society, a survey was conducted at Darien High School. The survey included such topics as the naming of "The Space Elevator," and how best to get the younger generation interested in the idea. The second part of this paper describes how to utilize the survey results to further the SE concept.

scholarly journals Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. IDRT.S11205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Lit Phua
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Nipah Virus ◽  
Hemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Infectious diseases—including emerging and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis—continue to be important causes of morbidity and mortality in the globalizing, contemporary world. This article discusses the ethical issues associated with protecting the rights of individuals versus the protection of the health of populations in the case of infectious diseases. The discussion uses the traditional medical ethics approach together with the public health approach presented by Faden and Shebaya. 3 Infectious diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Nipah virus and HIV/AIDS (together with tuberculosis) will be used to illustrate particular points in the discussion.

scholarly journals The reliance of the Jordanian daily newspapers on the Jordan News Agency as the main source of news and its impact on content

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 4776-4790
Author(s):  
Dr. Majid numan Al-Khudari, Dr.muhamad lamel al_quraan , Dr. Ashraf Faleh Al-Zoubi,
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Agency ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Global And Local

Since the emergence of news agencies in the world, these agencies have become part of the global and local media scene, and newspapers cannot dispense with the services provided by agencies, especially the major news agencies in the world, which are the French Sons Agency, the British Sons Agency, the two American news agencies, the Associated Press and the United Press, as these agencies have become It controls the flow of news across the world, and newspapers prefer to rely on them for news due to the low cost and easy access to news. In Jordan, like other countries of the world, the media relies heavily on news agencies to obtain news, as major news agencies are relied upon to obtain international and Arab news, while the Jordanian Sons Agency "Petra" is relied upon to obtain local news. The Jordanian News Agency dominates the Jordanian newspapers that publish the news issued by this agency, which is considered the official and only official agency in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This agency focuses on publishing official news, especially news issued by the royal court, the presidency of the government and other official institutions, as there is almost a monopoly on these news. By the agency that provides its services to Jordanian newspapers, Jordanian news sites, and radio and television stations for free. This study is classified within descriptive research, and the researcher relied on the survey method. Three Jordanian daily newspapers were tracked, namely Al-Rai, Al-Dustur, and Al-Ghad. All news published in these three newspapers were scanned for a period of fifteen days. The study revealed that 38% of the news published in these newspapers Extracted from Jordan News Agency The study also found that the three daily newspapers under consideration depend heavily on the Jordan News Agency for news This makes the relationship between agencies and newspapers almost completely dependent.  

scholarly journals The fast transmission of infectious diseases around the world – a new concern to the public health

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-515
Author(s):  
Dennis Minoru Fujita ◽  
Luiz Henrique da Silva Nali ◽  
Paulo Roberto Urbano ◽  
Débora Maringoni Soeiro ◽  
Heitor Franco de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Transmission

scholarly journals Promoting Environmental Sustainability Through Guerrilla Marketing

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Donny SUSILO
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Public Area ◽  
Guerrilla Marketing

Environment becomes major concern for all countries throughout the world since Sustainable Development Goals were promoted. However the target is impossible to achieve without awareness and participation of the public. Promoting environmental sustainability is difficult and costly, therefore a breakthrough is required. The concept of guerrilla marketing has been widely used and recognized as low cost, but effective marketing strategy, therefore it is also an appropriate innovative way of promoting environmental sustainability in public area. This study explores the successful application of guerrilla marketing for promoting environmental sustainability around the world. Three case studies were chosen to figure out how it works. The successful applications confirm that guerrilla campaign for sustainability needs element of humour, uniqueness, sensation, creativity, surprise and education. Both profit and non-profit organizations can achieve their goal in both effective and efficient way when they know how to apply guerrilla marketing properly

scholarly journals Design and Fabrication of Two-Wheeler Silencer Using Catalytic Convertor

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-228
Author(s):  
M. Ganesh ◽  
A. Sriramarvind ◽  
P. K. Saran Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Catalytic Converter ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Physiological Effects ◽  
Oxides Of Nitrogen ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unburned Hydrocarbon ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Wheeler

Air pollution is the biggest cause of environmental degradation in the world and it also cause health problems. The major source for these pollutions are industries & automobiles. In automobile pollutants can be reduced by using a catalytic converter the main aim of our project is fabricate the low cost catalytic converter for two wheeler. The emission contents namely NOx and HC are 90% reduced. From the public health point of view the is most important is Air pollution , because every individual person breathes approximately 22000 times a day, inhaling about 15 to 22 Kg of air daily. Polluted air causes physical ill effects and undesirable aesthetic and physiological effects. The main pollutants are contributed by automobiles which include carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (UBHC), oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and Lead. So it is imperative that serious attempts should be made to conserve earth’s environment from degradation

The Global Threat of (Re)emerging Diseases

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Arrizabalaga
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Threat

Since the 1980s the world has witnessed the global emergence of new epidemic infections (HIV/AIDS being the most dramatic so far), and the reappearance of known infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria, and syphilis, that had seemed for some time to be under control. In the field of public health, these events have led to the designation of a new nosological category: emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Such diseases pose a growing threat to the hegemony of biomedicine, raising many questions about the adequacy of biomedical discourse and practices to meet the global challenge of infectious diseases. This chapter analyzes the construction of this new nosological category and examines the implications of (re)emerging diseases for public health, food security, and human development on a worldwide scale.

scholarly journals Molecular mechanisms of drugs recommended in COVID-19 treatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Walczak ◽  
Anna Makuch-Kocka ◽  
Justyna Ziemińska
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Supportive Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Polish Society

Abstract The development of an effective treatment for COVID-19 is now one of the main tasks of scientists and doctors from all over the world. The rapidly spreading SARS-CoV2 virus infection is a serious health problem among the public. Similarity of SARSCoV2 to MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV may suggest the effectiveness of COVID-19 treatment with drugs used to fight infections of previously identified Coronaviridae viruses. On the basis of gained experience and new clinical trials, the Polish Society of Epidemiologists and Infectious Diseases Physicians has created guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19. The recommendations concern primary and supportive treatment at different stages of the disease. This article provides a brief review of the molecular mechanisms of drugs currently used in Poland for the treatment of COVID-19.

“All in a Garden Green”: Shakespeare's Staging of Garden Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Deborah Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Green World

This essay draws attention to the surprising lack of scholarship on the staging of garden scenes in Shakespeare's oeuvre. In particular, it explores how garden scenes promote collaborative acts of audience agency and present new renditions of the familiar early modern contrast between the public and the private. Too often the mention of Shakespeare's gardens calls to mind literal rather than literary interpretations: the work of garden enthusiasts like Henry Ellacombe, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, and Caroline Spurgeon, who present their copious gatherings of plant and flower references as proof that Shakespeare was a garden lover, or the many “Shakespeare Gardens” around the world, bringing to life such lists of plant references. This essay instead seeks to locate Shakespeare's garden imagery within a literary tradition more complex than these literalizations of Shakespeare's “flowers” would suggest. To stage a garden during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries signified much more than a personal affinity for the green world; it served as a way of engaging time-honored literary comparisons between poetic forms, methods of audience interaction, and types of media. Through its metaphoric evocation of the commonplace tradition, in which flowers double as textual cuttings to be picked, revised, judged, and displayed, the staged garden offered a way to dramatize the tensions produced by creative practices involving collaborative composition and audience agency.

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