Benjamin De Cleen, Yannis Stavrakakis
The close empirical connections between populism and nationalism have naturalised a rather misleading overlap between the concepts of populism and nationalism in academic and public debates. As a result, the relation between the two has not received much systematic attention. Drawing on the poststru...
Walter Leal Filho, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Olawale Emmanuel Olayide, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro et al.
Many cities across the world are facing many problems climate change poses to their populations, communities and infrastructure. These vary from increased exposures to floods, to discomfort due to urban heat, depending on their geographical locations and settings. However, even though some cities ha...
Md Saiful Islam, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Yanni Sun, Mohammed Owais Qureshi et al.
OBJECTIVE: In the current absence of a vaccine for COVID-19, public health responses aim to break the chain of infection by focusing on the mode of transmission. We reviewed the current evidence on the transmission dynamics and on pathogenic and clinical features of COVID-19 to critically identify a...
Holly Seale, C. Dyer, Ikram Abdi, Kazi Mizanur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: During an evolving outbreak or pandemic, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) including physical distancing, isolation, and mask use may flatten the peak in communities. However, these strategies rely on community understanding and motivation to engage to ensure appropriate compliance...
Walter Leal Filho, Francine Modesto, Gustavo J. Nagy, Mustafa Saroar et al.
This paper describes a comparative study of four different cases on vulnerability, hazards and adaptive capacity to climate threats in coastal areas and communities in four developing countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon and Uruguay. Coastal areas are vulnerable to sea-level rise (SLR), storm sur...
Md. Arshad Ali, Yang Lou, Rahila Hafeez, Xuqing Li et al.
Bacteria belonging to the genus Paenibacillus were frequently isolated from legume nodules. The nodule-inhabiting Paenibacillus as a resource of biocontrol and plant growth-promoting endophytes has rarely been explored. This study explored the nodule-inhabiting Paenibacillus ’ antifungal activities ...
Ghassan Dbaibo, Arshad Amanullah, Carine Claeys, Allen Izu et al.
BACKGROUND: We evaluated an inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (IIV4) in children 6-35 months of age in a phase III, observer-blind trial. METHODS: The aim of this analysis was to estimate vaccine efficacy (VE) in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza in each of 5 independent seasonal co...
Jeff Ardron, Sophie Arnaud‐Haond, Yannick Beaudoin, Juan Bezaury et al.
Technical Report of the International Seabed Authority.
Danlu Cai, Klaus Fraedrich, Frank Sielmann, Ling Zhang et al.
Abstract Vegetation greenness distributions [based on remote sensing normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)] and their change are analyzed as functional vegetation–climate relations in a two-dimensional ecohydrological state space spanned by surface flux ratios of energy excess (U; loss by se...
Annonciade Molinet, Céline Courtillon, Maryvonne Le Men, Nadia Amenna-Bernard et al.
We report the full-length genome sequence (compared to reference sequences) of a novel European variant strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), designated 19P009381 (AxB1). This should help to further identify such viruses in Europe.
Janice A. Ragaza, Md. Sakhawat Hossain, Shunsuke Koshio, Manabu Ishikawa et al.
Soy protein concentrate (SPC) rarely replaces fishmeal (FM) completely in marine finfish diets without eliciting adverse effects on fish performances. The inclusion of brown seaweed (Sargassum fulvellum) could alleviate the negative effects linked to high SPC dietary inclusion. In the current study,...
Jasur Danier, Luis Rivera, Carine Claeys, Ghassan Dbaibo et al.
BACKGROUND: In an exploratory analysis of an inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine (IIV4) trial in children 6-35 months without risk factors for influenza, we evaluated clinical presentation of influenza illness and vaccine impact on health outcomes. METHODS: This phase III trial was conducted ...
Mark Manak, Luc Gagnon, Steven Phay-Tran, Philipa Levesque-Damphousse et al.
BACKGROUND: Accurate quantitation of immune markers is crucial for ensuring reliable assessment of vaccine efficacy against infectious diseases. This study was designed to confirm standardised performance of SARS-CoV-2 assays used to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine candidates at the initial seven laborato...
Takahiro Morishita, Charlotte Mason, Kimi C. Kreilgaard, Michele Trenti et al.
Abstract We introduce the Bias-free Extragalactic Analysis for Cosmic Origins with NIRCam (BEACON) survey, a JWST Cycle 2 program allocated up to 600 pure-parallel hours of observations. BEACON explores high-latitude areas of the sky with JWST/NIRCam over ∼100 independent sight lines, totaling ∼0.3 ...
Md. Ghulam Saber, Luhua Xu, Rakibul Hasan Sagor, Yun Wang et al.
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) suffer from birefringence due to high‐index contrast. Polarisation handling devices improve the performance of the PICs by reducing the polarisation‐dependent dispersion and loss. Furthermore, there is a growing interest in building polarisation division multiplex...
Piplu Bhuiyan, Zhaochu Sun, Md. Arif Khan, Md. Arju Hossain et al.
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a chronic and devastating mental illness that affects around 20 million individuals worldwide. Cognitive deficits and structural and functional changes of the brain, abnormalities of brain ECM components, chronic neuroinflammation, and devastating clinical manifestation during ...
Zhuohao Wu, Yanni Li, Danwen Ji, Dingming Wu et al.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is trained with data, especially texts, numbers, images, videos and music on Internet. These data all together across time and space make a collective memory of the world. The latest large-scale AI models give people a chance to create out of a large pool of this collect...
Agathe Jouet, Sofie Marijke Braet, Cyril Gaudin, Gaëlle Bisch et al.
BACKGROUND: Expansion of antimicrobial resistance monitoring and epidemiological surveillance are key components of the WHO strategy towards zero leprosy. The inability to grow Mycobacterium leprae in vitro precludes routine phenotypic drug susceptibility testing, and only limited molecular tests ar...
Abdullah Keleş, Alberto Acitores Cancela, Charbel K. Moussalem, Yannick Canton Kessely et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), approximately 5 million essential neurosurgical operations per year remain unaddressed. When compared with high-income countries, one of the reasons for this disparity is the lack of microsurgery training laboratories and neuros...
Piplu Bhuiyan, GS Chuwdhury, Zhaochu Sun, Yinan Chen et al.
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a cognitive deterioration and dementia that arise after a surgical procedure, affecting up to 40% of surgery patients over the age of 60. The precise etiology and molecular mechanisms underlying POCD remain uncovered. These reasons led us to employ integ...