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Can COVID-19 Vaccines Induce Premature Non-communicable Diseases: Where Are We Heading To?
No full textAccording to the WHO, as of January 2023, more than 850 million cases and over 6.6 million deaths from COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. Currently, the death rate has been reduced due to the decreased pathogenicity of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, but the major factor in the reduced death rates is the administration of more than 12.8 billion vaccine doses globally. While the COVID-19 vaccines are saving lives, serious side effects have been reported after vaccinations for several premature non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, the reported adverse events are low in number. The scientific community must investigate the entire spectrum of COVID-19-vaccine-induced complications so that necessary safety measures can be taken, and current vaccines can be re-engineered to avoid or minimize their side effects. We describe in depth severe adverse events for premature metabolic, mental, and neurological disorders; cardiovascular, renal, and autoimmune diseases, and reproductive health issues detected after COVID-19 vaccinations and whether these are causal or incidental. In any case, it has become clear that the benefits of vaccinations outweigh the risks by a large margin. However, pre-existing conditions in vaccinated individuals need to be taken into account in the prevention and treatment of adverse events
An Overview of the Vaccine Platforms to Combat COVID-19 with a Focus on the Subunit Vaccines
No full textSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emerging virus that has caused the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic. The current approved COVID-19 vaccines have shown considerable efficiency against hospitalization and death. However, the continuation of the pandemic for more than two years and the likelihood of new strain emergence despite the global rollout of vaccination highlight the immediate need for the development and improvement of vaccines. mRNA, viral vector, and inactivated virus vaccine platforms were the first members of the worldwide approved vaccine list. Subunit vaccines. which are vaccines based on synthetic peptides or recombinant proteins, have been used in lower numbers and limited countries. The unavoidable advantages of this platform, including safety and precise immune targeting, make it a promising vaccine with wider global use in the near future. This review article summarizes the current knowledge on different vaccine platforms, focusing on the subunit vaccines and their clinical trial advancements against COVID-19
From the Hydrophobic Core to the Globular-disorder Interface: New Challenges and Insights Into Protein Design
No full textAn Examination of Altruistic Marketing Intent Across Profit, Planet, and People
No full textCompanies may use altruistic marketing as a mechanism to enhance brand values alongside strengthening the consumer-brand relationship. The positive relationship-building discoveries, as well as negative brand reputation discoveries, throughout altruistic marketing\u27s history of trial and error show how this field is constantly changing with new experimentation on the horizon. As society shifts with millennials becoming the largest group of purchasing power, their keen interest in companies that participate in corporate social responsibility will shape how brands are built or rebuilt. This paper will examine how companies can leverage altruistic marketing while taking into consideration a tripartite focus on profit (including philanthropy), planet (environmental protection), and people (e.g., workers, communities, and general welfare) to (1) improve society and the environment, (2) build stronger consumer-brand relationships, and (3) repair consumer-brand relationships when problems arise, where specific relationship-repair methods will be proposed
Learning to learn in mathematics: Two Fulbright distinguished awards in teaching fellows’ narratives
No full textTwo middle school educators earned a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching fellowship. A Fulbright Finland Foundation inter-country travel grant provided the grantees with a unique opportunity to connect and collaborate at the University of Helsinki. Within this research, they described their inquiry experiences. The research included examining authentic student-centered learning continuums and phenomenon-based learning in Finland and teachers’ adaptability in relation to meeting the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse math classrooms in the Netherlands. This paper summarizes how cross-cultural dialogues, classroom observations, and informal interviews with educators, students, and thought leaders informed each grantee’s discovery of how student-centered learning is structured, delivered, and valued in Finland and the Netherlands. This article (1) describes how communication empowers middle school mathematics students, (2) analyzes the learning-to-learn framework, and (3) provides insights into how to utilize language diversity in a mathematics classroom
The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 01 : 19
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Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Current Types, Ordnance and Operations. By Dan Gettinger. Wien, Austria: Harpia Publishing, 2021.
No full textDoing business and contributing to conflict prevention and development in Ghana
No full textWhile some scholars argue that companies implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) for altruistic reasons, to gain an advantage over rivals in the industry, to enhance corporate reputation, and to be seen as ethical for addressing environmental and socio-economic difficulties, other scholars view CSR as unnecessary. These scholars argue that CSR initiatives adversely affect corporate profits. The understanding of this phenomenon remains incomplete, especially with the lack of empirical understanding about why corporate bodies execute CSR in spite of their primary goal of maximizing profits. To better understand this gap in knowledge, this case study of the Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) ascertains why the company implements CSR in the mining communities they operate. This study contributes to the debates on CSR and the global call for businesses to address societal problems. Navigating the qualitative research approach and human-needs conflict theory, this study discovered that despite its voluntary application, failing to implement CSR would have prevented NGGL to have the social license to operate, and violent and nonviolent conflicts would have occurred. The study also found that CSR was implemented to address the fundamental needs of host communities adversely affected by mining. Together, these results suggest that CSR is treated as a conflict prevention and development initiative. Therefore, the study recommends that CSR be made mandatory
Space tourism as a new experience: A research on Gen-Z
No full textSpace tourism will start to attract more attention in terms of the fact that tourist areas in the world are becoming more ordinary day by day, and in this process, it offers a new experience area to users of Gen-Z. In this context, the existing literature needs to reveal the perspective and intention to use Gen-Z, a newly developing field in parallel with the developments that constitute an important potential user group in this process. This study aims to reveal the factors that affect the intentions of Gen-Z tourists to avoid space tourism within the framework of the push-pull-mooring (PPM) model, which focuses on continuing or changing the current situation of users. In this study, a sample of potential space tourism users in the Gen-Z was formed, and hypothesis tests were conducted using the SmartPLS package program. The findings showed that perceived risk and lack of confidence as push factors, attitude, and travel planning self-efficacy are effective on the intentions of Gen-Z tourists to avoid space tourism. It was observed that the pull factors discussed in the study did not have a statistically significant effect on the avoidance intention of space tourism
Chapter 16 Cybersecurity
No full textThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), founded in 1901, is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and supports the U.S. mission to promote today’s innovations and industrial competitiveness. This mission is accomplished by advancing measurements and standards in science and technologies that enhance economic security and quality of life. NIST, defines cybersecurity as:
Prevention of damage to, protection of, and restoration of computers, electronic communicationssystems,electroniccommunicationsservices,wirecommunication, and electronic communication, including information contained therein, to ensure its availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation.
At the core of cybersecurity is the motivation to protect information and the systems that manage it. In fact, the U.S. law, 44 USC 3552, defines information security as “protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide—integrity..., confidentiality..., and availability....
In cybersecurity practice, this is commonly known as the CIA triad where C stands for confidentiality, I for integrity, and A for availability. What’s notable here is that cybersecurity is all about information and the systems that support its management. Our information and systems are increasingly under attack from powerful adversaries who would like to steal our information for profit. Therefore, having an understanding of cybersecurity is important to protecting the future of people, resources, and societies. Our journey to this understanding starts with exploring the past so we know how we have arrived to the present. Then, it demands we turn our attention toward studying where we are going in the future.
Before we begin to understand how we got to today’s climate of cybersecurity, let’s first establish some context with the CIA triad. This will help us understand what motivates the actors of cybersecurity in the past, present, and future