Testing is a crucial control mechanism for an epidemic outbreak because it enables the health authority to detect and isolate the infected cases, thereby limiting the disease transmission to susceptible people, when no effective treatment or vaccine is available. In thi...

International audience; Importance: The evidence for benefit of convalescent plasma for critically ill patients with COVID-19 is inconclusive. Objective: To determine whether convalescent plasma would improve outcomes for critically ill adults with COVID-19. Design, Set...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of novel scientific literature that is impossible to inspect and study in a reasonable time frame manually. Current machine learning methods offer to project such body of literature into the vector space, where similar documents ar...

{"references": ["M. Swan, \"Emerging patient-driven health care models: An examination of health social networks, consumer personalized medicine and quantified self-tracking,\" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 492\u20...

In the past year, the discourse on the COVID-19 pandemic has produced a great number of metaphors stemming from the more basic conceptual metaphor ILLNESS IS WAR. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic method to detect linguistic manifestations of the latter in Slov...

Presentation given on 28 September during the webinar "Disponibilità e uso dei dati epidemiologici in pandemia: difficoltà e opportunità", belonging to the event series "Open Science e Covid-19. Collaborare per contrastare la pandemia...

Web surveys, even for purposes of scientific data collection, are commonly based on non-probability samples as this saves costs and other resources. Unlike probability sampling procedures, non-probability sampling does not enable the generalisation of results from sampl...

Diverse initiatives are being developed and implemented by universities across Europe to foster the uptake of the research data management (RDM) and FAIR data skills necessary to bring forward the transition to Open Science. Lessons can be learned from bringing togethe...

Diverse initiatives are being developed and implemented by universities across Europe to foster the uptake of the research data management (RDM) and FAIR data skills necessary to bring forward the transition to Open Science. Lessons can be learned from bringing togethe...

Diverse initiatives are being developed and implemented by universities across Europe to foster the uptake of the research data management (RDM) and FAIR data skills necessary to bring forward the transition to Open Science. Lessons can be learned from bringing together...