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...

One year ago, the novel COVID-19 infectious disease emerged and spread, causing high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. In the OBO Foundry, there are more than one hundred ontologies to share and analyse large-scale datasets for biological and biomedical sciences....

Notre société est aujourd'hui confrontée à de profonds changements (biodiversité, climat, pandémie, etc.). Les impacts humains et leur atténuation dépendent de notre capacité à mobiliser la recher...

In late 2019, Covid-19 emerged and was soon declared a pandemic causing until now a massive health disruption and a huge impact on the global economy. Several governments around the world are still forced to take containment measures to curb the spread of the virus incl...

The unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic have generated an enormous amount of information and populated the Web with new content relevant to the pandemic and its implications. Visual information such as images has been shown to be crucial in the context of scie...

V prispevku s pomočjo metod za računalniško obdelavo naravnega jezika analiziramo poročanje slovenskih medijev o epidemiji covid-19. V prispevku najprej identificiramo osrednje teme poročanja na petdesetih slovenskih novičarskih portalih v obdobju 1.1.2020–31.12.2...

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...

Especially during the COVID-19 crisis, MOOCs have become more important than ever, also for the cyber- security domain. The certification of cybersecurity MOOCs could help promote quality aspects of MOOCs and enable their quality assessment and comparison. We conducted ...

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...

Assessing the impact of mobility on epidemic spreading is of crucial importance for understanding the effect of policies like mass quarantines and selective re-openings. While many factors affect disease incidence at a local level, making it more or less homogeneous wit...