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By March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had reached Greece, forcing the Greek government to enforce lockdown for two months. While governmental measures included banning citizens' mobility, except for a six-bullets catalogue, the church was excluded, remaining open for its believers. That resulted in an official clash, having on the one side, the state and the scientists, while on the other was the official church. After the decline in the number of COVID-19 cases during the summer period, the governmental decision of enforcing the use of masks indoors triggered the rise of anti-systemic and anti-governmental rhetoric. Having the above in mind, we aim to apply a grounded theory methodology, drawing our data from two derivations: the official announcements of the church and the Greek government during the examined period; and the scientific approach to the Church's and anti-mask supporters stand. Consequently, our main research question attempts to answer how the anti-systemic rhetoric of Greek society has been transformed during the pandemic crisis.

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a form of autonomic dysregulation. There is increasing evidence that the etiology may be immune-mediated in a subgroup of patients. Patients with POTS often experience an exacerbation of their symptoms associated with infections and often fear the same symptom aggravation after vaccination. With this data we conducted a study to describe the tolerability of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and the consequences of a COVID-19 infection on POTS symptoms in our cohort of patients with neuropathic POTS.We conducted a standardized, checklist-based interview with 23 patients and recorded the acute side effects of mRNA vaccination, acute symptoms of COVID-19 infection as well as the effects of vaccination and COVID-19 infection on POTS symptoms. The following side effects were assessed in their presence (yes/no) and duration (days): fever, shivering, fatigue, headache, joint pain, muscle pain, nausea, emesis, diarrhea, and reaction at injection site (pain, swelling and cutaneous reaction). For COVID-19 infection, the following additional symptoms were queried: coughing, sore throat, rhinorrhea, breathlessness, loss of taste, loss of smell and chest pain. For each symptom, the presence (yes/no), severity (mild, moderate, severe) and duration (in days) were evaluated. Furthermore, the duration of the infection, need for hospitalization and incapacity for work were assessed. To assess possible exacerbation of POTS symptoms, the presence (yes/no), severity (mild, moderate, severe; for COVID-19 infection only) and duration of symptom exacerbation (in days) for the following symptoms were evaluated: dizziness, nausea, weakness, palpitations, lightheadedness, tremulousness, blurred vision, concentration difficulties, memory difficulties, orthostatic leg and/or arm pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep disturbances, restless legs syndrome and orthostatic headache. Our observations suggest that mRNA vaccines are not associated with a higher frequency of acute side effects in patients with POTS. Symptom exacerbation as a consequence of mRNA vaccination seems to be less frequent and of shorter duration compared to patients who suffered a COVID-19 infection. This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the local ethics committee (Kantonale Ethikkommission Bern, Switzerland, project-ID: 2021-02115; 02.11.2021). We conducted a standardized checklist-based interview. Data analysis was descriptive.

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This research sought to better understand how scientific facts about global environmental change are made and cross-culturally communicated. It shed light on the ways that culture and history shape scientific research practices among US and Greenland based hydrologists, geologists, and environmental scientists. It aimed to better understand how different communities of researchers working in Greenland discuss and think about the future of the environment, and how they communicate and collaborate with one another and the public in Nuuk, Greenland. The research uncovered the ways that the politics of settler colonialism continue to impact the practice of science and scientific communication in Greenland. This research was undertaken from 2019-2022, and was funded by NSF Arctic Social Sciences from March 2020 forward. The researcher used ethnographic participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and media analysis to collect data and complete a dissertation based on this research in August 2022. The project was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the researcher to shift from in-person to remote digital methodologies beginning in March 2020.

The project offers projections of future transmission dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 in an SEIRS model with demographics and waning immunity. In a stylized optimal control setting calibrated to the USA, we show that the disease is endemic in steady state and that its dynamics are characterized by damped oscillations. The magnitude of the oscillations depends on how fast immunity wanes. The optimal social distancing policy both curbs peak prevalence and postpones the infection waves relative to the uncontrolled dynamics. Last, we perform sensitivity analysis with respect to the duration of immunity, the infection fatality rate and the planning horizon.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the boundaries between story and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. Leanne has performed in venues and festivals across Canada with her sister singer songwriter Ansley Simpson and guitarist Nick Ferrio. Leanne’s second album, f(l)light, was released in 2016 and is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson’s complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements. Her EP Noopiming Sessions combines readings from her novel Noopiming with soundscapes composed and performed by Ansley Simpson and James Bunton with a gorgeous video by Sammy Chien and the Chimerik Collective. It was produced during the on-going social isolation of COVID-19 and was released on Gizhiiwe Music in the Fall of 2020. Leanne is the author of seven books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan University Book of the Year; was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award; was long listed for CBC Canada Reads; and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Quill & Quire. Her new novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies was released by the House of Anansi Press in the fall of 2020 and in the US by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s best books of the year and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. A Short History of the Blockade was released by the University of Alberta Press in early 2021. Her new project with Robyn Maynard,Rehearsals for Living will be released in 2022 by Knopf Canada. Her newest record, Theory Of Ice was released by You’ve Changed Records in the winter of 2021, and features the artistic brilliance of Ansley Simpson, Nick Ferrio, Jim Bryson, John K. Samson, Jonas Bonnetta and Sandra Brewster.

Despite being the main source of fresh, convenient, and affordable food for 80% of Hanoi���s population, food flows within traditional markets remain largely invisible due to a lack of tracing systems and environmental conditions which make traditional tracking approaches challenging. By providing free internet to a series of wholesalers and markets in the Cau Giay and Dong Anh districts of Hanoi, Vietnam, this project will put in place the first pieces of tracking system that will characterize and monitor food flows between traders, retailers, and consumers. Research has found that 10-40% of traditional market food is contaminated with microbes or parasites which cause foodborne illnesses. As shoppers become increasingly concerned about food safety and large-scale retailers that can offer food safety certification expand rapidly, this project aims to equip traditional market actors with data that could prevent their marginalization through urban policy decisions that may favor organized retailers, as well as improve the safety of traditional market goods. The collected food flow data will allow for improved linkages among key traditional market actors and help identify better policy and planning options for improving distribution channels in ways that benefits under-resourced communities. To implement the project, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam survey actors and track space and time data points on all devices within the range of the WiFi routers and signal amplifiers, whether connected to the internet or not. The pilot system ran on three layers of data: Layer One Every smartphone has a unique media access control (MAC) address that the WiFi routers installed in the markers use to identify how many MAC addresses visit the markets over time, how many return to the market and how often, and how markets differ on these metrics. This data is collected even if the smartphone is not connected to the WiFi network. Layer Two When a smartphone user connects to the free WiFi, they are prompted to answer a series of questions depending on their user type (vendor, customer, etc.). For example, a user that identifies as a vendor is asked questions regarding sales of specific commodities which will allow for sales to be characterized across time and space. Layer Three To validate findings in Layer One and Two, in-person surveys were conducted with vegetable, pork and rice sellers in five traditional markets in Hanoi mac: An anonymized version of the MAC. All the MAC address were anonymized through a SHA-3 256 hashing function. The hashed mac ensure anonymity while is consistent across all markets and during the whole period of the analysis. We can therefore ensure that a given mac found in two different dataset will correspond to the same phone. market: The name of the market where the phone was seen role: Self-identified role if the user connected to the wifi and filled-out the layer 2 form gender: Self-identified role if the user connected to the wifi and filled-out the layer 2 form median_first_seen: The median time when the user is first seen in the markets (in minutes starting at 0 from midnight) (e.g. the time the user entered the market) median_last_seen: The median time when the user is last seen in the markets (in minutes starting at 0 from midnight) (e.g. the time the user left the market) average_time_day: The average number of time the user visited the market. A period of time of at least 2 hours between two consecutive observation of the user in the market is needed to be counted as a different visit. average_duration_day: The average duration spent on the market daily. average_day_week: The average number of visits per week. average_total_day_seen: The total number of days a user was seen on the market. total_durantion: Total duration spent by a single user on the market. https://bigdata.cgiar.org/inspire/inspire-challenge-2018/revealing-informal-food-flows-through-free-wifi/#news-resources

Pascale Goy HR Department Learning&Development in times of COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2 infection can manifest as a wide range of respiratory and systemic symptoms well after the acute phase of infection in over 50% of patients. Key questions remain on the long-term effect of infection on tissue pathology and on recovered COVID-19 patients. Here we perform multiplexed imaging of post-mortem lung tissue from 12 individuals that died post-acute COVID-19 (PC) and compare them to patients who died during the acute phase of COVID-19, patients who died with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and otherwise healthy lung. We find evidence of viral presence in the lung up to 359 days after the acute phase of disease, often in patients with negative nasopharyngeal swab test. Our analyses identify accumulation of senescent alveolar type 2 cells, fibrosis with hypervascularization of peribronchial areas and alveolar septa, as the most pronounced pathophysiological features seen in the lung of PC patients. At the cellular level, lung disease of PC patients is distinct from the chronic pulmonary disease of IPF but shares pathological features which may help rationalize interventions for PASC patients. Altogether, this study provides an important ground for the understanding of the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the microanatomical, cellular and molecular level. We make available OME-TIFF files containing raw imaging mass cytometry data for all 23 samples, totaling 175 regions of lung tissue. A file containing processed data at single-cell level (post-covid-imc.h5ad) is also available.