As students transition into higher education, their experience can be quite new and foreign to them - at times acting as a barrier into higher education. This experience, while an individual one, consists of many concerns that are shared amongst these transitioning stud...

In this work, we studied the catastrophic forgetting effect in transfer learning for the development of a deep learning model to perform COVID-19 pneumonia classification using chest x-ray radiographs. We demonstrated vendor differences using a large multi-vendor chest ...

Abstract Purpose The COVID-19 vaccination is probably the most important source to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, recommendations and possibilities for vaccination for pregnant and breastfeeding women are inconsistent and dynamically changing. Methods An anonymo...

Abstract Using meta-analytic methods, we calculated expected rates of 20 potential adverse events of special interest (AESI) that would occur after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination within 1-, 7-, and 42-day intervals without causal associations. Based on ...

After consulting the relevant scientific literature and the reports of international institutions, the authors trace the environmental and social causes behind the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, describing its impacts and suggesting some routes to a sustainable reco...

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, the number of tests, and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Africa, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia, and Zim...

Rad polazi od stanovišta da se pandemija bolesti COVID-19 nipošto ne može reducirati tek na medicinsku komponentu, već se radi o višeslojnom fenomenu koji uključuje evidentne gospodarske, političke i niz dalekosežnih društvenih efekata koji se prelijevaju u sve domene d...

BACKGROUND: As of January 2021, Indonesia had the 21st highest number of total COVID-19 cases and the 17th highest total deaths among all countries. COVID-19 infection in pregnant women seems to negatively affect both maternal and neonatal outcomes. CASE REPORT: We des...

As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to grow globally, testing to detect COVID-19 and isolating individuals who test positive remains the primary strategy for preventing community spread of the disease. Therefore, automatic and accurate detecti...