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 ...

On Friday 29th of May, the 3RD RISIS POLICYMAKERS SESSION entitled “A comparison of US and European Universities: the strong relationship between revenues and excellence” took place in an online format because of the Covid-19 emergency. The conference focused on the res...

An abstract submitted and accepted for presentation at German Health Economic Association (DGGO) Conference - 2020 (Conference cancelled due to Covid-19)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we face an exacerbation of ageism as well as a flourish of intergenerational solidarity. The use of chronological age is an unjustified threshold for the creation of public policies to control the spreading of the virus; doing so reinforces...

Report of Crowdfight request 393 (https://crowdfightcovid19.org)

Report of Crowdfight request 571a (https://crowdfightcovid19.org)

Background Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) have been postulated to affect susceptibility to COVID-19. Observational studies so far have lacked rigorous ascertainment adjustment and international generalisability....

Abstract Health care has had to adapt rapidly to COVID-19, and this in turn has highlighted a pressing need for tools to facilitate remote visits and monitoring. Digital health technology, including body-worn devices, offers a solution using digital outcomes to measure ...

This report contains several analyses on social media datasets with a focus on internet technology and human rights. The main part of the report is about identifying trends in discussions on Reddit with a basis on human rights, and additionally it contains several deep ...

Dromedary camels are a putative source for human infections with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. We showed that camels sampled in different regions in Kenya during 1992–2013 have antibodies against this virus. High densities of camel populations correlated...