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Closure of Universities Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Impact on Education and Mental Health of Students and Academic Staff Open
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), originated in Wuhan city of China, has spread rapidly around the world, sending billions of people into lockdown. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus epidemic a pandem…
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Patent Foramen Ovale Closure or Anticoagulation vs. Antiplatelets after Stroke Open
Among patients who had had a recent cryptogenic stroke attributed to PFO with an associated atrial septal aneurysm or large interatrial shunt, the rate of stroke recurrence was lower among those assigned to PFO closure combined with antipl…
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Long-Term Outcomes of Patent Foramen Ovale Closure or Medical Therapy after Stroke Open
Among adults who had had a cryptogenic ischemic stroke, closure of a PFO was associated with a lower rate of recurrent ischemic strokes than medical therapy alone during extended follow-up. (Funded by St. Jude Medical; RESPECT ClinicalTria…
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COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration Open
COVID-19 has caused the closure of university campuses around the world and migration of all learning, teaching, and assessment into online domains. The impacts of this on the academic community as frontline providers of higher education a…
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Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself? Open
Significance The question whether sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can be self-sufficient in cereals by 2050 is of global relevance. Currently, SSA is amongst the (sub)continents with the largest gap between cereal consumption and production, wher…
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Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic on Education Open
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak poses serious concerns to global education systems. Efforts to contain COVID-19 prompted unscheduled closure of schools in more than 100 countries worldwide. COVID-19 school closures left over one bi…
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Effect of COVID-19 on the Performance of Grade 12 Students: Implications for STEM Education Open
With all learning institutions pre-maturely closed on 20 March 2020 and all citizens advised to self-isolate in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19, it was hypothesized that COVID-19 would negatively impact on the performance of studen…
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Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure Open
Stomata play a significant role in the Earth's water and carbon cycles, by regulating gaseous exchanges between the plant and the atmosphere. Under drought conditions, stomatal control of transpiration has long been thought to be closely c…
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Managing the long term effects of covid-19: summary of NICE, SIGN, and RCGP rapid guideline Open
For a proportion of people covid-19 leads to long term effects that can have a significant impact on quality of life. According to the Office for National Statistics, around one in five people testing positive for covid-19 exhibit symptoms…
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School Closures During Social Lockdown and Mental Health, Health Behaviors, and Well-being Among Children and Adolescents During the First COVID-19 Wave Open
In this narrative synthesis of reports from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, studies of short-term school closures as part of social lockdown measures reported adverse mental health symptoms and health behaviors among children and …
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Observation of a periodic array of flux-closure quadrants in strained ferroelectric PbTiO <sub>3</sub> films Open
Getting closure in ferroelectric films Ferroelectric materials have a spontaneous electric polarization that can be manipulated for applications. The polarization is usually not uniform throughout the material, and for nanosized ferroelect…
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The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Education System in Developing Countries: A Review Open
Coronavirus affects the education system in the world. Schools, colleges, and universities are closed to control the spread of the coronavirus. School closure brings difficulties for students, teachers, and parents. So, distance learning i…
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Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England Open
A novel SARS-CoV-2 variant, VOC 202012/01 (lineage B.1.1.7), emerged in southeast England in November 2020 and is rapidly spreading towards fixation. Using a variety of statistical and dynamic modelling approaches, we estimate that this va…
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Parents’ Experiences with Remote Education during COVID-19 School Closures Open
In the spring of 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors to decrease the spread of the viral outbreak during the COVID -19 pandemic. This physical closure led to a rapid shift to remote learning which placed more responsibility f…
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Neural tube closure: cellular, molecular and biomechanical mechanisms Open
Neural tube closure has been studied for many decades, across a range of vertebrates, as a paradigm of embryonic morphogenesis. Neurulation is of particular interest in view of the severe congenital malformations – ‘neural tube defects’ – …
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Simplicial closure and higher-order link prediction Open
Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once—for exampl…
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Bioinspired mechanically active adhesive dressings to accelerate wound closure Open
Bioinspired adhesive dressings have been shown to shrink at skin temperature, contract the wound, and promote wound healing.
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Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US Open
Between March 9, 2020, and May 7, 2020, school closure in the US was temporally associated with decreased COVID-19 incidence and mortality; states that closed schools earlier, when cumulative incidence of COVID-19 was low, had the largest …
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A large COVID-19 outbreak in a high school 10 days after schools’ reopening, Israel, May 2020 Open
On 13 March 2020, Israel’s government declared closure of all schools. Schools fully reopened on 17 May 2020. Ten days later, a major outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred in a high school. The first case was registered on 26…
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Signaling mechanisms in abscisic acid‐mediated stomatal closure Open
Summary The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a central role in the regulation of stomatal movements under water‐deficit conditions. The identification of ABA receptors and the ABA signaling core consisting of PYR/PYL/RCAR ABA recept…
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COVID-19 School Closure-Related Changes to the Professional Life of a K–12 Teacher Open
The COVID-19 pandemic forced K–12 school closures in spring 2020 to protect the well-being of society. The unplanned and unprecedented disruption to education changed the work of many teachers suddenly, and in many aspects. This case study…
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Abscisic Acid-Induced Stomatal Closure: An Important Component of Plant Defense Against Abiotic and Biotic Stress Open
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a stress hormone that accumulates under different abiotic and biotic stresses. A typical effect of ABA on leaves is to reduce transpirational water loss by closing stomata and parallelly defend against microbes by re…
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Primary angle closure glaucoma: What we know and what we don’t know Open
Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) is a common cause of blindness. Angle closure is a fundamental pathologic process in PAGC. With the development of imaging devices for the anterior segment of the eye, a better understanding of the pat…
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Grocery Shopping Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Considering the temporary closure of many food-away-from-home establishments, consumer expenditure on groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased. While grocery shopping is an essential activity, not much is known about the dynami…
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Fatigue crack closure: a review of the physical phenomena Open
Plasticity‐induced, roughness‐induced and oxide‐induced crack closures are reviewed. Special attention is devoted to the physical origin, the consequences for the experimental determination and the prediction of the effective crack driving…
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E-Learning vs. Face-To-Face Learning: Analyzing Students’ Preferences and Behaviors Open
Educational life worldwide has been shaken by the closure of schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ripple effects have been felt in the way both teachers and students have adapted to the constraints imposed by the ne…
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Sexual and gender-based violence against refugee women: a hidden aspect of the refugee "crisis" Open
The current refugee "crisis" in Europe has created multiple forms of vulnerability and insecurity for refugee women including various forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Increasing numbers of women, either alone or with family, are …
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Home Learning in Times of COVID: Experiences of Parents Open
The widespread prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic has affected academia and parents alike. Due to the sudden closure of schools, students are missing social interaction which is vital for better learning and grooming while most schools have s…
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Some Recent Developments in Turbulence Closure Modeling Open
Turbulence closure models are central to a good deal of applied computational fluid dynamical analysis. Closure modeling endures as a productive area of research. This review covers recent developments in elliptic relaxation and elliptic b…
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COVID‐19 impact on fruit and vegetable markets Open
Canadian fruit and vegetable markets were significantly impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 (and COVID‐19 disease), beginning in March 2020. Due to the closure of restaurants, bars, and schools, produce growers and d…