AIM: To analyze the demands, consultation patterns and contributing factors of the patients involved in the ophthalmic on-line consultation during the COVID-19 epidemic to provide reference for the optimization of the ophthalmic online health care…
During the large-scale outbreak of COVID-19 in China, the Chinese government adopted multiple measures to prevent the epidemic. The consequence was that a sudden variation in residents’ travel behavior took place. In order to better evaluate the…
The fundamental challenges faced by the global economy with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the prospects for re-globalization provide opportunities for the intensification of the development of new forms of coordination of economic relations…
Abstract Background Current technologies in next-generation sequencing are offering high throughput reads at low costs, but still suffer from various sequencing errors. Although pyro- and ion semiconductor sequencing both have the advantage of…
COVID-19 is one of the very contagious diseases from the family Coronaviridae and spreading at afaster rate in the community. In December 2019, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan,China. An epidemic outbreak of COVID-19 was seen in India…
Abstract Background Distributed approaches based on the MapReduce programming paradigm have started to be proposed in the Bioinformatics domain, due to the large amount of data produced by the next-generation sequencing techniques. However, the use…
The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing social distancing behaviors resulted in substantial reduction on traffic, making this a unique experiment on observing the air quality. Such an experiment is also supplemental to the smart city concept as it can help…
Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the concurrent oil conflict between Russia and Saudi Arabia, oil prices have exhibited unusual and sudden changes. For this reason, the volatilities of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent and…
Recent developments have revolutionized the study of biomolecules. Among them are molecular markers, amplification and sequencing of nucleic acids. The latter is classified into three generations. The first allows to sequence small DNA fragments. The…