Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency (VDD) are widely recognized as risk factors for respiratory tract infections. Vitamin D influences expression of many genes with well-established relevance to airway infections and relevant to immune system…
Abstract This reflective piece, written by a woman with an eating disorder aims to identify the impact of COVID-19 on persons living with eating disorders and provide a social justice approach as a resolution. The author identifies that eating…
Summary The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represents one of the greatest infectious challenges to humanity in recent history. One of the striking features of infection is the heterogeneous clinical response with worse outcomes observed in older patients and…
The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become a revolution in the fields of data collection, surveying, monitoring, and tracking objects in the field. Many control and navigation algorithms are experimented and deployed for UAVs,…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has infected more than three million people worldwide and it’s widely believed to have originated in horseshoe bats and passed to humans through other species on sale in a wildlife market in Wuhan. First human transmission to…
On the 01 March, 2020, an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in 88 585 confirmed cases. African countries move from COVID-19 readiness to respond as many confirmed cases. The equator differs from the rest of the world in its…