This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally on current evidence for the UK, as well as lessons from the 2001…
cocui (Agavaceae) es una especie de amplia distribución en zonas áridas y semiáridas de Venezuela y Colombia. A pesar de su importancia ecológica como fuente de recursos para la fauna silvestre y de su potencial valor económico como materia prima…
AIM: To review international guidelines and to share our infection control experience during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic at a tertiary eye centre in Hong Kong.METHODS: Infection control guidelines and recommendations from…
We used whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis to investigate the population structure of 877 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from five carriage studies from 2002 (N = 346), 2010 (N = 127), 2013 (N = 153), 2016 (N = 187) and 2018 (N = 64) in UK…
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on the elderly owing to their particular vulnerability to the virus. Their confinement to prevent the spread of the virus resulted in social isolation, often linked to the unwanted…
Durum wheat landraces have a high potential for breeding but they remain underexploited due to several factors, including the insufficient evaluation of these plant materials and the lack of efficient selection tools for transferring target traits…
Es un hecho asumido que las obras Lexicográficas son un reflejo no sólo de las corrientes lingüísticas de las que son contemporáneas, sino de las actitudes y modos de pensamiento de la sociedad a la que se dirigen y de la que proceden. Los…
Desde la preocupación inicial por los desafíos que planteaba el mundo tecnológico, pasando por la defensa de la sostenibilidad o la afirmación de la necesidad de desarrollar una ética medioambiental, hasta la cristalización de la tríada «Justicia,…
La aplicación de la técnica factorial al estudio de la diferenciación residencial de la ciudad, mediante la utilización de variables fundamentalmente demográficas, constituye la denominada Ecología Factorial (Sweester, 1960). Esta técnica de trabajo,…
COVID crisis has abruptly broken into our hospitals, and many difficulties have emerged, including those related to supply logistics. A huge number of new patients, a fast internal reorganization process and many other changes were suddenly…