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Turning Back the Clock: The Effect of the COVID-19 Response in Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Low- Income Countries Authored by Sanghvi Reema Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone across the world, either through the disease itself or with our response to the disease as healthcare professionals, for the better part of a year. In the matter of a few months, it managed to spread from its little corner of the world to a true pandemic. In response to this global pandemic many affluent nations have instituted lockdown procedures to protect their population, a practice that has been adopted by many low to low- middle income countries (LMICs) as well. Unfortunately, this pandemic does not take place in a vacuum, and individuals can have more than one condition with resultant needs outside their homes. This becomes readily apparent when considering someone receiving medical treatment for a disease such as HIV or TB, who may struggle keeping their treatment appointments. I...

Active Filtering and Exchange of Indoor Air by Means of Mobile Air Conditioners to Avoid Infection by The SARS Cov-2 Virus Authored by Sebastian König Introduction In not actively ventilated rooms such as in schools, air exchange is insufficient, particularly during win- ter. Under the presence of COVID-19 or to reduce the CO2 concentration, the air must be filtered and refreshed as well as possible. A tracer clearance experiment using a mobile air conditioner e.g. from KRONE Kälte + Klima VertriebsmbH Germany is supposed to determine to what extent. In Szabadi [1]. the air exchange rate [n] = 1/h is introduced as a measure of air exchange. The exhaust volume flow [dV/dt] ⩒ = m3/h is related to room volume [V] = m3. The air exchange rate n is a multiple of the room volume. Reference values are n = 3/h <= n <= 6/h. The air conditioner in (Figure 1) comprises an air recirculation (5) and an active air exchange (6). The recirculation may also filter and cool the air. Here, the a...

A Long Non-coding RNA and its Potential Role in Human Myeloid Leukemia Authored by David Reisman Introduction Over the past decade, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered to function as regulators of gene expression and numerous biological processes. They are transcribed from loci throughout the genomes of most eukaryotes [1-7]. and reports indicate that many lncRNAs are involved in the regulation of pluripotency and differentiation [8-14]. Although the mechanisms by which these lncRNAs function are still being explored, one model that has emerged states that nuclear lncRNAs modulate gene expression through interactions with histone modifying proteins and/or transcription factors [6-7, 12, 15-18]. Other lncRNAs function in the cytoplasm [19-21]. Lnc-MD1, for example, is a muscle-specific lncRNA that regulates muscle differentiation by binding to microRNAs (miRNA) and limiting their availability to regulate gene expression [9]. Another lncRNA, TINCR, is induced during ...