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A statistical assessment of association between meteorological parameters and COVID-19 pandemic in 10 countries
(2020-07-22)
Background Eleven out of 13 published articles reported temperature and humidity as factors that could reduce the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases among many other findings. However, there are significant caveats, related ...
Convergent and Divergent Trajectories of Corporate Governance
(2020-07-22)
This Special Issue revisits the classic question of comparative corporate governance research, namely whether national corporate governance systems are converging. More specifically, it focuses on several ‘convergence ...
Prediction of the release process of the nitrogen-extinguishant binary mixture considering surface tension
(2020-07-21)
Nitrogen used for pressurization in the extinguisher can be partially dissolved in the fire extinguishing agent. Consequently, the evolution of the dissolved nitrogen has a significant effect on the release behavior of the ...
What Happened to Patients With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Multicentre Report From Tertiary Clinics in Northern Italy
(2020-07-21)
After the outbreak of Coronavirus disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, this resulted in extraordinary public health measures to control the infection, such as entire countries being placed under ...
Understanding the contribution of individual amino acid residues in the binding of psychoactive substances to monoamine transporters
(2020-07-21)
The development of point-of-care detection methodologies for biologically relevant analytes that can facilitate rapid and appropriate treatment is at the forefront of current research efforts and interests. Among the various ...
Pedagogic prestidigitation: using magic tricks to enhance educational videos
(2020-07-21)
Previous research suggests that magic tricks can be employed within an educational context to enhance attention, engagement, critical thinking and recall. This study builds on this work by examining the impact of incorporating ...
A compact fission detector for fission-tagging neutron capture experiments with radioactive fissile isotopes
(2020-07-21)
In the measurement of neutron capture cross-sections of fissile isotopes, the fission channel is a source of background which can be removed efficiently using the so-called fission-tagging or fission-veto technique. For ...
The Gaia-ESO survey: the non-universality of the age-chemical-clocks-metallicity relations in the Galactic disc
(2020-07-21)
In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, massive databases of high-quality spectra provide tools to outline a new picture of our Galaxy. In this framework, an important piece of information is provided by our ability to ...
Reduction in ACE2 may mediate the prothrombotic phenotype in COVID-19
(2020-07-20)
This commentary refers to ‘Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and cardiac disease in Northern Italy’, by R.M. Inciardi et al., doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa583.
Markup cyclicality, competition and liquidity constraints: Evidence from a panel VAR analysis
(2020-07-19)
The main scope of this study is to investigate the effects of competition and liquidity constraints on the cyclical behaviour of the markup ratio. In particular, 79 2-digit NACE Rev.2 sectors across the UK manufacturing ...