Proper pandemic preparedness requires an integrated cross-regional effort, the case of the ECLIPSE consortium in America: a narrative review [PDF]
Background Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose significant threats to global public health, economic stability, and security. This paper focuses on three critical examples: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), Dengue Fever (DF), and ...
Alejandro Bernardin +5 more
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Prediction of the thermospheric and ionospheric responses to the 21 June 2020 annular solar eclipse
On 21 June 2020, an annular solar eclipse will traverse the low latitudes from Africa to Southeast Asia. The highest latitude of the maximum eclipse obscuration is approximately 30°.
Tong Dang, Jiuhou Lei, Wen-Bin Wang
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Cultural myth of eclipse in a Central Javanese village: Between Islamic identity and local tradition
This article examines the relationship between religion, tradition and identity as seen from the myth about eclipses in a village in Central Java. Javanese people in rural areas still hold beliefs passed down from their ancestors about eclipses, both ...
Ahmad Izzuddin +3 more
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La poésie des désastres entre science et religion : la culture encyclopédique du baroque méridional
This article focuses on the reception of natural disasters in Baroque lyric poetry and aims to show the proximity between prose and verse in Southern Italy’s literary output.
Antonio Perrone
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Observation of atmospheric scintillation during the 2020 total eclipse in northern Patagonia
During the December 2020 total eclipse we registered time resolved light measurements of incident solar light with VIS-NIR photodiodes in northern Patagonia.
Christian T. Schmiegelow +4 more
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The annular solar eclipse on 21 June 2020 passed over desert areas (parts of Central and Eastern Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula), partly cloudy regions (parts of South Asia and the Himalayas), and the mostly cloudy region in East Asia.
Guoyong Wen +5 more
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Extending Validity of the Bacterial Cell Cycle Model through Thymine Limitation: A Personal View
The contemporary view of bacterial physiology was established in 1958 at the “Copenhagen School”, culminating a decade later in a detailed description of the cell cycle based on four parameters.
Arieh Zaritsky
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Among the different ways that the solar heating of the Earth's surface can be interrupted, the most impressive is by a solar eclipse. While the solar radiation drops rapidly, the near-surface air temperature responds more gradually, typically reaching a ...
Marcos A. Peñaloza-Murillo +3 more
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Constraining recent lead pollution sources in the North Pacific using ice core stable lead isotopes [PDF]
Trends and sources of lead (Pb) aerosol pollution in the North Pacific rim of North America from 1850 to 2001 are investigated using a high-resolution (subannual to annual) ice core record recovered from Eclipse Icefield (3017 masl; St.
Gross, B H +6 more
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Commissioning Measurements of Flattening Filter and Flattening Filter Free Photon Beams Using a TrueBeam Stx® Linear Accelerator [PDF]
Introduction: TrueBeam STx® latest generation linear accelerators (linacs) were installed at Sheikh Khalifa International University Hospital Casablanca, Morocco, this study aimed to present and analyse the dosimetric characteristics obtained during the ...
Kamal SAIDI +3 more
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