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Objective: To describe the prevalence of alcohol consumption before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze the factors associated with this behavior during the period of social distancing among Brazilian adolescents. Method(s): Cross-sectional study using data from the ConVid Adolescents survey, carried out via the Internet between June and September 2020. The prevalence of alcohol consumption before and during the pandemic, as well as association with sociodemographic variables, mental health, and lifestyle were estimated. A logistic regression model was used to assess associated factors. Result(s): 9,470 adolescents were evaluated. Alcohol consumption decreased from 17.70% (95%CI 16.64-18.85) before the pandemic to 12.80% (95%CI 11.85-13.76) during the pandemic. Alcohol consumption was associated with the age group of 16 and 17 years (OR=2.9;95%CI 1.08-1.53), place of residence in the South (OR=1.82;95%CI 1.46-2.27) and Southeast regions (OR=1.33;95%CI 1.05-1.69), having three or more close friends (OR=1.78;95%CI 1.25-2.53), reporting worsening sleep problems during the pandemic (OR=1.59;95%CI 1.20-2.11), feeling sad sometimes (OR=1,83;95%CI 1,40-2,38) and always (OR=2.27;95%CI 1.70-3.05), feeling always irritated (OR=1,60;95%CI 1,14-2,25), being a smoker (OR=13,74;95%CI 8.63-21.87) and a passive smoker (OR=1.76;95%CI 1.42-2.19). Strict adherence to social distancing was associated with lower alcohol consumption (OR=0.40;95%CI 0.32-0.49). Conclusion(s): The COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in consumption of alcoholic beverages by Brazilian adolescents, which was influenced by sociodemographic and mental health factors, adherence to social restriction measures and lifestyle in this period. Managers, educators, family and the society must be involved in the articulation of Public Policies to prevent alcohol consumption.Copyright © 2023 A Epidemio e uma publicacao da Associacao Brasileira de Saude Coletiva-ABRASCO.
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Among the problems caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), besides the irreparable loss of loved ones and the damage to global health caused by the disease, the restrictions imposed and the economic losses incurred by them stood out. Given the sudden changes imposed on the routine of society and companies, many businesses went bankrupt, while the other survivors needed to adapt quickly, resulting in a routine based on home office, ecommerce and distance learning. The educational sector was strongly affected by these restrictions, as well as the assets linked to it, as highlighted by the cumulative annual drop of 22% of the IFIX (index of Real Estate Investment Funds), witnessed by investors during the arrival and spread of the pandemic in Brazilian territory. Thus, the work was based on the prospective analysis of scenarios through the Momentum method, producing three possible future scenarios for the recovery of the educational REITs (Pessimistic, Optimistic, and Trend), with the help of three financial planning specialists. At the end of this study, it was possible to configure the scenarios: "The recovery of education REITs" as optimistic scenario, "Challenges of education REITs" as trend scenario, and "The crisis of education REITs" as Pessimistic scenario.
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In a profound ageing context, such as the Portuguese, fertility becomes a key variable for the analysis of population dynamics, with increased importance given the very low levels recorded in the country. According to INE [2020], Portugal has a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.40 children per woman, one of the lowest in the EU [Eurostat, 2022]. The economic and financial crisis of 2008 and the Troika intervention (European Commission, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, the three authorities that monitored international bailout programs) in 2011, had impacted on the socioeconomic conditions of the Portuguese population, with repercussions in other behaviors as well as in fertility. Thus, the childbearing postponement led the TFR to fall to its lowest levels on record, reaching 1.21 children per woman in 2013. Although the economic recovery has allowed a slight recovery in fertility levels, the new crisis caused by COVID-19 was reflected in a new historic decline in births in the country in 2021, when the number of live births fell below 80 000, a decrease of 8% compared to 2019 [INE, 2022]. Although this downward trend is common to almost all developed European countries [Aassve et al., 2020;Aassve et al., 2021], for Portuguese society it is a new wake-up call and a cause for concern given the population decline confirmed in the provisional data release from the 2021 Population Census (-2.1% compared to 2011). However, fertility patterns are not uniform, as they involve regional heterogeneity, which highlights a multiplicity of factors and behavioral patterns. This paper aims to approach fertility from a regional perspective to distinguish the diversity of patterns across the territory in the last two decades, and to discuss the extent to which the crises were a point of change or reinforcement of the transformations that were taking place. In the analysis, in addition to the framework and contextualisation of fertility trends by NUTS 3, the policy responses that have emerged at a local/municipal scale will be analysed. Although the crisis has contributed to the fertility decline in Portugal, its decline goes beyond the crisis reflecting changes in behavioral patterns and social and economic constraints. Thus, there persist constraints in the population dynamics that have prevented the reversal or mitigation of the decline in the inland territories that currently are also felt at the country level. © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this short communication is to provide theoretical considerations that support Human Resources (HR) professionals' decisions regarding the development of a post COVID-19 pandemic career resilient Generation Z's workforce. Building on the work of Pataki-Bittó Kapusy [1] and Pichler, Kohli Granitz [2], an effort to provide practical recommendations, that align workplace policies and practices with Generation Z's work values will be made, in order to develop a resilient workforce. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The authors review literature on Generation Z, namely regarding the factors that shaped their underlying development and consequent work values. Furthermore, literature regarding current organizational policies and practices focused on this generation was reviewed. FINDINGS: Although the recommendations made here allow worker integration and a better person-organization fit, this conceptual framework also suggests that very little is known about this generation, and as such, no one-size-fits-all recommendation exists for managers. It is our understanding that the recommendations set out here must be adapted to each organizational context, and each manager should pay more attention to its content than its form. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This short communication presents a reflection regarding recommendations, that align workplace policies and practices with Generation Z's work values, in order to develop a career resilient workforce. It is a work that combines previous works and as such it offers a more encompassing systematization of the latest recommendations regarding this generation. © 2023 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
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Covid-19 has arisen deep changes in formal Education as a result of a sudden transition from in person to remote Education. Effects in different fields, such as mental health and socioeconomic vulnerability, also need follow up and evaluation. So, this paper aims to analyze the educational inequalities amplified by the pandemics, as well as the remote Education effects on students, educators and families. Its theoretical framework consisted of the reproduction theories and philosophical works on heterotopy, speed and the world and Education digitalization. The results show that previous achievements in schooling access, quality and equality took steps backwards. Mental health and student motivation have suffered negative effects. Digital Education does not seem to keep the same level of outcomes and equality. Therefore, remote Education has implied deep changes in schooling routines and ways of learning, some of them susceptible of negatively affecting students. Remote Education, despite its lower costs and prestigious halo, is to be used cautiously and with parsimony © 2023, Ensaio.All Rights Reserved.
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What has been the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on international students and how have they coped with living, often in isolation, in a foreign country? This article examines the challenges and coping strategies of current and recently grad-uated higher degree by research (HDR) international students in the Australian city of Melbourne through a transient migration lens. Through interviews with eight international students during one of Melbourne's lockdown periods, this pilot study provided participants the opportunity to explain that not only were they dealing with the difficulties posed by lockdowns (e.g., loneliness and lack of sense of belonging) but doing so while balancing non-lockdown-related issues as students and transient migrants (e.g., passing their degree courses). Students interviewed however also revealed that they made the most out of lockdowns while taking charge of their own well-being by working towards their postgraduate futures and using the time to discover new non-study-related talents (e.g., water-colouring). The results of this study provide international education stakeholders and higher education institutions with ways of moving forward in the student support space. © 2022 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.
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This position paper aims to raise the discussion around the future of the workplace environment. The way we live is intrinsically connected with our survival, and the contemporaneous model of work is locally as globally unsustainable. The pandemic context of Covid-19 and the need to physical distance introduce, in practice, a new way of living and working with Telework. Supported by ICT, telework, as the work performed from home, was perceived as a positive experience validated by the number of individuals who expects to have a hybrid form of work in a post-pandemic context. This new reality, with a new form of work and the need to mitigate the spread of the virus, questions the future of the workplace. The relationship between ICT and Telework evidences the idea of smart workplace. A smart workplace is a sustainable and inclusive environment where the work on-site blends with the remote one, providing security, health, comfort, and wellbeing to users along with encouraging human interactions despite their nature. The paradigm shift that we experience is an opportunity and a challenge to the creative cluster, since from the model of work to the attributes of the workplace, all need to be re-imagined and re-designed to guarantee a positive experience to the user. This is a position paper supporting the need to reimagine the workplace after a positive experience granted by technology during the pandemic context. At the end, the purpose of this article is above all to stimulate the discussion around the topic and the identified keywords, rather than provide solutions. The disruption of the last 2 years ought to be a time of challenge, reflection, and change otherwise it was just a pandemic disruption. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Antarctica is the southernmost continent of our planet, and it has been verified as the coldest region on earth. The Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR) has as its main objective the promotion of high-quality scientific research in the Antarctic region, seeking to understand the events that occur there. PROANTAR, coordinated by the Navy Commander, has some sectors that are based in Brazil and others that are located in the Antarctic continent. The military that volunteers to occupy any vacancy that is allocated to that continent needs, besides passing through several pre-established criteria, to pass the selection process. The purpose of this article is to help the Naval Administration in the selection of volunteer officers to occupy a vacancy in the Antarctic continent. To obtain the alternatives, the officers that best fit the established vacancy, and the criteria to be evaluated, Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) was applied. Next, with all the necessary data, the CRITIC-GRA-3N method was used as a Multicriteria Decision Support (MDS) technique, the CRITIC-GRA-3N method, the CRITIC Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) method to obtain the criteria weights and the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method, with three normalizations, to order the alternatives. At the end of the application of the methods, the article can generate five ordinations of the volunteer officers to occupy the vacancy offered in PROANTAR. © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Investments should be decisions made by companies at a strategic level, aiming to maximize the return on invested capital. However, the evaluation required to obtain the best results demand, in addition to information about available assets, the ability of decision-makers to relate and weigh all the criteria that must be maximized or minimized to achieve the expected goal. This article plays an important role in supporting the decision making of a micro company, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which needs to invest the available amount in investment. In order to obtain the investment alternatives, as well as the evaluation criteria, the Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) was applied. After obtaining all necessary data, the CRITIC-GRA-3N method was used as a Multicriteria Decision Support technique, with the CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) method to generate the criteria weights and the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method, with three normalizations, to order the alternatives. With this, five ordinations were established, being the first three ordinations performed with the help of two normalizations and the last two ordinations being the arithmetic and geometric averages of the first three ordinations normalized with the third normalization. In the end it brought positive results to the microenterprise. © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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In line with the losses brought about by the recent pandemic of the new coronavirus, the oil market, as well as other segments, has been facing economic difficulties to recover. Seeking to bring a practical and efficient strategy to the corporate environment, in this area, this study demonstrates a new multi-criteria method based on multi-objectives, capable of calculating the importance of each criterion, to encourage more assertive and objective decision-making to evaluate different situations in the oil industry, such as the application of resources, investments and other strategies. As a case study, a group of AHTS (Anchor Handling Tug Supply) vessels was used to supply offshore platforms and application of the CRITIC-MOORA-3N method, which allows a logical analysis of the relevant criteria and presents an objective solution, as result for the scenario that applies. © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Among the problems caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), besides the irreparable loss of loved ones and the damage to global health caused by the disease, the restrictions imposed and the economic losses incurred by them stood out. Given the sudden changes imposed on the routine of society and companies, many businesses went bankrupt, while the other survivors needed to adapt quickly, resulting in a routine based on home office, e-commerce and distance learning. The educational sector was strongly affected by these restrictions, as well as the assets linked to it, as highlighted by the cumulative annual drop of 22% of the IFIX (index of Real Estate Investment Funds), witnessed by investors during the arrival and spread of the pandemic in Brazilian territory. Thus, the work was based on the prospective analysis of scenarios through the Momentum method, producing three possible future scenarios for the recovery of the educational REITs (Pessimistic, Optimistic, and Trend), with the help of three financial planning specialists. At the end of this study, it was possible to configure the scenarios: "The recovery of education REITs” as optimistic scenario, "Challenges of education REITs” as trend scenario, and "The crisis of education REITs” as Pessimistic scenario. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Objective: To verify the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 on daily routine, diet and behavior, considering nutritional status. Materials and methods: This is a cross sectional study of observational, analytical and descriptive character, carried out with adult women aged 21 to 40 years, between the months of August to October of the year 2021. Results: The study showed that women classified as overweight, in the age range of 31 to 40 years (17.05%;n=30;p=0.038);alluded to a poor state of health (17.24%;n=15;p<0.001);greater use of some type of medication (54.02%;n=47;p=0.016), main leaders by the demands of domestic nature (35.63%;n=31;p=0.027) or those requiring more effort (49.43%;n=43;p=0.006), also had higher frequency in the consumption of fresh foods, such as chuchu (64.37%;n=56;p=0.001), eggplant (64.37%;n=56;p=0.004), and zucchini (70.11%;n=61;p=0.008), as well as artificial soft drink (54.02%, n=47;p=0.035). The interviewees classified as eutrophic portrayed greater overall media influence of socially established standards (p=0.042);as well as greater confidence n regarding hunger and satiety signals in intuitive eating (p=0.014). Conclusion: There was influence of the Covid-19 pandemic according to nutritional status, the impact on everyday life was shown in overweight women to be more susceptible in changing their eating behavior and in eutrophic women to receive greater influence from the media and in their intuitive eating.
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COVID 19 confinements changed our relationship with the computer: we use it more but not necessarilly better. In these times education, work, entertainment and art resort to social media, video streamming and online platforms. We believe that the current reflection on this Human Computer Interaction can gain from the experiments of cyberformance – the performance art the crosses physical and virtual environments – both at a theoritical level, through concepts like virtual reality or corporeality, and at an empirical level, previewing the creation of intermedial interfaces that develop our post-human condition in a more embodied, integrated and freer way. © GKA Ediciones, authors.
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The gender and economic conditions of students from Higher Education Institutions attending the 1st year, after the COVID-19 pandemic, acquires great importance, especially in terms of study conditions and their emotions. The study, with an international scope and on two continents, aims to use the pandemic questionnaire for students (QEP), with five dimensions under study: conditions for study, emotions, academic performance, teaching strategies and sociability. The QEP was answered by 101 students from a private higher education institution in northern Portugal. The QEP questionnaire is part of a research project that aims to guide specific institutional policies to support students' permanence and completion of courses in Higher Education Institutions, allowing the early identification of intentions to drop out or students at risk. As well as to understand how e-learning teaching influenced teaching, learning and the permanence of students in higher education institutions. Copyright © 2022 by Author/s and Licensed by IADITI.
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The restaurant industry contributed to the creation of wealth and employment until the end of 2019, when it reached maximum values. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, this sector suffered a very serious economic and employment crisis. The analysis of this situation is imperative to mitigate the consequences for the restaurant industry and to prevent impacts in future crises. The main purpose of the present study is to compare the years 2019 and 2020, analyzing the profitability, payroll costs, headcount, and indebtedness of the restaurants, to verify the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact in Spain and Portugal. Quantitative research was applied, where a descriptive analysis and hypothesis testing were conducted. SABI database was the secondary data source used in this research. The results show that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on profitability, efficiency, and indebtedness in the restaurant industry, being a generalized situation in both countries, in all regions except for Ceuta. The results also confirm the importance of this study for managers and academics since all the variables under study worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study represents a contribution to managers and stakeholders in the restaurant sector by allowing the comparative evaluation of each restaurant with the average of the variables by location and the definition of proactive strategies. Practical implications are proposed to mitigate the effect not only of COVID-19 but also of other pandemics or economic crises that may arise in the future, preparing managers and stakeholders to adapt to change and promoting the financial sustainability of the restaurant industry. It is recommended to increase the disclosure of statistical indicators and financial ratios of free access, which allows the improvement of the analysis of different variables that are important for professionals in the restaurant industry. © 2022 by the authors.
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In the early seventeenth century, smallpox was one of the most fearsome communicable diseases in the world. Lady Mary Montagu noted that the disease could be prevented by introducing liquid extracted from smallpox scabs from an infected patient into the skin of healthy individuals. This process, known as “variolation” was used in England and in USA until the first investigations by the English physician Edward Jenner appeared. Jenner created the vaccine for an animal poxvirus from the pustule formed by the vaccinia virus in the teats of cows, where the technique was essentially based on the idea that a virulent agent for animals could be attenuated in humans. In 1885, Louis Pasteur, through a fixed virus which was obtained by successive passages in the nervous tissue of rabbits with the dissecting action of potassium hydroxide, developed the vaccine against rabies, in which similar procedures were adopted in the development of several vaccines of live attenuated viruses. Already in the 1940s, a revolution occurred with the discovery that cells could be cultured in vitro and used as substrates for viral growth. Oral polio vaccine and vaccines against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox were made possible by selecting clones by passage in in vitro cell culture. Some RNA virus have segmented genomes that can be manipulated. Co-cultivation of two virus in cell culture with clone selection by plaque formation allows the isolation of virus with segments from both. This regrouping planned to create three main vaccines: live and inactivated influenza as well as one of two rotavirus vaccines. Another discovery in the late nineteenth century was that immunogenicity could be maintained as the substance contained in those killed by heat or chemical treatment. This type of inactivation was first applied to pathogens of typhoid fever, plague and cholera bacilli. In the twentieth century, chemical inactivation was also applied to a virus. The influenza vaccine was the first successful inactivated virus vaccine, developed against Polio and Hepatitis A. Besides, several vaccines consist of partially or fully purified proteins. Most of the inactivated flu vaccines used are created by growing the virus in embryonated eggs and then breaking down the entire virus with detergents. The viral hemagglutinin protein is purified to serve as the vaccine antigen, although other influenza virus components may be part of the final product. Early in the history of bacteriology, morphological studies and chemical analyzes showed that many pathogens were surrounded by a polysaccharide capsule and that antibodies against the capsule could promote phagocytosis. The first use of this information to create a vaccine was the development of the meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine. After years of study and development in bacterology, the scientific community faced the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, marked by the race against time in the invention of effective vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. After all, most of vaccines take more than a decade to be formulated and, in the case of the vaccine against the new coronavirus, in less than a year, at least 34 candidate vaccines appeared in clinical analysis. New vaccine production techniques using DNA and RNA recombination techniques are being implemented in this race. In Brazil, the most widely distributed vaccines approved by Anvisa are AstraZeneca, CoronaVac and Pfizer-BioNTech. The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is composed of a non-replicating viral vector, which consists of a defective chipamzee virus (adenovirus), with a segment of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, responsible for producing the structure present on the viral surface (protein S), being recognized by human cells, triggering an immune response against Coronavirus. The CoronaVac vaccine is composed by the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus, along with its complete structure. It is unable to multiply, although it can stimulate the response to produce antibodies. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, on the other hand, consists of a formulated lipid nanoparticle of nucleoside-modified mRNA that encodes the pre-fusion peak glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2. Despite the small amount of dose applications in Brazil, the Janssen vaccine has recently started its distribution in the country. This is the only vaccine, so far, with a single dose application. It is an adenovirus 26 (Ad26) vector vaccine that contains in its interior genetic material of the S protein contained in the surface spikes of SARS-CoV-2, and that stimulates, after application, the cellular responses of T CD4 + and T CD8 + antibodies. Here, we propose a detailed review of the entire history of vaccination, from Smallpox to Covid-19. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Background: Patients with autoimmune infammatory diseases (AID) have been prioritized for urgent vaccination to mitigate COVID-19 risk. However, few studies in the literature assessed the immunogenicity and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine in patients with AID. Objectives: In this context, the present study aims to evaluate the immunogenic-ity and safety of the vaccine against COVID-19 in patients with AID. Methods: These data are from 'Safety and efficacy on COVID-19 Vaccine in Rheumatic Disease'-SAFER study, a Brazilian multicentric prospective phase IV study to evaluate COVID-19 Vaccine in AID, in the real-life, in Brazil. Immunogenicity and adverse events (AE) from a single center were assessed, after 2 doses of ChAdOx1 (Oxford/AstraZeneca), 8 weeks of interval, in patients with AID and healthy controls (HC). Inclusion criteria were age ≥ 18 years and fulflling criteria according to international classifcation for AID. Exclusion criteria: pregnancy, previous severe AE to any vaccine, other immunosuppression causes. Stratifcation of post-vaccination AE was performed using a diary, flled out daily and returned at the end of 28 days for each dose. Participants were followed up through blood collection for measurement of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain by chemiluminescence (SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant assay, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA) at baseline and 28 days after the second dose. The seropositivity was defned for titers ≥50 AU/mL. Quantitative analyses were presented as observed frequency, percentage, central tendency, and variability measurements. The sample's normal distribution was verifed through the Shapiro-Wilk test. The Kruskal-Wallis test and the post-hoc Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Fligner pairwise comparisons test were used to compare the IgG-S titers between the groups through the evaluation period. Categorical data were addressed using the Fisheŕs exact or Chi-squared (χ2) test. An alpha level of 5% signifcance was used in all analyses. Results: A total of 377 volunteers with AID and 50 HC were included in the study. Patients with spondyloarthritis (N=64), systemic lupus erythematosus (N=63), rheumatoid arthritis (N=61), primary Sjögren's syndrome (N=61), vasculitis (N=31), systemic sclerosis (N=14), inflammatory myopathy (N=9), Crohńs disease (N=49), ulcerative colitis (N=11) and other systemics AID (N=12) were evaluated. Both groups had female predominance (73.5% vs. 74.0%, p=0.937) and were homogeneous for age (43.5 vs. 41.7,p=0.308). The seroconversion among those not reactive (IgG-S negative at baseline) (46 HC and 191 AID), 28 days after second dose was 97.1% for spondyloar-thritis (p=0.425), systemic lupus erythematosus 88.2% (0.006), rheumatoid arthritis 93.5% (0.158), primary Sjögren's syndrome 92.6% (0.133), systemic sclerosis or inflammatory myopathy 47.1% (0.001), inflammatory bowel disease 100% (0.999) and vasculitis 80% (0.006), while in healthy control was 100%. In comparison with HC, there was a statistically significant difference in IgG-S titles only in systemic sclerosis or inflammatory myopathy (1.694 AU/ml vs. 3.719 AU/ml;p=0.006). Both groups only presented mild AE. Pain at the injection (85.7% vs. 78.4%, p=0.239), headache (67.3% vs. 53.8, p=0.074) and fatigue (59.2% Vs. 46.2%, p=0.089) were more common in HC than AID. Overall, reactions like arthralgia (52.6 vs. 22.4%, p<0.001), hematoma (14.1 vs. 4.1%, p=0.05), cutaneous rash (9.5 vs. 0%, p=0.024) were more frequent in AID. Most participants related that they felt safer after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, and 52.4% did not reported a worse patient global assessment (PGA) index. Conclusion: In conclusion, our data indicated that ChAdOx1 vaccine is safe and induced high titers and seroconversion rate in AID. More severe AID, such as vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosous, and systemic sclerosis and myositis showed a lower seroconversion rate. Further analysis will explore the association between immunossupressant and reactivity, and booster dose.
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This position paper aims to raise the discussion around the future of the workplace environment. The way we live is intrinsically connected with our survival, and the contemporaneous model of work is locally as globally unsustainable. The pandemic context of Covid-19 and the need to physical distance introduce, in practice, a new way of living and working with Telework. Supported by ICT, telework, as the work performed from home, was perceived as a positive experience validated by the number of individuals who expects to have a hybrid form of work in a post-pandemic context. This new reality, with a new form of work and the need to mitigate the spread of the virus, questions the future of the workplace. The relationship between ICT and Telework evidences the idea of smart workplace. A smart workplace is a sustainable and inclusive environment where the work on-site blends with the remote one, providing security, health, comfort, and wellbeing to users along with encouraging human interactions despite their nature. The paradigm shift that we experience is an opportunity and a challenge to the creative cluster, since from the model of work to the attributes of the workplace, all need to be re-imagined and re-designed to guarantee a positive experience to the user. This is a position paper supporting the need to reimagine the workplace after a positive experience granted by technology during the pandemic context. At the end, the purpose of this article is above all to stimulate the discussion around the topic and the identified keywords, rather than provide solutions. The disruption of the last 2 years ought to be a time of challenge, reflection, and change otherwise it was just a pandemic disruption. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The spring of 2020 saw the spread of the virus COVID_19. The pandemic context experienced since demanded human physical distancing which results in the closure of universities and schools, ground flights, and closing spaces to stop all forms of gatherings. The forced lockdown to ensure the safety of people, and the government policies to close operations pressed and encouraged employers and employees to adopt telework notwithstanding the short time to prepare everyone for a new model of work. Before the pandemic, telework faced a slow acceptance and adoption in European countries. The pandemic was and still is a driving force for the adoption of telework, in this case considering the remote workplace employees’ domestic environs. A review of literature exposes plenty of information regarding telework benefits and drawbacks, but scarce information is available about the relationship between telework and Academia. This article aims to understand the academia’s experience of working from home, especially the features of home workplace and its impact on the health and wellbeing of the individuals. At the end, the main question is if academics want to stay with any form of telework. The responses obtained revealed that academics want to remain in telework several days a week and have working space conditions to do so. Literature review and online questionnaire performed the theoretical framework and contextual data to support the conclusions achieved. The answers ascertained the experience as a positive one, indicating that home workplaces have comfortable, technical and private conditions and there is a generic expectation to proceed with telework for several days a week. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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This article is intended to spur reflections on school psychologist’s remote practices and its impacts on the strengthening of collectives in the commitment for the transformation of educational frameworks during the pandemic period caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The propositions of Lev Vygotsky and other scholars from the Cultural-Historical Theory set the theoretical-methodological grounds for the discussions and analysis presented. The data derived from two online interventions – one in Basic Education and another in Higher Education – developed by the authors of this paper during the period of social isolation caused by the pandemic. In both contexts, and as the guiding axis of our discussions, art was used as a mediating tool, a cultural instrument that through aesthetic experience promotes the creation of new meanings and senses of oneself, of others and the world. The importance of the school psychologist to recognize him/ herself as a professional whose main role is to invest in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of the bonds established among the different actors inserted in educational contexts was emphasized. © 2022, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Campinas. All rights reserved.