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This book examines the impact of the continuing COVID-19 crisis on consumers and businesses. With stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures mandated by governments worldwide, businesses have made significant adjustments to adapt to the sudden changes caused by the pandemic. The book aims to understand what settling and thriving in the "new normal" have meant for businesses around the world. This book is divided into sections on production, consumption, and entrepreneurship and explores how consumer psychology has changed while also evaluating new digital business opportunities afforded by the pandemic. By bringing together psychology and marketing scholars, this interdisciplinary book will inform research on how businesses adapt to crises. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. All rights reserved.
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Over the years, transportable instrumentation for cultural heritage (CH) in situ measurements has noticeably widespread, due to logistic, economical and safety reasons. Ion beam analysis, a powerful set of analytical techniques, of great importance for CH, is instead carried out by using fixed instrumentation. To overcome this limit, the Italian national Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), started MACHINA, the "Movable Accelerator for CH In-situ Non-destructive Analysis: the new generation of accelerators for art” to build a transportable accelerator, compact, with strongly reduced weight, absorbed power and cost. MACHINA will be installed at the OPD and dedicated to CH. It will be moved to major conservation centres and museums, when needed. The INFN-CERN proposal, approved in December 2017, became operative in February 2018. 2018 was dedicated to the acquisition of material/instrumentations, to set up both a dummy accelerator (to test the vacuum system) and a vacuum chamber (to test the source). Due to COVID, in 2020 and 2021 the experimental work was slowed down, but we kept developing the control electronics/software and built the second-generation supporting structure. The HF-RFQ power supplies were integrated in October 2021. At the rise of 2022, after conditioning the cavities, we tested the system and in March 2022 we got the first extracted 2-MeV proton beam. In this paper, we present the structure of the MACHINA system, the approach followed and the main solutions adopted, with a special focus on the control system, and finally the first experimental results. © 2023, The Author(s).
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Background: COVID-19 can provide symptoms outside the respiratory tract and musculoskeletal symptoms. Some viruses can indeed cause arthritis, and the genetic material of these viruses can be found in a joint fluid using PCR assays. With this study, we will conduct an examination using PCR on the joint fluid of COVID-19 patients who have musculoskeletal symptoms, especially arthralgia, during the infection. Methods: This cross-sectional study with a descriptive explanation of synovial fluid in COVID-19 patients was performed from April 1st to July 30th, 2021, with patient data collection conducted centrally at Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital Makassar Synovial fluid was taken from the knee using the sterile procedure in a patient that met the inclusion criteria, such as hospitalized patients who had positive PCR swab results in the nasopharynx for less than 2 weeks and had arthralgia symptoms on April – July 2021. Other musculoskeletal symptoms (e.g., myalgia and fatigue) were noted. About 2 ml sample of synovial fluid was tested using a PCR kit (M BioCov) in the laboratory. The sample shows a positive result when there is an amplification of RDNP with a CT value below 40. Results: 189 patients with 21 participated, 14 subjects were male, and 7 subjects were female. Age range 18-72 years with arthralgia, myalgia, and fatigue symptoms. Only 2 patients had arthralgia, 13 patients had myalgia and arthralgia, 1 patient had fatigue and arthralgia, and 5 patients had all of the symptoms (arthralgia, myalgia, and fatigue). Only 1 patient had direct contact with the COVID-19 patient. PCR test for synovial fluid in all patients showed negative for COVID-19. Conclusion: COVID-19 infection can be manifest in the musculoskeletal system. Detection of COVID-19 virus using a specimen from knee synovial fluid in a patient with musculoskeletal symptoms (arthralgia, myalgia, fatigue) was negative. © 2022, Sanglah General Hospital. All rights reserved.
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The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed supply-chain operations in an unprecedented manner and its effects are particularly visible in the context of traditional arts organisations such as museums. This paper explores how this crisis has boosted a new socialisation of cultural heritage through content digital transformation and new form of museum service co-creation. In fact, museums have suddenly shifted from being temples and custodians of the heritage to becoming virtual arenas where artists, visitors, and cultural intermediaries change their traditional roles. Empowered by digital transformation, consumers may now concretely turn into prosumers by exchanging and co-creating new cultural meanings and new knowledge about the arts. This paper outlines different models of collaboration-based practices in the museum field, providing practitioners with recommendations on how to strategically take advantage of digital transformation and co-creation dynamics to improve access and create new public.
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Objective: The aims of this research is to notice maternal and perinatal outcomeon pregnant women with covid-19 infection at Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital During the Period of April-July 2020. Method: This research is using descriptive method which is by taking data from the pregnant women with covid-19 infection at Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital during the period of April 1st – July 12th 2020. The data covers the age, gestational age, amount of parity, symptoms, pregnancy complication, supportive examination results such asneutrofil score, limfosit, CT-scan Thorax, method of delivery, baby’s APGAR score, covid baby status, maternal death, perinatal death. Results: There are 26 pregnant patients characteristic subjects with covid-19 infection, mostly 20-35 years old, aterm gestational (>37 weeks), multiparity, low educational background, unemployed, mostly with no symptoms, increasing limfositneutrofil ratio rate >3,13. Good maternal outcome, there are no maternal death in this research. Perinatal outcome from 24 babies, 5 babies are confirmed covid-19 positive and all are in good condition. Conclusion: This research concludes good maternal and perinatal outcome. © 2020, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications. All rights reserved.