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In 2019, a new virus-A novel virus, COVID-19, bought disaster across the globe. The people were in great panic, death tolls crossed millions in number. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a debilitating disease-causing post covid effects too. Many of the cases have not yet recovered from the after effects of the disease. Many of the patients recovered instantaneously without any treatment, whereas many lost their lives. There was a chaos in all the countries across the globe. The patients recovered with the help of proper treatment and were back to their schedule and lifestyle. After, one year from the recovery, few patients started coming up with muscular fatigue, neurological deficits such as tingling in lower limbs, sharp shooting pain travelling throughout the legs. The patient seek treatment for Sciatica or any other nerve suppling the lower limb. The clinical features were misguiding and confused the clinicians. Some diagnosed it as PIVD, few others were confused with compressed and inflamed muscles. The diagnostic tests, including Haematological tests, MRI, CT-Scan, all went in vain.Later, the haematological tests for COVID-19 antibodies and other tests helped in coming up to a conclusion and start with subsequent treatment.This article focuses on the neuropathy and treatment of the same.Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Sudden change in education system from offline to online educating system due to pandemic (Covid 19) had a drastically impact on way of teaching methodologies in school and colleges. Black board teaching is replaced by a online teaching by using of various app or software program like-blackboard, Google meet and zoom etc. It was a new experience for teachers and as well as for student. Instant transformation of in-person teaching to e-learning has increased the academic demand of school student's entails rigorous work (assignments, tests and writing examinations). These academic tasks involve the constant use of the computers;as such students spend most of their times in computer laboratories. Several reasons could be advanced to explain the prevalence of musculoskeletal problems among the school students. Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Background: ASIA syndrome is an entity that incorporates diverse autoimmune conditions after exposure to various adjuvants in vaccines. There is limited literature available regarding development of thyroid disorders after covid 19 vaccination. Aims and Objectives: Retrospective case series of patients diagnosed with thyroid disease within 2 months of covid-19 vaccination. History, examination, relationship with covid infection and vaccination, onset of symptoms, thyroid function tests, TRAb, Anti-TPO, ESR, CRP, Tc99-thyroid scan were recorded for each of the patient. Results: We observed 9 subjects (females 5, males 4;age range 22-63 yrs) with thyrotoxicosis. The onset of symptoms after vaccination ranged from 2 days to 60 days. Six subjects had Graves' disease (GD) while 3 had subacute thyroiditis (SAT). Two subjects had acute onset of thyroid associated opthalmopathy;one patient needed glucocorticoids (GC). All subjects with GD were treated with antithyroid drugs while subjects with SAT were treated with NSAIDS;none required GC. Conclusions: SAT and GD may develop as a manifestation of ASIA syndrome after covid 19 vaccine. Long-term multicentric observational studies are needed to establish the natural history of ASIA syndrome following covid vaccination.
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The proposed research aims at the analysis of spread of coronavirus and factors that contributed significantly in the rise or fall of death rate by correlating it with various social indicators. We will be using data analytics and visualization techniques to get significant insights from data collected from World Health Organization (WHO), John Hopkins University and other data repositories and reputable sources. © 2021 IEEE.
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The conversion of hand-drawn circuit to digital image is very essential for designers to save their rough sketch. Due to COVID-19, the teaching-learning process has become completely virtual. In this scenario, the present work on conversion of hand-drawn circuit to digital circuit is expected to help the faculty and students of engineering circuit branches. The MobileNet SSD architecture is used for detection of resistors, capacitors, inductors and battery in the hand-drawn circuit. Image overlay and skeletonization technique are used to obtain the digital image. In the present work, very few electrical components are considered for modeling;however, the proposed system can be extended (trained) for more number of electrical components and can be deployed in mobile applications with ease. © 2021 IEEE.
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Purpose: High dispositional optimism is often associated with people engaging in behaviour that has adverse effects on their health such as smoking. This study aims to investigate people’s intention to adopt preventive health behaviour by observing the effectiveness of anti-smoking ads during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: Two studies have been carried out, first with a UK sample and second with the US sample. The studies examined the effectiveness of anti-smoking ad (appeal: high fear vs low fear), smoking behaviour elicited perception of vulnerability to COVID-19 and dispositional optimism on lowering people’s urge to smoke. Findings: The study findings revealed a high fear appeal ad is more effective in lowering people’s urge to smoke. However, this association is significantly mediated by perception of vulnerability to COVID-19. Further, high dispositional optimism was found to moderate the effect of the anti-smoking ad on the perception of vulnerability to COVID-19, although a comparatively smaller effect was observed for the UK sample. Finally, high dispositional optimism significantly moderated the mediation of vulnerability to COVID-19 on lower urge to smoke only for the US sample. Originality/value: The study highlights a need for a greater collaborative effort by the public, government, firms in the business of nicotine replacement solutions, socially responsible cigarette and tobacco manufacturing firms and health agencies that may lead to increased preventive health behaviour during the ongoing pandemic. © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.