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We also found that the optimal recycler profit increased as the upper limit of the recycling incentive increased, and that optimal supply chain member profits increased when market size D0∈(0,100).Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is an important challenge in developing and emerging countries, where two realities co-exist. On the one hand, their metropolitan cities exhibit an integrated MSW system with a specialized fleet for the collection and landfills for the final disposal, concentrating on environmental initiatives such as municipal recycling programs. On the other hand, their regional cities show an MSW system based on adapted transports for collection and open dumps for final disposal. Besides, they face other environmental problems due to local conditions. This research proposes a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to close the gap between these two realities. In particular, we study the city of Valdivia (Chile), one of the main regional capitals of South America, which shares similarities with other southern regional cities in the Global South. This city disposes 95% of its MSW in open dumps and presents one of the highest environmental pollution rates in Latin America. We analyze the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy performance of six scenarios, seeking a solution for these problems. The results obtained show that a waste-to-energy scenario would generate savings of GHG emission and particulate matter, reaching 11.3% and 21.8%, respectively. Using our LCA approach, we can provide environmental evidence to highlight the importance of improving MSW management in regional cities, closing the gap with MSW management in metropolitan cities, and contributing to national targets such as United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Nationally-Determined Contributions.The virosphere is fascinatingly vast and diverse, but as mandatory intracellular parasites, viral particles must reach the intracellular space to guarantee their species' permanence on the planet. While most known viruses that infect animals explore the endocytic pathway to enter the host cell, a diverse group of ancient viruses that make up the phylum Nucleocytoviricota appear to have evolved to explore new access' routes to the cell's cytoplasm. Giant viruses of amoeba take advantage of the phagocytosis process that these organisms exploit a lot, while phycodnavirus must actively break through a algal cellulose cell wall. The mechanisms of entry into the cell and the viruses themselves are diverse, varying in the steps of adhesion, entry, and uncoating. These are clues left by evolution about how these organisms shaped and were shaped by convoluting with eukaryotes.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), a novel corona virus, causing COVID-19 with Flu-like symptoms is the first alarming pandemic of the third millennium. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to beta coronavirus as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Pandemic COVID-19 owes devastating mortality and destructively exceptional consequences on Socio-Economics life around the world. Therefore, the current review is redirected to the scientific community to owe comprehensive visualization about SARS-CoV-2 to tackle the current pandemic. As systematically shown through the current review, it indexes unmet medical problem of COVID-19 in view of public health and vaccination discovery for the infectious SARS-CoV-2; it is currently under-investigational therapeutic protocols, and next possible vaccines. Furthermore, the review extensively reports the precautionary measures to achieve" COVID-19/Flatten the curve". Selleckchem Bcl 2 inhibitor It is concluded that vaccines formulation within exceptional no time in this pandemic is highly recommended, via following the same protocols of previous pandemics; MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, and excluding some initial steps of vaccination development process.The most common manifestations of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) include fever, cough, dyspnea. Nevertheless, many atypical forms of presentation might be present, delaying a correct diagnosis. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the important complications of COVID-19, occurring in 0.5-7% of cases and in 2.9-23% of ICU patients. The exact mechanisms by which COVID-19 induces AKI in different clinical settings is still a matter of debate. We present the case of a 53-year old woman, without any prior renal pathology, admitted to a Cardiology Department for atypical thoracic pain and oligo-anuria, without respiratory symptoms, who was diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The patient had a significant rise in high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (from 304 ng/L to 889 ng/L in one hour) and mild systolic dysfunction (LVEF 45%), which led to the initial misdiagnosis of an acute myocardial infarction. Blood tests confirmed the diagnosis of acute kidney injury (creatinine 8.8 mg/dL in two different samples). She received hydro-electrolytic rebalancing treatment, with good clinical and biological evolution. To our knowledge this is one of the first reports, that highlights the existence of myocardial injury secondary to acute kidney injury caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection, in a patient without respiratory symptoms.
In this study, we aimed to compare the intensive care unit (ICU) admission rate of hospitalized mild/moderate COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), favipiravir, and HCQ plus favipiravir.

Single center retrospective designed observational study conducted in Ankara City Hospital. Patients who were hospitalized between March 15, 2020 and June 1, 2020 in COVID-19 inpatient clinics with laboratory confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 were included in the study. An inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) for multiple treatment groups approach was used to balance the differences in several variables on admission.

Among 2441 patients hospitalized with diagnosis of COVID-19 during the study period, 824 were eligible for the analysis. Median age of patients was 42 (18-93 years). Among all, 347 (43.2%) of the patients had mild disease, 470 (56.8%) had pneumonia. Propensity scores ranged from 0.1841 to 0.9381 in the HCQ group, from 0.03643 to 0.29885 in the favipiravir group, and from 0.03542 to 0.
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