BACKGROUND: Sedentary behaviour and an insufficient level of physical activity in children are the key factors leading to physically inactive behaviour in adulthood associated with the growing prevalence of mass non-communicable diseases in the population of the Czech Republic.OBJECTIVES: The aim of Dermal Gloves this study was to analyze sedentary
Post-COVID reactivation of latent Bartonella henselae infection: a case report and literature review
Abstract Cat scratch disease (CSD) Top Load Washer is caused by Bartonella henselae (B.henselae) and presents as lymphadenopathy following close contact with cats.However, in context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, clinical manifestations of CSD may vary, posing new challenges for healthcare professionals.Here we describe a case of a 54-year-old m
Toward Energy-Efficiency: Integrating DRL and Ze-RIS for Task Offloading in UAV-MEC Environments
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role within mobile edge computing (MEC) networks in improving communications for ground users during emergency situations.However, sustaining high-quality service for extended periods is challenging because of constraints on battery capacity and computing capabilities of UAVs.To address this issue,
A patient-like swine model of gastrointestinal fibrotic strictures for advancing therapeutics
Abstract Gastrointestinal (GI) strictures are difficult to treat in a variety of disease processes.Currently, there are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs for fibrosis in the GI tract.One of the limitations to developing anti-fibrotic drugs has been the lack of a reproducible, relatively inexpensive, large animal model of fibrosis
Comovement of stock markets after the first COVID wave: a study into five most affected countries
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the contemporaneous movement of the stock market indices of the five most COVID-infected countries, namely, the USA, Brazil, Russia, India and UK after the first wave along with market indices of the three least affected countries, namely, Hong Kong, South Korea and New Zealand during the first wa