Quarantine and Its Malcontents

Ebola and quarantine.

The governors of a number of states, including New York and New Jersey, recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning to the United States from regions of the world where they may have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease. We understand their motivation for this policy — to protect the citizens of their states from contracting this often-fatal illness. This approac...

Etymologia: Quarantine

Effect of COVID-19-Induced Home Quarantine on Parental Stress and its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression in Guilanian Children

Introduction: Acute attacks of epidemics, in addition to the physical risk, have serious adverse psychological effects on children due to their lower protective capacity. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the psychological effect of home quarantine caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19) on parental stress and its relationship with anxiety and depression in children. Method: This re...

Quarantine Net: design and application

Lately the world has seen an alarming increase in both the amount of new computer viruses and worms, as well as the speed at which they spread. Dealing with such outbreaks puts a heavy burden on end-users as well as operators of (enterprise) networks. In this paper we present an overview of, as well as operational experiences with Quarantine Net (QNET), a system that has been developed at the U...

petrology and geochemistry of khar-bash (western shahrood) and its relation ship to iron mineralization

منطقه مورد مطالعه در 23 کیلومتری جنوب غرب شهرستاشاهرود قرار دارد که در نقشه 100000/1 شاهرود قرار گرفته است.ناحیه مورد مطالعه در تقسیمات ساختاری ایران بخشی از زون البرز شرقی است . در طی سنوزوئیک این زون به شدت تحت تأثیر فازهای کوهزایی آلپی قرار گرفته و فعالیت های آتشفشانی انوسن در قسمت های غربی آن دیده می شود . از نظر ترکیب سنگ شناسی منطقه مورد مطالعه متنوع و بیشتر شامل سنگ های رسوبی مانند : آ...