Winning the COVID-19 War: McKinsey & Company's Proposed Plan for Action at the Local Level

Proposed pharmacological treatments for COVID-19: previously confirmed drugs

Background:     The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, also called COVID-19, first appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus, which has affected more than 14 million people around the world and caused a high rate of mortality. It is notable that discovering new drugs and vaccines against SARS-CoV2 is time consuming. ...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Winning the war on cancer.

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At the Expense of the Country: Multi-level War Economy in Afghanistan and the Implication for Peace

The Effect of Proposed Drugs in the Treatment of Patients with COVID- 19: A Systematic Review

Background: No proven effective treatment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) currently exist. Different drugs have different effects on patients with Covid-19, and the potential benefits or harms of the proposed drugs for the treatment of this disease need to be discussed more fully. The aim of this study was to systematically review the effectiveness of the proposed drugs in the treatment of p...

the algorithm for solving the inverse numerical range problem

برد عددی ماتریس مربعی a را با w(a) نشان داده و به این صورت تعریف می کنیم w(a)={x8ax:x ?s1} ، که در آن s1 گوی واحد است. در سال 2009، راسل کاردن مساله برد عددی معکوس را به این صورت مطرح کرده است : برای نقطه z?w(a)، بردار x?s1 را به گونه ای می یابیم که z=x*ax، در این پایان نامه ، الگوریتمی برای حل مساله برد عددی معکوس ارانه می دهیم.