One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?

What did we learn today?

W e learnt that the development of the intestinal microbiota (IM) is extremely complex and a giant puzzle to piece together from adults and children in both developing and developed countries, or more experimentally. Each piece may or may not have future consequences for the IM. However, we are now at the end of the beginning of finishing just one microbiological puzzle. Additionally, we have t...

COMPETITIONS Robot Competitions : What Did We Learn ?

Thalidomide retrospective: what did we learn?

The year 1986 was the 25th anniversary of the recognition that thalidomide is a potent human teratogen, and our president, Lewis Holmes, asked me to organize a symposium at our 26th annual meeting to commemorate that event which, disastrous though it was, provided an immense stimulus to the development of teratology. I was able to gather a panel of speakers all of whom were deeply involved in t...

What did we learn from gamma - ray burst 080319 B ?

The optical and gamma-ray observations of GRB 080319B allow us to determine a fairly complete physical picture for this remarkable burst. The data indicate that the prompt optical and gamma-ray photons were produced at the same location but by different radiation processes: synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton, respectively. The burst emission was produced at a distance of 1016.5 cm from th...

COVID-19 Pandemic: What Can the West Learn From the East?

Differences in public health approaches to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could largely explain substantial variations in epidemiological indicators (such as incidence and mortality) between the West and the East. COVID-19 revealed vulnerabilities of most western countries’ healthcare systems in their response to the ongoing public health crisi...

Panel V: What Can We Learn from Other Nations’ Experiences?

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 914 I. A TYPOLOGY OF DYSFUNCTION .......................................................... 916 A. Constitutional Dysfunction .......................................................... 916 B. Political Dysfunction ................................................................... 919 C....