The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently not under control. We aimed to assess whether there are differences in clinical manifestations between COVID-19 patients from the East (East and South-East Asian countries including China, South Korea, Thailand) West (North American, European, Middle countries, United States, Italy, France, Iran). For this meta-analysis, we searched ...

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a National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, 275 South Russell Street, Purdue University, 47907-2077, West Lafayette, IN, USA b Department of Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Lavras, C.P. 3037, 37200-000, Lavras, MG, Brazil c USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, 275 South Russell Street, Purdue University, 47907-2077, West Lafayette, IN, USA d Department of Soil Sc...

Mali is located in the Sahel region of West Africa, to the south-west of Algeria and north of Burkina Faso and Niger (Figure 1). It has a large area of some 1.24 million square kilometres. The terrain is dominated by flat or rolling sand-capped plains in the north and savannah in the south, although rugged hills occur in the north-east. Elevation varies from the highest point at Hombori Tondo (...

In the year 1966, the first government hospital, Oshakati hospital, was inaugurated in northern South-West Africa. It was constructed by the apartheid regime of South Africa which was occupying the territory. Prior to this inauguration, Finnish missionaries had, for 65 years, provided healthcare to the indigenous people in a number of healthcare facilities of which Onandjokwe hospital was the m...

Chemistry data from 16, 50–115 m deep, sub-annually dated ice cores are used to investigate spatial and temporal concentration variability of sea-salt (ss) SO4 2– and excess (xs) SO4 2– over West Antarctica and the South Pole for the last 200 years. Low-elevation ice-core sites in western West Antarctica contain higher concentrations of SO4 2– as a result of cyclogenesis over the Ross Ice Shelf...

In the classical Projection-based Model for cardinal directions [6], a two-dimensional Euclidean space relative to an arbitrary single-piece region, a, is partitioned into the following nine tiles: North-West, NW(a); North, N(a); North-East, NE(a); West, W(a); Neutral Zone, O(a);East, E(a); South-West, SW(a); South, S(a); and South-East,SE(a). In our Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model [9...