Abstract The Ad26.COV2.S vaccine 1–3 has demonstrated clinical efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19, including the B.1.351 variant that is partially resistant to neutralizing antibodies 1 . However, immunogenicity of this in humans SARS-CoV-2 variants concern remains unclear. Here we report humoral and cellular immune responses from 20 vaccinated individuals COV1001 phase I–IIa trial 2 origina...

A total of 381 fully identified yeast isolates were tested by the germ tube (GT) and Albistrip (Lab M Ltd., Bury, United Kingdom) methods, and the results were compared. As a test system for the identification of Candida albicans, the Albistrip showed two false-positive and two false-negative results, whereas the GT showed seven false-negative and no false-positive results. With the same method...

Freezing the price of Medicare benefits will be more effective than the ill fated copayment A n amendment to our constitution after the 1946 referendum (s51 [xxiiiA]) gave the Australian Government the power to set prices for medical services. 1 This amendment has often been incorrectly interpreted as the power to set doctors' fees. It is frustrating to see old misunderstandings distorting curr...

Until is a notoriously difficult temporal operator as it is both existential and universal at the same time: AUB holds at the current time instant w iff either B holds at w or there exists a time instant w in the future at which B holds and such that A holds in all the time instants between the current one and w. This “ambivalent” nature poses a significant challenge when attempting to give ded...

Abstract We project climate change induced changes in fluvial flood risks for six global warming levels between 1.5 and 4 °C by 2100, focusing on the major river basins of countries. Daily time series precipitation, temperature monthly potential evapotranspiration were generated combining observations, daily reanalysis data projected five CMIP5 GCMs also selected ISI-MIP fast track project. The...

The Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology of India needs the services of its readers who are experienced with publishing. One big rate-limiting step of our publication releasing its bi-monthly issues on time is the process of peer review. In the last 20 years that I have worked my way up the ladder, the darkest secret of delayed volumes has been the indifference of the peer reviewers and inordinat...