Coronavirus disease 2019 after its origin in Wuhan, China, had spread globally and was declared as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020.? The WHO identifies it as a controllable pandemic with the key role existing in precautionary measures to curb the recent global crisis.The current diagnostic methodologies include the rapid antigen test, serol
The role of Neopterin in cardiovascular disease
Inflammation plays a key role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis but also in the pathophysiology of atheromatous plaque disruption and the development of acute coronary syndromes.Neopterin is a marker of inflammation and of immune system activation, it is synthesized by macrophages, that, once activated, release this substance.Ind
Making Food-Systems Policy for Local Interests and Common Good
The unjust distribution of poor health outcomes produced via current United States food systems indicates the need for inclusive and innovative policymaking at the local level.Public health and environmental organizers are seeking to improve food environments from the ground up with locally driven policy initiatives but since 2010 have increasingly
Small Vessel Detection Based on Adaptive Dual-Polarimetric Feature Fusion and Sea–Land Segmentation in SAR Images
Detection of small sea vessels in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has received Kitchen much attention in recent years because the small vessels have weak scattering intensity and few image pixels.The existing detection network structures are not well adapted to small-scale targets, the polarimetric data are not properly utilized, and the sea&