Browsing by Keywords "COVID-19"
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Correction to: Modelling personal cautiousness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study for Turkey and Italy
(Springer, 2021-06-14)Although policy makers recommend or impose various standard measures, such as social distancing, movement restrictions, wearing face masks and washing hands, against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, individuals follow ... -
Could individuals from countries using BCG vaccination be resistant to SARS-CoV-2 induced infections?
(Turkish Society of Immunology, 2020)The lower than expected number of SARS-CoV-2 cases in countries with fragile health systems is puzzling. Herein, we hypothesize that BCG vaccination policies and vaccine strain preferences adopted by different countries ... -
CoVrimer: a tool for aligning SARS-CoV-2 primer sequences and selection of conserved/degenerate primers
(Academic Press, 2021-07-20)As mutations in SARS-CoV-2 virus accumulate rapidly, novel primers that amplify this virus sensitively and specifically are in demand. We have developed a webserver named CoVrimer by which users can search for and align ... -
Current community transmission and future perspectives on the COVID-19 process
(TÜBİTAK, 2021-03)Background/aim: COVID-19 syndrome due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a currently challenging situation ongoing worldwide. Since the current pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a great concern for everybody in the World, the ... -
Democracies linked to greater universal health coverage compared with autocracies, even in an economic recession
(Project HOPE, 2021-08)Despite widespread recognition that universal health coverage is a political choice, the roles that a country’s political system plays in ensuring essential health services and minimizing financial risk remain poorly ... -
Detecting COVID-19 from respiratory sound recordings with transformers
(S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-04-04)Auscultation is an established technique in clinical assessment of symptoms for respiratory disorders. Auscultation is safe and inexpensive, but requires expertise to diagnose a disease using a stethoscope during hospital ... -
Distress, anxiety, boredom, and their relation to the interior spaces under COVID-19 lockdowns
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022-08-12)Purpose – This research is based on the idea that interior elements leave a wide variety of impressions on their occupants and that some interiors are likely to have more positive impressions than others. These impressions are ... -
Downside risk in Dow Jones Islamic equity indices: Precious metals and portfolio diversification before and after the COVID-19 bear market
(Elsevier, 2021-07-31)Besides great turmoil in financial markets, the COVID-19 pandemic also disrupted the global supply chain, putting the precious metal market into great uncertainty. In this study, we revisit the diversifying role of precious ... -
Emergency remote teaching in Turkey: a systematic literature review
(Bilkent University, 2022-12)The aim of this study is to systematically review the literature on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) during COVID-19 period in Turkey which started on March 23, 2020 and continued until the end of the spring term 2019-2020 ... -
Fair allocation of personal protective equipment to health centers during early phases of a pandemic
(Elsevier, 2022-05)We consider the problem of allocating personal protective equipment, namely surgical and respiratory masks, to health centers under extremely limited supply. We formulate a multi-objective multi-period non-linear resource ... -
A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
(National Academy of Sciences, 2022-05-27)Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This crosscountry, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 ... -
How to weather the storm: a comparative case study on populist trajectorıes to COVID-19 pandemic
(Bilkent University, 2021-07)Why populist leaders have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic differently? This thesis addresses this question through a paired comparison of Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. These three countries, despite being similar, have ... -
Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia
(Springer Nature, 2022-03-24)SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases. The ensuing risk of death (approximately 1% ... -
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on asymmetric multifractality of gold and oil prices
(Elsevier, 2020)This paper examines the impacts of COVID-19 on the multifractality of gold and oil prices based on upward and downward trends. We apply the Asymmetric Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (A-MF-DFA) approach to ... -
Impacts of biophilic design on the development of gerotranscendence and the Profile of Mood States during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-12-16)To live in a good mood is not only a key consideration for future age-friendly communities, but also a critical necessity for positive ageing. Despite growing evidence of correlations between contact with nature and stress ... -
Investigation of cellular and humoral immune responses induced by SARS-CoV-2 VLP vaccine in Pre-clinical and clinical studies
(Bilkent University, 2022-08)COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, emerged in China in late 2019, and as of March 2020 has become a serious concern for the whole world due to severe progression of the disease especially in the elderly and high ... -
Investigation of Pre-clinical and clinical results against SARS-COV-2 wild-type and Alpha variants combination of VLP-58-1023-AL-K3 vaccine
(Bilkent University, 2022-08)The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which first appeared in Wuhan, China and had a pandemic effect at the end of 2019, has urgently created need of suitable vaccine candidates’ development with its quick spread. Scientists in different ... -
Large-scale manufacturing and characterization of a Sars Cov-2 virus-like particle vaccine adsorbed onto alhydrogel and adjuvanted with K3 CpG oligodeoxynucleotide for use in phase 1/2 clinical trials
(Bilkent University, 2022-04-28)Emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has been met by an exceptionally fast response from vaccine makers around the globe. Vaccines that elicit excellent immunological responses against SARS-CoV-2 are now widely utilized. ... -
Mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicles: promising immunomodulators against autoimmune, autoinflammatory disorders and SARS-CoV-2 infection
(Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 2020)Discovery of novel and broad-acting immunomodulators is of critical importance for the prevention and treatment of disorders occurring due to overexuberant immune responseincluding SARS-CoV-2 triggered cytokine storm leading ... -
Message framing effects on individuals' social distancing and helping behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-03-22)This research responds to urgent calls to fill knowledge gaps on COVID-19 (new coronavirus) in communicating social distancing messages to the public in the most convincing ways. The authors explore the effectiveness of ...