Convex dynamics in Hele-Shaw cells by Dmitri Prokhorov, Alexander Vasil'ev

“…We study geometric properties of a contracting bubble driven by a homogeneous source at infinity and surface tension. …”
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Aerosol-generating otolaryngology procedures and the need for enhanced PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic: a literature review by Paul Mick, Russell Murphy

“…Main body Health care workers in China who performed tracheotomy during the SARS-CoV-1 epidemic had 4.15 times greater odds of contracting the virus than controls who did not perform tracheotomy (95% CI 2.75–7.54). …”
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COVID-19 pandemic: mental health (distress as depression) in orthodontists by Eloisa Peixoto Soares Ueno, Liana Fattori, Edgard Michel-Crosato, Wilze Laura Bruscato, José Rino Neto, João Batista de Paiva

“…Subjective distress was associated with years of practice, monthly income, fear of contracting COVID-19 during dental care, transmitting COVID-19 to patients, and thinking about the future (p < 0.05). …”
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Factors associated with knowledge on the spread of HIV/AIDS among Secondary School Students of Groupe Scolaire De Rugando in Kigali City, Rwanda. by Nwankwo, Chinenye Mercy, Uwizeye, Denyse Sibomana

“…The study findings showed that 78% accepted that HIV is transmitted by engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, 65% accepted that the presence of other sex partners increases the risk of contracting HIV, 69% accepted that regular use of condoms helps to reduce the risk of contracting HIV and 55% accepted that by reducing the number of sexual partners, chances of HIV infection are reduced. …”
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Factors associated with knowledge on the spread of HIV/AIDS among Secondary School Students of Groupe Scolaire De Rugando in Kigali City, Rwanda by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Denyse Sibomana, Uwizeye

“…The study findings, showed that 78% accepted that HIV is transmitted by engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, 65% accepted that risk of contracting HIV is increased by presence of other sex partners, 69% accepted that regular use of condoms helps to reduce the risk of contracting HIV and 55% accepted that by reducing the number of sexual partners, chances of HIV infection are reduced. …”
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The Concentration Function Problem for Locally Compact Groups Revisited: Nondissipating Space-Time Random Walks, -Decomposable Laws, and Their Continuous Time Analogues by Wilfried Hazod

“…Analogous results are obtained in the case of continuous time: nondissipating Lévy processes are related to relatively compact distributions of generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and corresponding space-time processes and to -decomposable laws, respectively with denoting a continuous group of automorphisms acting as contracting mod. a compact subgroup.…”
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF TREATIES IN TIME AND SPACE by Roxana-Mariana POPESCU

“…In principle, a treaty is applied on the territory or with regard to the territory of the contracting parties. There are, however, cases in which the treaty can only be applied to a part of their territory or it can have an „ultra-territorial” application, that is, it is intended to be applied on the territory of third countries.…”
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Prognostic risk factors of pneumonia associated with COVID-19 in patients with lymphoma by Dan Liu, Xia Yin, Hui Wang, Lijie Xing, Ping Li, Haichen Wei, Ji Ma, Qiang He, Linna Xie, Ke Lu, Zengjun Li

“…ObjectivePatients with hematological malignancies have an elevated risk of developing pneumonia after contracting COVID-19. Lymphoma is the most prevalent hematologic malignancy. …”
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Bounding Regions to Plane Steepest Descent Curves of Quasiconvex Families by Marco Longinetti, Paolo Manselli, Adriana Venturi

“…Extensions SDC of minimal length are constructed. Self-contracting sets (with opposite orientation) are considered: necessary and/or sufficient conditions for them to be subsets of SDC are proved.…”
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Le paysagiste et l'écologue : comment obtenir une meilleure collaboration opérationnelle ? by Sylvain Morin, Sébastien Bonthoux, Philippe Clergeau

“…Landscape architects and ecologists should be more recognized by the contracting authority and integrated in local authority services. …”
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Labor Outsourcing in the Steelmaking Industry in Argentina: Companies of Ex-workers in Acindar Villa Constitución and Siderar Ensenada by María Alejandra Esponda, Julia Strada

“…Based on an interdisciplinary social anthropology, political science and political economy approach, this article reflects on the origins, trajectories, structural conditionings, and projections of these contracting businesses.…”
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Joint public procurement in European Union Law by Radomír Jakab

“…EU law allows particular contracting authorities or sector procurers to cooperate within public procurement and procure commodities jointly, i.e. to implement the joint public procurement procedure. …”
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Severe Anxiety Post-COVID-19 Infection by Maggie Driscoll, Jason Gu

“…Most literature found is related to fear/anxiety of contracting and dying from COVID-19. We illustrate a case of a 27-year-old male with no previous psychiatric treatment history or symptomology, who developed severe anxiety with intrusive thoughts of self-harm via firearm after COVID-19 infection. …”
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Quelle prévention des TMS dans l’activité de l’encadrement de proximité en sous-traitance interne ? Un cas dans le secteur de la découpe de viande by Aude Cuny-Guerrier, Sandrine Caroly, Fabien Coutarel, Agnès Aublet-Cuvelier

“…These regulations concerned the management of human resources and the foreman’s participation in production activities. In this sub-contracting context, these regulations focused primarily on greater performance and, at a first glance, only indirectly on the health preservation of the butchers.…”
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A Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol with an Objective Approach by Z. Fuat Toprak, Sertaç Atabey

“…In this study: 1) what obligations the articles of the Kyoto Protocol impose on the countries that are party to the protocol, 2) whether the articles of the protocol are impartial, equal, and fair in their obligations to the contracting countries and their binding, 3) how the economic support of developed countries to reduce emissions to developing countries can be evaluated in the context of the principle of equality/justice, 4) it has been discussed whether the non-bindingness of the countries those are not party to the protocol. …”
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Loan Recovery and Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in Kabale District: A Case Study of Unique SACCO in Kabale Municipality. by Ainembabazi, Ellon

“…Globally, loan recovery is a process involving the procedures the MFI uses to collect its money from debtors and this may take the form of calling clients by telephone, sending reminders letters, contracting collection agencies, and legal actions. …”
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A Torelli theorem for graphs via quasistable divisors by Alex Abreu, Marco Pacini

“…We present a combinatorial version of the Torelli theorem, which demonstrates that the poset of quasistable divisors of a graph completely determines the biconnected components of the graph (up to contracting separating edges). Moreover, we achieve a natural extension of this theorem to tropical curves.…”
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China’s policies: post-COVID-19 challenges for the older population by Xuezhi Wei, Guoqing Han, Quansheng Wang

“…However, given the ongoing prevalence of coronavirus, emerging mutations, and the liberalization of restrictions, there are increased risks of vulnerable people contracting new variants. Low vaccination coverage among older people with compromised immune systems, puts them at further risk. …”
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Besoins de recherche en santé au travail pour les salariés d’entreprises de sous-traitance interne by Michel Hery

“…Several studies of the subject have shown that contracting firm employees are more frequent victims of occupational accidents than their colleagues working for the companies in control of the premises. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…Starting from this theoretical framework, we conduct two case studies: a regional development project for which we provided assistance to the contracting authority and an urban planning project we were in charge of. …”
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