29 projects
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#covid19 - History and collective memory in the making on social media
#covid19 - History and collective memory in the making (short title : #covid19) aims at observing, analyzing and understanding the history and collective memory 'in the making' of a global and 'total' event, i.e. the worldwide covid19 crisis. The project will be based on several datasets (see below, the 'source' section) from different social media platform. Among the research questions that will be asked, three of them will be of particular interest: • What is the role of the (non-)memory of previous historical events in the way people respond to this pandemic? • How do people ad...
COVID-19 and the Jurisprudence of Hypotheticals
During the last century, the human race faced several epidemics. Some of them had relatively limited impact on economic, political and social consequences like Ebola, and SARS. Other types of epidemics had major impact on economic, political and social formulation, like 1918 Flu. A question about the impact of COVID-19 is whether will it have limited or major impact on the near future. In December 2019, the COVID-19 starts to spread in the City of Wuhan, China. Scientists were split between two major groups. First, many scientists failed to expect to the widespread of the epidemic beyo...
COVID-19, MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-REgulation (COME-HERE)
Humans are a social species, and their health, life and genetic legacy are threatened by social isolation. Like other animals, humans fare poorly when isolated. The preventive measures to contain the current COVID-19 outbreak limit all forms of physical social contacts to a minimum, more and earlier in some countries than in others. Differences exist also within the same country due to household composition and dwelling location. Social isolation is associated with ill health. In this project we will investigate which factors predict levels of psychological distress and well-being associate...
CRISIS - Correlates of Resilience In the context of Social Isolation in Seniors
In the current COVID-19 crisis, older adults are at particular risk for severe health outcomes and increased mortality. Whereas it is of prime importance to raise public awareness regarding the special risk of older people, and reduced in-person contact is essential to protect vulnerable groups, we have to take into account what effects these measures have on subjective well-being, mental health and further development of older persons. The present research project will tackle the question of how current measures and their communication to the public are experienced by the target group (60...
Construction within a pandemic region, methods and safety measures
The outbreak of COVID-19 has limited many construction activities globally and due to the importance of such activities in civil life, it is necessary to introduce new methodologies and safety measures to be able to pursue those activities under the present circumstances (the quarantine). This study aims to: - Analyze different construction activities including staff behavior under those activities. - Highlight high-risk zones and activities during fieldwork. - Review the used construction protocols during the COVID-19 outbreak (Construction of the recent healthcare facilities). This a...
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Decontaination using Augmented Reality To Ensure Safety Decontamination and cleaning of areas infected with Covid-19 is a significant problem. In particular, how to ensure that operatives correctly clean all areas. This project will build on work from several H2020 and FNR projects to look at how to decontaminate spaces using augmented reality techniques but with a focus on Covid-19. Using visualisation techniques combined with computer vision and other tracking technologies, users will be able to see where the trainees have cleaned, and areas that they have not cleaned. The primary purp...
Detection of CoVID-19 Symptoms and Monitoring using THz Active Sensing Systems
To accelerate the detection and prevent the spread of COVID-19, a possible contactless approach is to use exploit the benefits of miniaturized and distributed active sensors at Terahertz (THz) frequencies. Coughing and shortness of breath can be detected and monitored from a distance using the ultra-high resolution active sensing sensors, some of which are now commercially available with large bandwidth and in a wide frequency range. The sensors can be produced in high volumes at low cost and they are especially suited for healthcare and machine-human interaction. A series of these sen...
Digoxin in COVID-19 combination therapy
Providing Digoxin to be incorporated in clinical trials that test combination of drugs, to to assess the benefits of Digoxin in treating COVID-19.