Lingering Shadows and New Horizons: The Complex Legacy of the COVID-19 Lockdown in Greece by Christos Tsimirikas, Panagiota Tragantzopoulou

“…These findings underscore the complex and enduring effects of social isolation. …”
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COVID-19 Lockdown Unravels the Complex Interplay between Environmental Conditions and Human Activity by Sebastian Raimondo, Barbara Benigni, Manlio De Domenico

“…During the COVID-19 epidemic, draconian countermeasures forbidding nonessential human activities have been adopted in several countries worldwide, providing an unprecedented setup for testing and quantifying the current impact of humankind on climate and for driving potential sustainability policies in the postpandemic era from a perspective of complex systems. In this study, we consider heterogeneous sources of environmental and human activity observables, considered as components of a complex socioenvironmental system, and apply information theory, network science, and Bayesian inference to analyze their structural relations and nonlinear dynamics between January 2019 and August 2020 in northern Italy, i.e., before, during, and after the national lockdown. …”
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Does living close to a petrochemical complex increase the adverse psychological effects of the COVID-19 lockdown? by Paloma Vicens, Luis Heredia, Edgar Bustamante, Yolanda Pérez, José L Domingo, Margarita Torrente

“…The present study aims to analyse the possible differential effects on various psychological outcomes (stress, anxiety, depression and emotional regulation strategies) stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown experienced by individuals living near an important petrochemical complex and subjects living in other areas, nonexposed to the characteristic environmental pollutants emitted by these kinds of complex. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Surface Ozone in the Global Background Atmosphere by Li Yunjia, Ma Jianzhong

“…However, due to the complexity of factors contributing to O3 concentration fluctuations and the limited number of monitoring stations in equatorial regions, the overall causes for this decrease remain uncertain. …”
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Sexual Satisfaction in a Sample of Italian Women during the COVID-19 Lockdown Period by Matilde Buattini, Luca Daminato, Greta Riboli, Mattia Nese, Gianni Brighetti, Daniel Giunti, Rosita Borlimi

“…This study explored the relationships among psychological, relational, and sexual factors and their impact on sexual satisfaction among Italian women during the COVID-19 lockdown. Data were collected via an online survey with 3803 participants. …”
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Methadone use for acute opioid withdrawal in Tshwane shelters during the COVID-19 lockdown by Jo-Marie A. Siemens, Urvisha Bhoora, Michelle Janse van Rensburg

“…It is multifaceted with complex environmental and individual determinants. …”
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Observing air quality in Egypt’s Alexandria port based on the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown by Mona Kaamoush, Mohi El-Sayeh, Mohamed Y. Omar

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Combined Effect of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting and COVID-19 Lockdown on Weight, Dietary and Lifestyle Patterns by Sohrab Amiri, Mohammad Hassan Danish, Reem Al Falasi, Ahmed Alloush, MoezAlIslam Faris, Moien AB Khan

“…This study investigated the impact of Ramadan fasting during the COVID-19 lockdown on perceived weight changes and lifestyle modifications among Muslims globally. …”
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Human activity’s impact on urban vegetation in China during the COVID-19 lockdown: An atypical anthropogenic disturbance by Yujie Li, Shaodong Huang, Panfei Fang, Yuying Liang, Jia Wang

“…Summary: The COVID-19 lockdown led to reduced industrial and transportation emissions in Chinese cities, improving air quality and affecting large-scale vegetation. …”
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Determinants of urban economic resilience: Insights from the COVID-19 lockdown experience in sixteen cities of the global south by Pozhidaev Dmitry

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Longitudinal trajectories of cognitive, functional, and neuropsychiatric decline in Alzheimer’s disease during COVID-19 lockdown in South Korea by Hahyun Lee, Soojin Shin, Gieun Nam, Seyul Kwak, Yoon Soo Cho, Eunji Hwang, Sohee Oh, So Yoon Kim, So Young Yoo, Jun-Young Lee

“…This study highlights the impact of AD severity on cognitive and functional decline, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 lockdown. The mediating role of IADL suggests that maintaining complex daily activities may be crucial in slowing disease progression in AD patients. …”
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What have we learned about positive changes experienced during COVID-19 lockdown? Evidence of the social patterning of change. by Lynn Williams, Lesley Rollins, David Young, Leanne Fleming, Madeleine Grealy, Xanne Janssen, Alison Kirk, Bradley MacDonald, Paul Flowers

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Overall our results highlight the social patterning of positive changes during lockdown in Scotland. These findings begin to illuminate the complexity of the unanticipated effects of national lockdown and will be used to support future intervention development work sharing lessons learned from lockdown to increase positive health change amongst those who may benefit.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures on clinical visits and subjective symptoms in childhood allergic rhinitis induced by house dust mites in Shanghai by Wenjun He, Junyang Li, Lanye Hu, Yabin Hu, Jing Li, Youjin Li

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures provided a valuable opportunity. …”
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Opiniones de alumnos de secundaria y de un docente en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje durante el confinamiento por el COVID-19 by Antonieta Kuz

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The Current State and Development Prospects of the Transport Complex in Ukraine by Piletska Samira T., Lunkina Iryna Yu., Volkov Oleh I.

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The pandemic within a pandemic: mental health and wellbeing of racially Minoritised women experiencing domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK by Ankita Mishra, Jilly Gibson-Miller, Chantelle Wood

“…Method An online cross-sectional survey was used with racially Minoritised women (n = 1202) in the UK during the third national lockdown. Results Results demonstrate complex interplay of psychosocial factors, such as the roles of autonomy, resilience, self-silencing, family functioning, and social support as predictors of mental health and wellbeing during the ‘shadow pandemic’. …”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…Each person is driven by the willingness to satisfy primary needs, and these needs are what brought people to gather together to form a community and, over time, more complex societies. The lockdown in Italy has substantially reset in one go human needs that was unthinkable could be put under discussion before and this true especially for some part of the Italian population. …”

Metal Complexes and Their Potential Therapeutic Role Against COVID-19: Recent Developments in Drug Designing by Kanwal Ashiq, Bushra Naureen, Sana Ashiq

“…In this regard, metal complexes being active antiviral agents and immunity enhancers have great potential against SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Lessons in complexity learned during a Canadian virtual pragmatic trial for prostate cancer survivorship by Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Karen Young, Raima Lohani, Ting Xiong, Tiffane Anandarajan, Denise Ng, Tina Jiao, Caitlin Nunn, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ricardo Rendon, Robert J. Hamilton, Jacqueline Bender, Ian Brown, Andrew Feifer, Geoffrey Gotto, Joseph A. Cafazzo, Quynh Pham

“…Solutions and changes made that carried into the trial included agile development, shifting responsibilities (e.g. tech support, clinic-personalized recruitment strategies), increasing in-person socialization of Ned Clinics after COVID-19 lockdowns, and enhanced documentation.Discussion: Implementing new and complex interventions in a complex adaptive system requires an element of trial and error to find what works best. …”
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Abbreviated health-care services for older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic – A wake-up call for a longer-term plan by Shaileja Yadav, Ashish Goel

“…Measures taken by the Indian government ranged from initial advisories on social distancing and hand hygiene to a full-fledged nationwide lockdown. The lockdown disrupted all the routine health-care activities – right from the suspension of curative outpatient department (OPD) services to preventive immunization and antenatal care services; the entire system has been affected. …”
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