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The present paper will explore the impacts of the recent pandemic crisis on the Italian Deaf community, as a linguistic minority. Recent research has shown that minorities are suffering much more the effects of the pandemia because their lack of…

This article firstly introduces the Special Feature 'Applying Ecology', addressing the use of ecological information for dealing with conservation and environmental problems in Chile. This is part of a series of special features in Revista Chilena de…

Large, deep, subalpine Lago Maggiore has been regarded as an example of stability and resilience: while changes in zooplankton taxa composition were mainly recorded with introduction of allochthonous fish in the 1950s, eutrophication and…

A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has occurred in Wuhan, Hubei province since Dec. 2019. As of Feb. 10, 2020, more than 40,000 cases had been confirmed, nearly 30,000 cases in Hubei alone, and no inflection point in epidemiology…

Abstract Background Cytokines play important roles in antiviral action. We examined whether polymorphisms of IFN-γ,TNF-α and IL-10 affect the susceptibility to and outcome of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Methods A case-control study was…

Autophagy is a conserved intracellular catabolic pathway that allows cells to maintain homeostasis through the degradation of deleterious components via specialized double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes. During the past decades, it has been…

This article is a result of the research and technological extension work related to the Project entitled 'The use and appropriation of ICTs by family farmers in the Vale do Caí - RS', financed by the edict of MCTI/CNPq, FAPERGS and UNISC, developed…