FROM SARS AND MERS TO COVID-19: A BRIEF SUMMARY AND COMPARISON OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS CAUSED BY THREE HIGHLY PATHOGENIC HUMAN CORONAVIRUSES

From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections caused by three highly pathogenic human coronaviruses

Abstract Within two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human coronaviruses, namely SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.The economic burden and health threats caused by these coronaviruses are extremely dreadful and getting more serious as the increasing number of global infections and attributed deaths of SARS-CoV-2 and ME

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Property, Propriety and Democracy

The redefinition of rights of equality and liberty by radical and deliberative democrats during the last decades of the 20th century resulted in the denial that a consideration of property is integral to political philosophy.Theorizing property as intrinsically political demands a return to Marx but on terms he may not have recognized.I outline Spr

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Remarkable Physical and Thermal Properties of Hydrothermal Carbonized Nanoscale Cellulose Observed from Citric Acid Catalysis and Acetone Rinsing

Citric acid (CA) was used for the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of cellulose nanofiber and found to exert remarkable effects on the chemistry and physical aspects of the product distribution.More specifically, the morphology, yield, elemental and proximate composition, chemical functional groups, thermal properties and surface properties of the

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