Vaccines are an effective tool to reduce the disease burden from infectious diseases on a population, infrastructural, and individual level.Before vaccines can be administered to populations at large, they must go through rigorous testing in the form of clinical trials.While vaccine trials can be used to assess the efficacy of interventions on a lo
Over millennia, death was the origin of great funerary constructions that have come down to us.These constructions aimed at ensuring eternity and perpetuating memory.Funeral art thus appears not in the service of death, but in the service of memory.In the modern age, funerary constructions do not have the dimensions and grandeur they did in ancient
Objective: To assess the extent to which political ideology affects COVID-19 preventive behaviors and related beliefs and attitudes in the U.S.Methods: Two surveys, one using a convenience sample and another using a nationally representative sample, were conducted in September and November 2020, respectively.Multiple regressions compared political
Brushed DC motors and generators (DCMs) are extensively used in various industrial applications, including the automotive industry, where they are critical for electric vehicles (EVs) due to their high torque, power, and efficiency.Despite their advantages, DCMs are prone to premature failure due to sparking between brushes and commutators, which c