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The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic involves physical distancing measures which have the potential to lead to increased social isolation among older adults. Implications of social isolation are potentially wide-ranging including poorer health outcomes, disruption of social interactions and routines, reduced meaningful activity, reduced social and emotional support, loneliness, potential for grief, loss, and trauma responses, limited access to resources, and reduced physicality. Social workers must advocate for the value of social relationships and identify creative ways to enhance the social connections of older adults during pandemic responses or other situations that require physical distancing measures.During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have accounted for over 20% of all infections, adult day care and other congregate sites have closed, and traditional home care agencies are facing staff shortages. In this environment, self-direction of home and community-based services, where the participant can hire their own staff and manage a budget that can be used for a broad range of goods and services including home modifications and assistive devices, is seen as a promising intervention. Using self-direction participants can minimize the number of people who enter their homes and pay close family and friends who were already providing many hours of informal care, and now may be unemployed. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is encouraging this approach. This commentary presents information on how states have responded using the new CMS Toolkit by expanding who can be a paid caregiver, increasing budgets and broadening the kinds of items that can be purchased with budgets to include items like personal protective equipment and supports for telehealth. This Commentary concludes with policy and research questions regarding how the delivery of long-term services and supports (LTSS) may change as the world returns to"normal".The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis has changed dramatically over the last two decades since the development of biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs). Moreover, Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors became available in 2013. JAK inhibitors are low-molecular-weight compounds, which exert anti-rheumatic effects by suppressing the action of JAK, an intracellular tyrosine kinase. Of note, biologics bind to extracellular proteins and block their activity. The availability of JAK inhibitors that are as effective as bDMARDs, despite the completely different route of administration and mode of action, has enabled the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis to enter a new stage. JAK inhibitors are useful in a variety of cases, including patients who inadequately responded to treatment with methotrexate and/or bDMARDs. Oral administration is convenient for patients. Nevertheless, the drugs should be carefully prescribed as they are metabolized in the liver and kidneys. Attention should also be paid to adverse events, such as infections including herpes zoster. It is necessary to understand the characteristics of JAK inhibitors and use these agents judiciously.The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is impacting health globally, whereas older adults are highly susceptible and more likely to have adverse health outcomes. In Bangladesh, the elderly population has been increasing over the past few decades, who often live with poor socioeconomic conditions and inadequate access to healthcare services. These disparities are likely to increase amid COVID-19, which may result in high mortality and morbidity among Bangladeshi older adults. We recommend that multifaceted interventions should be adopted for strengthening social care and health systems approach to ensure wellbeing, promote preventive measures, and facilitate access to healthcare among older adults in Bangladesh. Such multipronged measures would require policy-level commitment and collaborative efforts of health and social care providers and institutions to protect health and wellbeing among this vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic.This paper aims to provide an overview of all aggregate responses of society to support older people to fight the COVID-19 in Vietnam, a country that has done a good process of preventing diseases by limited resources. I introduce a model of social responses that systematizing the activities of government, socio-political organizations, entrepreneurs and private sponsors to older people. The success of Vietnam is remarkable and can be a good lesson for countries (especially those with limited resources) in building effective models in caring for older people in a pandemic.As observed in other infections with a systemic inflammatory response, severe COVID-19 is associated with hypercoagulability and a prothrombotic state. Currently, there is growing evidence that pulmonary embolism and thrombosis contribute to adverse outcomes and increased mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19. The optimal thromboprophylactic regimen for patients with COVID-19 is not known. Whereas pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis is generally recommended for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients, adequate dosing of anticoagulants remains a controversial issue. Therefore, we summarize current evidence from the available literature and, on behalf of the German Society of Angiology (DGA), we aim to provide advice to establish an improved and more uniform strategy for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19.Here, we prepared the novel combined adjuvants, CTB as intra-molecular adjuvant, CpG and aluminum hydroxide (Alum) to strengthen the immunogenicity of clumping factor A221-550 of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). The protein-immunoactive results showed CTB-ClfA221-550 elicited the strong immune responses to serum from mice immunized with CTB and ClfA221-550, respectively. The mice immunized with CTB-ClfA221-550 plus CpG and Alum adjuvant exhibited significantly stronger CD4+ T cell responses for IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4, and IL-17 and displayed the higher proliferation response of splenic lymphocytes than the control groups, in addition, these mice generated the strongest humoral immune response against ClfA221-550 among all groups. Our results also showed CTB-ClfA221-550 plus CpG and Alum adjuvant obviously increased the survival percentage of the mice challenged by S. aureus. These data suggested that the novel combined adjuvants, CTB, CpG, and Alum, significantly enhance the immune responses triggered with ClfA221-550, and could provide a new approach against infection of S. aureus. Abbreviations CTB Cholera Toxin B; CpG Cytosine preceding Guanosine; ODN Oligodeoxynucleotides; Alum Aluminum hydroxide; TRAP Target of RNAIII-activating Protein; TLR9 Toll-like Receptor 9; TMB 3, 3', 5, 5'-tetramethylbenzidine; mAbs Monoclonal Antibodies; OD Optical Densities; S. aureus Staphylococcus aureus; ClfA Clumping factor A; FnBPA Fibronection-binding protein A; IsdB Iron-regulated surface determinant B; SasA Staphylococcus aureus Surface Protein A; GapC Glycer-aldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase-C.It has long been the goal of many gerontological social work scholars to increase the ability and opportunity for people to be engaged in paid and unpaid work throughout the life course. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing and exacerbating the financial insecurity of many older adults. In this paper, we review information related to older workers and how they might be affected by this pandemic and its aftermath, paying particular attention to the most socioeconomically and physically vulnerable older workers. We also offer first-hand experiences from our careers working with and conducting scholarship on older workers, paying particular attention to recent actions by many in the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) network to provide paid sick leave to its low-income, older adult participants. We conclude with implications for social work scholarship and teaching, noting the uptick in technology use among older adults and the disparities that remain, as well as teaching that integrates discussions on the lifelong and cumulative effects of inequalities and marginalization and the need for additional researcher, student, and community collaborations.Fecal microbiota transplantation is now recommended for treating recurrent forms of Clostridioides difficile infection. Recent studies have reported protocols using capsules of either frozen or freeze-dried stool allowing oral administration in in- and out-patient settings. However, a central question remains the viability, engraftment, and efficacy of the microbiome over time during storage life. This study shows that both the freeze-drying and freezing procedures for fecal samples allowed preserving viability, short-chain fatty acids concentration, and anti-Clostridioides difficile properties of microbiota without significant alteration after storage for 12 months. Fecal transplantation with freeze-dried microbiota allowed engraftment of microbiota leading to clearance of Clostridioides difficile infection in a preclinical murine model with a survival rate of 70% versus 53-60% in mice treated with frozen inocula, and 20% in the untreated group. Moreover, the freeze-dried powder can be used to fill oral hard capsules using a very low amount (0.5%) of glidant excipient, allowing oral formulation. Altogether, this study showed that freeze-dried inocula can be used for the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection with long-lasting stability of the fecal microbiota. This formulation facilitates biobanking and allows the use of hard capsules, an essential step to simplify patient access to treatment.The automatic extraction of disease named entity is a challenging research problem that has attracted attention from the biomedical text mining community. Handcrafted feature methods were employed for this task given a little success since they are limited by the scope of the expert. Lately, deep learning-based methods have been employed to solve this issue. However, most architectures used for this task take into consideration long dependencies only. The proposed method is a two-stage deep neural network model. We start by discovering local dependencies and creating high-level features from word embedding inputs using a deep convolutional neural network. Then we identify long dependencies using a bi-directional recurrent neural network. To solve the problem of unbalanced dataset given by the BMEWO tagging schema and to enforce sequence modeling, we developed a new POS-based tagging schema that subdivides the dominant class into smaller more balanced units. The proposed system was trained and tested on NCBI and achieved an [Formula see text]-score of 85.59 outperforming the current state-of-the-art methods. Our research results show the effectiveness of using both long and short dependencies. The results also illustrate the benefits of combining different word embedding techniques and the incorporation of morphological features in this task.Background Phosphorylation of histidine residues plays crucial roles in signaling pathways and cell metabolism in prokaryotes such as bacteria. While evidence has emerged that protein histidine phosphorylation also occurs in more complex organisms, its role in mammalian cells has remained largely uncharted. Thus, it is highly desirable to develop computational tools that are able to identify histidine phosphorylation sites. Selleck GLPG0634 Result Here, we introduce PROSPECT that enables fast and accurate prediction of proteome-wide histidine phosphorylation substrates and sites. Our tool is based on a hybrid method that integrates the outputs of two convolutional neural network (CNN)-based classifiers and a random forest-based classifier. Three features, including the one-of-K coding, enhanced grouped amino acids content (EGAAC) and composition of k-spaced amino acid group pairs (CKSAAGP) encoding, were taken as the input to three classifiers, respectively. Our results show that it is able to accurately predict histidine phosphorylation sites from sequence information.