FedericoGarza/covidmx: covidmx: Python API to get information about COVID-19 in México.

Objective To investigate the psychological status of clinical nurses in a class A hospital facing the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), in order to provide effective psychological and social intervention. Methods A total of 867 clinical nurses were randomly selected from the Mianyang Central Hospital. The general information questionnaire, standard self-assessment anxiety scale (SAS) and crisis intervention classification assessment scale (TAF) were used to conduct self-assessment questionnaire survey. Then the data were analyzed by the SPSS22.0 software. Results 38.8% of the nurses had a low risk of infection, 18.0% of them had a medium risk, 29.6% had a medium high risk, and 13.6% had a high risk. The SAS scores of clinical nurses in this hospital were statistically significant different, compared with the Chinese norm value (P<0.05). The difference between TAF score and the degree of crisis response of nursing students in SARS period was statistically significant (P<0.05). The majority of clinical nurses had less crisis response to NCP, with 80.7% of them suffered mild cognitive, emotional and behavioral damage, and only 2.0% suffered severe damage. Analysis of related factors showed that department, self-test risk of infection, length of service had significant influence on SAS and TAF scores of clinical nurses (P<0.05). Conclusion During the period of NCP prevalence, no obvious anxiety and crisis reaction among clinical nurses is found in the third grade hospital. However, the psychological changes of clinical nurses with middle-age, from key epidemic prevention departments and in high risk of self-test infection are more likely to produce anxiety and crisis reaction. Therefore, appropriate and timely psychological intervention should be given. Key words: novel coronavirus pneumonia; clinical nurse; psychological status

This dataset covers 26 leaders in “free” or “partly free” countries, according to Freedom House: Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, UK, and the USA. We captured rhetoric from their leaders that referred to “Covid-19” or other similar keywords from press conferences, speeches and statements, interviews, forums with the public, or parliamentary questions. We standardize the context by focusing on a period starting 10 days before the first death officially attributed to the virus in each country and ending 90 days after the first death. We provide: (1) an Overview table overview.xlsx showing countries, leaders, the dates, and the sources of text; (2) merged_corpus_EN.xlsx that merged all text per country, non-English texts processed with Google Translate Ajax API; (3) a python script showing how we generated predictions of Big Five personality traits using the IBM Watson Personality Insights API; and (4) the predicted personality traits per leader in texts_with_big5.pkl

The use of drugs for treating Covid-19 causes several side effects to patients. Plants can be used as an herb in treating COVID without serious side effects. This study has an objective to observe the relation between trends of information about dates, the reason that caused the trends, as well as its benefit to COVID cases in samples of the study. The samples are Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The inclusive criteria of samples are topic related to dates used on the internet and popularity points of information about date palm. The data are analyzed using Vosviewer software to find out how strong the relevance of certain topics with date palm. The result shows that trends are more robust in Saudi than in Indonesia. The relevance point about dates in Saudi reaches 14 while Indonesia is 8.05. One of the reasons because dates have been consumed by Saudi people since ancient times, while Indonesia later. Another reason is because Saudis are mostly Muslims, while Indonesia consists of multiple religions. The result also shows that COVID cases in Saudi are decreased more than Indonesia.

This research aims to find out the government's digital public relations in conveying information on Covid-19 prevention education in Indonesia. The concept used is 7-Cs public relations communication, consisting of: credibilty, contex, content, clarity, continuity, and consistency, channels, capability of the audinence. Government public relations, digital public relations, roles and PR models. The paradigm in this study is Constructivist. This type of research is qualitatively descriptive. The method used is a case study. Research findings show the Ministry of Communication and Information, as well as the ministry of SOEs carry out the functions and roles of government public relations by providing messages or information to the Indonesian people related to Covid-19. The role of communicator facilitator runs in the case of Covid-19 where actively and synergistally between institutions convey information to the public, the message is not only conveyed but also adapted to the conditions of the community that will receive the message.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new strain that was discovered in 2019 and has not been previously identified in humans. On December 31st 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of cases with pneumonia of unknown origin from Wuhan City, Hubei province of China. The WHO announced in February 2020 that COVID-19 is the official name of the coronavirus diseases. A total of 519,899 confirmed cases with 23,592 deaths linked to this pathogen as on March 27, 2020 have been reported. Due to increasing number of infected people across the continents and huge loss to human life, the WHO has declared the novel COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. A pandemic is defined as the "worldwide spread" of a new disease. Currently, no COVID-19 specific treatments have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA). However, the current treatment options include hydroxychloroquine, tocilizumab, remdesivir, lopinavir-ritonavir (Kaletra®), and nitazoxanide. In recent past, some natural herbal compounds have demonstrated encouraging anti-viral properties. This article attempted to summarize available information on the reported anti-viral activity of some natural products.

Con este estudio se pretende comparar las principales facilidades y obstáculos que enfrentanlas mi pymes exportadoras del Estado de Guanajuato, México y de la Provincia de Limón,Costa Rica.Se intentó identificar si existen similitudes o diferencias entre las facilidades y obstáculos quepresentan las Mi pymes exportadoras del Estado de Guanajuato, México y de la Provincia deLimón, Costa Rica.El estudio va dirigido a todo aquel que exporta o tiene deseos de exportar, ya que les daráherramientas útiles e información para comprender un poco el ámbito de las exportaciones enMéxico y Costa Rica.Se utilizó el método de a entrevista para recabar la información necesaria con una muestra noprobabilística o dirigida por conveniencia.Se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados por indicador:En limón se encuentran micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas mientras que en Guanajuatosolo se encuentran pequeñas y medianas empresas. En Guanajuato y en Limón las empresaspertenecen a los sectores industrial y comercial. Tienen la similitud de que exportan vegetales.Las pymes en el estado de Guanajuato comenzaron sus actividades de exportación tiempoantes que las mipymes de Limón. Las empresas cuentan con capital propio y presentansimilitudes y diferencias en cuanto a retos al exportar, normas de calidad y los mecanismos decontrol de procesos que utilizan.

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. conservative news downplayed the threat of the virus. Perceived risks of COVID-19 are an important factor in influencing citizens' willingness to comply with risk prevention measures. An online survey (N=269) of U.S. residents was conducted March 30 - April 1, 2020. We found that those who used partisan conservative news sources as their primary source of information about the virus were significantly less likely to view it as a threat, compared to those who cited Far Left, Center Left, and Center Right news sources. Politically conservative Far Right news audiences reported significantly lower estimates of their own COVID-19 risk, as well as that of their age group peers, the average person in the U.S., and the average senior citizen in the U.S.

The adoption of organic production has increased dramatically over recent years, especially in less developed countries. However, little information is available about who adopts, the difficulties they face in converting and how these factors vary over time. Using small-scale avocado producers (&lt;15ha) from Michoacán, Mexico as a case study, this paper explores the factors affecting the time-to-adoption of organic production and certification, drawing from five parametric descriptions of the data. These models are implemented using a Bayesian approach and advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The results indicate that additional sources of income, together with membership of producers' associations, higher levels of education and experience of export markets, other than the US, have a positive effect on the adoption decision. Labour requirements and administrative capacity appear to be unimportant, while information sources and the frequency of contact with these sources have a varied, but largely negative effect on the probability of adoption. These findings raise a number of questions about the future of organic production in Mexico and the avocado zone, not least how to overcome credit and information constraints, but more importantly whether aiming for the organic market is a viable production strategy for small-scale producers.

El interés en los Productos Forestales No Maderables (PFNM) ha aumentado con la creciente conciencia sobre la deforestación de los bosques y la necesidad de diversificar e incrementar el valor de los recursos forestales. Los PFNM incluyen productos importantes en la vida diaria de las comunidades locales; además, generan ingresos y empleos complementarios. En el presente trabajo se revisa la información disponible sobre los PFNM en México, con el fin de distinguir tendencias en su producción y contribuir a generar propuestas que incentiven su aprovechamiento sustentable. De acuerdo a fuentes oficiales, en México existen 20 000 especies vegetales, 950 proporcionan PFNM útiles, pero sólo el 10% de esta última cifra se comercializa y está regulada. Actualmente se distinguen siete categorías de PFNM. En el periodo 1985-2003, la producción anual promedio de PFNM fue 135 667 toneladas. La categoría “otros productos” ocupó el primer lugar, seguida por “resinas”, “fibras”, “ceras”, “gomas” y “rizomas”. En dicho periodo, la producción de “resinas” tendió a ser constante, la de “fibras” y “ceras” disminuyó paulatinamente, pero la de “gomas” y “rizomas” se redujo drásticamente. En 2003, el valor total nacional de los PFNM fue $498 098 712 pesos. “Otros productos” y “resinas” aportaron el 68,9% y 22,5% del valor total, respectivamente. En contraste, “tierra de monte” representó 62,3% en volumen, pero apenas 2,6% del valor total. Se concluye que la información oficial sobre PFNM es escasa e incompleta, por lo que es necesario realizar una nueva categorización y desagregar “otros productos”, que incluye numerosos bienes importantes mal estimados, como las plantas medicinales.

Greenhouse Gases and Human Well-Being: China in a Global Perspective

GTOPO30 is a global raster digital elevation model (DEM) providing terrain elevation data with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. For easier distribution, GTOPO30 has been divided into tiles [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds758.0/docs/tiles.gif]. Detailed information on the characteristics of GTOPO30 including the data distribution format, the data sources, production methods, accuracy, and hints for users, is found in the GTOPO30 README [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds758.0/docs/readme.txt] file.\n\n GTOPO30, completed in late 1996, was developed over a three year period through a collaborative effort led by staff at the U.S. Geological Survey's Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS). The following organizations participated by contributing funding or source data: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United Nations Environment Program and Global Resource Information Database (UNEP and GRID), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografica e Informatica (INEGI) of Mexico, the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) of Japan, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research of New Zealand, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

This database is produced as part of the Comparative Research Project on Landscape Restoration for Emissions Reductions, a collaboration between Wageningen University and Research (Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing) and The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), supported by USAID. The aim of this research project is to map and characterize planned, ongoing and finished restoration projects in LAC countries. The database contains detailed project information from 154 restoration projects in LAC. Projects from various initiatives (20x20, GEF, UNFCCC CDM, FIP, and many others) are included in the database. We used project reports and information from websites from the various initiatives to assemble project information for this database. Projects from the following databases were included: •Cerron, J., del Castillo, J., Mathez-Stiefel, S.-L. and Thomas, E. (2017) Lecciones aprendidas de experiencias de restauracion en el Peru. Bioversity, ICRAF, SERFOR. •Mendez-Toribio, M., Martinez-Garza, C., Ceccon, E. and Guariguata, M. R. (2018) La restauracion de ecosistemas terrestres en Mexico. Estado actual, necesidades y oportunidades. Documentos Ocasionales 185. CIFOR. doi: 10.17528/cifor/006853. •Murcia, C. and Guariguata, M. (2014) La restauracion ecologica en Colombia. Tendencias, necesidades y oportunidades. CIFOR.

En este estudio se obtiene informacion para el analisis de la red de valor de los productos organicos en Mexico, fundamentalmente del tejido comercial de exportacion. Se utilizo un primer instrumento de analisis que fue aplicado a 108 productores y/o exportadores con el objetivo de conocer algunos aspectos economicos, y de opinion sobre expectativas del mercado de organicos e intervencion gubernamental. Por otro lado, y para visualizar una opinion de contraste se aplico un segundo instrumento para captar la opinion de investigadores, certificadores, productores, exportadores, funcionarios y estudiantes de carreras de agronomia y afines, respecto a un marco de analisis FODA para la agricultura organica en Mexico. Como resultado se obtienen datos sobre volumenes de ventas, margenes de ganancia, diversificacion de destinos de exportacion, diferencial de precios con respecto a los productos convencionales, etc. Tambien se aprecia la percepcion del mercado por parte de los comerciantes y otros agentes relacionados sobre aspectos relativos a los retos y oportunidades de este sector

Sales for organically grown foods, particularly organic fresh produce are increasing. This study focuses on the characteristics of grocery stores in New Mexico who sell or intend to sell organic foods. The results suggest most grocery stores do not carry organic foods because of the low availability and perceived consumer demand. However, stores that sell organic foods reported consumer demand prompted them to carry organic foods. The results can provide information for grocery stores to further understand problems and benefits associated with adopting organic foods.

This PhD research utilises, for the first time, sedimentary evidence for mid to late Quaternary environmental change in the Tequixquiac region of Central-eastern Mexico. This project has logged over 50 stratigraphic sections and geochemically analysed a 55 m lithostratigraphic sequence for multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental information. The main research objective was to develop a spatial and temporal Palaeogeographic and Palaeoenvironmental model for the study area the covered the late Pleistocene to early Holocene. The findings of the study, based on the analysis of sedimentology, micromorphology, stable isotopes δ18Ocarbonate and δ13CDIC as well as ICP-OES sediment and tephra geochemistry, LOI, AMS radiocarbon, 40Ar/39Ar and Uranium-series dating has allowed a chronologically constrained paleoenvironmental and palaeogeographic reconstruction of the study area. The results of the study suggest that the Tequixquiac Basin has undergone a significant hydrological change from perennial lacustrine to ephemeral fluvial conditions between MIS15 – MIS 1 controlled by a combination of; climatic fluctuations, expressed as depositional cyclicity driven by precessional fluctuations to insolation levels. On shorter time-scales, changes in the mean position of the ITCZ related to SST, latitudinal gradients, atmospheric surface pressure gradients, the extent of Northern Hemisphere land and sea ice cover, and oceanic circulation patterns. Fluctuations in the TOC content of sediments are thought to be related to El Nino-like (dry) and La Nina-like (wet) events. While climate is thought to have been critical to the development the Quaternary localised uplift, deformation and normal faulting have also influenced palaeohydrology and water-table elevation during the recorded depositional period (Figs 8.15 d & 8.16 d).