Abstract Background The COVID-19 related lockdown and home confinement might have an important impact on the quality of life in enterprise workers. We investigated during epidemic workers who just returned to work, assessed its potential influencing factors a better understanding confinement. Methods This was cross-sectional study conducted Deqing Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Chinese vers...

Recent approaches to quark confinement are reviewed, with an emphasis on their connection to renormalization group (RG) methods. Basic concepts related to confinement are introduced: the string tension, Wilson loops and Polyakov lines, string breaking, string tension scaling laws, centre symmetry breaking and the deconfinement transition at non-zero temperature. Current topics discussed include...

This paper deals with the mathematical modelling of confinement of paralic ecosystems. It is based on the recent paper [FG07] that presents a modelling procedure in order to compute the confinement field of a lagoon. Here, we improve the existing model in order to account for tide oscillations in any kind of geometry such as non-rectangular lagoons with a non-flat bottom. The new model, that re...

Despite a decade of exhortation and self-criticism since the perinatal survey of 19581 two recent publications2 3 reveal serious shortcomings in our maternity services. The next 10 years will see a reduced birth rate and an increased hospital confinement rate, together with widespread use of early discharge schemes. The latter were originally devised as a forced economy to increase total hospit...

A novel plasma confinement concept based on plasma confinement by electromagnetic pressure of circularly polarized electromagnetic fields is proposed. Practical implementation of this concept in a toroidal device is suggested. In this concept the confining field frequency is in the lower range such that the size of the device is much smaller than the vacuum wavelength. Most of the previous radi...

The global pandemic caused by the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory lockdown made university students spend more time at home, changing their daily habits including studying, as a consequence of forced self-confinement. In this article we describe changes observed in connection patterns to institutional learning management system enrolled Spanish online during lockdown. Our results sho...

A cultural approach to therapy assumes that community organization and social ideology can contribute to the genesis and maintenance of mental health problems, and also to their resolution. Cultural systemic therapy applies this insight to all relevant levels of the family-community ecosystem. This is demonstrated by focusing on the treatment of anorexia nervosa in the Israeli kibbutz. We analy...