HOW HAS THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC AFFECTED THE RISK BEHAVIORS OF PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS IN A CITY WITH HIGH HARM REDUCTION SERVICE COVERAGE IN VIETNAM? A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION

Abstract Introduction The COVID-19 outbreak disproportionally affects vulnerable populations including people who inject drugs (PWID).Social distancing and stay-at-home orders might result in a lack of access to medical and click here social services, poorer mental health, and financial precariousness, and thus, increases in HIV and HCV risk behavi

Buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) have proven to be a valuable earthquake resisting system.They demonstrated substantial ability in providing structures with ductility and energy dissipation.However, they are prone to exhibit large residual deformations after earthquake loading because of their low post-yield stiffnesses.In this study, the seismic

Lexical Similarity (LS) between two languages uncovers many interesting linguistic insights such as phylogenetic relationship, mutual intelligibility, common etymology, and loan words.There are various methods through which LS is evaluated.This paper presents a method of Phonetic Edit Distance (PED) that uses a soft comparison of letters using the

Localization is one of the most important technologies in wireless sensor networks.A lightweight distributed node localization scheme here is proposed by considering the limited computational capacity of WSNs.The proposed scheme introduces the virtual force model to determine the location by incremental refinement.Aiming at solving the drifting pro

Social interaction and empathy play critical roles in determining the emotional well-being of humans.Stress-related depression and anxiety can be equi-jec 7 exacerbated or mitigated depending on specific social conditions.Although rodents are well known to exhibit emotional contagion and consolation behavior, the effects of group housing on stress-