"This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next pandemic' and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social th…
"Pandemics are large-scale epidemics that spread throughout the world. Virologists predict that the next pandemic could occur in the coming years, probably from some form of influenza, with potentially devastating consequences. Vaccinations, if available, and behavioral methods …
The COVID-19 pandemic shook the world into a frenzy of Zoom meetings and online activity. In one month, more people began working from home than at any other point in history. This major shift poses a question: Did the increase in the number of people and extent of work occurrin…
Unitarian Universalist congregations are designed and called to be locations and models of Beloved Community amid a hurting world, so their organizational effectiveness can be described as an act of public theology. But what makes a congregation effective? Furthermore, are there…
The H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) in 2009 was the first opportunity in history toadminister vaccine on a grand scale. In Alberta, Canada public health nurses (PHNs)were the primary administrators of pandemic vaccine through mass immunization clinics.This paper describes what t…
Viruses are ubiquitous, obligate parasites that infect all forms of life. Despite their ubiquity and importance however they are mainly studied only in the contexts where they cause human disease. Most human viruses come from spillover events from other animals, therefore from a…
This study addresses the experience of the taiko drumming community during the COVID-19 crisis, the precedence of the community’s actions during the history of the art, and the implications of the pandemic-era learning experience for the art’s future. In the past year the spread…
This written thesis explains the “how” and “why” of my art practice as it stands in August 2020, as well as to situate my work among other artists and overlapping non-art fields. This practice is presented in in the form of a cookbook memoir titled I love it when you make me cof…
In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impac…
O ano 2020 ficará para sempre registado na história mundial como o ano da propagação da pandemia COVID-19 por todo o mundo. O impacto desta em Portugal foi severa, com claras repercussões no tecido empresarial português e, por sua vez, nas atitudes empreendedoras. Com o presente…
This thesis intends to raise awareness on pandemic threats and encourage facility managers and business stakeholders to integrate pandemic preparedness plans to the corporate models in order to be able to quickly respond to the crisis and keep the business continuing under the i…
When the world goes dark and everything seems to fall apart beneath us, the arts have a way of lighting our path, bringing us back, closer to one another, making us stronger and more resilient for the next time the lights go out. 2020 is the year that the lights went out across …
Nowadays, Value-at-Risk (VaR) models play a crucial role in Financial Markets, being one of the most widely risk management tools used by financial analysts, to estimate market risk. Informally, VaR is a statistic that measures the maximum possible change in value (loss) of a po…
Food insecurity is a phenomenon with vast and deep implications on a college student’s personal and academic experience. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, some college students faced exacerbated food insecurity due to campus closings, fluctuating hours and availability of fo…
This dissertation studies political representation in democratic and autocratic regimes. It asks two questions: first, how can citizens influence politics in some of the least democratic regimes? Second, how do citizens form their expectations of political representation followi…
Global pandemics have become one of the major health crises that happen to society from time to time. Past occurrences, including disasters and pandemics, are events that we learn from and draw upon to better understand current happenings. One way by which we build and understan…
Complex nonlinear dynamical systems are frequently utilized and play a significant role in the study of natural science and many other fields. This thesis studies dynamical systems both theoretically and numerically with the help of machine learning, quantifying uncertainties in…
