Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural (individualistic vs. collectivistic) variables in maintaining wellbeing during times of stress an...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome is quickly spreading throughout the world and was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The pathogenic agent is a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that infects pulmonary cells with great effectiveness. In this study...

Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las instituciones de educación superior adoptaron la enseñanza remota de emergencia. En consecuencia, los profesores universitarios tuvieron que buscar herramientas de enseñanza digitales. Sin embargo, el uso de tales sistemas debe basar...

Las organizaciones de marketing y/o gestión de destinos (DMOs) deben gestionar las crisis que afectan a la imagen del destino turístico, y el uso de la comunicación en estos escenarios es crucial. Estudios recientes sugieren que, tras la crisis de COVID-19, la demanda d...

The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of “social distancing” policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic development to estimate jobs’ amenabi...

The yeast Pichia pastoris is a cost-effective and easily scalable system for recombinant protein production. In this work we compared the conformation of the receptor binding domain (RBD) from SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein expressed in P. pastoris and in the well established...

Many countries established strong population lockdowns as a response to the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. While these measures proved efficient in stopping the spreading of the virus, they also introduced collateral effects in the economies of these countries. We report...

Recently published data indicates that high ivermectin (IVM) concentrations suppress in vitro SARS-CoV-2 replication. Nasal IVM spray administration may contribute to attaining high drug concentrations in nasopharyngeal tissue, a primary site of virus entrance/replicati...

La enzima convertidora de angiotensina 2 (ECA2) es un elemento clave del brazo protector del sistema renina-angiotensina (SRA). La ECA2 actúa balanceando las acciones de la angiotensina (Ang) II al generar Ang-(1-7), lo cual resulta en una reducción de la inflamación y ...

We use an approach to assess COVID-19 performance that starts from what we consider is the most likely set of hypotheses about the uncertain evolution of the pandemic, that envisage a sequence of different cycles with unknown duration and magnitude over 18-24 months. Th...