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       We must consider this coronavirus crisis as a wake-up call to prioritize equity and challenge ourselves to consider how to better serve historically underserved communities, a public health ahli argues. "In the middle of a wabahc, it is easy to overlook health equity," says Darrell Hudson, associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis raih banya kkeuntungan bermain slot Health equity, Hudson says, means that everyone—regardless of their identity, including race/ethnicity, gender, and social class—has the opportunity to reach their maksimal tingkat of health. "Health does not simply mean that people are not sick or have a disease. Health is comprehensive and encompasses so much," Hudson says. "In fact, many patients seeking care do not actually care much about health. How can they when their bandwidths are exhausted? Most people are consumed with day-to-day functioning. "They care about their jobs, providing for their

 Researchers are developing ultraviolet LED lights that can decontaminate surfaces—and potentially air and water—that have come in kontak with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. raih banya kkeuntungan bermain slot As COVID-19 continues to ravage global populations, the world is singularly focused on finding ways to battle the novel coronavirus. "One major application is in medical situations—the disinfection of individual protective equipment, surfaces, floors, within the HVAC systems, etc.," says materials doctoral researcher Christian Zollner, a materials doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose work centers on advancing deep ultraviolet light LED technology for sanitation and purification purposes. He adds that a small pasar already exists for UV-C disinfection products in medical contexts. As a technology, ultraviolet light disinfection has been around for a while. But now in light of the COVID-19 wabahc, attention has turned to the power of ultraviolet

 World War II provided two contradictory lessons, says historian James J. Sheehan: war must be avoided at all costs and democracies must be ready to resist aggression. raih banya kkeuntungan bermain slot Today is the 75th anniversary of "Victory in Europe Day"—the day when people from across the world celebrated the acceptance of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union on May 8, 1945. Sheehan, professor in the humanities and professor of history emeritus at Stanford University, is the author of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Kekinian Europe (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), a history of war and peace in 20th-century Europe. Here, he discusses the difficult challenges the world faced, despite the end of the war in Europe: Q Are there any elements to VE Day that you think have been largely forgotten, overlooked, or misunderstood? A It is important to realize what actu

 Juneteenth is a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, but the day didn't mark the end of Black people's struggle for freedom, a historian argues. This is a guest post by Susanna Lee, an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University whose work focuses largely on the Civil War and Reconstruction: raih banya kkeuntungan bermain slot The arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas, in Juni 1865 put into effect, in the furthest reaches of the Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued two and a half years earlier. On Juni 19, Major General Gordon Granger issued an order declaring a potentially revolutionary change, one that threatened the long tradition of white supremacy in the South. General Orders No. 3 declared: "all slaves are free." Juni 19 is today celebrated as Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day. Freedom had been a long time coming for enslaved people in the Confederacy. As Uni

 Many experts on Lebanese politics believe the massive explosion in the capital city of Beirut was emblematic of ongoing governmental corruption in the country. Kelly Stedem agrees. raih banya kkeuntungan bermain slot Stedem, a PhD candidate in the politics department at Brandeis University, recently defended her dissertation, which argues that political serviss in Lebanon operate on a "clientelistic" pangkalan, meaning that the exchange of goods and serviss from the government are conditional on things like political suport from citizens. The August 4th, 2020 explosion caused more than 190 deaths, 6,500 injuries, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. The source was a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut. Here, Stedem discusses the explosion and what the aftermath could mean for the country's already charged political climate: Q We have all seen the footage of the explosion and images of the aftermath. What is the situation on the ground in Beirut