The Ballerina

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Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Underserved Populations

Vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to limit the spread of infectious diseases and reduce mortality and morbidity in the United States, especially in underserved populations. African Americans and Latinos are eight times more likely to die than White Non-Hispanic populations of COVID-19-related complications. Although vaccines are currently offered and approved to anyone over 5 years old in the United States, there continues to be vaccine hesitancy in the underserved population. The purpose of this project was to understand vaccine hesitancy in underserved populations to promote vaccine confidence and build trust in patients to the point where they will seek to be vaccinated. The setting for this project was a local health department in an underserved community of East St. Louis, IL that provides both COVID-19 vaccinations and testing free of charge. With the demands of COVID-19, education is important. Providing patients with proper education helps patients understand the disease process and avoid misinformation from unreliable sources. Questionnaires were provided to patients during COVID-19 testing to understand vaccination status, reasons for not being vaccinated, and offered vaccine if applicable. Keywords: COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy, underserved populations, disparities, Racial/Ethnic minoritie

Penggunaan Metode Triangle dan Concentration Count dalam Penelitian Sebaran dan Populasi Gibbon (Hylobatidae)

Stud~eso n wildlife in the nature need methodolog~cala pproaches which can produce precise and accurate data. In accordance with the increasing number of scicnt~stws ho are Interested In study~ngw ildlife in natire, many methods have been developed. This paper discusses the Triangle and Concentration Count methods whlch are appropriate for theobservatton of the wildlife distribution and populatione, specially for the wildlife species which frequently produce sound as a tool of communlcatlon or a spaccngllerr~torial mechan~sm. There are two ways in using those methods 1.e. parallcl and serlcs. Selection of whlch way to hc useddepends on the size of the arca, availability of time and the numl~eorf observers.T h ~ms ethod has been applied in the study of arhorcal prrmates such as Siamang (tfylobarcs.~iidac~hrtRAFFLES). in Way Kamhas Natlonal Park. lampung (1')X-l). Mucllcr'a g~l,hon( I-I. nt~rcllcrM~ AKTIY) InRukit Soeharto Protection 1:orest (1987) and Ilarli-handcd gil~l?oni'Lngkn('1 1, agilis I-'. CUVIIJR) In I'as~rMayang. Jamhi (1990)

On the formation location of Uranus and Neptune as constrained by dynamical and chemical models of comets

The D/H enrichment observed in Saturn's satellite Enceladus is remarkably similar to the values observed in the nearly-isotropic comets. Given the predicted strong variation of D/H with heliocentric distance in the solar nebula, this observation links the primordial source region of the nearly-isotropic comets with the formation location of Enceladus. That is, comets from the nearly-isotropic class were most likely fed into their current reservoir, the Oort cloud, from a source region near the formation location of Enceladus. Dynamical simulations of the formation of the Oort cloud indicate that Uranus and Neptune are, primarily, responsible for the delivery of material into the Oort cloud. In addition, Enceladus formed from material that condensed from the solar nebula near the location at which Saturn captured its gas envelope, most likely at or near Saturn's current location in the solar system. The coupling of these lines of evidence appears to require that Uranus and Neptune were, during the epoch of the formation of the Oort cloud, much closer to the current location of Saturn than they are currently. Such a configuration is consistent with the Nice model of the evolution of the outer solar system. Further measurements of the D/H enrichment in comets, particularly in ecliptic comets, will provide an excellent discriminator among various models of the formation of the outer solar system.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, ApJL accepte