El Derecho frente a la pandemia por COVID-19

Una nueva Revista de Derecho se presenta en esta edición, con muy buenos trabajos de doctrina que abordan aspectos trascendentes en distintas áreas del Derecho. Sin embargo, esta edición se vio también implicada en el hecho de mayor significancia actual: la pandemia por COVID-19

Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: Overview, recent progress, and future perspectives

PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, is a very wide-field, massively multiplexed, optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed over the 1.3 deg field of view. The spectrograph has been designed with 3 arms of blue, red, and near-infrared cameras to simultaneously observe spectra from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure at a resolution of ~1.6-2.7A. An international collaboration is developing this instrument under the initiative of Kavli IPMU. The project is now going into the construction phase aiming at undertaking system integration in 2017-2018 and subsequently carrying out engineering operations in 2018-2019. This article gives an overview of the instrument, current project status and future paths forward.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Proceeding of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 201

Research response to coronavirus disease 2019 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials

Objectives: Researchers worldwide are actively engaging in research activities to search for preventive and therapeutic interventions against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our aim was to describe the planning of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in terms of timing related to the course of the COVID-19 epidemic and research question evaluated. Study Design and Setting: We performed a living mapping of RCTs registered in the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. We systematically search the platform every week for all RCTs evaluating preventive interventions and treatments for COVID-19 and created a publicly available interactive mapping tool at https://covid-nma.com to visualize all trials registered. Results: By August 12, 2020, 1,568 trials for COVID-19 were registered worldwide. Overall, the median ([Q1–Q3]; range) delay between the first case recorded in each country and the first RCT registered was 47 days ([33–67]; 15–163). For the 9 countries with the highest number of trials registered, most trials were registered after the peak of the epidemic (from 100% trials in Italy to 38% in the United States). Most trials evaluated treatments (1,333 trials; 85%); only 223 (14%) evaluated preventive strategies and 12 postacute period intervention. A total of 254 trials were planned to assess different regimens of hydroxychloroquine with an expected sample size of 110,883 patients. Conclusion: This living mapping analysis showed that COVID-19 trials have relatively small sample size with certain redundancy in research questions. Most trials were registered when the first peak of the pandemic has passed

Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, XI, 1924.

Ferrand Gabriel. Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, XI, 1924.. In: Syria. Tome 5 fascicule 3, 1924. p. 263

Le pilote arabe de Vasco de Gama et les instructions nautiques des arabes au XVe siècle

Ferrand Gabriel. Le pilote arabe de Vasco de Gama et les instructions nautiques des arabes au XVe siècle. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 31, n°172, 1922. pp. 289-307

Les instructions nautiques de Sulayman al-Mahri (XVIe siècle)

Ferrand Gabriel. Les instructions nautiques de Sulayman al-Mahri (XVIe siècle). In: Annales de Géographie, t. 32, n°178, 1923. pp. 298-312

L'Origine africaine des Malgaches

Ferrand Gabriel. L'Origine africaine des Malgaches. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, V° Série. Tome 10, 1909. pp. 22-35

Commandant Malinjoud. — Guide de l'interprète en Syrie.

Ferrand Gabriel. Commandant Malinjoud. — Guide de l'interprète en Syrie. . In: Syria. Tome 5 fascicule 2, 1924. pp. 163-164