Essays about: "vaccines"

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1. 21. PORTRAYING COVID-19 VACCINES IN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA - A content analysis of the framing of COVID-19 vaccines in Swedish alternative news media

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation

   Author : Wilhelm Golinski; [2022-09-30]
   Keywords : Alternative media; Sweden; framing; anti-systemness; issue attention cycle; quantitative content analysis; Fria Tider; Dagens ETC ETC; SVT; attribution of responsibility; COVID-19; vaccine;

   Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain insights into alternative news media in crisis communication by addressing the news media portrayal of COVID-19 vaccines, inoculation campaigns and the implementation of vaccine mandates by alternative news media outlets in Sweden (Fria Tider and ETC/Dagens ETC). With an exploratory and comparative approach, the study’s overall aim is to investigate how news regarding COVID-19 vaccines (including the vaccines themselves, vaccination campaigns, vaccine passports and mandates) has been portrayed in different Swedish alternative media outlets, and how this compares to traditional mainstream media. READ MORE

3. 22. Political Trust and Covid- 19 Vaccine Hesitancy

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Emma Törnblom; [2022-06-20]
   Keywords : Keywords: political trust; vaccine hesitancy; Covid-19; EU;

   Abstract : As vaccines against Covid-19 are being distributed globally the goal is to limit the impact of the disease by achieving herd immunity, and to accomplish this most people need to get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is a challenge to this goal. READ MORE

4. 23. The importance of databases during pandemics: A study of GISAID during the COVID-19 pandemic

   University essay from KTH/Datavetenskap

   Author : Jesper Önell; Patrik Kinnunen; [2022]
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   Abstract : The GISAID database has swiftly become the world’s largest genome sequence database. As of May 2022, there is currently over 10 million genome sequence submissions to GISAID compared to 25 thousand in early 2020. This paper has the scientific goal in examining how integral the GISAID database has been in the COVID-19 response. READ MORE

5. 24. Patents or Patients? The COVD-19 Pandemic and Intellectual Property Rights

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

   Author : Fatema Noor Jasia; [2022]
   Keywords : Covid-19; Pandemic; Human Rights to Health; Patent Rights; Affordable Medicine; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Worldwide inequality in the circulation of vaccines during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic re-ignited the ever-existing turmoil between rich, developed nations and poor, developing nations on the role of intellectual property (IP) against the fundamental right to health. The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) contribute to making medicinal products and diagnostic supplies more cost effectively for everyone around the world. READ MORE

6. 25. Particle Segmentation In Transmission Electron Microscopy Images

   University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för innovation, design och teknik

   Author : Lisa Svens; [2022]
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   Abstract : When pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs or vaccines there are large amounts of data in the form of images that need to be analysed, and any automation of that process is helpful to reduce time. These analyses could be for example concentration, decomposition, or classification, and essential to all these is high-quality particle localisation and segmentation. READ MORE