Covid-19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria

The current Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well-coordinated Covid-19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.     

The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.     

Production of green surfactants: Market prospects

Science has greatly contributed to the advancement of technology and to the innovation of production processes and their applications. Cleaning products have become indispensable in today’s world, as personal and environmental hygiene is important to all societies worldwide. Such products are used in the home, in most work environments and in the industrial sectors. Most of the detergents on the market are synthesised from petrochemical products. However, the interest in reducing the use of products harmful to human health and the environment has led to the search for detergents formulated with natural, biodegradable surfactant components of biological (plant or microbiological) origin or chemically synthesised from natural raw materials usually referred to as green surfactants. This review addresses the different types, properties, and uses of surfactants, with a focus on green surfactants, and describes the current scenario as well as the projections for the future market economy related to the production of the different types of green surfactants marketed in the world.How to cite: Farias CBB, Almeida FCG, Silva IA, et al. Production of green surfactants: Market prospects. Electron J Biotechnol 2021;51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejbt.2021.02.002     

习近平新时代体育强国思想的马克思唯物主义立场及价值引领

运用文献资料法、辩证分析法、逻辑推理法等研究方法，对习近平新时代体育强国思想的马克思唯物主义立场进行了演绎与阐释。研究认为：在马克思唯物主义立场层面，习近平新时代体育强国思想坚持体育强国梦与实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦一脉相承的历史唯物主义立场和普遍联系的辩证唯物主义立场；坚持在体育强国建设进程中遵循问题导向的唯物主义本体论立场；坚持体育强国建设要利用好国际与国内两种资源的唯物主义内外因辩证关系的立场。在新的历史时期，习近平新时代体育强国思想引领着竞技体育、群众体育、体育产业等领域的发展理念和价值，创新与发展了马克思主义哲学的实践结构和理论视角，为开创新时代中国特色社会主义体育事业的新局面提供了坚实的理论基础和实践支持。     

对体育院校新设民族传统体育专业的思考

武术专业更改为民族体育专业后,拓展了专业口径,扩大了知识面,但单科院校在扩大专业口径的同时,切不可丢掉专业的特色和失去专业水准,这是单科院校生存和发展的前提和条件.短时期内,本专业以武术为龙头、为主体的办学方针不可动摇.民族民间体育和传统体育养生两个专业方向,从开课之日起,就得解决师资、器材、场馆等问题.     

谈研究生体育工作的理论与实践

通过对我国研究生体育现状的调查分析，提出了以贯彻实施《全民健身计划纲要》为契机，为研究生开设体育课，组织研究生参加体育俱乐部活动，使研究生体育工作制度化、科学化。     

逆向工程在产品设计中的应用

逆向工程作为一种现代设计方法能迅速地缩短产品设计的时间,增强企业在市场中的竞争力。它在产品设计中的具体步骤有:产品分析,数据采样,数据分析,数据修复,CAD模型重建。     

浅谈现代健身理念

随着社会的发展,人们对健康有了新的认识,健身活动已成为许多人生活的重要组成部分。在人们的健身活动实践中,也不断形成和发展出许多新的理念。仅就全民健身理念,终身体育理念、生物—心理—社会立体健身理念、娱乐健身理念和生态体育理念作一一分析。     

论邺都历史上尚武风习与民族武术文化的融合

以邺都文化为视角 ,论述了自曹操建都邺城以来各朝代在中国武术史上占有重要地位的武事与多民族武术文化的融合及撞击 ,试图廓清当前武术研究中对邺都历史上产生的有影响的武术活动发生地望、时代和人物习武经历所存在的一些问题 ,使之重现邺都武术文化多姿多彩的那段辉煌历史。     

对培育和弘扬民族精神的几点思考

民族精神是一个民族赖以生存和发展的精神支撑。在新的历史条件下 ,正确认识民族精神的特殊意义、内涵 ,探索培育和弘扬民族精神的有效途径对于中华民族的进一步发展不仅必要而且具有现实意义