Experiences from the international frontlines: An exploration of the perceptions of airport employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aviation industry is one of the sectors that has been heavily impacted by the pandemic. While the major body of literature has focused on passenger experience and behaviour, this study focuses on airport employees instead-their experiences, perceptions, and preferences following the emergence of COVID-19. More than 1000 participants from 4 major airports-Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Singapore Changi Airport, Taipei Taoyuan Airport, and Zurich Airport-representing over 10 different occupations, have provided a variety of sentiments about the airport as an employment ecosystem in the wake of COVID-19.

Airport pandemic response: An assessment of impacts and strategies after one year with COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis for the air transportation industry, affecting millions of aviation users and stakeholders. As the aviation sector has faced disease outbreaks and extreme events before-albeit not at the same scale-and will, in all likelihood, face them again, we provide an assessment in this study that a) gives an overview of the effects of the pandemic, b) categorizes the response mechanisms that were observed, and c) proposes a framework for a coordinated global response to future disease outbreaks. We highlight that of the many lessons, recommendations, and suggestions that emerged during previous outbreaks, few were introduced effectively into civil aviation practices and operations.

Airport user experience unpacked: Conceptualizing its potential in the face of COVID-19.

Given the unprecedented challenges imposed on the aviation industry by the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper proposes a new perspective on airport user experience as a field of study to unlock its potential as a basis for strategic roadmapping. Through an integrative literature review, this study points out a dominant focus, in practice and research, on customer experience and service quality, as opposed to user experience, to help airports gain a competitive edge in an increasingly commoditized industry. The review highlights several issues with this understanding of experience, as users other than passengers, such as employees, working for the airport and its myriad stakeholders, as well as visitors, are largely omitted from study.

[Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis, Horton's arteritis): clinical characteristics and management].

Giant cell arteritis can cause diagnostic difficulties due to its heterogeneous symptomatology. Characteristic ophthalmic and systemic symptoms of Horton's disease are discussed. The clinical course is described on the basis of typical patients, which shows that generic symptoms do not have to coexist.

Aqueous humor concentrations of topically administered caspofungin in rabbits.

Background: The echinocandin caspofungin (CAS) is a novel antifungal drug with fungicidal in vitro activity against all Candida spp., which are the most frequent cause of fungal keratitis. Penetration of CAS through the cornea into the aqueous humor after topical administration was investigated.