Publications by authors named "Taher A Nofal"

During the past few years, freelancing has grown exponentially due to the pandemic and subsequent economical changes in the world. In fact, in the last ten years, a drastic increase in freelancing has been observed; people quit their jobs to be their own boss. There are various reasons for this: downsizing of employees, not having fun in their jobs, unemployment, part time work to earn more, etc.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

To explore the crossover linkage of the bacterial infections resulting from the viral infection, within the host body, a computational framework is developed. It analyzes the additional pathogenic effect of Streptococcus pneumonia, one of the bacteria that can trigger the super-infection mechanism in the COVID-19 syndrome and the physiological effects of innate immunity for the control or eradication of this bacterial infection. The computational framework, in a novel manner, takes into account the action of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in response to the function of macrophages.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new variant of concern of SARS-CoV2 called Omicron. This variant has biological-functional characteristics such as to make it much faster in the infectious process so as to show an even more intense spread. Although many data are currently incomplete, it is possible to identify, based on the viral biochemical characteristics, a possible therapy consisting of a monoclonal antibody called Sotrovimab.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus has prompted research into new therapeutic solutions that can be used to treat the CoVid-19 syndrome. As part of this research, immunotherapy, first developed against cancer, is offering new therapeutic horizons also against viral infections. CAR technology, with the production of CAR-T cells (adoptive immunotherapy), has shown applicability in the field of HIV viral infections through second generation CAR-T cells implemented with the "CD4CAR" system with a viral fusion inhibitor.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In the present work, we investigated the transmission dynamics of fractional order SARS-CoV-2 mathematical model with the help of Susceptible , Exposed , Infected , Quarantine , and Recovered . The aims of this work is to investigate the stability and optimal control of the concerned mathematical model for both local and global stability by third additive compound matrix approach and we also obtained threshold value by the next generation approach. The author's visualized the desired results graphically.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Nigeria, like most other countries in the world, imposes lockdown as a measure to curtail the spread of COVID-19. But, it is known fact that in some countries the lockdown strategy could bring the desired results while in some the situation could worsen the spread of the virus due to poor management and lack of facilities, palliatives and incentives. To this regard, we feel motivated to develop a new mathematical model that assesses the imposition of the lockdown in Nigeria.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Fractional-order derivative-based modeling is very significant to describe real-world problems with forecasting and analyze the realistic situation of the proposed model. The aim of this work is to predict future trends in the behavior of the COVID-19 epidemic of confirmed cases and deaths in India for October 2020, using the expert modeler model and statistical analysis programs (SPSS version 23 & Eviews version 9). We also generalize a mathematical model based on a fractal fractional operator to investigate the existing outbreak of this disease.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF