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Timnas Brasil melaju ke perempat final usai gasak Tunisia 4-1

Posted on May 31, 2023 by admin

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Timnas Brasil melaju ke perempat final Piala Dunia U-20 2023 setelah melumat Tunisia 4-1 dalam laga 16 besar di Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, Buenos Airos, Argentina pada Kamis dini hari.

Andrey Santos mengemas dua gol untuk Brasil dalam pertandingan itu, gol lainnya masing-masing dicetak oleh Marcos Leonardo dan Matheus Martins. Mahmoud Ghorbel mencetak gol hiburan untuk Tunisia di masa injury time.

Kemenangan tersebut membuat Brasil akan berhadapan tim debutan Piala Dunia U-20, Israel di perempat final, setelah mereka menyingkirkan Uzbekistan pada babak 16 besar, demikian catatan laman resmi FIFA.

Brasil langsung mendapatkan hadiah penalti setelah Savio dilanggar kiper Dries Arfaoui. Marcos Leando manjadi eksekutor dan sukses mengecoh Arfaoui dengan menendang bola ke tengah. Skor menjadi 1-0 pada menit ke-10.

Baca juga: Argentina dan Amerika Serikat lolos ke 16 besar Piala Dunia U-20

Tim Samba menggandakan keunggulan mereka pada menit ke-30. Bermula dari sebuah serangan dari sisi kanan, bola diterima Leandor yang kemudian memberikan umpan ke Santos sebelum melepaskan dari kawalan bek Tunisia dan menendang bola masuk ke gawang Arfaoui. Kedudukan menjadi 2-0.

Brasil harus terpaksa bermain dengan 10 orang setelah Robert Renan mendapatkan kartu merah langsung karena menarik Mohamed Dhaoi.

Tunisia gagal memanfaatkan keunggulan jumlah pemain untuk mencetak gol. Babak pertama berakhir dengan skor 2-0 untuk Brasil.

Brasil mulai sering mendapatkan tekanan oleh Tunisia pada babak kedua, tetapi buruknya penyelesaian akhir masih membuat tim Amerika Selatan itu tetap unggul.

Pada menit ke-90, Brasil justru bisa menambah keunggulan mereka berkat gol Matheus Martins. Gomes memberikan umpan terobosan ke Martins yang menusuk ke kotak penalti sebelum menendang bola dari sudut sempit. Tunisia tertinggal 3-0.

Masih belum puas, Brasil menambah keunggulan mereka menjadi 4-0 pada menit ke-99. Giovane memberikan umpan ke Santos yang kemudian menggiring bola hingga kotak penalti sebelum melepaskan sepakan keras tak terbendung oleh Arfaoui.

Tunisia mencetak gol hiburan menjelang akhir pertandingan. Sebuah kemelut terjadi di depan gawang Brasil, tetapi goal rebound berhasil dicocor masuk ke gawang Kaique Pereira.

Gol tersebut sekaligus mengakhiri pertandingan tersebut. Brasil menang 4-1 atas Tunisia dan berhak melaju ke babak selanjutnya.

Baca juga: Hoaks! FIFA setujui final Piala Dunia U-20 digelar di Jakarta

Pewarta: Hendri Sukma Indrawan
Editor: Roy Rosa Bachtiar
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Does covid-19 affect pregnancies and do the vaccines reduce any risks? – New Scientist

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Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Should Not Be Ruled Out Says Former Head Of China’s CDC – Forbes

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Parin lanjutkan dominasi di pucuk klasemen Junior World Championship

Posted on May 31, 2023 by admin

Jakarta (ANTARA) –

Pegolf Thailand Parin Sarasmut melanjutkan dominasinya pada pucuk klasemen boys overall Mandiri Ciputra Golfpreneur Junior World Championship 2023, pada putaran kedua yang dimainkan di Damai Indah Golf Course, Jakarta, Rabu sore.

Meski tidak mampu mengulangi penampilan gemilangnya pada putaran pertama, namun pegolf 14 tahun itu masih mampu bermain 2 under 70 untuk mempertahankan posisinya di puncak klasemen.

“Hari ini pukulan saya sebenarnya tidak begitu jelek. Tapi putting saya sedikit bermasalah, bahkan dari jarak sekitar 1,8 meter,” kata Parin seperti dikutip dari keterangan tertulis turnamen.

Bermain dari hole 1, Parin baru mampu mencatatkan birdie pada hole ketujuh, untuk dapat menyelesaikan sembilan hole pertamanya dengan catatan 1-under. Ia kemudian mencatatkan dua birdie dan satu bogey di empat hole terakhirnya untuk mengukir skor 70 dari skor total 132.

Saat ini Parin masih menggenggam keunggulan lima stroke dari pesaing terdekat sekaligus kompatriotnya, Kittada Kosalutta, yang juga mengukir skor 2 under 70 melalui empat birdie dan dua bogey. Kittada saat ini berada di posisi kedua dengan skor total 7 under 137.

Sementara itu, wakil tuan rumah Teuku Husein M. Danindra masih berpeluang mengukir kejutan dan memenangi turnamen. Husein yang baru pertama kali mengikuti turnamen tersebut berhasil mencatatkan enam birdie dengan tiga bogey untuk mengoleksi skor 69.

Husein yang mengawali permainan di hole 1, langsung mencatatkan dua birdie secara beruntun di dua hole berikutnya. Ia kemudian mencatatkan birdie ketiga dan keempatnya pada hole 6 dan 8. Sayangnya Husein melakukan dua bogey pada tiga hole terakhir, yang membuatnya harus puas dengan catatan 3-under. Husein pun kini menduduki posisi ketiga dengan selisih tujuh pukulan dari pemuncak klasemen, dan skor total 139.

Pada kategori putri, terjadi perubahan di puncak klasemen pada putaran kedua. Pegolf Indonesia Elaine Widjaja harus merelakan posisinya diambil oleh Chen Xing Tong, dan kini menduduki posisi kedua dengan skor even par 72, dan skor total 142.

Chen Xing Tong sendiri mencatatkan skor 4 under 68, untuk membuatnya mengoleksi skor total 141.

Elaine gagal mendapatkan birdie pada tujuh hole pertamanya, ia bahkan mencatatkan bogey pada hole 8. Meski demikian Elaine mampu bangkit untuk mengukir birdie pada hole 9.

Pegolf yang turut bermain di SEA Games 2023 itu kemudian mencatatkan bogey pada hole 11 dan 15. Namun Elaine mampu mencatatkan birdie pada hole terakhir, untuk menjaga peluangnya meraih gelar juara.

“Awalnya saya merasa kesulitan mengeksekusi pukulan approach, tapi permainan saya masih terbantu oleh chipping saya. Dalam posisi 2-over, saya akhirnya bisa melakukan pukulan approach yang lumayan bagus di hole 17 sehingga bisa memasukkan putt birdie di sana,” kata Elaine.

Baca juga: Max incar posisi 15 besar pada Junior World Championship 2023

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New Study: Even Mild COVID-19 Can Have Long-Term Detrimental Effects on Heart Health – SciTechDaily

Posted on May 31, 2023 by admin

By University of Portsmouth May 29, 2023

A recent study has found that even mild cases of COVID-19 can have lasting negative effects on cardiovascular health.

A groundbreaking study conducted a comparison of arterial stiffness between participants before and after contracting

The study is the first comparison of levels of arterial stiffness before and after a COVID-19 infection, a parameter closely tied to the aging process and performance of our arteries. The lingering effects of a COVID-19 infection, often referred to as long COVID, are connected with a heightened risk of

An international team of scientists was able to do this research using baseline measurements from a group of participants involved in a separate study that began pre-pandemic, also investigating arterial stiffness.

In those who had been diagnosed with mild COVID-19, artery and central cardiovascular function were affected by the disease two to three months after infection. Side effects include stiffer and more dysfunctional arteries that could lead to cardiovascular disease development.

The paper, published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, revealed age and time from COVID infection are associated with increased aging of the arteries.

Co-author, Dr Maria Perissiou from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science, said: “We were surprised to observe such a decline in vascular health, which deteriorated even further with time since COVID-19 infection. Usually, you’d expect inflammation to decrease with time after infection, and for all the physiological functions to go back to normal or a healthy level.

“We can only speculate on what causes this phenomenon without further investigation, but emerging evidence suggests that it stems from COVID-19 triggering the auto-immune process that leads to vasculature deterioration.”

While COVID-19 has been associated with a type of acute heart failure and vascular dysfunction, the long-term consequences of the disease on vascular health still need to be explored.

The study was part of the University of Split’s NormPreven project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, and the team formation was facilitated by EU COST VascAgeNet action.

Participants were monitored between October 2019 and April 2022 in the Laboratory for Vascular Aging at the University of Split School of Medicine.

Most were young, less than 40 years old, and healthy. Only nine percent of the group had high blood pressure, and none had high cholesterol. Two were diabetic, and 78 percent did not smoke. The group was also almost an even split between males (56 percent) and females (44 percent).

Professor Ana Jeroncic from the University of Split, who led the study, said: “Given the number of people infected with COVID-19 worldwide, the fact that infection can have harmful effects on cardiovascular health in young people who had a mild form of the disease warrants close monitoring.

“The question remains as to whether this harmful effect is irreversible or permanent, and if not, for how long it lasts.”

Dr. Perissiou added: “This study, while small, does support the prediction amongst vascular physiologists that we’ll have an increase in cardiovascular disease in the future as a result of COVID-19 infections. But we have to consider what other variables would have contributed to this increase.”

The paper concludes the results have important implications for understanding the long-term cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19 infection and may guide prevention and management strategies for associated vascular disease.

However, it recommends further research is needed to strengthen our understanding of causes and contributing factors.

Reference: “Long-Term Adverse Effects of Mild COVID-19 Disease on Arterial Stiffness, and Systemic and Central Hemodynamics: A Pre-Post Study” by Mario Podrug, Pjero Koren, Edita Dražić Maras, Josip Podrug, Viktor Čulić, Maria Perissiou, Rosa Maria Bruno, Ivana Mudnić, Mladen Boban and Ana Jerončić, 8 March 2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine.
DOI: 10.3390/jcm12062123

The possibility the Covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has told BBC News.
As head of China's Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Prof George Gao played a key role in the pandemic response and efforts to trace its origins.
China's government dismisses any suggestion the disease may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
But Prof Gao is less forthright.
In an interview for the BBC Radio 4 podcast Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin, Prof Gao says: "You can always suspect anything. That's science. Don't rule out anything."
A world-leading virologist and immunologist, Prof Gao is now president of China's International Institute of Vaccine Innovation after retiring from the CDC last year.
In a possible sign that the Chinese government may have taken the lab leak theory more seriously than its official statements suggest, Prof Gao also tells the BBC some kind of formal investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was carried out.
"The government organised something," he says, but adds that it did not involve his own department, the China CDC.
We asked him to clarify whether that meant another branch of government carried out a formal search of the WIV – one of China's top national laboratories, known to have spent years studying coronaviruses.
"Yeah," he replies, "that lab was double-checked by the experts in the field."
It's the first such acknowledgement that some kind of official investigation took place, but while Prof Gao says he has not seen the result, he has "heard" that the lab was given a clean bill of health.
"I think their conclusion is that they are following all the protocols. They haven't found [any] wrongdoing."
The virus that causes Covid, it is almost certain, once came from bats.
But how it got from bats to us is a far more controversial question, and from the start there were two main possibilities.
One is that the virus spread naturally from bats to humans, perhaps via other animals. Many scientists say the weight of evidence suggests that is the most likely scenario.
But other scientists say there is not enough evidence to rule out the main alternative possibility – that the virus infected someone involved in research which was designed to better understand the threat of viruses emerging from nature.
Those two alternatives now find themselves at the heart of a geopolitical stand-off, a swirling mass of conspiracy theories, and one of the most politicised and toxic scientific debates of our time.
In the new BBC podcast we shed light on this difficult, but vitally important, question through interviews with some of the leading scientists from all sides of the debate – as well as on-the-ground reporting, from the streets of Wuhan to the inside of a high-security laboratory in the US.
A Singapore-based scientist, Prof Wang Linfa, was visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), where he is an honorary professor, in January 2020, just as the coronavirus outbreak was taking hold.
He tells the BBC a colleague at the WIV had been worried about the possibility of a lab leak, but that she was able to dismiss it.
Prof Wang is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, and collaborates regularly with Prof Shi Zhengli, a professor with the same speciality at the WIV.
Long-standing friends, they are two of the world's top experts on bat coronaviruses – earning themselves the nicknames Batman and Batwoman.
Prof Wang says Prof Shi told him she "lost sleep for a day or two" because she worried about the possibility that "there's a sample in her lab that she did not know of, but has a virus, contaminated something, and got out".
But he says that she checked her samples and found they contained no evidence of the virus that causes Covid or any other virus close enough to have caused the outbreak.
He also says there's "zero chance" that Prof Shi or anyone in her team was hiding the fact that they had found evidence of a lab leak because they were behaving like nothing happened, including going out for dinner, and planning a karaoke session.
Now-declassified US intelligence suggests that several researchers at the WIV became sick in autumn 2019 with symptoms "consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses".
But Prof Wang tells us that he suggested Prof Shi take blood samples from her team to see if they had Covid antibodies in January 2020. He says she followed his advice and all the tests were negative.
Prof Wang is one of a group of scientists who believe that the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the virus passed to humans in a Wuhan market.
The Huanan Seafood Market – which sold much more than its name suggests, including wild mammals – was connected to many of the early cases, people who worked or shopped there.
Although China has shown a marked lack of transparency, those scientists say there is now enough information, such as the data on those early cases and the environmental sampling in that market, to rule out a lab leak.
In fact, such claims of certainty have been there from the start, most notably in a March 2020 paper which has become one of the most read and most controversial scientific papers of the internet age.
"The Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov-2" was written by some of the most eminent scientists in the field of virology and emerging disease, and it concluded: "We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
It helped to bolster the idea – that quickly became prevalent in much of the media coverage – that the lab leak was a conspiracy theory.
But one of the paper's authors has told the podcast that he now has doubts about the strength of that earlier conclusion.
Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in New York, has long-experience tracking diseases around the world, including in China, where he has built strong contacts.
He was also the scientific adviser on the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion.
Prof Lipkin now says ruling out any lab-based scenario in the paper was putting it too strongly.
While he continues to believe that the market remains the most plausible explanation for where Covid came from, and does not believe the virus was deliberately engineered, he does not feel all laboratory or research scenarios can yet be excluded.
And he volunteers a theory of his own, pointing to another Wuhan laboratory – run by the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control – located just a few hundred metres away from the Huanan Seafood Market.
It was known to be involved in the collection of thousands of blood and faecal samples from wild bats, research that was sometimes done without wearing proper protective equipment, according to Chinese news reports – a clear infection risk.
"The people who work there could have become infected while they're in a cave collecting bats," Prof Lipkin says, adding that he was not aware of the lab and its work when he co-wrote the March 2020 paper.
Prof Lipkin says that further analysis pointing to the Huanan Seafood Market as the origin of the virus – including recent research focused on evidence of raccoon dogs at the market – does not resolve the origin question.
The virus, he says, could have "originated outside of the market and been amplified in the market".
On the surface, Prof Gao's comments about not ruling out a lab leak appear seriously at odds with China's publicly stated position.
Risky even.
"The so-called 'lab leak' is a lie created by anti-China forces. It is politically motivated and has no scientific basis," reads a statement provided by the Chinese embassy in the UK.
But looked at another way, there may be more common ground than it seems.
In its propaganda, the Chinese government has been pushing a strange, unsubstantiated third theory of its own.
The virus, it says, didn't come from the lab or the market but may have been brought into the country on frozen food packaging.
The Chinese government says it rules out both the lab and the market – and Prof Gao's comments could simply be seen as the more scientific version of that position, because he rules out neither. Both are based on that idea of a lack of evidence.
"We really don't know where the virus came from… the question is still open," Prof Gao tells the BBC.
Scientists dispute – sometimes bitterly – whether the question really is still open.
But, outside China at least, there is broad agreement on one thing: China has not done enough to look for evidence or share it.
Though it may seem like a simple question, it's anything but.
Where did Covid come from?
For every life lost, for everyone who's suffered and for those who continue to suffer, the answer matters.
The Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin podcast is available on BBC Sounds.
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Month: May 2023

Timnas Brasil melaju ke perempat final usai gasak Tunisia 4-1

Does covid-19 affect pregnancies and do the vaccines reduce any risks? – New Scientist

Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Should Not Be Ruled Out Says Former Head Of China’s CDC – Forbes

Parin lanjutkan dominasi di pucuk klasemen Junior World Championship

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Semi-Visible Particle Jets: Is Dark Matter Hiding in Plain Sight?

Higgs Boson Unveils New Secrets: Rare Decay Detected at Large Hadron Collider

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