Phase 3 randomized-controlled trials have provided promising results of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, ranging from 50-95% against symptomatic disease as the primary endpoints, resulting in emergency use authorization/listing for several vaccines. However, given the short duration of follow-up during the clinical trials, strict eligibility criteria, emerging variants of concern, and the changing epidemiology of the pandemic, many questions still remain unanswered regarding vaccine performance. Post-introduction vaccine effectiveness evaluations can help to understand the effect on reducing infection and disease when used in real-world conditions. They can also address important questions that were either not studied or were incompletely studied in the trials and that will inform evolving vaccine policy, including assessment of the duration of effectiveness; effectiveness in key subpopulations, such as the very old or immunocompromised; against severe disease and death due to COVID-19; against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, and with different vaccination schedules, such as number of doses and varying dosing intervals. WHO convened an expert panel to develop interim best practice guidance for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness evaluations. We present a summary of the interim guidance, including discussion of different study designs, priority outcomes to evaluate, potential biases, existing surveillance platforms that can be used, and recommendations for reporting results.

The oxidation of benzyl alcohol by dilute nitric acid has been selected for the study as a typical method for the manufacture of industrially important intermediate benzaldehyde. All the reactions have been performed in the absence of any solvent. A catalytic amount of sodium nitrite is essential for the generation of active state of nitrogen. Benzyl nitrite is formed in a substantial amount as an intermediate. The effects of various parameters such as the NaNO 2 loading, nitric acid concentration, temperature, and molar ratio have been investigated. The stoichiometric requirement of nitric acid for benzyl alcohol conversion has also been determined. The probable mechanism for the oxidation of benzyl alcohol using nitric acid is proposed, showing the reversible formation of benzyl nitrite and its irreversible decomposition to benzaldehyde. The mass-transfer resistance has been eliminated for the investigation of kinetics of all the reactions in the consecutive path. The influence of chloro substitution on the oxidation rates of 2-chlorobenzyl, 4-chlorobenzyl, and 2,4-dichlorobenzyl alcohols has been presented.

A recent paper by Moon and Tien describes an improvement to the FastlAS technique of multicomponent adsorption equilibria prediction, originally introduced by the present authors. In this

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