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The COVID-19 Pandemic necessitates strict lockdowns worldwide to prevent its spread, which has hurt people's lives, including students, on a physical, economic, and emotional level. This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the quality of sleep and the prevalence of insomnia among college students in Chennai. Using a random sampling approach, collegiate students (n=450) are invited to complete Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). Frequencies, unpaired T-test, and the chi-square test were the statistical techniques employed to assess the data. The findings imply that 48% of students experienced poor sleep quality, and 37% reported Subthreshold insomnia during the COVID-19 lockdown. Even though no gender difference was observed regarding the overall sleep quality and insomnia scores, there is a significant association observed between gender with sleep quality;however, those failed to show a significant association with insomnia. Thus, the study concluded that the lockdown has affected sleep quality and led to insomnia among college students. Copyright This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). Published by Oriental Scientific Publishing Company © 2022.
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The road transport sector has a direct effect on fossil energy sources, cost, and consumption. Indeed, it has affected the environmental situation reversely with high carbon dioxide emissions. Due to this negative impact, the transition to electric vehicle (EV) technology must be a mandatory target for governments worldwide. To achieve this objective, many countries have developed various policies to promote EV technology buying or retrofitting. Thanks to the adopted policies, the electric technology market share has been growing. Meanwhile, research studies are involved also in this project by studying the benefit of EV technology low total cost of ownership (TCO) to motivate consumers of its utilization. For that purpose, the present paper aims to review the discussed policies, and methods to boost the diffusion of electric technology as a sustainable and reliable solution to overcome the global energy situation despite the different obstacles, barriers, and the pandemic situation (COVID-19), which has affected the consumer economic and social behavior. © 2022 IEEE.
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Background During public health emergencies, the major efforts of policy makers are directed towards physical and medical consequences, and little is directed towards the psychological impact of these outbreaks. Aim To assess the psychological impact and mental health effects of the current pandemic of Corona virus (COVID 19) on the general population in Jordan. Methodology A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey directed towards the general population in Jordan during the period March 25th to April 2nd, 2020. Mental health effect was measured using the Arabic version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), while the psychological impact was measured using questions from the Arabic version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R). Total number of respondents was 1946. Results The levels of depression, anxiety and stress as measured by DASS-21 questionnaire showed that 13% had severe depression, 10% had severe anxiety, and 6.3% had severe stress. There was more psychological impact compared with mental health effects on the study population, as more than quarter of the sample (26.7%) reported severe psychological impact (score >38). Factors associated with higher psychological impact and mental health effects include younger age group, being female, childless, living in the remote areas, being a bachelor's degree student or graduate, having low monthly income and having physical symptoms in the 14 days prior to the study. Conclusion Findings of this study can inspire health projects at the national level to better deal with these psychological issues in response to the current or any future health emergencies in Jordan. Copyright © 2022 DSR Publishers / The University of Jordan. All Rights Reserved.
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Purpose: This study aims to investigate the technology usage behaviour of the tourists in line with the modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from a survey of 265 tourists using the random sampling technique. Partial least squares-based structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique was used to analyze the data. Findings: The findings revealed that performance expectancy, hedonic motivation and habit significantly influence the behavioural intention of tourists to use information and communication technology (ICT), while effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions do not have a significant influence. However, actual ICT usage behaviour largely depends on the behavioural intention of the tourists, and their habits, while the facilitating conditions do not have any influence in this case. Practical implications: The findings uncover the core factors influencing tourists' actual ICT use behaviour that can assist the concerned stakeholders in designing tourism planning and sales. The study results also offer pathways for the world's tourism industry for a healthy recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality/value: The findings have made robust contributions by extending the existing UTAUT-based literature by adding two new moderators in the relationship between behavioural intention and actual ICT usage behaviour. © 2022, Md Borak Ali, Rahat Tuhin, Md Abdul Alim, Md Rokonuzzaman, Sheikh Matiur Rahman and Md Nuruzzaman.