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School organizations face a lot of changes and challenges under the COVID-19 outbreak. Online digital learning has become the mainstream learning channel during the epidemic. The Ministry of Education actively promotes the digital learning resources of the Adaptive Learning platform. It is necessary to explore the current situation and use intentions of the Adaptive Learning platform for students. Based on the technology acceptance model, this study integrates external variables of learning motivation and computer self-efficacy, as well as perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, to explore the relationship between the relevant variables and use intention of the Adaptive Learning platform. This study employs the questionnaire survey method, and the research objects are middle and senior students in a primary school in Pingtung County. The results indicate that learning motivation and computer self-efficacy have significantly positive influences on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Perceived ease of use has a significantly positive influence on perceived usefulness. Perceived usefulness has a significantly positive influence on use intention of the Adaptive Learning platform. This study provides suggestions for educational organizations and future research.
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The COVID-19 outbreak has an impact on the world. Activities in all walks of life have been suspended to avoid risks to the masses. School organizations are also facing a lot of changes and challenges. Previous studies have not yet discussed the work stress and insecurity of school staffs in response to the increased workload of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purposes of this study are to examine the relationships between work insecurity, work stress, and organizational commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study employed online survey method to collect data from staffs of universities in Kaohsiung and Pingtung and used structural equation modelling to analyse data. The results indicated that male has more work stress than female;the older and the longer the staff have higher organizational commitments;married staffs have higher organizational commitments than unmarried staffs. Work insecurity has significantly positive influences on work stress. Work insecurity and work stress have significantly negative influences on organizational commitment. This study provides suggestions for educational organizations and future research.
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PURPOSE: To predict the risk of developing severe pneumonia among mild novel coronavirus pneumonia (mNCP) patients on admission. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted at three hospitals in Shanghai and Wuhan from January 2020 to February 2020. Real-time polymerasechain-reaction assays were used to detect COVID-19. A total of 529 patients diagnosed with NCP were recruited from three hospitals and classified by four severity types during hospitalization following the standards of the Chinese Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by New Coronavirus Infection (eighth version). Patients were excluded if admitted by ICU on admission (n=92, on a general ward while meeting the condition of severe or critical type on admission (n=25), or there was insufficient clinical information (n=64). In sum, 348 patients with mNCP were finally included, and 68 developed severe pneumonia. RESULTS: mNCP severity prognostic index values were calculated based on multivariate logistic regression: history of diabetes (OR 2.064, 95% CI 1.010-4.683; p=0.043), time from symptom onset to admission ≥7 days (OR 1.945, 95% CI 1.054-3.587; p=0.033), lymphocyte count ≤0.8 (OR 1.816, 95% CI 1.008-3.274; p=0.047), myoglobin ≥90 mg/L (OR 2.496, 95% CI 1.235-5.047; p=0.011), and D-dimer ≥0.5 mg/L (OR 2.740, 95% CI 1.395-5.380; p=0.003). This model showed a c-statistics of 0.747, with sensitivity and specificity 0.764 and 0.644, respectively, under cutoff of 165. CONCLUSION: We designed a clinical predictive tool for risk of severe pneumonia among mNCP patients to provided guidance for medicines. Further studies are required for external validation.