Overtourism in Cox's Bazar in the Pre, During and Post COVID-19 Period

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, overtourism was one of the most buzzing terms in many of the world's popular tourism destinations. Overtourism was featured as a problem for decades, and evidently, protests of the residents against the visitors were common. Simultaneously, the tourists reported frustrating holiday experiences owing to overcrowding, longer queues, and socio-environmental degradation of the destinations. Cox's Bazar that is Bangladesh's one of the most popular tourist destinations during the peak season, is not an exception. Thus, this research aims to figure out the causes and repercussions of overtourism in Cox's Bazar before COVID-19. The study then analyses the overall scenario of overtourism in Cox's Bazar during and after the post-COVID-19. This study is carried out relying on both primary and secondary data sources. Besides in-depth interviews of the locals, tourists, industry stakeholders, journal articles, organizational and government publications, website materials, and other sources are used as sources of data and information generation for pre, after, and post COVID-19 overtourism scenario in Cox's Bazar. Based on findings, the chapter suggests guidelines to monitor and mitigate the detrimental influences of overtourism in Cox's Bazar. As expected, this study can support tourism destinations to tackle possible issues generated from overtourism and guide the authorities for the more beneficial tourism industry. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021.

Tell Me About It: Adolescent Self-Disclosure with an Online Robot for Mental Health

Self-disclosure to a social robot is a mental health intervention that can decrease stress for adolescents. Online digital robots provide the potential to scale this intervention especially in COVID-19 social distancing situations. However, self-disclosure interactions with digital social robots remain relatively unexplored. We conducted two online self-disclosure studies with adolescents (13-19 years old): our Active Listening Study compared experiences sharing positive, negative, and neutral feelings with a social robot, while our Journaling Study explored differences in sharing stressors by speaking with and without a social robot and by writing. We found that positive prompt tone improved mood while neutral prompt decreased stress, and less negative attitudes toward robots correlate with more qualitatively positive experiences with robot interactions.We also found robot disclosure interactions hold promising potential as a preferred method of self-disclosure over solo speaking, moderated by negative attitudes toward robots. This paper outlines limitations and future work from these studies. © 2023 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.

The Malaysian Higher Education Students' Perceptions and Acceptance Toward Mobile Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the era of pandemic, almost all educational institutions had to undergo education via the Internet instead of face-to-face teaching approach. Thus, the use of mobile devices application is becoming more significant and prevalent among students at higher education institutions (HEIs) during the pandemic. Furthermore, many universities currently use their smartphones and download the mobile applications for their studies. Therefore, the survey study aimed to investigate the university students' perceptions and acceptance toward mobile learning (M-learning) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study employed a quantitative method, and an online survey was conducted to the university students in the higher educational institutions in Malaysia. For this study, an online questionnaire was distributed to the respondents. A total of 276 university students from selected public and private universities were take part and responded to the online questionnaires. The study concluded that Malaysian university students have positive perceptions and acceptance toward mobile learning. Additionally, the results also indicates that mobile devices aided university students in their learning process, primarily at home, during the pandemic. In conclusion, M-learning has the possibility to be a very effective instructional tool in a virtual learning environment. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Factors Associated with Healthy Life Expectancy: An Ecological Analysis of Global Data

Healthy life expectancy (HALE) measures the quality of life a person expects to live. This study aims to find out the most associated factors of HALE at birth globally. The data of 212 countries came from the World Health Organization, Worldometer, World Bank, and United Nations. HALE at birth is considered as the dependent variable;and social, economic, and health factors are considered as the predictors. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression models were used as the statistical tools to reach the objective. The results revealed that HALE is found lower in Central African Republic and higher in Singapore. The highest death rate due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19), alcohol consumption rate, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rate, and average household size are found in Nicaragua, Moldova Republic, Eswatini, and Senegal, respectively. And the lowest recovery rate from COVID 19, and universal health coverage (UHC) service index are found in Tajikistan, and Montserrat, respectively. The recovery rate from COVID 19, UHC service index, gross domestic product (GDP), current health expenditure, tuberculosis (TB) incidence, tobacco smoking, HIV prevalence rate and average household size were significantly correlated with the HALE at birth. The multiple linear regression models identified that the UHC service index, alcohol consumption rate, HIV prevalence rate and average household size are the most associate factors of HALE at birth globally. Therefore, the necessary steps should be taken to maximize the UHC service index, and to minimize the alcohol consumption rate, HIV prevalence rate and average household size for increasing the HALE at birth in the world.

COVID-19 OUTBREAK AND ROLE OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PAKISTAN

The current research aimed to find out the effect of tourism development on economic growth in Pakistan for the period (1995 to 2017) by using Canonical Regression Analysis (CCR) and Dynamic Least Square (DOLS) method. In addition, a unit root test is used to find out the static nature of the variables, and for the robust check, the authors utilize the Fully Modified Least Square (FMOLS) method. The results of the CCR and DOLS shows the key role of tourism development on growth, and FMOLS confirms these findings. In addition, the contribution of financial development is insignificant and positive. However, inflation harms economic growth, which depicts that the government of Pakistan will face severe challenges to achieve the targeted level of growth in future. In addition, an outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) is another challenge that will cause a significant decline in tourism receipts. © 2021 by MIP.

Maternal and Fetal Outcome of Pregnancy with COVID-19 in A Tertiary Level Hospital, Bangladesh

Introduction: Pregnant women have long been recognized as a vulnerable population during infectious disease pandemics due to physiological changes in the immune, pulmonary, cardiac and coagulation systems. It is essential to acquire knowledge of pregnancy outcomes, potential complications and neonatal health conditions born to an infected mother with COVID-19. Material and methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted in Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Jashore from June 2020 to July 2021 among 100 hospitalized laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 positive pregnant women, patients who had clinical symptoms of COVID but RT PCR negative were excluded. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical profile and maternal and fetal outcome of pregnancy. Relevant data were recorded in a preformed data collection sheet and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Results: Among 100 COVID-19 positive hospitalized pregnant women, the mean age of participants was 27years (range 19-40 years), Maximum infection rate observed during 12 to 28 weeks of gestation among the participants, 21% got infected at 37 to 40 weeks of gestation and 20% got infected at 32 to 36 weeks. Seventy-four percent patients underwent delivery during the study & 23% of them continued with ongoing pregnancy;67 of the participants underwent LUCS and 7 vaginal deliveries were done, 3% had abortion and IUFD 1%,61% were multipara and 39% were Primipara, associated co-morbidities were subclinical hypothyroidism(15%), pregnancy induced HTN(12%) and GDM(8%);36% participants were asymptomatic and 44% had mild symptoms, rate of LUCS was higher than (90.64%) vaginal delivery. Among the 73 live births, 80.82% were term and 10.18% were preterm of neonates, small for gestational was seen in the case of 20.55% neonates. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 was performed in all neonatal throat swabs and found positive in one case only. Eighty-six percent neonates were well-baby and 9.58% neonates required NICU admission. There were 2 neonatal deaths due to severe prematurity and 2 babies were found to have congenital cardiac anomaly and cleft lip, cleft palate. Though 36% of patients were asymptomatic but 10% were severe and in the critical stage. HDU support needed for 8% of patients and ICU support for 6%. Conclusion: This cross-sectional study supports that pregnant women with COVID-19 infection are at increased risk of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes and a low risk of congenital transmission. Availability of ICU in critical conditions is needed for better pregnancy outcomes. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons is the property of Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance: application of protection motivation theory

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and the travellers' behaviour towards travel risk is an emerging issue. Nonetheless, the travellers' perceived COVID-19 impacts, travel risk perception, health and safety perception and travel avoidance concerning protection motivation theory is unnoticed. Following the protection motivation theory, the current study investigates the direct and indirect relationships between perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance. Moreover, the travellers' cognitive perceptions of risk may vary with their demographic characteristics;therefore, the present study aims to test the differences in group-specific parameter estimates using a multi-group analysis. Design/methodology/approach The authors approached travellers from Tianjin, China using different communication services, including WeChat and email, through a snowball sampling technique. The study used 553 valid questionnaires for analysis. Findings The results of 553 questionnaires in structural equation modelling (SEM) with AMOS 21 indicated that travellers' perceived Covid-19 impacts positively correlate with travel avoidance. The study model based on protection motivation theory specifies that travel risk perception and health and safety perception as a cognitive mediating process partially mediated the relationship between perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance. The findings specified that during COVID-19, travellers assessed the severity of travel risks and adopted preventive measures which influenced their travel behaviour and led to travel avoidance. The multi-group analysis results indicated no difference in perception for gender and education;however, concerning age, the significant nested p-value specifies a difference in perception. Practical implications The study offers implications for policymakers and the tourism industry to understand the travellers' perceptions of travel during the pandemic and ensure health and safety measures to encourage travelling and reviving the tourism industry. Originality/value The application of protection motivation theory to analyse the travellers' perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance in the presence of travel risk perception and health and safety perceptions as a cognitive mediating process is novel.

Vaca Muerta: An emerging shale petroleum reservoir

Argentina is ranked second globally in terms of technically recoverable shale gas, and fourth in shale oil (EIA 2015). The most prolific shale is the Vaca Muerta formation. The objective of this paper is to present geological and reservoir characterization, drilling and production strategies, as well as historical performance and economics of Vaca Muerta. The word petroleum as used in this paper includes oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. This paper describes natural fractures and their impact on hydrocarbon productivity. The successful commercial production from this unconventional resource has been driven by many factors, including regional geology, availability of advanced technology such as horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, as well as domestic and regional hydrocarbon demand (Sierra 2016). Vaca Muerta itself is very unique with multiple hydrocarbon windows from east to west, ranging from dry gas to wet gas, to light oil and black oil. The productivity of Vaca Muerta is benchmarked to some of the best US shale plays such as the Eagle Ford and the Marcellus. Vaca Muerta contains 1202 Tcf of risked gas in-place and 270 billion barrels of risked oil in-place. It is estimated that 308 Tcf and 16 billion barrels of these resources are technically recoverable (EIA 2015). To date, the total number of horizontal wells exceeds 600, mostly drilled in the black oil window (Secretaria de Energia de Argentina 2020;Wood Mackenzie 2020b). Dubbed the ‘golden goose’ of Argentina, the last decade has seen rapid exploration and development activities. The Argentina state oil company (YPF) leads the development in this region together with its partners. In 2019, production from Vaca Muerta reached 90,000 bbl/d of oil and 1180 MMcf/d of gas, contributing 21% of Argentina's total production (Secretaria de Energia de Argentina 2020;Wood Mackenzie 2020b). YPF predicted these rates would increase by 150% in 2022 (Rassenfoss 2018). Part of this increase will be contributed by La Amarga Chica block, where YPF and its partner, PETRONAS approved their 30-year master development plan in late 2018 to deliver 54,000 boe/d by 2022 (Zborowski 2019). This production increase has obviously been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The novelty of this paper is integration of geological and reservoir characterization, drilling and production strategies, as well as historical performance and economics of Vaca Muerta. It is concluded that oil and gas potential in the Vaca Muerta shale is significant and rivals the potential of some of the shales widely developed in the Unites States and Canada. © 2021, Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Environmental surface sampling of SARS-CoV-2 in selected hospitals in Malaysia.

COVID-19 has spread rapidly worldwide. The role of fomites in facilitating onward transmission is plausible. This study aimed to determine the presence of viable virus and its persistence on the surfaces of fomites in wards treating COVID-19 patients in Malaysia. This study was conducted in two stages. First, environmental sampling was performed on random days in the intensive care unit (ICU) and general wards. Then, in the second stage, samples were collected serially on alternate days for 7 days in two selected general wards. In Stage 1, a total of 104 samples were collected from the surfaces of highly touched and used areas by patients and healthcare workers. Only three samples were tested positive for SARS-COV-2. In Stage 2, three surface samples were detected positive, but no persistence of the virus was observed. However, none of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA was viable through tissue culture. Overall, the environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 was low in this hospital setting. Hospitals' strict infection control and the compliance of patients with wearing masks may have played a role in these findings, suggesting adherence to those measures to reduce occupational exposure of COVID-19 in hospital settings.

An application of TAM model towards influencing online purchase intention during Covid-19 pandemic for fresh agricultural products: A preliminary findings

Online shopping was one of the essential services allowed to continue their operation by the federal government during the 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan), commonly referred to as the MCO. In response to the MCO order, numbers of consumers who purchased their daily necessity through online increased tremendously. However, Malaysian consumer prefer to buy fresh agricultural product at physical stores and it will affect the initiative of the federal government to slow down the spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia. In the online purchasing intention for fresh agricultural products among Malaysia consumers' literature, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use attitude are under researched. Therefore, this study investigated TAM model as a framework to analyse factors influencing online purchase intention during the Covid-19 pandemic for fresh agricultural products. This study employs a quantitative research design and questionnaire was distributed by using electronic survey or e-survey via Google Form among Malaysian internet users in Peninsula Malaysia. Sample were consumers who had some experienced in purchasing fresh agricultural products through online during the Covid-19. Respondents were selected using convenience sampling. SmartPLS software version 3.0 were used to analyzed the data. The findings revealed perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and attitude are three factors that influenced online purchased intention for fresh agricultural products during Covid-19 Pandemic. Therefore, the overall findings can help the online grocers to understand factors that forming consumer attitudes and soon developing intention to purchase fresh agricultural products via online. © 2021 Author(s).

Development of Smart e-Health System for Covid-19 Pandemic

This paper presents development of smart e-health system for Covid-19 pandemic. It is a smart Telemedicine system where patient can consult with doctors staying at home. Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Django Channel, Bootstrap4 are used for the web part of the system. Tested video calling APIs Opentok, Twillo, WebRTC. Real-time online Doctor-Patient interaction and prescription are the main features. Increasing popularity of online systems and to avoid time waste, distance people will easily take advantage of this it. The doctors are specialized and highly professional in their field. Website has also blog, shop site where doctor post different health issue to make awareness among the society and patient can buy their medicine as well.

Loss of New Ideas: Potentially Long-lasting Effects of the Pandemic on Scientists (preprint)

Extensive research has documented the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists, yet it remains unclear if and how such impacts have shifted over time. Here we compare results from two surveys of principal investigators, conducted between April 2020 and January 2021, along with analyses of large-scale publication data. We find that there has been a clear sign of recovery in some regards, as scientists' time spent on their work has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels. However, the latest data also reveals a new dimension in which the pandemic is affecting the scientific workforce: the rate of initiating new research projects. Except for the small fraction of scientists who directly engaged in COVID-related research, most scientists started significantly fewer new research projects in 2020. This decline is most pronounced amongst the same demographic groups of scientists who reported the largest initial disruptions: female scientists and those with young children. Yet in sharp contrast to the earlier phase of the pandemic, when there were large disparities across scientific fields, this loss of new projects appears remarkably homogeneous across fields. Analyses of large-scale publication data reveal a global decline in the rate of new collaborations, especially in non-COVID-related preprints, which is consistent with the reported decline in new projects. Overall, these findings highlight that, while the end of the pandemic may appear in sight in some countries, its large and unequal impact on the scientific workforce may be enduring, which may have broad implications for inequality and the long-term vitality of science.

Food and beverage in covid-19, shopee in online shop brooklyn.Store

The E-Commerce marketplace is booming, providing a new shopping experience for customers where they can engage in global transactions. E-commerce has been performing the biggest role in most distant reaches of the economics business. In the favoured sense, E-commerce is a business deal such as selling the internet or electronic networks. The article explains the theoretical basis for developing worldwide e-commerce in the era of globalization. The study investigated the main trends that have developed in the e-commerce market. Covid-19 cases are increasing significantly internationally, with profound effects on global food staple markets and food shortages. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 4.3 million confirmed cases and over 290,000 deaths globally (Nicola et al., 2020). This study investigates the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, on the food and beverage industry. It examines both the short-term and medium-to long-term implications of the disease outbreak and highlights strategies for reducing the possible consequences of the pandemic. Other than that, this test plans to break down SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and define display technologies through Shopee at Brooklyn.store's online store. The impact of this exploration is the Online Shop Brooklyn.store in the fourth quarter case that the store is in poor official standing and faces significant testing in order to implement a precautionary method. He faces a major challenge in implementing a defensive strategy. © 2021, Annals of R.S.C.B. All rights reserved.

Impacts of covid-19 pandemic in the food and beverage industryand the food quality

The COVID-19 pandemic has a direct impact on public health. Within the longer term, different execution measurements, such as return on venture by the firms, the commitment of the firms to the net household item (GDP), and worker measure, are all anticipated to diminish. Whereas this inquire about is novel and contributes to both hypothesis and hone, it does not consider little and medium-sized companies within the nourishment and refreshment industry. In this manner, the impacts and procedures we distinguish may not apply to littler companies. Online stages have gotten to be a center these days as an instrument to assist a few every day schedules such as e-commerce counting nourishment requesting, online keeping money, social organizing, and numerous more. Nourishment requesting through online stages, for occurrence, have advanced due to the developing numbers of clients of advanced stages, restaurant-goers, and numerous more. The later widespread of coronavirus has changed the situation of brick-and-mortar businesses whereas most governments constrained to closed down and force strict directions of lockdown and social removing among citizens. Also This study was conducted to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the health services in the of Malaysia. Among the advantages of using this food delivery service include saving time, saving money, saving energy and so on. As for the weaknesses of food delivery services, it can be seen in terms of the risk of hazards that can threaten the safety of food delivery workers, the use of large capital for small amounts of food, food hygiene and so on. When this study is completed, we can identify the satisfaction of each individual with this food service. Perception of value and quality of services provided to customers, the higher the level customer satisfaction and loyalty. This finding has implications for customer satisfaction Fast food restaurants can be maintained through providing quality food, a sense of value good quality service, real and show empathy for customers. © 2021, Annals of R.S.C.B. All rights reserved.

What has changed? The Impact of Covid Pandemic on the Technology and Innovation Management Research Agenda

Abstract Whereas the pandemic has tested the agility and resilience of organizations, it forces a deeper look at the assumptions underlying theoretical frameworks that guide managerial decisions and organizational practices. In this commentary, we explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on technology and innovation management research. We identify key assumptions, and then discuss how new areas of investigation emerge based on the changed reality.

Quantifying the Immediate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists (preprint)

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly disrupted the scientific enterprise, but we lack empirical evidence on the nature and magnitude of these disruptions. Here we report the results of a survey of approximately 4,500 Principal Investigators (PIs) at U.S.- and Europe-based research institutions. Distributed in mid-April 2020, the survey solicited information about how scientists' work changed from the onset of the pandemic, how their research output might be affected in the near future, and a wide range of individuals' characteristics. Scientists report a sharp decline in time spent on research on average, but there is substantial heterogeneity with a significant share reporting no change or even increases. Some of this heterogeneity is due to field-specific differences, with laboratory-based fields being the most negatively affected, and some is due to gender, with female scientists reporting larger declines. However, among the individuals' characteristics examined, the largest disruptions are connected to a usually unobserved dimension: childcare. Reporting a young dependent is associated with declines similar in magnitude to those reported by the laboratory-based fields and can account for a significant fraction of gender differences. Amidst scarce evidence about the role of parenting in scientists' work, these results highlight the fundamental and heterogeneous ways this pandemic is affecting the scientific workforce, and may have broad relevance for shaping responses to the pandemic's effect on science and beyond.