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Self-education skill is an essential skill to be improved, as well as being an important skill needed for students in schools and universities. And especially, in the covid period, the most focused skill is the self-study ability of students. The survey has been designed through surveying each group of students and individuals of each department in FPT University during the time students are studying online and at school. The research is completed using qualitative and quantitative methods. It can be concluded from the survey that, by switching to online learning platforms, the survey indicated that students improve their self-awareness and learn how to find and evaluate information sources online. However, there is still a small number of students who have problems with self-education. And this, there are causes such as weak self-perception, the guidance of teachers and mentors. The research aims to find out more available and flexible methods that give students a guide on how to improve their awareness about self - education and self - improvement after the pandemic through both direct means like quizzes and social experiments, and indirect means by reviewing written research from known authors and publishers. © 2022 IEEE.
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COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges for the higher education community worldwide, one of which is that students have had to maintain their learning while dealing with the crisis conditions. However, a systematic understanding of students’ individual crisis management still remains absent despite its importance. The newly emerged and ongoing phenomenon has leveraged the role of crisis management in the context of education, which is even more essential with the forthcoming uncertain future. This study investigates factors related to students’ crisis management self-efficacy in higher education during the pandemic. Particularly, survey data were collected from 387 undergraduate students to investigate the effects of innovative behaviour and problem-solving skills on crisis self-efficacy. Structural Equation Modelling was applied to conceptualise and empirically test a model that examines the relationship between crisis self-efficacy and related factors. Moreover, the study aimed to assess the role of technology abilities in students’ crisis management self-efficacy and academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research results provided some compelling evidence for the positive effects of innovative behaviour and problem-solving skills on crisis management self-efficacy. This study also discusses some feasible implications for higher education policy and future research directions. © The Author(s) 2022.
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Introduction: Diabetes is an independent predictor of poor outcomes in patients with COVID-19. We compared the effects of the preadmission use of antidiabetic medications on the in-hospital mortality of patients with COVID-19 having type 2 diabetes. Methods: A systematic search was performed until November 30, 2021. We used a random-effects meta-analysis to calculate the pooled OR (95% CI). Results: We included 61 studies (3,061,584 individuals). We found some medications protective against COVID-related death, including metformin, GLP-1RA and SGLT-2i. DPP-4i and insulin users were more likely to die during hospitalization. SU, TZD, and AGI were mortality neutral. Metformin use was associated with better outcome in a dose-response manner. Conclusions: Metformin, GLP-1RA, and SGLT-2i were associated with lower mortality rate in patients with COVID-19 having type 2 diabetes. DPP-4i and insulin were linked to increased mortality. SU, TZD and AGI were mortality neutral.Presentation: No date and time listed
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With the worldwide spread of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020, shortages of surgical masks and filtering facepiece respirator (FFR) masks became a critical problem. European governments recommended that civilians should not use these masks so that the shortages in the hospitals would be minimised. In Europe, civilians were instead advised to wear community face coverings. In June 2020, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) published CWA 17553:2020 [1–3] which formalised minimum requirements, methods of testing and use of community face coverings. The CWA 17553 is presently only a recommendation, and not an official standard such as the EN14683 standard for surgical masks or the EN149 standard for filtering facepiece respirators. Because there are different performance requirements for these three different classes of masks, it makes comparing their performance challenging. In this work, we perform particulate filtration efficiency measurement, total inward leakage measurement and breathability measurement on a range of surgical masks, filtering facepiece respirators and community face coverings. This analysis provides a useful comparison between material performance and the effectiveness of a mask’s design which is manufactured from this material. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.