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After a full year of intermittent observation of pandemic conditions, this research analyzes the way street life of neighborhoods in two Southeast Asian cities has adapted to government-intensified sanitation measures, scarcity of essential goods and services, and movement restrictions that characterize the persistence of the COVID-19 influenza in selected sites in and around Manila, in the Philippines and in Hanoi, Vietnam. This study describes how citizens negotiate the morbid geography - the reshaping of public space as well as its encompassed social, institutional and economic processes in response to the pervasive state of pandemic - in relation to well-meaning but sometimes draconian government health regulations in the Global South. We draw on the dynamics of institutional strategy and citizen tactics as a theoretical lens, as informed by literature on coping and transgressive practices. Learning from comparable patterns of citizens' everyday life on the streets, even in countries with distinct administrative traditions, the study highlights the significance of agency under crisis and emphasizes the different meanings of public space for varied social groups. It suggests how urban planning and administration can be improved to prepare cities for future health emergencies and make them more resilient. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
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The world has witnessed the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. Mainstream and social media are playing an important role in Covid-19 pandemic prevention. This research explores awareness, communication channels and effectiveness of communication in the Covid-19 pandemic in rural areas of Thua Thien Hue province, Central Vietnam. Primary information was collected from 181 respondents, who are farmers, non-farmers and students. Secondary information was collected from reports and statistical data. Television, word of mouth and local loudspeakers are the main channels of mainstream media while social media mentions the role of Facebook and Zalo to transfer Covid-19 pandemic information. Mainstream media is still the main channel of farmers and old people while non-farmers and young people tend to access information through social media. Communication has significantly contributed to improving awareness and action of rural people in the Covid-19 epidemic prevention. © 2022 World Association for Triple helix and Future strategy studies. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the population to change their consumption behavior and habits to a green living style to protect the environment. The aim of this study was to explore the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model to identify the effect of green practices on willingness to consume through customers' emotional attachment, attitudes, and satisfaction towards eco-friendly restaurants. We used a quantitative method with a self-administrated questionnaire and convenience sampling at eco-friendly restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Using a partial least square (PLS) structural equation model (SEM), we analyzed 1095 samples. The results of this study reveal that green practices significantly and positively affect customers' emotional attachment, satisfaction, and attitudes, but eco-friendliness did not have an effect on customers' emotional attachment. Moreover, the customers' satisfaction, attitudes, and emotional attachment were shown to significantly and positively affect their willingness to consume, as well as to pay 5 percent more for green products. Additionally, a mediating effect of emotional attachment, satisfaction, and attitudes was proven. The government needs to prioritize policies and programs to support these restaurants in order to apply sustainable business models and to build a green marketing strategy involving restaurants to protect environmental sustainability. © 2023 by the authors.
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Vietnam's textile and garment enterprises make an important contribution to the country with the second largest export turnover. The existence and development of textile and garment enterprises have a significant influence on the socioeconomic development of Vietnam. Currently, Vietnam's textile and garment industry is facing difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with competition from foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises. Therefore, it is imperative for managers to assess competitiveness by measuring their past and current performance indicators. This study assesses the performance of Vietnam's 10 textile and garment enterprises from 2017 to 2020 by combining the DEA–Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and epsilon-based measure (EBM) model. The proposed model considered three inputs (total assets, cost of goods sold, and liabilities) and two outputs (total revenue and gross profit). In addition to showing the best-performing companies from certain aspects during the period (2017–2020), the results show that the EBM method combined with the Malmquist model in the field can be successfully applied. This study is a reference for companies in the textile and garment industry to identify their position to improve their operational efficiency and overcome their weaknesses. © 2022 by the authors.
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For humans, the COVID-19 pandemic and Coronavirus have undeniably been a nightmare. Although there are effective vaccines, specific drugs are still urgent. Normally, to identify potential drugs, one needs to design and then test interactions between the drug and the virus in an in silico manner for determining candidates. This Drug-Target Interaction (DTI) process, can be done by molecular docking, which is too complicated and time-consuming for manual works. Therefore, it opens room for applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. In particular, Graph Neural Network (GNN) attracts recent attention since its high suitability for the nature of drug compounds and virus proteins. However, to introduce such a representation well-reflecting biological structures of biological compounds is not a trivial task. Moreover, since available datasets of Coronavirus are still not highly popular, the recently developed GNNs have been suffering from overfitting on them. We then address those issues by proposing a novel model known as Atom-enhanced Graph Neural Network with Multi-hop Gating Mechanism. On one hand, our model can learn more precise features of compounds and proteins. On the other hand, we introduce a new gating mechanism to create better atom representation from non-neighbor information. Once applying transfer learning from very large databanks, our model enjoys promising performance, especially when experimenting with Coronavirus. © 2022 IEEE.
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The prolonged global coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) has affected all aspects of life, economy, and society, especially small and medium businesses. To meet this challenge, many companies are transforming models and reorganizing production and operations to adapt to this situation. These companies have adopted a variety of philosophies to remove non-value-Added activities from their production processes to maintain efficiency, flexibility, and profitability. In the context of Industry 4.0, solutions are ready to combine automation technology together with the Lean manufacturing approach. Furthermore, when it comes to efficient use of resources (financial, labor, materials, machine, and equipment), Industry 4.0 should be applied to Lean Processes. Thus, this article shows how to apply the Lean method to optimize plant design to cut waste, improve the efficiency of input resources, increase labor productivity by reducing labor costs, waiting (man-To-man;man-machine), reduced movement, and redundancy of operations in the workflow. Especially, the paper uses the SLP (Systematic Layout Planning) method to arrange the areas, material flow, and supply chain in the factory, Lean application to visualize the factory and combines IoT (Internet of Things). Moreover, using automation and Lean Production theory will support much for factory construction in the future, minimizing irrationalities when applied in practice. The result of the paper will mention a case study on the design and simulation of a face mask plant © 2022 IEEE.
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Introduction: Global funding for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) responses in low- and middle-income countries is decreasing, and becomes unpredictable in the future due to co-existing pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, lessons learned from a developing country that successfully shifted HIV/AIDS programs to insurance-based systems are in need. Aim of the study was to identify the barriers to enrollment and the use of health insurance (HI) for antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Vietnam. Material(s) and Method(s): This study is a narrative literature assessment of peer-reviewed publications on HI for accessing ART in Vietnam. Conceptual framework was developed based on the study's objectives with related factors analyzed from user's perspective, provider's perspective, and socioeconomic and cultural factors considered. Result(s): From user's perspective, the barriers to HI enrollment and the use of HI included awareness of the benefits from HI, affordability for enrollment into HI, fear of stigma and discrimination, fear of responsibility to pay for co-payment, and pre-conception of services provided by HI. From provider's perspective, the barriers were health workers' attitudes, quality of care and treatment services as well as inconsistent and insufficient guidance on social health insurance coverage of care and treatment for people living with HIV (PLHIV). Conclusion(s): A comprehensive information package on HI and the benefits of HIV/AIDS services integrated into HIV programs should be considered to improve the enrollment into and the use of HI among PLHIV. Additionally, it is very important to encourage the government and local authorities to secure adequate funds for co-payment of ART. Copyright © 2022 Termedia Publishing House Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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The stressful relationship between children and parents is the pain both go through when they find themselves unable to cope as a parent or a child. In order to find out the status, causes, and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest some solutions to reduce stress between parents and children, we surveyed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stressful relationships between parents and children at high school age in Da Nang city. The findings of a survey conducted on 550 randomly selected parents and 550 high school students using the Perceived Stress Scale reveal a high rate of tension between parents and their children, particularly up to 51.1% and 38.5%, respectively. In reality, many factors are affecting the stressful relationship between parents and their children at this age, in which psychological fear about health;social distancing policy;closed schools;students staying at home 24 hours a day and learning online;the disruption in children's daily routine;excessive use of electronic devices are major causes of stress in the relationship between parents and their children. From this practice, our research team has proposed such solutions as participating in creative activities and consulting the handbook instructing parents' behaviour rules toward children and vice versa, designing extra-curricular activities, and organizing training courses on life values for both parents and children to increase happiness and reduce stress in the parent-child relationship.
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Vietnam tourism experienced impressive growth from 2008–2019, but it has weakened due to the impact of the pandemic up to the present. So, what should the travel companies and their partners do to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? This paper aims to identify what alliance management practices (AMP) factors help improve the inter-organizational relationship performance (IORP) between travel companies and their partners through the mediating roles of trust and commitment. A quantitative approach was applied with data collection from represent-atives of 319 SMEs of travel companies and the PLS-SEM was used to test the hypotheses. The findings indicated that trust, commitment, coordination, and frequency of interaction directly affect IORP, and simultaneously, communication and participation have indirect impacts on IORP. This study provides suggestions for all tourism companies to be aware of the need to form relationships with other partners to sustainably survive and develop together. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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This article discussed Vietnam’s ongoing efforts to decentralize the health system and its fitness to respond to global health crises as presented through the Covid-19 pandemic. We used a general review and expert’s perspective to explore the topic. We found that the healthcare system in Vietnam continued to decentralize from a pyramid to a wheel model. This system shifts away from a stratified technical hierarchy of higher- and lower-level health units (pyramid model) to a system in which quality healthcare is equally expected among all health units (wheel model). This decentralization has delivered more quality healthcare facilities, greater freedom for patients to choose services at any level, a more competitive environment among hospitals to improve quality, and reductions in excess capacity burden at higher levels. It has also enabled the transformation from a patient-based traditional healthcare model into a patient-centered care system. However, this decentralization takes time and requires long-term political, financial commitment, and a working partnership among key stakeholders. This perspective provides Vietnam’s experience of the decentralization of the healthcare system that may be consider as a useful example for other countries to strategically think of and to shape their future system within their own socio-political context. Copyright © 2020 Via Medica
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The COVID-19 flare-up in Indonesia has been reacted to with detachment by the focal government, which stressed that Indonesia has not experienced numerous instances of contamination, if by any stretch of the imagination. The Indonesia wellbeing priest had likewise created a ruckus with his open proclamation on the COVID-19 when he urged the individuals to depend on 'petition' as a preventive mark as he ticked off the individuals who purchased covers at a more significant expense. Actually, the COVID-19 episode has in truth devastatingly affected Indonesia's economy, particularly the movement and the travel industry segment. The marvel of agreement marriage is a typical wonder that happens in the Southeast Asian area. The act of agreement relationships is as of now predominant in a few Southeast Asian nations, for example, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. In Indonesia, the act of agreement relationships happens in a few locales, for example, West Java, Central Java and East Java and Kalimantan which are completed by remote men from the Middle East. This has become upsides and downsides among Indonesian individuals. Already, Saudi sex searchers hit Thailand during the 80s . In 1989, when relations between the two nations experienced issues brought about by a case called "blue jewel business", the Government of Saudi Arabia disallowed its residents from visiting Thailand. Subsequently, visitors from Saudi Arabia and followed by different sightseers from the Gulf nations made a beeline for Indonesia. © 2020 SERSC.