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Background: Limiting close physical contact is key to helping reduce the spread of the coronavirus by using the portable eye examination kit (Peek Acuity), which has been recognized as a reliable and valid tool to measure visual acuity. This study is aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Peek Acuity and ETDRS (Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study) chart as the gold standard for screening in school-age students. Methods: This study used an observational research design with cross-sectional data collection methods to compare the effectiveness of the Peek Acuity application diagnostic test and ETDRS chart for screening in school-age students. Sample collection was done by total sampling technique on students aged 6-12 from one of the elementary schools in Surabaya. The study was conducted from October 2019 to November 2019. OpenEpi analyzed the validity and reliability of the results to compare the effectiveness of Peek Acuity and the ETDRS chart. Results: There were 231 students with details aged 6-9 years, as many as 150 students and aged 10-12 years, as many as 81 students. On examination of visual acuity using peek acuity and ETDRS chart, it indicated that the number of subjects with refractive errors was more than normal eyes. Peek acuity has been shown to have low sensitivity and high specificity. Higher specificity was found in children aged 10-12 years compared to 6-9 years. Conclusion: The Peek Acuity application has higher effectiveness in screening than the ETDRS chart. It is practical, fast, and easy to use. The Peek Acuity application is considered effective for screening school-age students due to its high rate of specificity. © 2022, Sanglah General Hospital. All rights reserved.
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) had become a global health problem by the first quarter of 2020, and it was later designated as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. This pandemic has left almost no country unaffected, including Indonesia. It has also caused disturbances in the economic, social, and even legal sector. Mobility restrictions were put in place by the central and regional governments through various regulatory instructions, causing several activities, especially in the economic sector to not function properly, such as by implementing work from home policy, which ultimately forced several companies to stop operating completely and even lay off employees. In some instances, this layoff further resulted in termination of employment. Settlement of employment terminations has led to further polemics caused by different perceptions among the parties involved, in this case the company and workers, resulting in a dispute. This research is novel in nature and is in accordance with the expertise of the researchers, with the issues to be analyzed including protection for workers affected by layoffs resulting in termination of employment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as solutions to labor dispute settlement that can provide justice and legal certainty for the parties involved, due to termination of employment during the Covid-19 pandemic. This article employs a normative juridical approach in its research, as well as a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. Workers experiencing termination of employment which has been carried out unilaterally by companies that suffer losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic need to have their rights protected, and a solution that resolves labor disputes related to layoffs as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that can benefit and provide a sense of justice for all parties is needed, such as settlement of labor disputes through bipartite negotiations that can be utilized as an alternative by the disputing parties.
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The pandemic situation forces the educational system to respond to a variety of issues. During the pandemic, it's essential to learn more about Technological-Pedagogical-Content-Knowledge (TPACK) and how it can be incorporated into pre-service physics teacher preparation. This qualitative research collects data from ten online teaching videos and ten offline teaching videos of 20 pre-service physics teachers. This study attempts to comprehend the appearance of each TPACK component by analyzing the videos with an observation sheet. The observation sheet explored seven components of TPACK, which are Content Knowledge (CK), Pedagogical Knowledge (PK), Technological Knowledge (TK), Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (PCK), Technological and Content Knowledge (TCK), Technological and Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK), and the last is Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) itself. The result showed that pre-service teachers were determined good TPACK skills, but lacked in certain components. From the result, in both online and offline microteaching, participants rarely showed their TPK. In online activities, it is also seen that participants were faced difficulties in applying their PCK. The different nature of online and offline microteaching drives the need for teacher education institutions to plan and implement microteaching in the pedagogical courses to improve pre-service teachers' TPACK in both situations. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
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As a compulsory approach in shaping pre-service teachers for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), microteaching is either essential and challenging. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift from offline to the online microteaching course had occurred. This major shift drives the change of planning science lessons. Our research examined how pre-service science teachers designed and reflected their planning on a 30-minute microteaching unit. The participants of our study were four groups of pre-service science teachers that consisted of five students. The participants were pre-service science teachers from two national universities in Indonesia that were chosen by purposive sampling. The data was collected through the lesson plan, self-reflection to the lesson plan, and group discussion. We conducted both qualitative and quantitative analysis on research data for content analysis. The qualitative analysis dealt with the themes and patterns of the theme, while quantitative analysis dealt with the duration and frequency of the theme. Based on the analysis, the single domains such as CK, PK, TK were shown in the lesson plan. However, the complex domain of TPACK was rarely seen. The group discussions revealed that teacher educators need to become specific and explicit about which technology is being infused to support learning. It is significant to enhance the TPACK during planning in online microteaching classes and conduct further study of the implementation of this planning in the lesson. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Work or study from home due to Covid-19 has forced people to shift from offline meetings to online meetings. Interestingly, along with the use of online meeting platforms, the utilization of the platforms' virtual background feature also became prevalent. Participants were often obligated to change their virtual backgrounds with the one provided by the meeting organizer so they would use uniform backgrounds. We see this as an opportunity to have more understanding of how people, particularly in Indonesia, behave towards technology. Drawing from the previous literature, we investigated this phenomenon by proposing that perceived benefits of using a uniform virtual background is driven by environmental stimuli. The survey was conducted on 302 persons and examined using Covariance-based Structural Equation Modeling (CB-SEM). The outturns showed that attractiveness as an environmental stimulus has direct positive influence on perceived benefits. As the conclusion, users of online meetings recognized that the attractiveness of uniform virtual backgrounds gave them positive benefits. Implications of these findings are discussed in the paper. © 2021 ACM.
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INTRODUCTION COVID-19 is an emerging infectious disease with etiology severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus-2 (SARS-COV-2) which is causing various clinical manifestations not only in the respiratory tract. COVID-19 declared as a pandemic that causes high mortality worldwide. Simple examination modalities are needed to help diagnose COVID-19. This descriptive case report has aims to show the role of monocyte count to help establish the diagnosis of COVID-19. METHODOLOGY This is a case report from confirmed COVID-19 cases in RS Bhayangkara Brimob. Data will be presented according to the descriptive method. RESULTS52 confirmed cases from April 2020 until May 2020 were used in this research, consist of 42 (81.13%) male patients and 10 (16.87%) female patients. 34 (65,38%) patients had an increase in monocyte count. Of 45 symptomatic patients, 29 of them (64.44%) were known to have monocytes> 7. Of 17 confirmed positive patients who shown unilateral and bilateral infiltrate, 13 of them had an increase in monocyte count, 1 patient(100%), and 12 (26,67%) patients, respectively. CONCLUSIONS From the data, we conclude that simple laboratory result parameters such as lymphocyte, sedimentation rate, particularly monocyte, help to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19. This is based on increasing monocyte in mostly all confirmed COVID-19 patients involved in this study.