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The study examines the association between psychological contract breach (PCB) and happiness at work and the double mediating role of colleague support and deviant workplace behaviour on the relationship of PCB and happiness at work. structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analyze the data of 401 questionnaires from the health sector of Lahore, Pakistan. The study discovered support for the negative relationship between PCB and happiness at the workplace. However, colleague support is reduced in the manifestation of a PCB that reduces happiness at work. Similarly, deviant workplace behaviour has been increased in the presence of psychological contract breaches, causing a reduction in happiness at work. The data for the study was conducted during the time of Pandemic COVID19, where there was an immense level of pressure on the health sector, keeping in mind that schedules of doctors and nurses had been extremely stressful, collection of data and responses was challenging. The input of the study is the incorporation of conservation of resource theory (COR) and social exchange theory (SET) during the pandemic situation. The research also provides both theoretical and practical implications and suggests future areas for supplementary studies. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has signified the interconnected nature of our world demonstrating that no one is safe until everyone is safe. The social and economic turmoil caused by the pandemic is devastating and revealing a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents a prodigious challenge to food systems, public health, and work worldwide. The vaccination programs are of utmost priority for every institution but there is a clear divide among people on efficacies and application of the offered vaccines. Today, the world has access to high-performance wireless internet due to 5G technologies which can enable systems to fetch billions of records from social media within a blink of an eye. The internet revolution has opened a new door of opportunities. This study aims to come up with a system that can utilize 5G technologies to access the data from social media to create awareness, prevent and control the impact of the pandemic by assessing the people's sentiments towards the COVID vaccines. People's sentiments are classified from not afraid to afraid divulging a total of three classes. The dataset is extracted from Twitter. The study has three main objectives 1) data collection and preprocessing 2) analyzing public sentiments, 3) evaluating the performance of Machine Learning (ML) classifiers. The results show that majority of people belong to the neutral class which indicates that they are still doubtful if they should be vaccinated or not. There is an urgent need for vaccine awareness programs to prevent COVID. © 2021 IEEE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic, still on the growth curve, has had a devastating effect on the dental health sector for the past 3 months. This has become an area of enormous concern for the dentists professionally and the patients in terms of dental health. Dentistry at this point needs a complete structural change to prevent cross-infection among the patients and dentists owing to the unique characteristic of a dental health-care setting as well as to offer a sense of safety and security to the patients. This article highlights the salient points to be considered for the post-COVID phase in dentistry.