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Because of COVID-19, people have felt the social distance and have resorted to the internet for information needs. Hence, fake news has become prevalent as people rely on information explored online. This research aims to examine the social-cultural impacts of fake news adaptation behavior from the social psychological perspective by investigating the relationship between collectivism, social support, sense of belonging, social endorsement, fear of missing out, perceived credibility, issue involvement, and adaptation on fake news among young adults in Malaysia. A quantitative research approach with an online self-administered survey was conducted, and 451 responses were obtained through snowball sampling. In the data analysis, measurement and structural equation modeling were adopted. Findings showed that the relationships among adaptation behaviors on fake news were significantly supported. This research consummates the understanding of the influences of social-cultural (collectivism) on the judgment formation of adaptation among internet users on fake news. © 2022, University of San Jose-Recoletos. All rights reserved.
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Manual student attendance taking has become a tedious and time-consuming task for lecturers in Institution of Higher Learning (IHL). When pandemic is becoming endemic, more countries are opening their borders for international students retuning to campus and attending in-person classes. While lecturers circulate the manual attendance list to students in class, the list may be a contaminated object. According to WHO, a person could catch COVID-19 by touching the contaminated objects and then touching their mouth, eyes, or nose. In order to address these problems, a NFC-based mobile application is proposed. The proposed method is making use of NFC technology in the mobile devices. Students just need to tap the lecturers' NFC-enabled mobile devices while entering the lecture hall, then student attendance are recorded automatically in the database. The findings show that the proposed method improve students' attendance taking more efficiently in terms of reducing time and efforts. At the same time, reduce chances of getting COVID-19 by avoid touching on possible contaminated objects during attendance taking in class. In this study, constraint of the proposed method is unstable and low coverage of WiFi or mobile network in lecture hall. The constraints disable the attendance taking to be completed in stipulated time. This constraint needs to be addressed in future work. © 2022 IEEE.
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Technology greatly supports people's daily lives such as education, business, medical, and many other aspects. It can be noted that the higher education institutions' students rely on technological support and university assistance for their studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technological enablement is the primary determinant for entrepreneurial initiation that received attention from scholars. The focus areas include how governmental support, entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial education and technological enablement (mediator factor) can influence the entrepreneurial initiation. Empirical studies showed the direct and indirect impacts of the contributing factors in a particular area. However, is it the same effect of the factors for different countries? This study conducted a self-administered questionnaire to collect topic-related information from higher education institutions in Malaysia and the Philippines. A formative-reflective model, PLS-MGA, was used to analyse the direct and indirect impacts alongside the mediating factor, technological enablement. The results showed that entrepreneurial competencies, Entrepreneurial Education System, Entrepreneurial Education Mechanism, and Entrepreneurial Intention positively and significantly impact entrepreneurial success in both regions. However, the result also demonstrated that the impact of technological enablement on entrepreneurial success is more significant in Malaysia than in the Philippines. With such findings, policymakers and institutions in both countries can understand the insight and importance of technological enablement in stimulating entrepreneurship and its perceived success. Hence, they can implement supportive strategies and necessary policies to ensure technology adoption, success in shaping students' entrepreneurial mindset and achieving the perceived outcome. © 2022 World Scientific Publishing Co.