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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it dramatic environmental changes, forcing organisations to adopt digital technologies on a wider scale, under significant time pressure. While the pandemic tested the agility and resilience of organisations, team dynamics and the implications of virtualisation on collaboration and creativity have become increasingly important for research (George et al., 2020) as the daily working routines in which employees have been embedded in for decades have become disrupted. The abrupt move to "working from home” that the pandemic created is arguably the most significant organisational design change in our lifetimes. Organisations are now asking how the virtualisation of work has impacted on the collaboration and communication necessary for driving innovation behaviour, and what strategies are available to develop remote innovation solutions. In this study, we explore organisational culture theory against the backdrop of digitally transforming innovation development as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This multi-layered model offers a useful framework for thinking about processes that foster innovation. By doing so, we investigate how organisations have adapted their approach to remote, collaborative innovation from the perspective of nineteen industry experts. The purpose of this study is to present the determinants of organisational culture to develop digital innovation in a hybrid working environment. Our findings reveal twelve distinct variables across the artifacts, values, and assumptions required to ensure digital innovation. These findings have implications for theory and practice, as it provides organisational leaders with a strategic understanding as to how a remote innovative culture can be developed, and subsequently exploited. © 2022, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. All right reserved.
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The tourism industry is greatly affected by environmental changes. Especially after the world went through the Covid pandemic era, people prefer doing healthy tourism. The daily workload, the increase in education and welfare have resulted in a shift in the trend of tourism choices. People are increasingly considering the fulfillment of work-life balance. This study is designed to examine the elements contained in the measurement of the restorative quality of destinations known as "Perceived destination restorative quality (PDRQ)”. PDRQ consists of four elements, namely being away, extent, fascination, and compatibility. These four elements will be tested for their effect on the overall restorative impact and visitor satisfaction. A quantitative study will be conducted in Indonesia with tourism objects in Jogjakarta and Central Java covering rural and urban areas. SEM statistical analysis tools will be used to test the validity and reliability of the data collected. This research will enrich the literature review in the field of health tourism and for managers will be useful to further broaden the perspective of offering tourism program that has more restorative impacts. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The last three years showed global systems' fragility in different disciplines, such as medicine, travel, and trade. Moreover, environmental changes are still happening in extreme weather phenomena, exacerbating COVID-19 in the world health sector. Therefore, the world needs to work hard in both traditional and modern technological ways to develop smart solutions for the development of smart cities to create open, interconnected networks for everyone. The focus of intense research worldwide is the development of standardized eco-friendly sensor networks enabled by IoT technology. This study presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing the world and humans in the current era and how modern technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), can make a real change in smart city development and save the global environment. These technological solutions and frameworks help to achieve innovative administration, high adaptability, better efficiency, and productivity. In particular, the paper spots light on top environmental challenges according to impact and likelihood classifications. Also, it discusses recent green technology solutions for smart city development in many applications, such as e-waste management, climate change adaptation, water crises, and natural disaster management. © 2023 IEEE.
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Antifragility, which is an evolutionary understanding of resilience, has become a predominant concept in academic and industrial fields as the criticality of vital infrastructures (like healthcare and transportation) has become more flexible and varying due the impact of digitization and adverse circumstances, such as changing the prioritization of industrial services while accelerating IoT (Internet of Things) deployment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crucial role of antifragility is to enable critical infrastructures to gain from disorder to foster their adaptability to real unexpected environmental changes. Thus, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey on the antifragility concept while clarifying the difference with the resilience concept. Moreover, it highlights how the COVID-19 crisis has revealed the fragility of critical infrastructures and unintentionally promoted the antifragility concept. To showcase the main concepts, we adopt the blockchain as an example of an antifragile system. Copyright © 2022 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.
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Nature based tourism (NBT) is becoming increasingly popular, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic as people began to sought outdoor activities. Accompanying the projected rise in NBT demand in a post COVID-19 era are increasing challenges associated with climate change, particularly in mountain regions. However, there is limited local knowledge documented to date from those who are intricately involved in mountain NBT activities and have experienced the impacts of climate change first hand. Using an online survey (n = 169), this research is the first to present the intimate knowledge of mountain guides in Canada, offering novel insight into climate change risks and opportunities for NBT in mountain regions, including strategies to contend with risk and adaptation. From this survey, 99% of guides indicated that they have experienced change in the mountain environment throughout the course of their career and due to the adaptive nature of guides, many have already implemented strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change. While findings presented in this paper offer practical knowledge to plan for a future threatened with rapid climatic change, further research is required to explore effectiveness of adaptation strategies, scope of adaptive capacity, changes in natural infrastructure, and guides' roles as educators. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have had positive (although short-lived, e.g., reduction in pollution due to lockdown) as well as negative (e.g., increasing plastic pollution due to use of disposable masks, etc.) impacts on the environment. The pandemic-environment linkage also includes circumstances when regions experienced extreme weather events, such as floods and cyclones, and disaster management became challenging. This study aims to examine the trends in public discourses on Twitter on these interactions between the pandemic and environment. The present study follows the most recent literature on understanding public perceptions - which acknowledges Twitter to be an abundant source of information on public discussions on any global issue, including the pandemic. A Python-based code is developed to extract Twitter data spanning over a year, and analyze the presence of covid-environment related keywords and other attributes. It is found that the Twitterati aggressively viewed the impacts (such as economic slowdown and high mortality) of the pandemic as miniatures of the results of future climate change. The community was also highly concerned about the varying air and plastic pollution levels with the change in lockdown and covid prevention policies. Extreme weather events were a high-frequency topic when they impacted countries such as India, the USA, Australia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This study makes a novel attempt to provide an overview of public discourses on the pandemic-environment linkage and; can be a crucial addition to the literature on assessing public perception of environmental threats through Twitter data mining.
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Objective: Self-restraint from activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic has limited the range of activities and interpersonal relationships for older persons. Moreover, prolonged restraint has been reported to increase the risk of frailty and sarcopenia. Therefore, we examined the effects of changes in exercise habits on physical function and psychological status of older patients with hypertension throughout their self-restraint lifestyle from 2020 to 2022 in the 1-year follow-up study. Design and Methods: Participants were patients with hypertension aged 65 years or older attending outpatient clinics at our institution who could obtain information on exercise habits, history of falls, comprehensive geriatric assessment, and muscle strength. We conducted the same survey in the first year and one year later. The subjects were classified into four groups by combining their exercise habits in the first year with or without one year later. That is Group A: with exercise habits at both times of the survey;Group B: with exercise habits in the first year and without exercise habits one year later;Group C: without exercise habits in the first year and with exercise habits one year later;and Group D: without exercise habits at both times of the survey. Written consent forms were obtained from all participants. Our institutional review board approved the study protocol. Results: The study participants were 183 patients (Group A: 119, Group B: 26, Group C: 17, Group D: 21). The age of the participants was 76.1 ± 5.5 years, 82 (44.8%) were male, and the duration of hypertension was 18.4 ± 11.5 years. Changes in exercise habits were not associated with physical function, history of falls, and comprehensive geriatric assessment at one year. However, when the results were examined separately for men and women, the geriatric depression scale was significantly higher in women in Group B (Dunnett test, p = 0.0094) than in Group A, suggesting that the tendency toward depression had progressed. Group B women also had more falls one year later (chi-square 12.04, p = 0.0072). Conclusions: In a 1-year follow-up study during the COVID-19 pandemic, a relatively high proportion of older patients with hypertension attending our hospital maintained their exercise habits, but 14% of cases lost their exercise habits. Only women showed the development of depression and increased risk of falls when exercise habits were lost. Women were more susceptible to the effects of environmental changes than men in older patients with hypertension.
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Background: Myopia is a major health issue around the world. The World Health Organization estimates that half of the population of the world may be myopic by 2050. In the present years, insufficient time spent in outdoor activities has been recognized as a major risk factor for myopia development. The duration and intensity of near work are also associated with myopia progression. Aim(s): To study the increase in myopic shift in school going children during covid 19 pandemic due to increased screen time. Material(s) and Method(s): A prospective cross sectional study was done as a follow up after 2 years (in March 2021) from a school health survey done in May 2019. 150 students, of ages 7-15 were included and spherical equivalent refraction was recorded for each child and progression of myopia was documented in dioptres. Children wearing contact lenses, with h/o any ocular surgery and children with pathological myopia were excluded from study. Result(s): Out of 145 children called for follow up, only 123 children reported in the OPD for follow up. The mean refractive error(spherical equivalent) had increased by +2D in children of ages 7-10 and by +1D in children from ages 11-13 and somewhat remained constant in older ages. The parents reported an increase in time spent on digital devices and prolonged near work and all this had a positive correlation with an increase in myopic shift. Conclusion(s): Shorter viewing distance, increased screen time and lesser outdoor activities is also associated with myopia progression, especially in younger children. Younger children's refractive status may be more sensitive to environmental changes than older children, as they are in a more important period for myopic development and progression. Copyright © 2022, Dr Yashwant Research Labs Pvt Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Indian Medical care has a distinguished history & goes back over 5000 years while Ayurveda is being utilized & embraced for every one of the infirmities. The effect of Corona virus - 19 Pandemic & the current development of second wave undermined the actual presence of medical care area. This pandemic has led to many escape clauses, downsides and inadequate overall set of laws to the floor. In this article it has been examined about the Corona virus - 19 Pandemic and the current circumstance of second wave and the normal third wave and the preparation of the State run administrations in handling medical care issues both in private and public and the progressions that are required right away. Furthermore the present overall set of laws winning in the nation and its response to the Pandemic are additionally examined. However there are regulations, for example, Pestilence Regulations, Irresistible Sicknesses Regulations, Shopper Freedoms, Catastrophe The board, Right to somewhere safe and secure and Wellbeing given by the Indian Constitution. The utilization of such regulations in this emergency circumstance, further tightening of the regulations for requirement is additionally talked about. Also, the High Court of India has taken up sumoto the instance of immunization and Pandemic circumstance of Corona virus - 19 have referenced a few perceptions, and headings to be upheld quickly by the State, Focal and Association Domains to battle the plague and to save the existences of individuals are examined frayed. Furthermore the ecological changes remembering foundation for the medical care offices are additionally talked about. A few ideas are made to reinforce the medical services framework both the private and government are made. Nonetheless, the examination in the article is unfinished on the grounds what is going on is another danger to the existence of individuals, not in presence any time. Thus, this medical care area needs to gain some useful knowledge from the pit falls and experience. Likewise it is important to think off third wave which will hamper wellbeing of youngsters (Children) according to the researchers ahead of time with the goal that the errors committed till currently are not rehashed. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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This paper majorly signifies in handling of stress of an individual more emphasized on their cognition mishandled due to external environmental changes and relative compulsive forces acting especially in the context of COVID "19 who are Working from Home rather than working from MNC's. In addition, it describes how to handle invidually to get motivated for generating the effective outcomes as on whole productively helpful for an organization. The employees working in different organizations have to deal with the stress. Especially IT professionals are under a great deal of stress due to many reasons. The stress contributes to decreased organizational performance, decreased employee overall performance, decreased quality of work, high attrition rate. Right at this point of time there is no way out to make the industry stress free. With increasing application of technology and new age facilities this kind of pressure is bound to increase. So, the sector has decided to face the problem rather than avoid it. Thus, this paper emphasis on the comparative study of stress impact on their performance work from Home and MNC's Environment Due to COVID "19. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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We discuss how youth "slowed down” an online STEAM makerspace during the COVID-19 pandemic, opening up new ways of being and doing together. The practices youth enacted in slowing down arose from their politicized care for one another. Adult mentors, through moments of slowing down, were given an opportunity to rethink how to listen to youth's desired ways of doing STEAM. To discuss the implications of slowing down, this article features two instances in which Black youth "slowed down” in sessions to demonstrate their desired ways of being together/doing together within the STEAM context. Highlighting youths' moves has implications for how educators think about co-designing programs with youth and how to enact politicized care in the face of rapid social, environmental, and political change. © ISLS.
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What is the relationship between the global COVID-19 pandemic, the economic recession that followed in its wake, and the ongoing degradation of the global environment? What are key takeaways from this relationship for scholars of international political economy? This article identifies a trialectical relationship between these three forces, addresses ways that the trialectic presents moments of both continuity and change in the trajectory of the global political economy, and invokes Arundhati Roy’s concept of “the pandemic as portal” to foreground the need for scholars of international political economy to tease out and promote new political economic ideals that improve humanity’s resilience to future destabilization risks.
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Human activities may impact animal habitat and resource use, potentially influencing contemporary evolution in animals. In the United Kingdom, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions resulted in sudden, drastic alterations to human activity. We hypothesized that short-term daily and long-term seasonal changes in human mobility might result in changes in bird habitat use, depending on the mobility type (home, parks and grocery) and extent of change. Using Google human mobility data and 872 850 bird observations, we determined that during lockdown, human mobility changes resulted in altered habitat use in 80% (20/25) of our focal bird species. When humans spent more time at home, over half of affected species had lower counts, perhaps resulting from the disturbance of birds in garden habitats. Bird counts of some species (e.g. rooks and gulls) increased over the short term as humans spent more time at parks, possibly due to human-sourced food resources (e.g. picnic refuse), while counts of other species (e.g. tits and sparrows) decreased. All affected species increased counts when humans spent less time at grocery services. Avian species rapidly adjusted to the novel environmental conditions and demonstrated behavioural plasticity, but with diverse responses, reflecting the different interactions and pressures caused by human activity.
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The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project is a collaborative initiative bringing palaeoscientists together to locate, access and share online educational resources (OERs). It began as a response to the 2020 shift to online learning when the COVID-19 pandemic curtailed field and lab work. We outline the development and initial outcomes of the project and consider future directions post-pandemic. Our initial focus was to create a searchable list of OERs (now numbers 600+). The project has also promoted co-operation across institutions and created new collaborations. It became clear that even experienced and teaching-focused educators were anxious about how to incorporate virtual materials and develop alternatives to field and laboratory work and deliver their intended learning outcomes. ViPs aim to become a “hub” for palaeoscience teaching resources. While some face-to-face teaching has returned in Higher Education, the benefits of online elements have become clear to students and educators alike. Therefore, following the pandemic, an increasing shift towards a blended delivery with greater use of OERs in palaeoscience and other disciplines is likely. Longer term, the ViPs project also seeks to increase inclusive, accessible education in the palaeosciences through the digital enhancement of provision, by supporting both users and creators of virtual teaching materials. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)