ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DISTANCE LEARNING DURING THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 IN THE OPINION OF TEACHERS OF SCHOOLS IN THE WIELKOPOLSKA REGION

Distance learning in all types of schools from March 2020 to the beginning of June 2021 (with a short break in September 2020) was forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, in Poland, this form of teaching was used sporadically, basically only for extra-curricular activities. The vast majority of teachers did not have any experience in this field. The large-scale introduction of new forms of distance learning and knowledge transfer and enforcement methods created a number of challenges and opened up new opportunities. The presented study attempts to identify the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the opinion of primary and secondary school teachers in the Wielkopolska region. The analysis was carried out based on empirical material obtained from questionnaires addressed to all teachers from the Wielkopolska region (703 questionnaires were received). The survey results allowed the diagnosis of positive and negative aspects of distance learning. Among advantages, teachers pointed to growing computer competencies and time and money savings due to no need to travel to work. In turn, as disadvantages were demonstrated, the lowering of teaching quality because of the lack of direct contact with pupils and health problems resulting from decreased physical activity and long-term staying at the computer desk. The teachers’ experience in identifying the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning is undoubtedly an excellent and reliable source of information that can be used in the future to improve the distance learning process. The applied approach allowed to obtain representative results, which may transpose into generalizations on the scale of the entire country. © 2022 Polish Geographical Society. All rights reserved.

ONLINE ACTIVITIES, E-LEARNING AND PARENTAL ROLE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS DURING COVID-19

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has affected almost every aspect of life including accelerated and unplanned digitalization, with particular emphasis on changes in school education provision and the introduction of distance learning. During December 2020, when educational activities were carried out in an online environment for most children, a follow-up survey was conducted using a survey questionnaire. The purpose of this paper is to present the research results on the Internet use habits, children’s Internet safety as well as children’s perception of the parental role among seventh and eighth grade elementary schoolchildren (N = 210), at average age of 13.5 years, to determine if there are changes in the abovementioned variables according to gender, and to compare these results with the first wave research conducted in 2017 (N = 286, average age 13.76). The research results indicate that students during the pandemic spent more time on the Internet than before the pandemic (87%). 59% of schoolchildren believed that their parents possessed poorer Internet skills than children themselves, and most students reported how their parents informed them on the potential risks of Internet use. The research found that the pandemic increased the perception of parental involvement through talking about using the Internet, parents’ informing the children about risks, and spending time together using the Internet. © 2022, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. All rights reserved.

Augmenting Employability Skills by Integrating English as Communicative Language with Special Reference to COVID-19 by using ANOVA

As a matter of fact the English language is considered as the language of global commerce, the role and outcomes of English language provision in English-medium higher education institutions in the Indian fronts and remained central to any discussion on graduate profile and the employability of graduates in the global marketplace. This present study entails its direction toward the learning process of English language after the completion of graduation and post-graduation in the crucial times of COVID-19, where the most of the educational and training institutes were running in online mode. Many of the job aspirants use to learn English from the private English learning centers, who are having different methodologies for teaching the language, but presently this scenario has changed to online mode of training. Using a mixed methods approach, data was gathered through telephone interviews, student workplace simulations and employer focus groups. Findings of the study focus on the increase in employability skills during pandemic period, channeled through English as a second or additional language, becoming confident, gaining knowledgeable, etc. © The Electrochemical Society

Role of commercially available SARS-CoV-2 detection kits in pandemic of COVID-19 on the basis of N and E gene detection

C oronavirus December irresistible 2019 hasspecialistblowout introducing inworldwidea broad a genuine frompestilence general the timeis wellbeing vitalwhentoits emergency. therevelationachievement The in Hubei capacity ofProvince,isolate to recognize endeavorsChina an in notwithstanding the delicate and precise screening of expected instances of disease from patients in a clinical setting. Structural proteins the basic key role-playing in SARS-CoV2 identification include a spike, envelope membrane, nucleocapsid, and helper proteins. N-protein ties to the infection single positive-strand RNA that permits the infection to assume control over human cells and transform them into infection industrial facilities inside the capsid and E-protein shows a significant part in infection gathering, film permeability of the host cell, and infection has cell correspondence. Nucleic-Acid base testing presently offers the most touchy and early discovery of COVID-19. Notwithstanding, analytic advancements have explicit impediments and announced a few false negative and false positive cases, particularly during the beginning phases of contamination. Presently, more refined diagnostics are being created to improve the COVID-19 determination. This article presents an outline of diagnostic approaches to address a few inquiries and issues identified with the constraints of flow innovations and future innovative work difficulties to empower ideal, fast, minimal effort, and precise analysis of arising irresistible illnesses We depict purpose of-care diagnostics that are not too far off and urge scholastics to propel their advancements past origination. Creating fitting and-play diagnostics to deal with the SARS-CoV-2 flare-up would be valuable in forestalling forthcoming pandemics. © 2021. Advancements in Life Sciences. All rights reserved.

OPTIMISM AND FEAR OF INFECTION AS PREDICTORS OF OBSERVING STAY-AT-HOME RECOMMENDATIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

According to COVID-19 research, the introduction of a self-isolation and quarantine regime is an effective measure to contain the pandemic. The article examines the problem of psychological factors of observing stay-at-home recommendations, among which the main attention is paid to two types of optimism in a pandemic situation: constructive optimism and defensive optimism. It was assumed that they would have the opposite effect on adherence to the self-isolation regime, and the negative effect of defensive optimism would be mediated by a decrease in illness anxiety or fear of infection. To test this hypothesis, a longitudinal study (with an interval of six weeks) was carried out in a sample of 306 students (89% of women) using a life orientation test, the scales of constructive and defensive optimism by Gordeeva et al., and anxiety in a pandemic situation questionnaire by Tkhostov and Rasskazova. The results confirm our hypotheses: people who adhere to the stay-at-home recommendations are characterized by a higher level of constructive optimism, i.e. they believe that their efforts will help prevent infection and spread of the virus. In contrast, people who demonstrate unrealistic or defensive optimism, that is, who believe that the issue of coronavirus is exaggerated, fear infection less and admit that they do not strictly adhere to the requirements of self- isolation. These results indicate that, in addition to dispositional optimism, situation specific constructive and defensive optimism are essential in explaining health behavior, with the latter type of optimism serving as a response to anxiety associated with fear of the disease and its consequences.

Emotional well-being in COVID-19 mass quarantine: the role of personal response and life activity: a 14-day diary study in China.

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to explore quarantined individuals' emotional well-being over time and how personal response and life activity predict emotional well-being and its change. DESIGN/METHODS: Daily data were collected from 134 participants with 71 having 14 consecutive days' data. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) and General Linear Model (GLM) were used to examine the primary tests. RESULTS: Overall, positive and negative emotions declined significantly during the surveyed period. Meanwhile, differences were observed in the level of positive, depressed, and negative emotions and/or patterns of change among different population categories. The personal response of worrying about work and life was positively related to depressed and negative emotions at baseline, but was negatively related to the development of both depressed and negative emotions over time. Among life activities, family stressor was a significant predictor for both depressed and negative emotions while social support predicted positive emotions. Moreover, health & hygiene activity was positively related to positive emotions at baseline. CONCLUSIONS: The results provide scientific evidence for public health policymakers on quarantine policies and inform the general public about quarantine life. They highlight the importance of addressing the needs of vulnerable groups (parents with young children, divorcees, clinicians) during the pandemic, and demonstrate the benefits of promoting healthcare and hygiene activity, having a sense of worry and access to social support.

Factors Influencing Mental Health Among Chinese Medical and Non-medical Students in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a public health emergency of international concern. This study aimed to assess the psychological outcomes and their influencing factors among medical and non-medical University students during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey using structured questionnaires was conducted from February 20 to March 20, 2020. Psychological outcomes were assessed according to the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Influencing factors were assessed by COVID-19 knowledge, mindful coping scale, and sense of control scale. Results: Our sample is comprised of 563 University students (male = 172, mean age = 21.52). Among them, 382 are medical students. Among the participants, 12.26, 18.47, and 8.53% have moderate to severe levels of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms, respectively. Compared with the non-medical students, the medical students had a higher knowledge level of COVID-19, a higher sense of awareness, and fewer mental health symptoms. After controlling the covariance, perceived constraints of sense of control were negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress among both medical and non-medical students. Prevention of negative emotions by mindful coping was negatively associated with depression and anxiety among non-medical students. Knowledge of COVID-19 is not associated with mental distress among medical and non-medical students. Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, the mental health of University students was affected. Our findings suggested that a sense of control is a protective factor for both medical and non-medical students, while mindful coping is a protective factor for only non-medical students.

Assessment of Coronavirus disease, the nose pollution filter, fermented spicy Kimchee, and peppery hot soup consumed in Korea.

Recent statistics of Coronavirus diseases in Korea are studied with respect to many other countries. It is found that as of 8 February 2021, Korea has recorded 15.8 patients per 10,000 people, and this is used to calculate ratio to compare with other countries. On average, the number of Coronavirus patients in the world is 136.2 that is 8.6 times more than in Korea. The number of Covid-19 patients recorded in Korea is relatively smaller than other countries. There was no clear evidence on the atmospheric transport of Coronaviruses over 1 km to cause infection to other people. The infection of Coronaviruses appeared to occur mainly by close contact with an infected person or by airborne droplets in confined indoor environments, as noted earlier (Lancet, Respir Med 8(12):1159, 2020). To reduce the transmission of Coronavirus and related infections, the wearing of a pollution filter (mask) covering the nose and mouth is mandatory for Coronavirus patients. For the general public, however, we have invented a filter which covers only the nose. When there is no need for conversation and deep breathing, the nose band would be sufficient to filter out Coronavirus and air pollutants. Meanwhile, air and sea port activities including ground transport continued and strict policy on people mingle was not tightly enforced, and control measures to reduce infection were not so effective. However, it is believed that consuming fermented Korean spicy Kimchee and hot peppery soup plus warm rice tea helps in washing Coronaviruses around the throat deep down to the stomach. We find that cleansing the mouth and throat deeply including pathway is better than doing shallow gargling. A possible mechanism for cleansing the mouth and throat of Coronaviruses is here explored. This could have contributed to the relatively small number of Coronavirus patients observed in Korea.

[COVID-19 victims: To be or not to be ?] / Victimes du COVID-19 : être ou ne pas être ?

As part of this work, we propose to understand the global epidemic of COVID-19 coronavirus, as a sociobiological phenomenon. To carry out our reflection, we will base ourselves on a psychological listening experience (in a psychoanalytic orientation) conducted during the Nice attacks in 2016, and continued today, during the current pandemic context. More specifically, we will look at the signifier "victim", including all that it involves as questions about the subject. Our proposal will be to consider the victim status as a crossing. During this one, it is important that the suffering of the subjects is listened to, recognised, judged and compensated. In order for this to happen, everyone can find his own way of giving an answer to the reality of the virus, as it has imposed itself on us; but we will also see that one of the possible conclusions of this crossing consists in going through various forms of sublimation.