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Present situation after the Coronavirus has made every one of us understand the deficiencies and the impediments of India's medical services area. There was an intense shortage of clinical staff, beds, and other such essential things, which made us believe this is the future to be lived with, and provided that this is true, then, at that point, it is a significant eye-opener for specialists, designers, government and each capable individual to think of an answer for this. This occasion touched off the inclination for the tracking down the arrangement or possibly a stage towards settling or, in any event, restricting this destruction. Metaverse, and its ground-breaking capacities are the same old thing to the world. It's been anticipated that it will revolutionize gaming, association with companions, shopping, and whatnot. But this paper is kept to spotlight the most deserving space, the healthcare sector. Metaverse can change the fortunes of the medical care area. This paper will examine all the potential ways this innovation can be valuable. It can work on obsolete facilities for treatment and educational purposes, and numerous such up-sides have been highlighted beneath. © 2023 IEEE.
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Socioeconomic status (SES) is an instrument to measure the economic and social status of an individual or an economy concerning others. Though, Socioeconomic status is more commonly used to represent an economic difference in any society. Work from home is now a day (Covid-19) contributing to the nation for its socio-economic activities. This paper has examined the impact of ‘work from home' on the socio-economic status of India as so many people became unemployed, the income of the society decreased as well as the Education system was worse affected. The present situation of the pestilence provided great importance to work from home (WFH) for many employees to have the opportunity to both carries on working and safely from the risk of virus vulnerability. As this Pandemic period is uncertain, working from home is more acceptable as the new normal working way. On the contrary, to find the impact of WFH on socioeconomic status, we took three variables: education, employment, and income & wealth. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The SARS-CoV-2 virus-caused Corona pandemic is fast spreading over the world, and COVID-19 is projected to emerge from Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. On the other hand, Virus-caused public health crises pose a serious threat to people all over the world. The public's understanding of virus prevention is increasing daily in the present situation. One of the most promising areas of protective textiles is antiviral textiles. Antiviral textiles play an important /role in the health and hygiene sector. When a pandemic situation arises, it becomes an essential part of our daily lives. Nanotechnology's recent advancements give a fresh platform for dealing with the virus-resistant problem. Nano coating has boosted antiviral action on fabrics as compared to traditional coating. Antiviral activities of silver nanoparticles can help the host's resistance against infections. The current review paper describes the effectiveness of silver nanomaterials coated textiles for antiviral protection. © 2021 IEEE.
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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our everyday lives and demands everyone to take countermeasures such as wearing masks or disinfecting their hands. However, while previous work suggests that these countermeasures may profoundly impact biometric authentication, an investigation of the actual impact is still missing. Hence, in this work, we present our findings from an online survey (n=334) on experienced changes in device usage and failures of authentication. Our results show significant changes in personal and shared device usage, as well as a significant increase in experienced failures when comparing the present situation to before the Covid-19 pandemic. From our qualitative analysis of participants' responses, we derive potential reasons for these changes in device usage and increases in authentication failures. Our findings suggest that making authentication contactless is only one of the aspects relevant to encounter the novel challenges caused by the pandemic. © 2022 ACM.
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The present situation of the COVID-19 pandemic called for very strict safety norms to contain the virus. One of these mainly included wearing a mask at all places outside one's home. However, many do not take that seriously. This paper deals with an approach to detect a face mask on an individual's face, which if violated can be used in an alert system, and the like. The algorithm used to train the machine is convolution neural networks (CNN) for face(image) recognition in real-time. The results and inferences obtained are with respect to the model structure, algorithm, and variation in the dataset. The final model had an accuracy of 96.18% and was stable in real-time with no false-negative results. The final application alerts the concerned if the mask is not worn properly and captures an image to be sent to the concerned. © 2021 IEEE.
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The present situation is this world is pathetic and very uncertain. The killer disease Covid-19 dramatically turn down the regular activities of human beings. The normal life procedure of people is impacted. The society is highly stressed. To identifying covid 19 patients and their level of infection is a challenging task. In this paper proposes a Finite State Machine based classification model to identify the covid 19 patients and their level of infections. This model will help the physicians to diagnose and treat the patients in well advance. The experimental results shows the efficiency of the proposed system. © 2021 IEEE.
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The paper proposes a framework to demonstrate the effectiveness through blended learning in Digital Circuits Course by redesigning the content delivery and mode of hands-on experimentation. The present situation of pandemic has created scope for experimenting with various modes of course redesign and delivery for effective teaching/learning of the courses. A Digital Circuit course in third semester of Engineering discipline is redesigned w.r.t. video lectures, course content, number of experiments, mode of learning, mode of teaching, simulations, hands on experimentation and evaluation rubrics. A webpage was designed for students comprising of all the information needed to conduct the laboratory efficiently. The video lectures were prepared by the course instructors on the concepts and design aspects of all the experiments. The designed experiments were simulated and shown to the students for its appropriateness. The designed circuits were hard wired on the breadboard and the results were demonstrated through the recorded videos of the same. Lab was conducted in marathon from morning to evening with more focus on detailed resources shared and learnt by students before conduction in lab without compromising learning in hardware related labs. All these details helped the students to gather extra knowledge for effective implementation of designed circuits. The effectiveness of learning was measured through designed rubrics and graded accordingly. The students were exposed to another way of efficient learning i.e., blended mode. © 2021 IEEE.
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The pandemic produced by COVID-19 has forced a radical change in the strategies and methodologies used to share and transmit knowledge. With the schools/Universities' closure, the educational process changed radically from one day to the next. In particular, in several Latin-American countries, the quarantine conditions are extremely severe, limiting regular citizens' movement and confining them to remain at home, only allowing them to get out for "essential " activities. STEM-STEAM education, based on collaborative work, inquiry, experimentation, problem-solving, and project generation, encounters many obstacles. In the present situation, students and teachers' isolation does not have access to laboratories, materials, and other essential supplies to facilitate a quality educational process. Aware of these limitations, a group of professionals from several countries across the Americas have worked together and developed the ManifiestoSTEAM. The ManifiestoSTEAM is a voluntary team working without any monetary support. The ManifiestoSTEAM goal is to develop alternative ways to promote quality STEM-STEAM education reaching students, parents, and teachers directly at their homes. One of the initiatives developed by the ManifiestoSTEAM, #LaHoraSTEAM will be presented in this paper. #LaHora STEAM is a public broadcast (Facebook, YouTube) of one hour once a week - Saturdays to facilitate parents and children interaction. In each broadcast, one of the ManifiestoSTEAM members presents a "live" activity generating interactivity with the audience. Then, the other group members monitor the chats to share the audience's participation and show their questions to the presenter and the rest of the team to model a live learning experience based on STEM-STEAM activities. All the activities presented in the live broadcast are implemented using materials accessible at home! To ensure that the prospective participants receive the information (time, access link, list of materials), the ManifiestoSTEAM, allied with the Municipality of Lima - Perú manages the logistics of distributing the information live broadcasting. Following Lima's success, ManifiestoSTEAM implemented a similar series of seven activities in Medellin, Colombia. The name of Medellin's series is "Viernes de Ser + STEM." After discussing the methodology implemented to produce #LaHora STEAM, data collected in the first 15 broadcasts in Lima and seven in Medellin will be presented, showing the impact of the initiative. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021