Utilization of Waste Banks System in the COVID-19 Pandemic

People's perspectives and behaviors altered in a variety of ways during the pandemic period, most notably in areas related to health, environment, and most notably waste management. Many people still prefer to work from home and this in turn leads to a large accumulation of garbage without having any proper means of disposal. As a result, the garbage area will serve as a breeding ground for illness. Garbage is usually composed of a residual waste generated from a product or object that has outlived its useful life, but can still be recycled into a valuable item. On this basis, the solution is to use a waste bank;it is a collection point for sorted garbage. It is claimed that using a waste bank can help in preventing the garbage accumulation. The main purpose of this study is to determine the contribution of the waste bank to end garbage accumulation. The information gathered through a review of the literature and direct interviews with multiple informants. According to the findings of the literature review, waste banks can provide a variety of benefits to users, as well as the community and surrounding environment. The proposed research study's findings show that the changes in community activity patterns contribute to an increase in garbage, and that the community plays an important role in waste control. From the performed research study, it is evident that m any individuals are interested about garbage banks and their benefits based on this presumption. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Digital Transformation in Early Childhood Education: Teachers' Self-regulated Model for Digital Learning

—The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the world of education, especially for lower levels of education such as early childhood education. It has changed its teaching pattern into innovation by implementing online learning. Therefore, teachers need to have a good self-regulated strategy to achieve the online learning goals. This study aims to describe a conceptual model for representing the self-regulated strategy of early childhood teachers in digital learning using a quantitative survey approach. The data collection involved 100 early childhood teachers in Indonesia with a focus on the analysis of three aspects of teachers' behavior in a digital learning environment: 1) IT experience, 2) IT motivation, and 3) online self-regulated strategy. The study proposed a conceptual model for teachers' self-regulated strategy to implement digital learning. The study also noted that based on the technology perspective, both IT experience and IT motivation play a critical role in affecting teachers' self-regulated strategy for digital learning. The main contribution of this study was to provide an understanding of the importance of a self-regulated strategy for teachers toward innovation in early childhood education in a digital learning environment. In doing so, the results of this study can be regarded as a starting point for incentive future research for the successful implementation of digital transformation in early childhood education. © 2023 by the authors.

Livelihood of street vendors in Yogyakarta amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

This study aims to find out the characteristics of street vendors in Yogyakarta City before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the livelihood strategies performed by the street vendors during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the relationship between street vendors characteristics and their livelihood strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors used a quantitative method with a total of 83 respondents. The results indicated age characteristics ranging from 19-68 years, the last education completed by the street vendors was dominated by senior high school or equivalent, the status in the household was dominated by the head of the household, and the number of household members was 1 to 9 people. The COVID-19 pandemic induced significant impacts on the employment situation in the household, working hours, and income. The livelihood strategies performed by the street vendors amidst the COVID-19 pandemic were survival strategy (73.49%) and consolidation strategy (26.51%). This study found that the relationship between the characteristics of street vendors and livelihood strategies varied. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.

Digital disruption in early childhood education: A qualitative research from teachers' perspective

In the digital era, teachers need to behave more positively attitude about ICT. In this study, we investigated the perception of early childhood teachers regarding the use of ICT in the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic through a qualitative interview. For the data collection, we interviewed 53 early childhood teachers in Indonesia. The data collected from interviews were analyzed using thematic coding techniques. The research obtained particular information on how the perception of the teachers to digital disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic within five main themes: 1) ICT benefits (8 sub-themes), 2) the importance of ICT competencies (2 sub-themes), 3) promotion of the ICT training (5 sub-themes), 4) the uses of ICT (6 sub-themes), and 5) barriers in using ICT (5 sub-themes). The results indicated that ICT training that supports ICT use among early childhood teachers needs to be promoted more. This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the use of ICT in the early childhood teaching process. In addition, this study also increases the empirical study findings that are useful for reporting the online learning practice in early childhood education. © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Healthcare Workers Amidst the Second Wave of the Pandemic in India: A Single Centre Study.

Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers (HCW) has been reported in varying degrees in different parts of the world. In this study, we investigate the degree of vaccine hesitancy amongst HCWs and factors associated with it during the second wave of the pandemic in our centre. Methods We undertook this single-centre, cross-sectional study in an urban tertiary care hospital, using a modified Oxford COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy scale. We performed descriptive and appropriate univariate analysis. We used the Kruskal Wallis test as appropriate, and Spearman rank correlation to evaluate the relation between general attitude to vaccination and COVID vaccine hesitancy score. Results We obtained 223 responses. The majority of HCWs in our sample (n = 201; 90.1%) had received at least one dose of the vaccine. The mean (SD) Oxford vaccine hesitancy score was 28.54 ± 2.05, with no significant difference observed between doctors (28.45 ± 2.26) and nurses (28.68 ± 1.70), or across different specialities. Of the respondents, 92.7% (n = 216) responded positively to taking the vaccine. The lack of dependents at home was the only significant contributor to vaccine hesitancy. Age, gender, marital status, and COVID-19 infection status did not significantly affect vaccine hesitancy. Conclusion We found a significantly lower degree of hesitancy towards COVID-19 amongst HCWs in our centre during the pandemic's second wave. A more comprehensive and multi-centric study is required to validate this finding.

How will the COVID-19 crisis affect the trend in individual savings

COVID-19 outbreak has brought a global challenge in economy. It has affected badly on the financial sector all over the world. This study was conducted by collecting responses from the employed and student population from various parts of Kerala. Primary data have been collected from 200 responses through a structured questionnaire prepared using Google forms. Percentage analysis with frequency distribution is used to summarize and infer the data along with pie charts and column charts. Chi-square test have been used to analyse the data using Microsoft Excel sheet to test the developed hypothesis and derive conclusions. It is concluded that savings have played a significant role during this pandemic to sustain and also this pandemic encouraged others to start saving because of the experiences they had.

Clinical characteristics, degree of severity and mortality rate of COVID-19 patient in Central Java, Indonesia

Introduction: COVID-19 is a disease of a thousand faces, with varied clinical characteristics, ranging from mild to severe or critical degrees. This study purposed to identify COVID-19 clinical characteristics, disease severity and mortality rates of patients admitted to UNS Hospital. Method: Data for 205 UNS Hospital patients were taken retrospectively from June - November 2020. Medical records were obtained including gender, age, clinical symptoms and comorbidities according to the disease severity. Data analysis was performed using a descriptive method using the Microsoft Excel 2019 application to determine the prevalence of each clinical characteristic based on the disease severity and mortality rate. Results: Total data were 205 analyzed, 50.7% female and 49.3% male, the most age group was 19-39 years (43.4%). Patients divided into mild, moderate and severe categories were 53.7%, 34.1% and 12.2%. Clinical symptoms include cough (64.88%), fever (47.8%), shortness of breath (45.4%), malaise (23.41%), nausea (20.49%). Meanwhile, the dominant comorbid factors were hypertension (24.3%) and diabetes mellitus (17.1%). The highest mortality rate was 40-59 years (52%). Duration of treatment 10-14 days. Conclusion: Clinical characteristics of confirmed SARS-COV-2 patients found at UNS Hospital still vary widely, with mild to severe symptoms with the comorbid DM and hypertension dominating the death of COVID-19 patients. © 2021 UPM Press. All rights reserved.

Study on the Usage of Mobile Banking Application during COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 outbreak has brought a global challenge in economy. It has affected badly on the financial sector all over the world. It created fear in the minds of people to use liquid cash and thus, has led to the adoption of mobile banking services. This study was conducted by collecting responses from the employed and student population from various parts of Kerala, who use mobile banking services. Primary data have been collected from 268 responses through a structured questionnaire prepared using Google forms. Percentage analysis with frequency distribution is used to summarize and infer the data along with pie charts. Chisquare test have been used to analyze the data using Microsoft Excel sheet to test the developed hypothesis and derive conclusions. It is concluded that mobile banking application have created a good impact during this pandemic to safeguard the lives and complete transactions at their fingertips without visiting banks physically. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.

Health effects of covid-19 across the globe - A review

Numerous viral infections have arisen and affected global healthcare facilities. Millions of people were at severe risk of acquiring several evolving viral infections through several factors, Covid- 19 being one of the most popular ones requiring more efforts to control its spread. During the epidemic period of coronavirus diseases, appropriate oral health management and disease prevention of children is very important for children's oral and general health. In order to prevent the occurrence of cross-infection and epidemic spreading of Covid- 19 during dental practice, the recommendation to parents include making them hand hygiene at home and include proper oral care habits. Covid-19is a global human disaster presented with an emphasis on disturbing mental health aspects of the ongoing pandemic. According to the cross-sectional study, two weeks after the occurrence of Covid-19 in chin almost 40% of the affected youth were proven to have psychological problems, it is suggested that this is likely the zoonotic origin of Covid-19. Person to person transmission of Covid-19 infection led to the isolation of patients that were subsequently administered a variety of treatments, Extensive measures to reduce person to person transmission of Covid- 19 have been implemented to control the current outbreak. © 2020 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.

The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic to informal economic sector in Indonesia: Theoretical and empirical comparison

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global multidimensional crisis, one of its impacts being the crisis on the informal economy. This paper presents a review of the effects of this pandemic on the informal economy, coupled with empirical evidence based on surveys conducted in Indonesia. Data used in this study was collected by an online survey during the pandemic. Theoretically, there are two points of view about the informal economy roles during a crisis: optimistic views that see informal economy survive in a crisis and pessimistic views that see the ongoing informal economy continue to suffer losses and also informal workers as vulnerable groups during a crisis. The research also discussed the impacts of the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic on informal employments and incomes, readiness in dealing with the pandemic, and the livelihood conditions of informal workers. The crisis as a result of this pandemic provides a new experience for the informal sector in dealing with the crisis. The informal sector is not always a hero during the crisis but rather an alternative sector that offers business flexibility. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020.