Older adults over 60 are at a higher risk of getting severely sick and dying from COVID–19. Sri Lanka has one of the fastest aging populations in South and South–East Asia. In addition to having a rapidly aging population, Sri Lanka is a developing country with limited resources to accommodate the older population that can be significantly affected by COVID–19. Statistics up to date shows that older adults are at a much higher risk of dying from COVID–19. Older adults being at a much higher risk of contracting and dying from COVID–19 has important implications for the way in which public health and clinical responses should be developed. These implications have been largely overlooked in both high and low and middle–income countries when providing guidance and implementing regulations, which can have a greater impact in low and middle–income countries. Preparedness of the healthcare systems to respond to the pandemic with a lack of facilities, resources (i.e., ventilators) and staff in the healthcare system, specifically in hospitals, intensive care units and long–term care homes is a concern that should be taken into consideration when clinical responses are developed. Challenges around protecting community–dwelling older adults who are caregivers to grandchildren, receiving informal care from children in the same household, living in living in remote areas, or living alone or dependent on others need to be taken into consideration when developing public health responses.

Professional Development (PD) has generally been associated with the learning opportunities teachers avail externally. However, the latest trends propagate grounding PD activities in the work place with the assumption that such shift will not only enable teachers to be engaged in ongoing learning but also help them to find contextual solutions for their specific issues. For other academics, however, PD refers to all the planned and unplanned activities which teachers avail to improve their practices. In this background, this research explored how relevant stakeholders in rural Pakistan perceive PD. Using a survey method and questionnaire tool, data were collected from teachers, school leaders, education department officials and representatives of PD providers. The outcomes showed that majority of stakeholders associate PD to external learning opportunities provided to the teachers. In addition, there is a lack of shared understanding among different stakeholders with regard to the meaning of PD. These conclusions have implications for PD providers and educational reformers. Teachers should be oriented on latest trends in PD as well as supported to use the latest school-based PD models for their ongoing development.

The study is about the challenges and opportunities of Food Processing Units in Thiruvananathapuram City.The data is collected by primary study of respondents using a questionnaire schedule.

In the paper, we examine the relationship between county context and the use of congregate care by White, Black, and Hispanic youth, aged between 10 and 17. We measure the use of congregate care as the probability a young person will be placed in congregate care during an out-of-home care spell. We define county context in three ways: urbanicity, social disadvantage, and the supply effect on demand. We also include whether states mandate the use of an assessment to regulate entry into congregate care. Our primary interest is organized around differences in county context, the rate of congregate care utilization, and the connection between context and disparity. We find that, regardless of race, congregate care placement rates tend to be higher in counties where supply affects demand. However, in those counties, the Black/White disparity tends to be lower and the Hispanic/White disparity tends to be higher. The association between a mandatory assessment policy and congregate care placement is in the expected direction. After describing the study limitations, we discuss implications for future research and policy.

A face-to-face survey (N=388) was conducted in January 2019, in the Beni-Makada district of Tangier (Morocco). The district has the highest poverty rate (14 % versus 7 %), the lowest per capita green space (0.27m2), and houses more than 40% of its population, which makes it the densest and most disadvantaged neighborhood in Tangier. During the 22nd conference of parties (COP22) organized in 2016 in Morocco, the study area, attracted government and media attention partially because of the abundance of PSG. Efforts were made to further spread this practice in similar districts in Tangier and other cities through the organization of neighborhood competitions, and funding to NGOs. There are approximatively 93.737 households in the district, 87% lives in individual patio houses called modern Moroccan houses. All PSG in the study area are present on neighborhood streets back to back with their owners’ houses therefore visible and accessible to all. The used questionnaire was tested with focus groups and a certified translator fluent in Darija (Moroccan Arabic dialect) before being conducted. A sample size of a minimum of 384 (1 person per household) was calculated to achieve a significance level of α=0.05 and a 95% confidence level. The interviews were conducted by four male university students, fluent in local dialect. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Tokyo. We obtained oral informed consent for adults or parental permission and oral assent for minors prior to each interview. Adulthood was defined according to its legal definition in Morocco (≥18 years). Every participant receives extensive information about the study, its aims, anonymity of collected data and its exclusive use for scientific research. About 80% agreed to participate in the survey. All interviews were conducted in private. After four weeks, we obtained 388 valid questionnaires.

Favoritism in Seafarer’s Management Perspective of Maritime Industry: A Scale Development and Validation Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of favoritism in ship management. The most important determinant of quality and safety in ship management is human resources. Personnel turnover rate, job satisfaction level of seafarers, organizational commitment, high level and individual well-being of the employees have an important role in ensuring quality and safety. In many investigor studies, it is seen in the results of research that favoritism increases job stress, personnel turnover rate and decreases job satisfaction, organizational commitment, motivation and teamwork. Design/methodology/approach – Favoritism has a negative impact on safe and quality management of ships. Based on this importance, seafarers’ perceptions were measured, and it was aimed to develop a valid and reliable favoritism scale. The scale questions, which were prepared on the basis of semi-structured interviews and favoritism studies, were applied with 252 different seafarers. Findings – As a result of the factor analyses conducted in SPSS 23, a 22-item favoritism scale consisting of three factors related to demographic and personal characteristics, social rights and opportunities and operational processes was developed. The reliability and validity studies of the scale were conducted, and it was observed that the scale has high reliability. Confirmation was carried out on the AMOS 21 software. According to the model fit indices, the items 31 and 32 were removed, and it was seen that the scale had values accepted by structural equation modelling. Originality/value – In the light of the findings that were obtained, it may be stated that the measurement instrument that was developed within the scope of this study will fill a significant gap in the relevant literature. Nevertheless, organizational behavior issues in ship crew management have been influential in recent years and therefore, it has the quality of being a measurement instrument that could be utilized in future studies.

This article examines the development impact of informal remittances sent by Myanmar migrant workers from Thailand to Myanmar, and focus on its implications on knowledge, value, practices within the mobility framework.

The conflict-inflicted protracted internal displacement situation in Ukraine is marked with social capital redistribution caused by mass and socially complicated influx of forced migration-affected persons into host communities, and restructuring of the latter. The study is based on the regional survey data provided in the UN Social Cohesion and Reconciliation Index for Eastern Ukraine, and National Monitoring System Reports on the Situation of Internally Displaced Persons, 2018-2019. The limitations of the discourse principle realization are viewed through the migration-related indicators of social capital, burden, and (in)visibility. There is also suggested a discussion of the policy-framing outcomes imposed by the imaginative contexts of “burden” and “social capital resource” being applied to newcomers in a host community; and the power implementation based on anopticism and panopticism as deviations of vulnerable groups visibility in the communities, as well as the groups being excluded from agenda-forming at the local level due to pseudoassimilation or state-imposed measures of control. In the article, there is outlined a project of Anopticism and Panopticism Index, AP Index, that is considered to contribute to understanding of visibility of the displaced persons, their access to decision-making, and sense of belonging to the community, as well as the common perspectives of newcomers and locals within a receiving community. This study is aimed at provoking discussion on including the indicators of vulnerable group visibility deviations, as well as social capital vs. burden, in the context of victimization counteracting, into the migration-related surveys.

Food waste and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem. In this context, this paper takes a look at the general view with the aim of achieving a better understanding of the different types of food waste, and tries to ponder on the required steps or standard management practices should be taken to reduce the impact of food waste burden. The study has tried to analyse the waste management practices, cost of waste management practices etc. in small scale food processing units.

The study aims to discover how to enhance teachers' well-being, health, self-efficacy at schools, and how to alleviate their stress and burnout conditions so that teachers' teaching and students' learning outcomes would be greatly improved. A designed survey using questionnaires that retrieved from literature consisted of three factors and 44 items. The 67 valid responses for pre-test and 944 participants were sampled in 56 schools of Taiwan for the formal survey. The data were put into mediation effect test of teaching-related psychosocial hazards factors by SPSS. Result supported that the mediation intensity of teaching-related psychosocial hazards have a significant weakening mediation effect on the positive relationship between work resources and work well-being. It demonstrated that among teaching-related psychosocial hazards, lesson disturbances and conflicts with parents are highly hazardous to their work well-being. In consequence, their teaching efficiency, teaching passions, and teaching performance could be impacted negatively.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the mother tongue development levels of pre-school children within the context of various language skill categories. Within the framework of the research, the children’s potentials in terms of their verbal presentation skills, their self-confidence developed toward their mother tongue and their communication competences were evaluated. The study used the Turkish version of the HAVAS 5 linguistic level diagnostic tool that is originally employed to form the basis of individually customized language support programs. 41 (N= 37; 29 boys, 12 girls) pre-school children registered in the kindergarten of a school located in the Muratpaşa district of Antalya and selected using the random sampling method were included in the research.

The K-12 system of education is a complex organization that has historically denied students of low socio-economic status the opportunity for political engagement through the exercise of power (Apple, 1993; Ben-Porath, 2013; Boggs, 2000; Crayton, 2014; Ethiraj & Levinthal, 2009; Fazzaro, 2006; Gordon, 1980; Horowitz, 1969; Karabel, 1977; Lukes, 2005; Shipps, 2008; Wedel, 2009). This statement is in response to a series of questions presented by members of my Academic Advisory Committee, respectively, as a Qualifying Exam for doctoral candidacy in Urban Education Studies. This article is a response to the series of questions that will address the concern of the opening statement including: Professor Peter Seybold’s Questions of Power in the K-12 Education System; Professor Brendan Maxcy’s request on the state of political youth engagement in Urban Secondary Schools; and Professor Jim Scheurich’s request for focus on PAR (Participatory Action Research) and YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) in the education system as they relate to the political engagement of Urban Secondary Students.

China has a long history of more than 5000 years, which inheriting many excellent moral traditions. China’s moral level and civilization degree once led the world, and had a profound influence on other countries. However, a series of socialproblems mergingin China in recent yearsbecause of the social morals, these problems limit the progress of social civilization seriously andinfluence people’s living environment adversely. In order to analyze the changes of social morals and theroot causes, the research team designed four different situational simulationsin the main developed coastal cities in China. The survey results indicated that China’s present social ethics is not ideal,it isnecessary to make root cause analysis and implement improvement measures to recreategood moral civilization in the whole society.

Today, internet memes have become a part of the political campaigning. This paper thus analyses how internet memes have been used as a medium to communicate political messages amongst millennials in Uganda. Parameters like political engagement, influence on political views and voting behavior are used to analyze the different political memes trending on social media platforms in Uganda under the framework of the elaboration of likelihood model of management.

In the last few years more and more Chinese Internet users are turning to paid digital content for educational and professional guidance. Drawing on the MAIN model and the social impact theory, this study examines how bandwagon cues of the content product and professional backgrounds of the content provider impact consumer trust and purchase intention. In a 2 ´ 2 between-subject factorial design, participants viewed a introduction interface of a online content product depicting high and low levels of bandwagon cue and source expertise. Our study suggests that bandwagon cues indirectly affect consumer purchase intention, mediated by consumer trust, and that the effect is contingent upon the content provider having a high level of expertise. Managerial implications are also provided based on the empirical results.

With the nationwide discontent against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA, 2019), which allows citizenship on the basis of religion to six non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and coupled with the exercise of National Register of Citizens (NRC) that has been allegedly said to be an exercise in targeted exclusionary politics against the Muslim population in Assam and as well as the pan-Indian Muslim populace, the Indian government today seems to stand on thin ice when it comes to justifying their stance on grounds of secularism. The expectation of the government withdrawing the CAA is absolutely futile. Rather, the government has made up its mind to decisively push through this crisis, by using all of state apparatuses to establish the state’s sovereign right to govern its population. By and large, India as a pillar of global democracy is facing an exigency of its own. The objective of this piece is to observe a novel trend of nationalism as a concept subsuming democracy in itself slowly and subtly in the age of neo-liberal democratic paradigm. In particular, India’s modern nexus with democracy and nationalism is explored while glancing back in history in order to understand the origins of Indian nationalism.

This study has used a thematic anyalsis of the Surrey Police interview transcript of Jimmy Savile in 2009. The interview transcript was analysed for themes, words and phrases used by Savile during the police interview. The findings suggest that Savile lacked any victim empathy and displayed traits often associated with narcissistic personality disorder or (NPD). In addition, Savile dominated the interview process creating a power imbalance in his favour. Savile also atributes blame towards the victims and also criminalises them. These behaviours are often associated with sexual offending. The thematic analysis of the Savile interview is important as it is the only available record of his behaviour and personality when confronted with serious sexual offending allegations. There are no ethical or legal considerations for this study. No ethical approval was necessary regarding the study. The study can also be replicated by way of thematic analysis.

Background: Previous studies have indicated that university students constitute a higher risk population for mental health problems, especially for depression. Yet, there appears to be a lack of literature addressing a such issues in France. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence rates of depression, its sociodemographic correlates in French university students (FUS), and to examine whether individual resilience resources moderated and mediated the relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms. Methods: The data were collected through web-based questionnaires. The sample included 1435 FUS with a mean age of 20.5 (SD = 3.38) years. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), the Perceived Stress Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale, and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Descriptive, multiple logistic regression and mediation analyses were used. Results: With respect to the BDI-II’s cutoff scores, 20.3% and 22.8% were positive to moderate and severe depression, respectively (43.1%). Gender and education attainment appeared as moderate risk factors when accounting for cumulative effect of perceived stress and individual resilience. Resilience was found to buffer and mediate partially the perceived stress–depression relationship. Conclusion: The prevalence of depression was higher in FUS, as similar to those reported in previous studies. The amount of academic and daily stress explained this prevalence. University students with low resilience level were more at risk. Interventions with aim to improving resilience skills could help to mitigate the negative effects of stress and to promote mental health in this population.