The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant loss of human life throughout the world, and it poses an unprecedented threat to public health, food systems, and the workplace. COVID-19 has a significant impact on our lives right now; in addition to physical health, it has an influence on human mental health, particularly among medical personnel.

Can public support for recent presidents be explained by long-held findings in the presidential approval literature? The presidencies, of Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump seem to counter the existing literature, suggesting that recent approval ratings have become disconnected from the political environment. We synthesize prior scholarship on the environmental connection, salience, and economic handling to develop a general model to evaluate approval during the 1992-2020 period. The model estimates show the environmental connection remains intact. Looking at these four presidents together, we find the public punished and rewarded presidents in a manner consistent with the long-held findings of the literature. Even though each of these four presidents served in unique circumstances, the foundation of the public's approval remained consistent. Our results point to an enduring environmental connection that holds presidents accountable for the conditions of the day.

Purpose: Entrepreneurship is considered as a major driver of economic growth of a country. So, to understand the process of entrepreneurship and the ecosystem in which entrepreneurship flourishes it has been observed that there is an increase in the studies on entrepreneurship and thus the rise in literature. This review paper reviews the literature available and study the trends of the concepts of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE). Entrepreneurship is generally understood to occur at the local level and depends on the regional resources and supporting institutional policies for its operations. Methodology: This paper uses the data drawn from Scopus indexed publications from 2000 to Dec.2020 and does bibliometric analysis which shows that the concept of EE has taken over other concepts like entrepreneurial environment or environment of entrepreneurship which meant to draw insights into the institutions, mechanism, culture and network which plays important role as a support system to the entrepreneur. Findings: The paper specifies the pattern of authorship, which are the top journals, top authors and the keywords researched. This multidisciplinary review paper tries to address several specific topics in entrepreneurship and ecosystem like the development and evolution of ecosystems and research methodologies which could be used as a basis for further research. The study finds a raise in the number of scholarly articles in the field of EE, and entrepreneurship, across the world from the year 2010. The study also shows that many of the publications were authored jointly along with between different universities from different countries along with the highlights on trends of authorship, top most journals and most cited research papers. Limitations: One of the constraints of the article is that it has considered the publications from Scopus indexed publications only.

Air traffic controllers play a vital function with regard to ensuring the safety and efficiency of international civil aviation. Despite this, there is a lack of research addressing how air traffic controllers are trained. This paper collects opinions about the air traffic control (ATC) training programme in Singapore from a group of 30 instructors who were working within the aerodrome training team. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants and thematic analysis was used to identify key opinions. Significant advantages and disadvantages of the current training programme were identified, such as pre-training and simulator constraints. In addition to findings relating to the learning of required skill sets, interviews also highlighted the need for a just culture in the workplace and human factors training.

Social Work in the English- speaking Caribbean has adopted a generalist perspective that tends to obfuscate the Caribbean socio-cultural-political of peoples in the region. This brief calls for the development and of a Caribbean-centric perspective with Caribbean people as a means of resolving this dilemma.

The purpose of the study was to identify and rank the most important skills expected by the hospitality and tourism employers from new graduates for working in the hospitality and tourism sector on giving direction to the improvement of hospitality and tourism higher education programs in Jordan.

Open science policies are a much-discussed issue. This literature review aims to examine the approach given to open science policy in these studies. The approach given to open science in the selected works has different aspects: policy framing and its geopolitical aspects are described as an asymmetries replication and epistemic governance tool. The main geopolitical aspects of open science policies described in the literature are the relations between international, regional and national policies. There are also different components of open science covered in the literature: open data seems much discussed in the English speaking works while open access is the main component discussed in the Portuguese and Spanish speaking papers. Finally, the relation between open science policies and the general science policy is framed by highlighting the innovation and transparency that open science can bring to it.

This study utilizes the 2017-2018 Civil Rights Data Collection to explore referrals to law enforcement of public high school students with intersectional identities (racial/ethnic, gender, dis/ability status). We ran negative binomial regressions via Stata 17.0 to predict risk by intersectional identities and utilized covariates including psychological supports, counselors, social workers, security guards, law enforcement officers, Title I status, and school size. Results indicate that school-based law enforcement officers predicted higher law enforcement referrals for Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaskan Native male students with and without disabilities. Psychological supports, however, predicted lower law enforcement referrals for Black males and American Indian/Alaskan Native male students with and without dis/abilities. As the nation addresses systemic racism in the public school system, the experiences of students with intersecting identities must be better understood.

Findings regard the strategic allocation of educational resources by stakeholder, for improvement of church-founded secondary schools in Uganda (and the world at large) for their effectiveness and quality.

Since the ‘Education for All Agenda’ was ratified at the Jomtien conference in 1990, the world has moved to implementing the agenda. Papua New Guinea believes that education is the solution to its social, economic, and political problems, and in taking ownership of and working towards implementing the programme. However, Papua New Guinea’s education system concentrates on improving girls’, education and special education. This has resulted in improved enrolment numbers and higher retention rates nationwide but has failed to deliver quality education to all students specifically marginalised children of both genders. This essay argues that delivering quality education to all children should be addressed through an intersectionality approach. Firstly, intersectionality is defined and the ways that intersecting factors cause marginalisation and discrimination within different groups around the world and in Papua New Guinea are described. Secondly, the essay discusses how Papua New Guinea’s culture contributes to segregation. Finally, it discusses how Papua New Guinea can approach intersectionality issues and improve its education system to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, i.e. to provide inclusive and equitable education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

The data includes the answers to a structured survey of the author for energy policymakers in the provider and donor institutions of the technical assistance program for the development of the Turkish energy sector.

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of practicing skills with different coordination requirements (soccer, volleyball and golf) in terms of physical and intra-team interactions on children’s cognitive functions and compare them with each other.

Global warming is a serious problem which requires an urgent solution. In economics context, economists believe that carbon pricing, specifically carbon tax and its mirror image, cap and trade, are the best options and they suggest all countries should use it to address global warming (Goulder & Schein, 2013). However, advantages and disadvantages of carbon pricing have often resulted in some countries accepting the idea and some rejecting it. Therefore, this literature explains how the carbon tax, and cap-and trade work; the probability of their success, specifically in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and how to attract countries that resist the idea of carbon pricing into implementing it. And finally, this article explains why a carbon offset scheme, under cap and trade, best fits developing countries and which Papua New Guinea can use to improve the lives of its citizens while, at the same time, reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The COVID-19 global pandemic brought with it massive disruptions across many aspects of daily living including losses of employment and financial opportunities, reduced access to essential resources, lack of engagement in social activities, increases in social isolation, and mass transitions to remote school and work environments. Pre-pandemic research on events with paralleled community-wide effects has demonstrated a resulting increase in alcohol use and misuse as a result of these massive disruptions. However, early research on the impact of the current global pandemic on alcohol use has painted a complex picture. The current study utilized social media content (i.e., Twitter) as a way to investigate the initial impact of the pandemic on our relationship with alcohol. Analyses were also conducted to determine if the pandemic resulted in a shift away from typical weekly patterns related to alcohol use (i.e., increased on weekends vs. weekdays). A 2 (pandemic: pre-pandemic vs. post-pandemic) x 2 (day of week: weekday vs. weekend) ANCOVA was calculated to predict the prevalence of alcohol related tweets while controlling for the total number of tweets. The prevalence of alcohol related tweets significantly increased following the declaration of the global pandemic, however, the pattern of alcohol related tweets across the days of the week did not differ as a result of the pandemic. These results may be a reflection of major shifts in the psychological and social phenomena associated with alcohol as a result of the devastating impacts of the global pandemic.

The legacy of colonial spatial hegemony in Kolkata is investigated here with focus on the idea of public space particularly, the open maidan, defined by predominantly colonial buildings. This former centrepiece of British spatial expression of authority and pomp is appropriated by diverse uses but the edges can be read as a built record of the city’s tryst with colonial rule for 200 years. Evolving from a strictly Palladian palette to a more accommodating Imperial Indo-Saracenic, the continuity of colonial vocabulary is only rarely broken by modern buildings. Parallel situations in other British colonies e.g. the padang in Singapore, have undergone considerable redefinition and re-articulation, often consciously undermining the erstwhile hegemonic position. The paper would trace the ambivalent image of the maidan over the years, to uncover, albeit partially, the patterns to which the colonial, post-colonial and even the neo-liberal State limits itself in imagining this heterogeneous space. The evolving socio-political imagination of the maidan and in that the cityscape would be traced on the basis of how media has captured it at critical historical junctures, the samples varying across time and across media. Maidan as a backdrop of riots, rallies and atrocious human sufferings in the wake of the Partition of India would be captured from newspaper clippings and narratives. Post-independence nation coming to terms with modernization and subsequent characterization of the maidan as a site for civic unrest, a first of a kind public space for sports clubs, picnics, fairs- an embodiment of personal freedom- the urban other- would be understood from stills from Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy and the Calcutta Trilogy. The attempt here would be to look for broader patterns of postcolonial urbanism by specific focus on evolving socio-political re-imaginings of colonial urban public spaces.

This study aims to investigate lecturer teaching using digital technology and its impact on pedagogical change. The change from face-to-face learning to online learning has implications for educational institutions. The problem is that many lecturers find it difficult to use digital technology in teaching, so that it is not in line with online pedagogy and online curriculum. The knowledge, abilities, and skills of the lecturers are questioned because there is no such alignment. Thus the impact of pedagogical change on online teaching is contradictory. Moreover, the components of digital technology and pedagogical changes will be fragmented. The research method approach is qualitative by interviewing six lecturers who teach at one university in Tangerang City. The findings obtained, three lecturers are knowledgeable, capable, and skilled in using digital technology to align with changes in online pedagogy. The other three lecturers have difficulty using digital technology, so the institution must provide continuous training so that learning can run smoothly. As a result, by using digital technology that impacts pedagogical changes and online curricula, learning can run smoothly, despite the many difficulties in adopting digital technology. Learning using digital technology is a 21st-century learning process.

This article adopts multinomial logistic regression for determining the livelihood outcomes. Although study could not identify superior or preferred livelihood capitals but showed that livelihoods enhanced by specific livelihood assets framework. Findings provide important information for policymakers to identify different livelihood capitals to secure improved livelihood outcomes.

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory, food is considered a basic physiological need and higher-ordered needs can only be achieved if the basic needs are met. In the education context, for learners to concentrate on learning and for educational institutions to achieve high-quality learning, learners’ physiological needs i.e. food and water must be met before delivering teaching and learning activities. Therefore, different countries introduced ‘Food for Education’ in a form of ‘School Feeding Programme’ and ‘Food For schooling Programme’ to achieve quality education and to redistribute food to poor families. While both programmes might have advantages, this essay argues that a ‘School Feeding Programme’, that practises ‘Onsite Feeding’ can achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, i.e. quality equitable life long learning for all learners. Conversely, a ‘Food for School Programme’ can increase enrolment of both boys and girls, however, it might fail to achieve quality learning and, furthermore, can develop a dependency mentality. Moreover, food delivered as aid is often used to pursue donors’ interests so recipient countries should be monitored, to ensure such aid is carefully directed to priority areas to achieve maximum benefit. Failure can result in recipient countries facing unintended consequences. This essay concludes that the School Feeding Programme should be used for achieving quality learning and to avoid unintended consequences and break the cycle of poverty faced by the underprivileged.