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  Attitudes An Econometric Study of a Chronic Disease Focused Online Health Community Value Co Creation


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  Improve Diabetes Self Management and Clinical Outcomes Evidence Logistics Evaluation Considerations and Needs for Future Research Self Management Interventions Proposal and Validation of a New Operational


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  Chronic Illness and Disability Health Care Customer Value Cocreation Practice Styles Group Education


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  A Metadesign Theory for Tailorable Decision Support Group Participants Experiences of a Patient Directed Group Based Education Program for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Service Experiences


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  e modules Massive Open Online Courses research projects Jade talked about having to disguise her true motivation for studying psychology i e career


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  Determinants of Retail Electronic Purchasing A Multi Period Investigation1 INFOR Information Systems


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  Adolescents With Specific Learning Disabilities Istraživanje Kvaliteta Uslužnog Process u Kruzing Turizmu


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  The World Cruise Industry A Profile of the Global Labour Market Seafarer s International Research Centre SIRC


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  Firestein s Textbook of Rheumatology Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Rheumatology Rheumatic Diseases Clinics of North America


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  Student Verification System for Online Assessments Bolstering Quality and Integrity of Distance Learning


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title: Online Monitoring Technologies For Drinking Water Systems Security
author: Capodaglio, Andrea G.
date: 2009
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120896/
doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-2365-0_15
summary:
  More stringent constraints placed nowadays on water companies to provide high quality drinking water, increasing water resources scarcity in many areas of the planet, forcing water companies to work on marginal water bodies for supply, and the threat of hostile actions by political extremists and terrorist groups, that may willingly and deliberately cause contamination of an otherwise safe supply, are recent issues that have spurred demand for more efficient and comprehensive online water monitoring technologies. Monitoring requirements can be defined in relationship to: • Source water quality: (a) variability, in space and time (very low for groundwater, low for lakes, high for rivers); (b) vulnerability (type and location of possible contaminating activity), time-of-travel of the contaminant to the intake, effectiveness of barriers, control options after an alarm • Water treatment: process optimization options and response times, sampling frequency must allow adequate process control • Distribution systems: minimization of deterioration of water quality over time and distance, early detection of cross-connections and water losses In addition, it must be considered that online monitors could have different sensitivity and selectivity according to the matrix and range of concentrations analyzed.

abstract:
  More stringent constraints placed nowadays on water companies to provide high quality drinking water, increasing water resources scarcity in many areas of the planet, forcing water companies to work on marginal water bodies for supply, and the threat of hostile actions by political extremists and terrorist groups, that may willingly and deliberately cause contamination of an otherwise safe supply, are recent issues that have spurred demand for more efficient and comprehensive online water monitoring technologies. Traditionally, quality parameters associated with drinking water provision were monitored using routine grab samples followed by laboratory analysis. This approach only allowed to capture small data sets, mostly unrepresentative of the true variance at the source, and allowed potentially important events to occur undetected. This paper examines state-of-the-art technologies for online monitoring of water quality in supply water systems, and reports some recent application examples.


id: cord-021088-9u3kn9ge
title: Awaiting the Second Big Data Revolution: From Digital Noise to Value Creation
author: Huberty, Mark
date: 2015-02-18
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149011/
doi: 10.1007/s10842-014-0190-4
summary:
  Instead, today''s successful big data business models largely use data to scale old modes of value creation, rather than invent new ones altogether. Four of these assumptions merit special attention: First, N = all, or the claim that our data allow a clear and unbiased study of humanity; second, that today = tomorrow, or the claim that understanding online behavior today implies that we will still understand it tomorrow; third, offline = online, the claim that understanding online behavior offers a window into economic and social phenomena in the physical world; and fourth, that complex patterns of social behavior, once understood, will remain stable enough to become the basis of new data-driven, predictive products and services in sectors well beyond social and media markets. The rate of change in online commerce, social media, search, and other services undermines any claim that we can actually know that our N = all sample that works today will work tomorrow.

abstract:
  “Big data”—the collection of vast quantities of data about individual behavior via online, mobile, and other data-driven services—has been heralded as the agent of a third industrial revolution—one with raw materials measured in bits, rather than tons of steel or barrels of oil. Yet the industrial revolution transformed not just how firms made things, but the fundamental approach to value creation in industrial economies. To date, big data has not achieved this distinction. Instead, today’s successful big data business models largely use data to scale old modes of value creation, rather than invent new ones altogether. Moreover, today’s big data cannot deliver the promised revolution. In this way, today’s big data landscape resembles the early phases of the first industrial revolution, rather than the culmination of the second a century later. Realizing the second big data revolution will require fundamentally different kinds of data, different innovations, and different business models than those seen to date. That fact has profound consequences for the kinds of investments and innovations firms must seek, and the economic, political, and social consequences that those innovations portend.


id: cord-026732-2t4pu36i
title: Learners’ perceptions and experiences of studying psychology online
author: Garip, Gulcan
date: 2020-06-13
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293431/
doi: 10.1007/s40692-020-00167-4
summary:
  This highlights the need for educators and researchers to examine practical and evidence-based models that support the development of online courses that foster self-regulated learning. This study is notable for its detailed examination of the lived experiences of online psychology students from varied backgrounds, which builds on previous research that has identified the importance of human factors when considering self-regulated learning in online platforms (Wong et al. For example, online educators can provide students with resources and activities that facilitate and help overcome barriers to behaviours associated with self-regulated learning (e.g. asking students to identify and reflect on their motivations for studying psychology). The present study successfully demonstrates the potential of COM-B model in guiding the development of strategies to facilitate mature psychology students in achieving or maintaining self-regulated online learner status.

abstract:
  This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of six international and mature online learners studying on an undergraduate psychology course to identify barriers and facilitators to studying online. A secondary aim was to deductively explore the applicability of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour model to participants' narratives related to self-regulated online learning. Online interviews with six demographically diverse participants were conducted and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The overarching theme was 'the balancing act of online learners', which consisted of three major themes (and respective subthemes): (1) 'identity as an online learner' ('in today's world, we're all very busy'), (2) 'access to resources' ('importance of location' and 'comparing online to on-campus teaching and learning'), and (3) 'changing nature of social interactions' ('tutors as a crutch' and 'peer-to-peer interactions'). A number of facilitators and barriers related to these themes were identified, which are applicable to the COM-B model. The COM-B model offers a novel approach in designing and delivering learning materials and activities that may instil or help maintain self-regulated learning in online psychology students.


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author: Niner, Holly J.
date: 2020-08-25
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446603/
doi: 10.1007/s42532-020-00059-y
summary:
  This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. Given the associated carbon emissions and inequities in access, there is a particularly strong moral onus for those engaged in the field of socio-ecology to develop conference models or practices that do not contribute to the very problems that the discipline seeks to address. Online conference formats remove the need for travel and reduce the costs of attendance, but they do not preclude inequality in access and participation. While many conference participants may have adequate access to Internet and technology, to address issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, online platform selection should consider associated requirements for high bandwidth, high-performing devices and training in these technologies. The potential to address long-standing inequities in the socio-ecological community through online conferences is a bright spot in the post-COVID-19 landscape.

title:
  The pandemic push: can COVID-19 reinvent conferences to models rooted in sustainability, equitability and inclusion?

abstract:
  The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a change in conference formats for 2020. This shift offers a unique opportunity to address long-standing inequities in access and issues of sustainability associated with traditional conference formats, through testing online platforms. However, moving online is not a panacea for all of these concerns, particularly those arising from uneven distribution of access to the Internet and other technology. With conferences and events being forced to move online, this is a critical juncture to examine how online formats can be used to best effect and to reduce the inequities of in-person meetings. In this article, we highlight that a thoughtful and equitable move to online formats could vastly strengthen the global socio-ecological research community and foster cohesive and effective collaborations, with ecology and society being the ultimate beneficiaries.


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author: Clavijo, Raul
date: 2020-09-08
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7476901/
doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.07.017
abstract: nan
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  Thus, owing to the lack of physical exposure to clinical settings, it is likely that our patients with sexual dysfunction, with or without infertility, who stand to benefit the most from our taking a potential risk of prescribing medications after virtual care. Overall, the availability of prescription medications with well-defined risk profiles to patients through virtual sources is only likely to enhance the access to care for sexual and reproductive health conditions by easing the pain of embarrassment some patients may experience. In light of the current situation of the COVID pandemic along with the boom of telemedicine, physicians should consider incorporating home-based kits for both male and female fertility testing with the caveats that even though we may not get accurate data all the time, data from these kits can be used to guide care. Although physical examination and in-office diagnostics are paramount for the evaluation of both female and male fertility, an initial telehealth visit can uncover pertinent history, identify risk factors, and establish the physician-patient relationship.

title:
  “Online” and “at-home” versus traditional models of health care: enhancing access or impeding optimal therapeutics?


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author: Aghdam, Atae Rezaei
date: 2020-10-26
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url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13276v1.pdf
doi: nan
summary:
  OHCs as affordable and easily accessible 24/7 services, can facilitate self-management of diabetics by offering health-related advice and stories, social and emotional support (Aghdam et al. OHCs provide opportunities for members to exchange new ideas, knowledge and information about diabetes selfmanagement, functioning as a bridge among people with type-2 diabetes and healthcare professionals and providing online discussion platforms to brainstorm potential solutions (Sim et al. Information sharing by peers, experience and advice sharing, life-style related advice sharing, and sharing daily-basis activities are the most common activities identified by researchers in this study through thematically analysing the content of threads in the Reddit diabetes online communities. Furthermore, participating in diabetes group-based education program provides opportunities for patients to meet and discuss with other members of the communities, obtaining social and emotional support (Steinsbekk et al. This study provides an opportunity for leveraging peer-to-peer support within digital health platforms such as OHCs to empower patients in their self-management of diabetes.

title:
  Towards Empowering Diabetic Patients: A perspective on self-management in the context of a group-based education program

abstract:
  This paper provides a novel framework for maximizing the effectiveness of the Diabetes Group Education Program, which could be generalized in any similar problem context.


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title: The impact of online reviews in the presence of customer returns
author: Sun, Miao
date: 2020-09-19
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32982064/
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107929
summary:
  To fill this gap, we develop a duopoly model to study how online reviews impact customers'' purchases and returns, and how online sellers facing competition can make optimal price and returns policy decisions in the presence of online reviews. In order to analyze the impact of online reviews in a competitive market with customer returns, we build a three-stage game theoretic model, in which two competing online retailers sell a product at different quality levels. In contrast to these empirical studies, we develop a game theoretical model for two online retailers who sell quality-differentiated products, to examine the impact of online reviews on the sellers'' pricing and returns policy decisions in a competitive market. Since the lower net salvage value may suggest a higher cost in handling customer returns, the Seller who offers an MBG may lose the advantage in competition to gain market share if the reviews are not favorable enough; with the impact on price, it is obvious that Seller is less likely to benefit from online reviews with an MBG ( z cc z ss ).

abstract:
  We develop a duopoly model to examine how online reviews influence the decisions of two competing online sellers who sell products of differentiated quality under different returns policies. We derive the competing sellers' optimal decisions on price and returns policy with and without online reviews, and we find that online reviews have greater impact on the high-quality seller than on the low-quality seller. If the salvage value of the product is relatively low, the seller has less opportunity to benefit from online reviews when it offers an MBG, as compared to a no-refund policy. The impact of online reviews on the competition between the two sellers has a “symmetric effect area,” where reviews may either weaken or intensify the price competition between the two sellers when they both offer a no-refund policy, but always intensify the competition if they both offer an MBG. We have identified the conditions under which online reviews lead to a win-win, or benefit one seller, or present a prisoner's dilemma for the two online sellers. We also show that MBGs at both sellers help mitigate the prisoner's dilemma if the net salvage value at both sellers is sufficiently high.


id: cord-257161-lx3ar43e
title: Learner behaviors in synchronous online prosthodontic education during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
author: Yang, Xu
date: 2020-10-03
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023743/
doi: 10.1016/j.prosdent.2020.08.004
summary:
  PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess learner behaviors in synchronous online prosthodontic continuing education lectures in China during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: Synchronous online prosthodontic education courses in China had a high number of participants but low learning progress and completion rates during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, the extent of learner participation and completion of these courses remains unknown, and the authors are unaware of research that has investigated the effectiveness of synchronous online learning during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The present observational study assessed learner behaviors in synchronous online prosthodontic continuing education lectures in China during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The null hypotheses were that the completion rate of synchronous online prosthodontic education during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic would not be influenced by the specific lectures and the learners'' first-visit time to the online classroom. This research assessed learner behaviors in synchronous online prosthodontic education courses in China during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

abstract:
  STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: Synchronous online prosthodontic courses became a popular learning mode during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Nonetheless, the extent of learner participation and completion of these courses remains unknown. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess learner behaviors in synchronous online prosthodontic continuing education lectures in China during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIAL AND METHODS: All live online prosthodontic courses held by an online dental school in China from February to May 2020 were retrieved. The no-cost lectures could be accessed anonymously and viewed repeatedly on the day of broadcast. Learning behavior data (teacher speaking time, audience total, timing of first visit to the online classroom, viewing time, and completion rate) were obtained. Learning progress was calculated by dividing viewing time by teacher speaking time. When a learner progressed through 95% of a lecture, the lecture was considered completed. RESULTS: A total of 41 781 learners participated in 18 online prosthodontic courses, which had a mean duration of 77.2 ±15.8 minutes. For each lecture, 2321 ±1454 participants attended, with 510 ±404 participants completing each session. There were 13 098 participants (31.35%) who viewed the lectures for less than 1 minute. Approximately half of the participants viewed the lectures for less than 10 minutes, with their learning progress failing to pass 10%. The average completion rate was 21.97%, with variation in completion rate dependent on when a learner first visited the online classroom. Significant differences were found among the lecture completion rates and the timing of the first visit to the online classroom (P<.001). CONCLUSIONS: Synchronous online prosthodontic education courses in China had a high number of participants but low learning progress and completion rates during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.


id: cord-258996-e2xagi27
title: Teaching online: foundational concepts of online learning and practical guidelines
author: Rhim, Hye Chang
date: 2020-09-01
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894921/
doi: 10.3946/kjme.2020.171
summary:
  By understanding the foundational concepts and applying these guidelines, the adoption of online learning in the medical school may supplement the traditional medical education or even provide additional benefits in the new normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to provide foundational concepts of online learning that can be historically traced back to distance education and discuss the practical guidelines for designing an effective online curriculum. There are three foundational concepts for effective distance education programs, which become the basis of instructional design of online learning and teaching practices: Transactional distance, Presence, and Independent learners. In this section, we will discuss the design of learning experiences by explaining five online pedagogical guidelines: design structure and flow to embrace experiential learning, accommodate both synchronous and asynchronous learning, design/ facilitate interactions, promote practice opportunities, and promote a learning community.

abstract:
  Medical schools have been slowly adopting online learning into pedagogical methods for more than a decade. While some medical educators are reluctant to accept these changes, the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a threat to the delivery of traditional medical education, which has accelerated the inevitable implementation of online learning. This sudden change may be a new challenge to medical educators who are new to this territory. Therefore, this review aims to provide foundational concepts of online learning and practical guidelines in the context of medical education. The authors first identify three foundational concepts, which are transactional distance, presence, and independent learners. In online learning, transactional distance, determined by dialogue and structure, becomes more important than physical distance. Furthermore, effective and successful online learning requires the achievement and accommodation of cognitive, social, and teaching presences. It is also crucial to recognize learners not as passive recipients of information predefined by a teacher, but as active, capable, and independent individuals. The authors, then, discuss the practical guidelines for designing an effective online curriculum. Five online pedagogical guidelines are laid out in this review: design structures and flows to embrace experiential learning, accommodate both synchronous and asynchronous learning, design/facilitate interactions, promote practice opportunities, and promote a learning community. By understanding the foundational concepts and applying these guidelines, the adoption of online learning in the medical school may supplement the traditional medical education or even provide additional benefits in the new normal after the COVID-19 pandemic.


id: cord-260489-9d24cqke
title: Academic Crisis During COVID 19: Online Classes, a Panacea for Imminent Doctors
author: Shetty, Sandeep
date: 2020-10-17
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33102186/
doi: 10.1007/s12070-020-02224-x
summary:
  METHODOLOGY: To assess the attitude of the students towards online learning in subject of ENT, we conducted an observational study among 170 third year MBBS undergraduate students of our institute attending online classes through the student portal of our university website. RESULTS: Our survey revealed students favoured online learning to sustain their academic interest and development during this pandemic. To assess the attitude of the students towards online learning in subject of ENT, we conducted a short survey among third year MBBS undergraduate students of our institute attending ENT classes. For the opinion of preferred approach of learning after COVID 19 pandemic, 31% of students opted for the option of only classroom learning, 16% opted for only online learning where as 53% of the students opted for combined approach of classes (Fig. 3 ). [3, 6, 9] Majority of our students preferred for a combined approach of teaching after the pandemic for their better academic development.

abstract:
  INTRODUCTION: COVID 19 made a serious impact on many aspects of everyday life. The world saw a paradigm shift in the education system favouring online learning during the constrains of pandemic. METHODOLOGY: To assess the attitude of the students towards online learning in subject of ENT, we conducted an observational study among 170 third year MBBS undergraduate students of our institute attending online classes through the student portal of our university website. RESULTS: Our survey revealed students favoured online learning to sustain their academic interest and development during this pandemic. Yet, they perceived many challenges during online learning like lack of face-to-face interactions, lack of socialization, distraction by social media, technology related issues etc. Students also opted for a combined approach of learning in the post pandemic period. CONCLUSION: This article reflects the challenges faced during online learning and added the innovative methods that can be included to overcome the obstacles of online learning. During this period of COVID, one must embrace the alternative to classroom learning to keep up with one’s academic development and can consider an integrated approach of learning after the pandemic. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s12070-020-02224-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.


id: cord-275071-2uiaruhg
title: Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life
author: Balmford, Ben
date: 2020-08-04
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836862/
doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00466-5
summary:
  Linking decisions over the timing of lockdown and consequent deaths to economic data, we reveal the costs that national governments were implicitly prepared to pay to protect their citizens as reflected in the economic activity foregone to save lives. Accepting that they are a conservative estimate of the total impact of the pandemic, officially attributed Covid-19 deaths are used to investigate the price of life implied by lockdown policies. However, as far as we are aware, ours is the first study to use the SEIR modelling framework to examine the effects of lockdown timing across multiple countries in the same study, and the first to combine these results with financial forecasts to obtain cross-country implied price of life estimates. Table 5 shows that for those countries which under-report Covid-19 deaths, implied price of life is substantially reduced, highlighting once again that earlier lockdowns would have increased social welfare tremendously.

abstract:
  Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over half a million people world-wide and this death toll continues to rise rapidly each day. In the absence of a vaccine, non-clinical preventative measures have been implemented as the principal means of limiting deaths. However, these measures have caused unprecedented disruption to daily lives and economic activity. Given this developing crisis, the potential for a second wave of infections and the near certainty of future pandemics, lessons need to be rapidly gleaned from the available data. We address the challenges of cross-country comparisons by allowing for differences in reporting and variation in underlying socio-economic conditions between countries. Our analyses show that, to date, differences in policy interventions have out-weighed socio-economic variation in explaining the range of death rates observed in the data. Our epidemiological models show that across 8 countries a further week long delay in imposing lockdown would likely have cost more than half a million lives. Furthermore, those countries which acted more promptly saved substantially more lives than those that delayed. Linking decisions over the timing of lockdown and consequent deaths to economic data, we reveal the costs that national governments were implicitly prepared to pay to protect their citizens as reflected in the economic activity foregone to save lives. These ‘price of life’ estimates vary enormously between countries, ranging from as low as around $100,000 (e.g. the UK, US and Italy) to in excess of $1million (e.g. Denmark, Germany, New Zealand and Korea). The lowest estimates are further reduced once we correct for under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10640-020-00466-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.


id: cord-278297-twiye6jv
title: No Participant Left Behind: Conducting Science During COVID-19
author: Lourenco, Stella F.
date: 2020-05-11
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32451239/
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.003
summary:
  Although research conducted online solves the problem of data collection, a lack of internet access among low-income and minority communities may reduce the diversity of study samples and, thus, impact the generalizability of scientific findings. Indeed, many child development laboratories are going online for the first time, a shift that is being facilitated by resources such as the Parent and Researcher Collaborative (https://childrenhelpingscience.com), a single, crowd-sourced platform where researchers from different labs can post their studies for families to participate in. As excited as we are about the promises of online testing (e.g., in fields like developmental psychology where data collection is typically slow and expensive), we are also concerned about how the demographics of online participants may shift during COVID-19. In particular, we worry that online testing may reduce the diversity of participants--especially those from low-income and minority households-whose participation in scientific research has been essential in understanding all sorts of phenomena, from language proficiency [4] and spatial reasoning [5] to academic achievement [6] and brain development [7] .

abstract:
  Abstract Cognitive scientists have ramped up online testing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Although research conducted online solves the problem of data collection, a lack of internet access among low-income and minority communities may reduce the diversity of study samples and, thus, impact the generalizability of scientific findings.


id: cord-281745-jkscwdjh
title: “I’m not against online teaching, but what about us?”: ICT in Ghana post Covid-19
author: Adarkwah, Michael Agyemang
date: 2020-09-16
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32952435/
doi: 10.1007/s10639-020-10331-z
summary:
  The paper first identifies the e-learning challenges in the Ghanaian context based on respondent''s views and then provide strategies for smooth delivery of e-learning derived from extant literature The research questions leading this investigation are; what are the perceived effectiveness of the online learning, what are the perceived barriers to online learning and what are the perceived strategies for a successful ICT integration in education for students who are unable to partake in e-learning process because of environmental and contextual factors related to ICT in lieu of the COVID-19 crisis. With the limited access to ICT resources and institutional challenges in its implementation in Sub-Saharan countries such as Ghana, there is a need for the government and education sectors across the country to address contextual and environmental difficulties faced by needy and rural school students who are excluded from the e-learning platforms which are no fault of theirs.

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  Globally, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is regarded as a dependable vehicle for facilitating educational reform and development, a platform for communication, and as a means to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal Four (SDG 4). Since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and declaration of the SDG 4, many countries have opted to embrace the lifelong education for all by integrating ICT in teaching and learning at all school levels. The Ghanaian Government’s initiative to ensure “education anytime anywhere for everyone” by revolutionizing teaching and learning through ICT has faced a lot of challenges and criticisms. The main mission of the Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) in 2003 was to transform Ghana into an information and technology-driven high-income economy through education, but this goal is yet to be realized. In the wake of the COVID-19 which has forced many countries and educational sectors to adopt online learning, there is a need to discuss the effectiveness of online learning and barriers to online learning in the developing contexts, and how to successfully integrate ICT in schools for online learning, especially rural schools where students’ educational careers are in jeopardy because they benefit less from online learning. The paper identifies critical factors that affect online learning, recommends post COVID-19 strategies to promote e-learning for policymakers in education and the government, and concludes with a conceptual model for emergency transition to e-learning.


id: cord-284217-tv8f1315
author: Qazi, Javaria
date: 2020-10-13
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url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/S0190740920320053
doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105582
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  Therefore, in this paper, we aimed to assess and compare the access & use of online learning of Bruneians and Pakistanis amid enforced lockdown imposed by the governments using a five-items satisfaction scale underlying existing literature. Outcomes of the survey suggest that Bruneian are more satisfied (50%) with the use of online learning amid lockdown as compared to Pakistanis (35.9%). Living in the Urban area as compared to a rural area is also a major factor contributing to satisfaction with the access and use of online learning for both Bruneian and Pakistanis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first study in accessing the student satisfaction with the use of online learning resources amid COVID-19. Outcomes suggest that use and access to online learning resources during novel infectious disease a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic is crucial for student satisfaction. The study mainly aims to assess the effect of access & use of online learning resources amid the COVID-19 lockdown on student satisfaction.

title:
  Evolution to Online Education around the globe during a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Do develop and underdeveloped cope alike?

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  Background Educational institutes around the globe in this 21st century is facing challenges of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus infectious disease. They are required to conduct online learning to avoid face to face contact in emergency scenarios such as COVID-19 pandemic and continuing academic year while keeping social distancing. Students need to adapt to new roles of learning through information technology to succeed in academics amid COVID-19. Objective However, access to the impact of access & use of online learning resources, to what extent, these students are satisfied with online learning amid COVID-19 particularly in handling new challenges are critical to explore. Therefore, in this paper, we aimed to assess and compare the access & use of online learning of Bruneians and Pakistanis amid enforced lockdown imposed by the governments using a five-items satisfaction scale underlying existing literature. Method For this, a cross-sectional study was done in the first half of June 2020 after the pandemic situation among 320 students’ across Pakistan and Brunei and strata with a pre-defined questionnaire. Data were analyzed with statistical software package SPSS 2.0. Results The finding showed that there is a relationship between students’ satisfaction and access & use of online learning. Outcomes of the survey suggest that Bruneian are more satisfied (50%) with the use of online learning amid lockdown as compared to Pakistanis (35.9%). Living in the Urban area as compared to a rural area is also a major factor contributing to satisfaction with the access and use of online learning for both Bruneian and Pakistanis. Moreover, previous experience with the use of online learning is observed prevalent among Bruneians (P=.000), while among friends and family is using online learning (P=.000) were encouraging factors contributed to satisfaction with the use of online learning among Pakistanis amid COVID-19. Correlation results suggest that access and use factors of online learning amid COVID-19 were positively associated with satisfaction among both populations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Bruneian is more satisfied with Internet access (r=.437, P<.000) and affordability of gadgets ((r=.577, P<.000) as compare to Pakistanis((r=.176, P<.050) and (r=.156, P<.050). Conclusion: The study suggested that it is crucial for the government and other policymakers worldwide to address access and use of online learning resources of their populace amid pandemic. Implications and future recommendation were discussed


id: cord-284529-0ri4kw4k
title: Impact of COVID-19 on Online Gambling – A General Population Survey During the Pandemic
author: Håkansson, Anders
date: 2020-09-25
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101137/
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568543
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  The aim of the present study was to describe past-30-day use of different gambling types during the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals defined as online gamblers, in order to enable a comparison with past-30-day data reported from a previous survey in online gamblers carried out in 2018. For those reporting past-30-day gambling, compared to those denying that but reporting past-year gambling for the same gambling type, being a moderate-risk or problem gamblers was significantly more likely among the recent gamblers for landbased casino gambling, land-based electronic machine gambling, and for any sports betting, but less likely for online horse betting. In the present study, for most gambling types, the past-30-day gamblers either did not differ from past-year gamblers, or had a higher degree of gambling problems, such as for sports betting (as discussed above), landbased electronic gambling machines, or land-based casino.

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  The COVID-19 pandemic may have severe impact on mental health, and concerns have been raised about potentially increased online behavior and possibly increased gambling problems, such as in sports bettors at risk of transfer to even riskier forms of gambling during sports lock-down. Given the need for objective data about gambling behavior during the pandemic, the present analysis, from a project assessing online gambling in Sweden, aimed to study past-30-day gambling patterns in online gamblers in Sweden. The study, carried out in May, 2020, during the pandemic and its restrictions on society, included past-year online gamblers (N = 997). Past-30-day gambling for several gambling types was lower compared to a previous study in online gamblers in the same setting, while online non-sports gambling remained at high levels. Those reporting sports betting even during a period with decreased sports betting occasions proved to have markedly higher gambling problems. COVID-19 may alter gambling behaviors, and online gamblers who maintain or initiate gambling types theoretically reduced by the crisis may represent a group at particular risk.


id: cord-286531-3syf6upw
title: Young Children’s Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: Chinese Parents’ Beliefs and Attitudes
author: Dong, Chuanmei
date: 2020-09-08
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url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019074092031224X?v=s5
doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105440
summary:
  This study surveyed 3275 Chinese parents'' beliefs and attitudes around young children''s online learning during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. To fill this research gap, this study endeavors to understand how Chinese parents perceive their young children''s online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown through a large-scale online survey. Thus, it is of great theoretical importance to understand Chinese parental beliefs and attitudes around young children''s online learning during the lockdown as a unique study in terms of time and place. As the first exploration of Chinese parents'' beliefs and attitudes around online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study has found that many young children had online learning experiences that were delivered by their kindergarten teachers or online learning apps at no or low cost.

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  Online learning has been widely promoted to replace traditional face-to-face learning during the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain young children’s learning and play at home. This study surveyed 3275 Chinese parents’ beliefs and attitudes around young children’s online learning during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most parents (92.7%) in the study reported that their children had online learning experiences during the pandemic, and many (84.6%) spent less than a half-hour each time. The parents generally had negative beliefs about the values and benefits of online learning and preferred traditional learning in early childhood settings. They tended to resist and even reject online learning for three key reasons: the shortcomings of online learning, young children’s inadequate self-regulation, and their lack of time and professional knowledge in supporting children’s online learning. Also, the hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has made them suffering, thus more resistant to online learning at home. The results suggested that the implementation of online learning during the pandemic has been problematic and challenging for families. The Chinese parents were neither trained nor ready to embrace online learning. The paper concluded with implications for policymakers and teacher education.


id: cord-290626-sv5183ha
title: Characteristics of online pharmacies selling Adderall
author: Penley, Benjamin
date: 2020-09-07
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doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2020.07.022
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  13, 19, 21, 22, 29, 30 The following marketing characteristics were gathered from each website: (1) claims a "discount" compared with other pharmacies; (2) offers bulk discounts; (3) offers a "promo code" or coupon on checkout; (4) facilitates purchases using cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin); (5) has drug-specific advertisements pertaining to Adderall; (6) displays advertisements for other products on the page advertising the sale of Adderall; (7) has a phone number or WhatsApp contact information listed; (8) includes an offer to speak with an associate; (9) claims pharmacy registration (e.g., Professional Compounding Centers of America [PCCA] or NABP Digital Pharmacy Accreditation); (10) includes customer testimonies; and (11) offers privacy reassurances (e.g., discrete packaging or protection of health-or billing-related information).

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  OBJECTIVES: Adderall (amphetamine-dextroamphetamine) is a controlled substance with harmful adverse effects if abused or misused. We assessed the availability of Adderall from common search engines, and evaluated the safety and marketing characteristics of online pharmacies selling Adderall. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: From December 2019 to February 2020, the phrase “buy Adderall online” was queried in four search engines: Google (N = 100), Bing (N = 100), Yahoo (N = 50) and DuckDuckGo (N = 50). Online pharmacies that claimed to sell Adderall and had unique Uniform Resource Locators, were active, free-access, and in English language were included. OUTCOME MEASURES: Online pharmacies were categorized as rogue, unclassified, or legitimate on the basis of LegitScript classifications. Safety and marketing characteristics, and costs were collected. RESULTS: Of the 62 online pharmacies found to sell Adderall, 61 were rogue or unclassified. Across all rogue and unclassified online pharmacies, prescriptions were not required (100%), pharmacist services were not offered (100%), and quantity limits were not placed on the number of Adderall purchases (100%). Rogue and unclassified online pharmacies appealed to cost, offering price discounts (61%), bulk discounts (67%), and coupon codes (70%). Contrary to their claims, cheaper prices were available for all formulations and dosages of Adderall from GoodRx than from these online pharmacies. Rogue and unclassified online pharmacies promoted and enabled the illicit purchase of Adderall, appealing to privacy (74%), offering purchase through cryptocurrency (74%), and claiming registration or accreditation of their sites (33%). CONCLUSION: Rogue online pharmacies are pervasive in search engine results, enabling the illicit purchase of Adderall without a prescription. Consumers are at risk of purchasing Adderall, a medication with high abuse potential, from unsafe sources. Law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and search engines should work to further protect consumers from unregistered and illegitimate online pharmacies selling Adderall.


id: cord-293609-wymqvwjt
author: Price, Alex
date: 2020-07-13
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url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00366-1
doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00366-1
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  A cross-sectional online survey of 2005 gamblers, including a sub-sample of 1081 online gamblers (age 18 years and older), was administered to assess risky gambling behaviours and motivations, financial impacts from COVID-19, the influence of COVID-19 on online gambling, mental health concerns and substance use. Among high-risk online gamblers, the most predictive risk factors included moderate and severe anxiety and depression, reduced work hours, being influenced to gamble due to COVID-19, gambling under the influence of cannabis or alcohol and risky gambling motives tied to mental health concerns, including gambling because it helps with nervousness and depression, chasing gambling losses and seeking to earn income. Despite the research evidence, our holistic understanding of the intersection of risky gambling behaviours, financial crisis and stress, negative mental health outcomes and substance use has yet to consider the specific effects of online gambling during a time of increased social isolation and significant economic instability.

title:
  Online Gambling in the Midst of COVID-19: A Nexus of Mental Health Concerns, Substance Use and Financial Stress

abstract:
  This study examined the emerging impact of COVID-19 on gambling during the first 6 weeks of emergency measures in Ontario, Canada. A cross-sectional online survey of 2005 gamblers, including a sub-sample of 1081 online gamblers (age 18 years and older), was administered to assess risky gambling behaviours and motivations, financial impacts from COVID-19, the influence of COVID-19 on online gambling, mental health concerns and substance use. A series of odds ratio comparisons and measures of association were carried out. Results show significant likelihood of online gambling among those classified as high-risk gamblers (according to the Problem Gambling Severity Index) and those with past experience of online gambling, though migration from land-based gambling was apparent. Among high-risk online gamblers, the most predictive risk factors included moderate and severe anxiety and depression, reduced work hours, being influenced to gamble due to COVID-19, gambling under the influence of cannabis or alcohol and risky gambling motives tied to mental health concerns, including gambling because it helps with nervousness and depression, chasing gambling losses and seeking to earn income. This study has confirmed many of the risk associations presented in emerging COVID-19-related studies and past research on global economic crisis relating to gambling risk, mental health concerns and substance use. However, unlike many past studies, the present paper takes note of all of these elements holistically and provides incremental clarity on online gambling risk factors during the pandemic, specifically.


id: cord-298925-4wb7kayl
title: Moving towards online rheumatology education in the era of COVID-19
author: Ahmed, Sakir
date: 2020-09-17
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url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-05405-9
doi: 10.1007/s10067-020-05405-9
summary:
  Most rheumatology textbooks are now available in digital formats, and these are complemented with live updating educational hubs such as UpToDate and ClinicalKey. Emerging topics of COVID-19 on these proprietary platforms are now freely available to all specialists. Social media channels, particularly Twitter, are becoming major players in the era of COVID-19 by offering online journal clubs, enabling fast dissemination of influential articles, and facilitating interactive education. Indexed rheumatology journals, in turn, aid online education by opening access to recommendations and other materials that are rapidly changing research and practice worldwide. • Online rheumatology education is enriched by peer review and social media activities, which are becoming major players in the time of the COVID19 pandemic. The EMerging EULAR NETwork (EMEUNET) has an exemplary online programme for mentoring ongoing research fellows how to review for top journals, filling a void in rheumatology education [52] .

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  The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unsettled conventional medical education, hastening a switch to digital platforms and open-access publishing. Rheumatology is a fast evolving academic discipline that stands to gain by this switch. Most rheumatology textbooks are now available in digital formats, and these are complemented with live updating educational hubs such as UpToDate and ClinicalKey. Emerging topics of COVID-19 on these proprietary platforms are now freely available to all specialists. Social media channels, particularly Twitter, are becoming major players in the era of COVID-19 by offering online journal clubs, enabling fast dissemination of influential articles, and facilitating interactive education. Indexed rheumatology journals, in turn, aid online education by opening access to recommendations and other materials that are rapidly changing research and practice worldwide. Research peer review additionally offers learning experience to novice and seasoned researchers and authors. Global rheumatology societies have online learning resources, which are changing their format and geographic reach to meet the changing needs in the times of pandemic. While online teaching lacks emotional connections between mentors and mentees, switch to a more interactive format of education and regular contacts may partly solve the issue. Rheumatologists can take the lead in these challenging times and contribute more to online scholarly activities which are aimed to maintain and enrich education.


id: cord-303300-89v1weno
title: Building, Hosting and Recruiting: A Brief Introduction to Running Behavioral Experiments Online
author: Sauter, Marian
date: 2020-04-24
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url: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10040251
doi: 10.3390/brainsci10040251
summary:
  The critical procedural pillars of any behavioral study are: (1) programming an experiment in the preferred software (e.g., E-prime, PsychoPy, PsychToolbox, etc.); (2) setting-up the testing machine (e.g., lab-computer, multi-unit testing facility, etc.) and (3) recruiting participants to conduct the study. In comparison to the hegemony of Java, Python, C++ and MATLAB libraries for experimental programming of lab-based studies, Javascript (JS) is the language of choice for online experiments. In comparison to the hegemony of Java, Python, C++ and MATLAB libraries for experimental programming of lab-based studies, Javascript (JS) is the language of choice for online experiments. Generally speaking, what researchers need for online experimentation is the same as what they need for lab-based studies (Figure 1) : (1) a programmed experiment, (2) a server to host the study and (3) a recruiting platform which advertises to participants. The Timing Mega-Study: Comparing a Range of Experiment Generators, Both Lab-Based and Online

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  Researchers have ample reasons to take their experimental studies out of the lab and into the online wilderness. For some, it is out of necessity, due to an unforeseen laboratory closure or difficulties in recruiting on-site participants. Others want to benefit from the large and diverse online population. However, the transition from in-lab to online data acquisition is not trivial and might seem overwhelming at first. To facilitate this transition, we present an overview of actively maintained solutions for the critical components of successful online data acquisition: creating, hosting and recruiting. Our aim is to provide a brief introductory resource and discuss important considerations for researchers who are taking their first steps towards online experimentation.


id: cord-306441-clyhurjl
author: Jumat, Muhammad Raihan
date: 2020-08-04
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837796/
doi: 10.1007/s40670-020-01039-3
abstract: nan
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  Known as TeamLEAD (Learn, Engage, Apply and Develop), the primary mode of teaching for the first-year medical students at Duke-NUS is an adaptation of Team-Based Learning (TBL). Given how moving the class online did not affect students'' perceptions of their learning experience, this suggests that the eLearning mode reached most of the same objectives as the face-to-face mode. However, students felt that the online instructional mode adopted during the eLearning week did not provide the opportunities to develop verbal communication skills, which they would have had in a face-to-face TeamLEAD session. Students from the AY2014/15 cohort felt that the eLearning mode of instruction did not facilitate their development in the following TBL outcomes: verbal communication, collaboration and leadership skills n = 50 for the eLearning week, and n = 52 for the face-to-face Week 6 in the cohort of AY2014/15 The combined use of a shared online document and a video-conferencing platform for the facilitated class discussion during the mTRAP is a unique feature of our iteration of online TBL.

title:
  From Trial to Implementation, Bringing Team-Based Learning Online—Duke-NUS Medical School’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic


id: cord-307292-de4lbc24
author: Rosenberg, Hananel
date: 2020-08-17
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836606/
doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105365
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  The goal of this study is to examine whether and how youth care workers utilize social media communications for reaching out to detached adolescents and providing them emotional support. A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed three principal psychosocial usages of social media: (1) Reaching out and maintaining reciprocal and meaningful therapeutic relationships with youth at risk over time; (2) Identifying risks and emotional distress; and (3) "stepping in" and providing psychosocial assistance, when needed. Although the main conclusion from this study supports the notion that the advantages of social media therapeutic relationships with youth at risk outweigh their problematic aspects, future research is recommended to establish clear guidelines for youth caregivers who wish to integrate the new media in their daily psychosocial work. Using in-depth interviews with youth counselors and social workers, this study examined the characteristics of online therapeutic relationships between adolescents at risk and their caregivers.

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  OMG, R U OK? [Image: see text]: Using Social Media to Form Therapeutic Relationships with Youth at Risk

abstract:
  The rising of social media has opened new opportunities for forming therapeutic relationships with youth at risk who have little faith in institutionalized interventions. The goal of this study is to examine whether and how youth care workers utilize social media communications for reaching out to detached adolescents and providing them emotional support. Qualitative in-depth interviews (N=17) were conducted with counselors, social workers, and clinical psychologists who work with youth at risk. A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed three principal psychosocial usages of social media: (1) Reaching out and maintaining reciprocal and meaningful therapeutic relationships with youth at risk over time; (2) Identifying risks and emotional distress; and (3) “stepping in” and providing psychosocial assistance, when needed. These beneficial practices are made possible through the high accessibility and the sense of secured mediation that characterize social media communication and that complement the psychosocial needs of youth at risk. Alongside these advantages, the analysis yielded several significant challenges in social media therapeutic relationships, including privacy dilemmas and blurring of authority and boundaries. Given that social media communication is a relatively new phenomenon, the applied psychosocial practices are shaped through a process of trial and error, intuitive decisions, and peer learning. Although the main conclusion from this study supports the notion that the advantages of social media therapeutic relationships with youth at risk outweigh their problematic aspects, future research is recommended to establish clear guidelines for youth caregivers who wish to integrate the new media in their daily psychosocial work.


id: cord-307983-gjdza9bh
title: Cybercrime in America amid COVID-19: the Initial Results from a Natural Experiment
author: Hawdon, James
date: 2020-06-10
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url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-020-09534-4
doi: 10.1007/s12103-020-09534-4
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  Thus, while more motivated offenders being online is likely to elevate rates of cybervictimization, the overall patterns are likely more affected by changes in target suitability and guardianship that result from the pandemic. These "dangerous" online routines would include surfing the dark web, playing online video games, online shopping, and visiting social media sites as all of these activities have been reported to increase cybervictimization (Bossler & Holt, 2009; Bossler et al., 2012; Costello et al., 2016; Hawdon et al., 2014; Leukfeldt & Yar, 2016; Navarro & Jasinski, 2012; Reyns et al., 2011; van Wilsem, 2011) . Taking all of these factors together, we would anticipate an increase in cybervictimization amid the COVID-19 pandemic due to more motivated offenders, a change in some "dangerous" online routines, and perhaps less target-hardening.

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  The COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered life, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leading many countries to issue “stay-at-home” orders to contain the virus’s spread. Based on insights from routine activity theory (Cohen & Felson 1979), it is likely that COVID-19 will influence victimization rates as people alter their routines and spend more time at home and less time in public. Yet, the pandemic may affect victimization differently depending on the type of crime as street crimes appear to be decreasing while domestic crimes may be increasing. We consider a third type of crime: cybercrime. Treating the pandemic as a natural experiment, we investigate how the pandemic has affected rates of cybervictimization. We compare pre-pandemic rates of victimization with post-pandemic rates of victimization using datasets designed to track cybercrime. After considering how the pandemic may alter routines and affect cybervictimization, we find that the pandemic has not radically altered cyberroutines nor changed cybervictimization rates. However, a model using routine activity theory to predict cybervictimization offers clear support for the theory’s efficacy both before and after the pandemic. We conclude by considering plausible explanations for our findings.


id: cord-309201-c1awh48y
author: Elzainy, Ahmed
date: 2020-10-22
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url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2020.09.005
doi: 10.1016/j.jtumed.2020.09.005
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  14 The present study described the procedures performed to facilitate the urgent transition to e-learning and online assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic and to highlight its expected benefits and impact on student and staff satisfaction and performance. It also aimed to compare the scores of male and female students during both face-to-face and online PBL sessions, and to explore the expected challenges of this experience to sustain its future implementation after the COVID-19 pandemic. Weekly reports though the official learning management systemdBlackboarddregarding the number, duration, and modality of different educational activities including the live streaming sessions and students'' attendance rate were collected from the course organisers in coordination with the e-learning unit, phase coordination, and e-assessment committees. The items covered in the students'' survey included the following: the success of elearning in compensating for the urgent suspension of faceto-face teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, efficiency of instructions announced before the online teaching, staff''s resistance and experience in e-learning requirements, and effectiveness of online assessment in testing their knowledge and skills levels.

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  Experience of e-learning and online assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic at the College of Medicine, Qassim University

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  OBJECTIVES: During the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions are promptly shifting all educational activities to the e-learning format. The present work describes concurrent procedures for online teaching and assessment performed at the College of Medicine, Qassim University, KSA. We also explored the impact of e-learning and assessment on the performance of students and faculty, and the challenges to their sustainability. METHODS: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, we recorded the number and duration of different online educational activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Training sessions for various procedures of virtual classrooms and online assessments were organised for teachers and students. A newly established e-assessment committee arranged different online assessments. A comparison between the mean problem-based learning (PBL) grades of the same students was conducted either face-to-face or online. A student satisfaction survey and online staff focus group about the online learning experiences were conducted, and weekly staff perception reports were prepared. The results obtained were then analysed. RESULTS: A total of 620 virtual classrooms were successfully implemented over 994 h including theoretical lectures, PBL sessions, seminars, and tutorials. A significant increase in the mean PBL grades was observed for female students during the online sessions. Out of the basic year students and staff, 58.82% reflected their high satisfaction towards virtual classrooms, online assessment, and online workshops. CONCLUSION: The present study elaborates on the benefits of e-learning and assessment. We observed higher student achievements and promising staff perceptions with obvious improvement in their technological skills. These findings support the shift towards future implementation of more online medical courses.


id: cord-310227-spqb5pub
author: van Dijk, S.D.M.
date: 2020-06-06
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url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1064748120303675?v=s5
doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.028
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  title: (Vi)-rushed into online group schema-therapy based day-treatment for older adults by the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands Background -Societal measures in context of the COVID-19 outbreak forced us to transform our schema therapy-based day-treatment for older adults with chronic affective disorders and personality problems into an online program. Background -Societal measures in context of the COVID-19 outbreak forced us to transform our schema therapy-based day-treatment for older adults with chronic affective disorders and personality problems into an online program. Our day-treatment was originally developed for patients aged 60 years and older suffering from an affective disorder (depressive, anxiety or somatic symptom), with comorbid personality problems considered to maintain affective symptoms and/or predispose for relapse. 10 Important lessons we learned were 1) digital literacy of older persons is sufficient for online therapy, 2) brief individual contact is important to monitor the patients'' process and 3) non-verbal therapies as well as informal break-out time facilitates the group therapy process.

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  (Vi)-rushed into online group schema-therapy based day-treatment for older adults by the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands

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  BACKGROUND –: Societal measures in context of the COVID-19 outbreak forced us to transform our schema therapy-based day-treatment for older adults with chronic affective disorders and personality problems into an online program. The objective of this paper is to present first impressions of this transformation. METHODS –: Using over-the-phone instructions initially, all patients were able to participate with the online therapy program. To reduce screen-time for patients, the non-verbal therapies were shortened. Four patients, aged 64-70 years, started our online program. RESULTS –: Therapists were positive about the online capabilities and resilience of patients to adapt to the new situation. Prejudices on limited effectiveness of online psychotherapy were counteracted. Sending homework by email and mail seems to facilitate therapy adherence. Non-verbal therapy could be important to stimulate the online group process. CONCLUSIONS –: We were positively surprised by the online capabilities of our geriatric mental health care patients and encourage further formal effectiveness studies.


id: cord-315184-py8lbg97
author: Stephany, Fabian
date: 2020-06-28
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url: https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12455
doi: 10.1111/tesg.12455
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  We draw on data from the Online Labour Index and interviews with freelancers in the United States securing work on online platforms, to illuminate effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We combine data from the Online Labour Index (OLI) and an interview-based panel study of freelance workers in the United States to provide insight into the changes in online labour markets relative to the ongoing pandemic arising from the global spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. In this initial rapid analysis, we therefore use quantitative data to examine changes in the demand for online labour in three important regional economies with different countermeasures towards the pandemic: United States, Germany, and South Korea. Our interview data come from an ongoing panel study of 60 freelance workers who are located in the United States and seeking work online via the online labour platform Upwork (See http://upwork.com).

title:
  Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19

abstract:
  We draw on data from the Online Labour Index and interviews with freelancers in the United States securing work on online platforms, to illuminate effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The pandemic's global economic upheaval is shuttering shops and offices. Those able to do so are now working remotely from their homes. They join workers who have always been working remotely: freelancers who earn some or all of their income from projects secured via online labour platforms. Data allow us to sketch a first picture of how the initial months of the COVID‐19 pandemic have affected the livelihoods of online freelancers. The data shows online labour demand falling rapidly in early March 2020, but with an equally rapid recovery. We also find significant differences between countries and occupations. Data from interviews make clear jobs are increasingly scarce even as more people are creating profiles and seeking freelance work online.


id: cord-316041-mrace6ux
author: Saphores, Jean-Daniel
date: 2020-05-12
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url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/S0739885920300627
doi: 10.1016/j.retrec.2020.100864
summary:
  Since the 2017 NHTS does not ask about e-grocery shopping, we also analyze data from the 2017 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to contrast socio-economic characteristics of people who engage in online grocery shopping with conventional grocery shoppers. Second, since (to the best of our knowledge) there is no publicly available national dataset on e-grocery in the US, we analyzed data from the 2017 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to characterize US consumers who shop online for groceries. We then estimated two more logit models on the sub-sample (N=2,934) of ATUS respondents who live in core-based statistical areas where at least one person shopped for groceries online. Since US national household travel surveys do not track what e-shoppers purchase, we also analyzed grocery shopping data from the 2017 ATUS using logit models and nonparametric tests.

title:
  E-SHOPPING changes and the state of E-grocery shopping in the U.S. evidence from national travel and time use surveys

abstract:
  Abstract In spite of the popularity of e-shopping, only 16% of US adults have ordered groceries online, and 7 out of 10 of those who currently buy groceries online do so at most twice a month. Understanding the determinants of e-grocery shopping is important for grocers, supply chain managers, and urban planners. In this context, we first explore how deliveries from online shopping have been changing over time. From our analysis of the 2009 and 2017 National Household Travel Surveys, we found that online shopping has been embraced by increasingly diverse households, although income, education, and some racial/ethnic differences persist. Our analysis of the 2017 American Time Use Survey shows that Americans are 24 times more likely to shop for groceries in stores than online. Moreover, in-store grocery shoppers are more likely to be female and unemployed, but less likely to belong to younger generations, to have less than a college degree, or to be African American. The gender imbalance in grocery shopping is larger online than in stores, but e-grocery shoppers do not otherwise differ from the general population. Future travel and e-shopping surveys (especially for e-grocery) should combine time use and travel questions with retrospective questions about online purchases.


id: cord-338334-252475qz
title: Omnichannel battle between Amazon and Walmart: Is the focus on delivery the best strategy?
author: Jindal, Rupinder P.
date: 2020-09-16
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url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.053
doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.053
summary:
  Although research in retailing has identified a multitude of attributes that influence customer''s store choice behavior, these retailers seem to be focused inordinately on leveraging their physical infrastructure to provide quicker delivery of online orders as they attempt to compete with Amazon for a larger share of online shoppers. Using a multivariate probit choice model, we show that the key reason customers choose Amazon home delivery lies in the fundamentals of retailing -large assortment, competitive prices, and purchase convenience. Offline retailers such as Walmart should thus focus on providing these attributes in their online stores to wean away customers from online retailers such as Amazon instead of investing inordinately in their physical infrastructure to provide quicker delivery of orders. Home delivery of online orders placed at Amazon.com seems to be preferred the most by customers who place high importance on APC, i.e., product assortment, price competitiveness, and purchase convenience (β std = 0.39; p < 0.01).

abstract:
  A large body of academic research has recently focused on omnichannel retailing especially on brick-and-mortar (offline) retailers adding and integrating online capabilities. Relatedly, trade press has highlighted how offline retailers have been investing heavily in the use of their existing physical retail network for quicker delivery and pick-up of online orders. Looking at the competition between Amazon and Walmart, however, we demonstrate that focusing on quicker delivery is not the best strategy for offline retailers when opening online channels to compete with online retailers. We estimate a multivariate probit model using data from a customer survey and find that offline retailers should instead focus on delivering the fundamentals of retailing to their online customers too – larger assortment, competitive prices, and purchase convenience. Further, we employ cluster analysis to show which demographics are good targets for retailers as they develop omnichannel capabilities, as well as which demographics retailers need to keep loyal to their original channels.


id: cord-343764-xan5g88w
author: Butler-Henderson, Kerryn
date: 2020-09-22
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url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104024
doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104024
summary:
  We follow on with an explication of results from thirty-six papers, exploring nine key themes: student perceptions, student performance, anxiety, cheating, staff perceptions, authentication and security, interface design, and technology issues. The development of online examination software has offered a systematic and technological alternative to the end-of-course summative examination designed for final authentication and testing of student knowledge retention, application, and extension. This paper is a timely exploration of the contemporary literature related to online examinations in the university setting, with the hopes to consolidate information on this relatively new pedagogy in higher education. The objective of this paper is to summarize the current evidence on online examination methods, and scholarly responses to authentication of learning and the mitigation of cheating, within the confines of assessment that enables learning and student wellbeing. A study of 69 psychology undergraduates identified that students who typically experienced high anxiety in traditional test environments had lower anxiety levels when completing an online examination (Stowell & Bennett, 2010) .

title:
  A systematic review of online examinations: A pedagogical innovation for scalable authentication and integrity

abstract:
  Digitization and automation across all industries has resulted in improvements in efficiencies and effectiveness to systems and process, and the higher education sector is not immune. Online learning, e-learning, electronic teaching tools, and digital assessments are not innovations. However, there has been limited implementation of online invigilated examinations in many countries. This paper provides a brief background on online examinations, followed by the results of a systematic review on the topic to explore the challenges and opportunities. We follow on with an explication of results from thirty-six papers, exploring nine key themes: student perceptions, student performance, anxiety, cheating, staff perceptions, authentication and security, interface design, and technology issues. While the literature on online examinations is growing, there is still a dearth of discussion at the pedagogical and governance levels.


id: cord-346258-xlyi0cnl
author: Radic, Aleksandar
date: 2020-04-20
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url: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082840
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17082840
summary:
  Although significant amounts of research have been done on the positive effects of Internet and online communication on social pressure [12] , fear of missing out [13] , relatedness to friends and family need satisfaction [14] , perceived social support [15] , well-being [16] and life satisfaction [17] , these effects were never studied in the peculiar environment of a cruise ship where life and work contexts are so intertwined such that the distinction between one and the other is blurred [18] . We reviewed existing theory and previous studies on the effects of the Internet and online communication on social pressure, fear of missing out, Internet multitasking and relatedness to friends and family need satisfaction. The goal of the current study was to investigate and model complex mutual interactions the Internet and online communication had on social pressure, fear of missing out, internet multitasking and relatedness to friends and family need satisfaction, perceived social support, well-being and life satisfaction of cruise ship employees.

title:
  Connected at Sea: The Influence of the Internet and Online Communication on the Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Cruise Ship Employees

abstract:
  This study aims to elucidate the idiosyncratic effects of the Internet and online communication on the well-being and life satisfaction of cruise ship employees. Cross-sectional surveys and covariance-based structural equation modelling tools were used. In addition, univariate variance analysis was used to address the effects of socio-demographic variables (years of service on a cruise ship, working department on a cruise ship, gender, age, educational level and place of residency) on latent variables of the conceptual model. The conceptual model draws on existing theory and previous research and was empirically tested on a sample of cruise ship employee internet users. Result show that while being onboard a cruise ship, employees experience strong social pressure to be constantly available and they fear of missing out on important information and life events. Thus, relatedness to friends and family needs satisfaction is of paramount importance for cruise ship employees because they are fully aware that they are dispensable and replaceable to cruise ship companies, however to their friends and family, they are indispensable and unique. Moreover, employees who engage in other tasks/activities while taking part in online communication with friends and family exhibit reduced performance, which leads to poor interaction and social dissatisfaction. Lastly, employees experiencing under-reciprocating exchanges show significant negative effects on their well-being. Overall, the results provided several important theoretical and practical implications relevant to cruise tourism and human resource management.


id: cord-348709-y1tws6p9
title: Sustainable Medical Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Surviving the New Normal
author: Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri
date: 2020-06-30
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url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32684814/
doi: 10.21315/mjms2020.27.3.14
summary:
  However, the MCO that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for the higher education community in ensuring continuous provision of education to the students. It should be noted that if the duration for the MCO following the COVID-19 outbreak were to exceed two months, which is now the case, it was essential for medical schools to activate emergency risk management for the implementation of online teaching and learning during the outbreak. However, online teaching continues to be an adjunct teaching method for medical curricula, as face-to face teaching is still required for the development of certain learning outcomes such as the acquisition of clinical skills and development of values (i.e. professionalism) (12) . Being able to conduct fullblown online teaching and learning in medical schools during this pandemic is critical to ensure the continuity of educational delivery to medical students after the prohibition of movement and mass assemblies had been undertaken to break the chain of infection.

abstract:
  During the first phase of the Movement Control Order, many medical lecturers had difficulty adapting to the online teaching and learning methods that were made compulsory by the institutional directives. Some of these lecturers are clinicians who need to juggle between clinical work and teaching, and consider a two-week adaptation during this period to be not enough. Furthermore, converting traditional face-to-face learning to online formats for undergraduate and postgraduate clinical programmes would reduce the learning outcomes, especially those related to clinical applications and the acquisition of new skills. This editorial discusses the impact that movement restrictions have had on medical teaching and learning, the alternatives and challenges and the way forward.


id: cord-350256-tpu2oidi
author: Sajnani, Nisha
date: 2020-05-23
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url: https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/pii/S0197455620300411
doi: 10.1016/j.aip.2020.101668
summary:
  The authors contextualize this concept with examples of how attention to the use of aesthetic and multimedia strategies in the classroom and in the online learning environment may foster openness and connection, encourage flexibility, humor, critical thinking, and animate and facilitate conversations about emergent and emotionally difficult themes while increasing accessibility for different kinds of learners. The authors spent a significant part of their article articulating their use of a range of synchronous and asynchronous tools for teaching, discussion, and assignments, which may be helpful for others interested in developing or improving online and hybrid learning options for CATs. Blanc''s (2018) phenomenological pilot study explored more deeply this concept of embodied presence for DMT hybrid students, finding importance in artsbased responses and layered engagement between movement, other arts responses, and cognitive learning.

title:
  Aesthetic presence: The role of the arts in the education of creative arts therapists in the classroom and online

abstract:
  Literature about the integral role of the arts in learning is widely available, but much less has been written about how the arts and aesthetics support education in the creative arts therapies, particularly in the online learning environment. This article introduces the concept of aesthetic presence within the Community of Inquiry pedagogical model in line with values espoused within a Universal Design for Learning framework. The authors contextualize this concept with examples of how attention to the use of aesthetic and multimedia strategies in the classroom and in the online learning environment may foster openness and connection, encourage flexibility, humor, critical thinking, and animate and facilitate conversations about emergent and emotionally difficult themes while increasing accessibility for different kinds of learners.


