مطالب مرتبط با کلیدواژه

COVID-19


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نقد فرانظری مبانی هستی شناختی حکمرانی دولت ها در سیاست گذاری سلامت برای کنترل همه گیری کووید-19 (مطالعه موردی ایران)(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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کلیدواژه‌ها: حکمرانی دولت ایران سیاستگذاری سلامت بهداشت COVID-19

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درآغاز سال۲۰۲۰ میلادی،پاندمی ویروس کرونا متاثر از سرایت ویروس از راه تنفس انسان به انسان،شبکه ارتباطات انسانی را با محدودیت ودولت ها را برای حفظ جان شهروندانشان در یک «وضعیت استثنایی» قرارداد. از این رو پژوهشگر،«چگونگی اثرگذاری هستی شناسی حکمرانی دولت بر سیاست گذاری سلامت برای کنترل پاندمی ها» را با رویکرد انتقادی و روش «توصیفی-تحلیلی» مبتنی بر هشت اندیشه برابری طلبی ،سودمندگرایی ، لیبرالیسم ،شخص گرایی ،قابلیت گرایی ،کمونیستی،مساوات طلبی،بهزیست گرایی، در وضعیت استثنایی پاندمی COVIDE-19 بررسی کرده و در «چیستی مبانی آنتالوژیک حکمرانی دولت در ایران برای کنترل ویروس کرونا »،را با رهیافت فرانظریه و روش «فرایند تاریخی»، نقد می کند تحقیق، به این بحث پرداخته که تقدم پیشینی مبانی هستی شناختی دولت بر سیاست های سلامت سبب می شود تا حکمران سیاسی ، با کنش گری محدود اما کارگزارمحور در مواجه با پاندمی ها تحت تاثیر پارادایم های فلسفی، مفهوم سلامت جوامع انسانی را در معنایی متفاوت بکار ببرد. محقق به این نتیجه رسید که سیاستگذاری سلامت در منطق استثنا ، متاثر از مبانی هستی شناختی این جوامع ،حائز ویژگی «تمرکزگرایی» در شیوه های اعمال قدرت حکمران سیاسی برای حفظ «جمعیتِ اجتماع» است. این در حالی است که سیاستگذاری سلامت در ایران تا انقلاب۱۹۰۶ مشروطه، متاثر از عناصر خردستیز و عرفانگرا در تقابل با امرملی بوده وبعد از آن تا انقلاب اسلامی۱۹۷۸ متاثر ازتفسیر ایدئولوژیک از سنت بوده است. بعداز انقلاب۱۹۷۸، سیاستگذاری سلامت با قرائتی سوسیالیستی از حکمرانی برای عدالت همراه بوده که درسال۲۰۲۰،قوه مجریه در ایران مبتنی بر نظریات حکمرانی «مشارکتی-جهانی»،کوشش کرده برای کنترل شیوع ویروس کرونا سیاستگذاری کند.
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The Use of Technology in Quarantine: A Way to Maintain and Promote Physical Health

کلیدواژه‌ها: Exergames physical fitness COVID-19 Technology quarantine

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Background: Along with the outbreak of coronavirus and quarantine practices in many countries, physical activities have certainly been severely restricted. The purpose of this review was to investigate the role of technology in maintaining and improving physical health. Method: For this systematic review study, the research method in this study included searching on PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Articles written in English and Persian in peer reviewed journals that examining the effect of electronic games and virtual reality on physical fitness were selected for analysis. Then, the eligible studies classifieds based on the study population ages. Results: Of 12563 studies found, 14 studies were eligible to enter the study. Research has shown that the use of technology significantly affect gait, balance, strength, flexibility, and mental functioning of the elderly, as well as balance, strength, endurance, and cognitive abilities in adults and children's physical endurance. Conclusions: According to studies under review, the use of technology has a significant effect on improving and maintaining the physical and mental fitness of people in different ages. So, we can suggest using exergame and virtual reality exercises as a possible intervention to promote and maintain physical and mental fitness in quarantine.
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Persian-Language Media overseas as the Western Tools of Public Diplomacy: Framing COVID-19 Pandemics in Iran by VOA and BBC(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: BBC VOA COVID-19 Iran Media Framing

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The coronavirus pandemic has attracted the international media since the first infection was identified in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Despite the similar frames all around the world, the present study assumes that international media have not portrayed the countries with confirmed outburst of the disease in similar terms. It is believed that diseases in the world are both political and biological. The present study, therefore, employs media framing, as conducted by Entman and Van Gorp, to analyze the first fifty VOA and BBC Persian news that covered the spread of COVID-19 in Iran. These agencies are chosen for their significant position in the western public diplomacy and their probable influence within the country. The results indicate that the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran is framed in seven major frame packages: Iran at crisis, Iran as the source of regional and international threatening virus, lack of determination and confidence in decision making in Iran, Iran’s incompetence and disqualification as an ill-equipped system, lying and hypocrisy in Iran, violation of human rights, and finally, Islamic political ideology as a source of corruption.
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The Effect of Covid-19 Outbreak on Registered Oil Companies at Tehran Stock Exchange(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: pandemic COVID-19 Stock Market Oil Markets GARCH Models GLE

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The goal of this paper is to study the effect of Covid-19 outbreak on oil markets volatility.Covid-19 as a pandemic has a significant negative effect on global economy.  Alongside the global economy, stock markets responded to the outbreak immediately. The first case appeared in February 20 in Iran.  The outbreak has different implication for Iranian economy. Using daily data on return of oil companies registered at Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), change in new cases integrated into the E-GARCH model as a proxy for the virus outbreak form February 20, 2020 until December 12, 2020, it applies an E-GARCH model to derive volatilities in index. To test the effect of Covid-19 outbreak on the volatilities in oil companies’ index, change in daily new cases integrated into the E-GARCH model as a proxy for the virus outbreak. The results show that, despite of fresh money pumped into the market and increase in market transactions and volume of trade, during the first phase of outbreak, Covid-19 has negatively affected returns of oil companies’ prices.
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بررسی کارایی تدریس لغت، دستور و مهارت خواندن در دوره های آنلاین زبان با اهداف آکادمیک در دانشگاه ها در زمان همه گیری کووید 19(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Online education EAP

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بیماری همه گیر COVID-19 همه دانشگاه ها را واداشت تا تمام برنامه های خود را بصورت آنلاین ارائه دهند. اما همه مدرسان برای چنین تحول ناگهانی ای آماده نبودند. آموزش آنلاین می تواند برای مربیان و موسسات بسیار چالش برانگیز باشد چراکه دارای ظرافت های مختلفی است که آن را از برنامه های حضوری کاملا متفاوت می سازد. با توجه به شرایط حاضر همه گیری، نیاز فوری به مطالعات در خصوص بررسی اثربخشی چنین برنامه هایی در مقایسه با دوره های مشابه حضوری به شدت حس میشود. در نتیجه ، مطالعه حاضر تلاشی بود برای مقایسه اثربخشی یک دوره EAP آنلاین با دوره مشابه حضوری از نظر سه مولفه لغات ، دستور زبان و درک مطلب. شصت و هشت دانش آموز در دو گروه آنلاین و حضوری با طرح پیش آزمون-پس آزمون در این مطالعه شرکت کردند. در حالی که در شروع مطالعه دو گروه تفاوت معناداری نداشتند ، نتایج آزمون SPANOVA تفاوت معناداری را در مورد مولفه دستور زبان و نه دو مولفه دیگر نشان داد. گروه حضوری از عملکرد بهتری در یادگیری دستور زبان برخوردار بود. مصاحبه های انجام شده نشان داد که فراگیران در کلاسهای آنلاین معمولاً تعامل کمی با معلمان و همکلاسی های خود دارند و معلمان نمی توانند در طول کلاس، فراگیران را درگیر و فعال نگه دارند. همه اینها نشان می دهد که یک برنامه آنلاین، ترجمه یک برنامه درسی حضوری به یک قالب آنلاین نیست و از پیچیدگی های بی شماری برخوردار است که باید مورد توجه همه دست اندرکاران قرار گیرد.
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Emergence Distance Education (EDE) role in the Learning of English Language Skills during COVID-19 Pandemic(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Higher education Emergence Distance Education (EDE) English Language Skills EFL students Iran

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members and students had to leave their face-to-face (FTF) classes and move into emergency distance education (EDE) contexts. Due to this drastic change in the system of education, investigating the probable effects of EDE on the quality of education seems essential. As such, this study has attempted to probe the effect of EDE on the language skills of Iranian EFL students. To do so, drawing on the maximum variation sampling, the present study embarked on a qualitative descriptive research method, triangulating data through written open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to collect data from 170 EFL students from different universities in Iran. The sample included BA students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and English Literature, aged above 18. Using Thematic Analysis (TA), students’ responses were transcribed, codified, and interpreted. The findings of TA revealed that along with several disadvantages and challenges that Iranian EFL students experienced in EDE with regard to learning English language skills, EDE provided some opportunities and benefits for their learning. The analysis of students’ responses also indicated that they deemed speaking skill as the most negatively influenced language skill and listening skill as the most positively affected skill. Furthermore, the findings represented that most of the students held teachers and administrators responsible for the problems and challenges they experienced in EDE contexts. The findings of the present study can encourage administrators, teachers, and students to prepare themselves for EDE against the possible subsequent waves.
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The Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on English Language Teacher Education in Iran: Challenges and Opportunities(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 English Language Teacher Education Online teaching online learning Paradigm shift

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The global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought about many changes and challenges in our lives, interactions, relationships, and modes of learning and teaching and helped us learn how to adapt ourselves to unanticipated conditions to survive. It stimulated universities, schools, and institutions of higher education to rethink and restructure their policies to find solutions to the problems as well as researchers all around the world to help educational systems get out of the mess. This study aimed to contribute to the body of literature and investigated the impacts of COVID-19 on English language teacher education. Convenience sampling was employed to recruit thirty student teachers as the participants of the study. To do the study, the author used semi-structured interviews, focus group interviews (n = 20), student teachers' reflective journals (n = 10), and his own reflective journals to collect the data. Grounded theory was used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that there was a shift from anomaly to congruity, student teachers saw the pandemic as an opportunity, they felt the need for technology inclusion, development, and promotion in their educational contexts, there was an urgent need to train teachers and learners to use technology in their contexts to keep the education running, and teachers had to reconstruct their identities and turn to formative assessment. The findings can contribute to the body of literature and prompt English language teacher education programs, teacher educators, administrators, teachers, and policymakers to consider the findings while they are designing, upgrading, reforming, and running their syllabi, curriculums, and programs.
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The Impact of Learning through Management System vs. Learning through Experience Platform on Exam Results of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 digital divide English for Medical Purposes Learning Management System learning experience platform

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The upheaval time of COVID-19 highlighted the importance of an effective way of teaching English to the front-line healthcare workers such as medical doctors and researchers with different digital-divide status, particularly in non-English-speaking countries because they were first-hand users of critical pandemic-related information in mostly-English articles published online by scientific journals. This study attempted to investigate the pedagogical effects of utilizing the two main User-Generated Content (UGC) platforms in E-learning, namely LMS vs. LXP, on the results of the Electronic Ministry of Health Language Examinations (E-MHLE) among Iranian English for Medical Purposes (EMP) learners across their digital-divide status (digital natives vs. digital immigrants) during the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of focus-group E-interviews were conducted to determine the reasons behind the lowest scores among the participants and to find out possible suggestions for success in high-stake E-tests. To this end, 272 EMP learners who were users of LMS and LXP were conveniently selected from a university of medical science to participate in this sequential explanatory mixed-method research. The results of descriptive and inferential statistics showed that the LXP group outperformed the LMS one in the results of E-MHLE. Moreover, the digital natives obtained higher scores than the digital immigrants in both groups but the difference was not significant in the LXP. The findings of the E-interviews were thematically analyzed and discussed. The findings of this study might offer practical and realistic benefits to the whole EMP community, particularly policymakers for the post-COVID-19 era. 
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Technology Acceptance of Navid Learning Management System in the Iranian Medical English Courses under the COVID-19 Pandemic(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: Learning Management System E-Learning COVID-19 Medical English Navid Technology Acceptance Model

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This mixed-method study endeavored to solicit the perspectives of Iranian collegiate students passing the obligatory course of medical English through Navid Learning Management System and its acceptance during COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing Technology Acceptance Model, this study also sought to examine the possible effect gender, academic degree, instructional mode, and e-learning duration in LMS may have on the participants' attitudes. An online survey was employed to gather data from 78 Iranian students. Semi-structured interviews with ten participants were conducted as well to shed more light on the quantitative data regarding main advantages and disadvantages of medical English learning through Navid. The data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics along with inductive thematic analysis, respectively. Findings revealed that Iranian collegiate medical students viewed Navid as a comprehensive e-learning platform to be favorable in terms of its system/service quality, student/educational service quality, and perceived satisfaction, but its perceived satisfaction was not aligned with their needs. Moreover, neither the individual variables, (viz., age and academic degree), nor the instructional variables (viz., instructional mode and e-learning duration) were predictors of the discrepancies among the participants in their perspectives and acceptance of Navid. Learning ubiquitously and lacking face-to-face communication were the main advantage and disadvantage of learning medical English through Navid, respectively. Results revealed that although under the Covid-19 pandemic the acceptance of Navid and students' satisfaction with its use might not be related to the individual and instructional variables in the medical English courses, it might not be the case in others.
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Long Short-Term Memory Approach for Coronavirus Disease Predicti(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: deep learning LSTM Prediction COVID-19 Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)

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Corona Virus (COVID-19) is a major problem among people, and it causes suffering worldwide. Yet, the traditional prediction models are not yet suitably efficient in catching the fundamental expertise as they cannot visualize the difficulty in the health's representation problem areas. This paper states prediction mechanism that uses a model of deep learning called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). We have carried this model out on corona virus dataset that obtained from the records of infections, deaths, and recovery cases across the world. Furthermore, producing a dataset which includes features of geographic regions (temperature and humidity) that have experienced severe virus outbreaks, risk factors, spatio-temporal analysis, and social behavior of people, a predictive model can be developed for areas where the virus is likely to spread. However, the outcomes of this study are justifiable to alert the authorities and the people to take precautions.
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Automatic Chest CT Image Findings of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19) Using U-Net Based Convolutional Neural Network(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 CT imaging findings Segmentation deep learning Ground-glass opacities U-Net

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The continuing outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia is globally concerning. Timely detection of infection ensures prompt quarantine of patient which is crucial for preventing the rapid spread of this contagious disease and also supports the patient with necessary medication. Due to the high infection rate of COVID-19, our health management system needs an automatic diagnosis tool that equips the health workers to pay immediate attention to the needy person. Chest CT is an essential imaging technique for diagnosis and staging of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The identification of COVID-19 CT findings assists health workers on further clinical evaluation, especially when the findings on CT scans are trivial, the person may be recommended for Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests. Literature reported that the ground-glass opacity (GGO) with or without consolidation are dominant CT findings in COVID-19 patients. In this paper, the U-Net based segmentation approach is proposed to automatically segment and analyze the GGO and consolidation findings in the chest CT scan. The performance of this system is evaluated by comparing the auto-segmented infection regions with the manually-outlines ones on 100 axial chests CT scans of around 40 COVID-19 patients from SIRM dataset. The proposed U-Net with pre-process approach yields specificity of 0.91 ± 0.09 and sensitivity of 0.87 ± 0.07 on segmenting GGO region and specificity of 0.81 ± 0.13 and sensitivity of 0.44 ± 0.17 on segmenting consolidation region. Also the experimental results confirmed that the automatic detection method identifies the CT finding with a precise opacification percentage from the chest CT image.
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Panic Buying Situation during COVID-19 Global Pandemic(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: Panic buying COVID-19 Emotional Responses Cognitive responses masks Hand sanitizers Toilet papers

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After the Coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) outbreak, the Whole world witnessed the strangest buying behavior within the customers. Suddenly masks, hand sanitizers, and toilet papers became the priority list of the customers. High demand and lesser availability of essentials products like masks, toilet papers, and hand sanitizers create a chaotic situation inside the retail outlet's stores.  The buyer’s behavior and the chaotic scenario inside a retail outlet drew the attention of several consumer psychologists, academicians, and researchers. A panic buying situation is the most common behavior that exists in a time of crisis. This paper discusses the panic buying situation briefly during COVID-19. However, a few types of research and studies were captured in the panic buying behavior. The current study examined the factors that influenced the customers buying decisions during the COVID-19 outbreak and secondly, it examined to what extent the buying decision of a customer creates a panic situation. Furthermore, the study looked at the emotional and cognitive responses of the individuals which play a pivotal role in influencing customer decision making the journey. Qualitative content analysis and thematic methodology were considered for data analysis. The results indicated that fear and uncertainties were the key emotional responses; whereas rumors, fallacious thinking, and survivalist psychological were the key cognitive responses that influenced the customer decision journey.
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The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis upon the Effectiveness of E-learning in Higher Education Institution(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: E-Learning perceived usefulness perceived ease of use Self-Motivation Smart Pls COVID-19

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The infestation of the world pandemic has significantly changed the landscape of teaching and learning experience in Malaysia.  Particularly for the institution under study, E-learning, previously used as the support medium to face-to-face classroom teaching, has become the primary medium of teaching and learning amid Covid-19.  E-learning platform has replaced the face-to-face classes. Even though it is only a temporary approach, less is known in terms of its effectiveness.  The present paper intends to examine the factors contributing to E-learning's effectiveness in a Higher Education Institution in Malaysia amid the COVID-19 crisis. The Technology Acceptance Model underpinned the conceptual framework.   This study investigated the relationship between the independent variables (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and self-motivation) and E-learning effectiveness.  The data were collected through an online self-administrated questionnaire using Google form and received a total of 354 respondents.  The data were analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS.  The findings revealed that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and self-motivation positively influenced E-learning's effectiveness.  This paper concluded that regardless of whether as the support medium or the primary medium in the teaching and learning process, the determinant to E-Learning effectiveness is still perceived the same. This study also supports the TAM proposition while incorporate self-motivation in measuring learning effectiveness.
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مدیریت شهری و COVID-19 : تحلیل شهر سالم در شهر مرزی زابل و شهر صنعتی عسلویه

کلیدواژه‌ها: زابل COVID-19 ساختار شهری بهداشت و سلامت عمومی مدیریت شهری مرز

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اپیدمی بیمار ی های نوظهور بر ساختار، برنامهریزی، معماری، توسعه، رفتار اجتماعی، فعالیت اقتصادی و مدیریت شهر های و زیست جهان تأثیرگذاشته و تداوم بیماری کرونا هم تغییرات خاص خود را ایجاد خواهد کرد. تغییر بنیادی در زیست جامعه بشری در ابعاد مختلف به ویژه سکونتگاههای زیستی و فضاهای کالبدی نیز اثرگذار خواهد بود، با توجه به بررسی سوابق بیماری های واگیر در جهان به ویژه بیماری های وبا، طاعون، سارس، آبولا... و نظریاتی همچون پخش فضایی تورتسن هاگستراند و نظریه پیچیده و آشوب: سیستمهای شهری؛ بررسی وضعیت فعلی با توجه به سطح گسترش و فراگیری ویروس COVID-19 و اثرات گوناگون آن در جغرافیای زیستی کشور مهم میباشد. در مقاله حاضر بر اساس نظریات متعارف جغرافیای پزشکی و اثرات فضایی پخش بیماری ها و همچنین اثرات کالبدی فیزیکی/ ساختاری در - فضاهای شهری و آسیب های وارد و تبیین رویکردهای آینده نگر به تحلیل وضعیت ساختار شهری و ویروس کرونا در دو شهر زابل و عسلویه در جغرافیای سرزمینی کشور پرداخته شده است که مبنای بررسی مرزی بودن، صنعتی بودن، تفاوت در مهاجرت ها، نوع فعالیت ها شهری میباشد. در پایان ضمن ارائه نتایج تحلیلی به ارائه رویکردهای مختلف مدیریتی به ویژه رویکرد مدیریت اجتماع محور جهت عبور از بحران و رفتار و فعالیتهای توسعه ای )شهر و شهروند الکترونیک و هوشمند( و مدیریتی در ادامه مدیریت بحران کرونا در جامعه می باشد.
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From a Conventional Battle of The 1967’s Conflict to the Invisible War of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Re-Examining the British Healthcare and Humanitarian Aid to Palestine(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

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کلیدواژه‌ها: British COVID-19 NGOs pandemic Arab-Israelis War Refugees

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This study re-examines the healthcare and humanitarian aid contributed by the British government and the British NGOs to the Palestinians during the Arab-Israelis War of 1967 and the current Covid-19 pandemic age. The objective of the research is to compare the significant efforts initiated by the British government and their NGOs to Palestine in two different occasions. After the end of Six-Day War of 1967, many Palestinian displaced persons lived in a poor condition at refugee’s camps scattered in Syria and Jordan.  As a result of the unhygienic and inadequacy of a basic living facilities such as a clean sanitation system, the refugees experienced various contagious and non-contagious diseases such as gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and diverse skin infections. During this difficult time, the British government, and NGOs tirelessly contributed in various means to assist the displaced individuals and refugees in handling health disaster. Subsequently, the same thing occurs when the World, including Palestine is haunted with the current invisible Covid-19 virus, which appears to be another health catastrophe to the Palestinians. Hence, this study is re-examining the role and contribution of the British government and their NGOs to assist the Palestine Authority to face the imperceptible enemy which caused a pernicious plague. Regardless of religious beliefs, the noble efforts of those parties are appearing to be a humanitarian bridge which connecting humankind across continents, generations, and political ideology.
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The Response of Malaysia and Turkey on COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: Malaysia Turkey COVID-19 Health Measures Economic Packages

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Malaysia and Turkey are progressive, modern Muslim-majority countries. Both have shown strong resolve and capabilities in dealing with issues and challenges both at home and international level. In dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, both countries have adopted various measures and strategies to contain the virus outbreak. Yet, the biggest challenge in executing those is balancing the need to protect the public and maintain economic growth. Hence, this study compares and contrasts the measures and strategies taken by both countries in containing the COVID-19 outbreak as well as ensuring the continuity of economic growth. The time period of this study was from March 2020 until early February 2021 as most of the countries, including Malaysia and Turkey, by then had introduced new COVID-19-related health policies and economic stimulus packages. The finding compares and contrasts the effectiveness of those measures and strategies so that both countries can share and learn from this pandemic. .
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Towards Stabilizing the Economic Impact of COVID-19 through Fiscal Policy in Malaysia(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 Economic impacts Fiscal policy Malaysia Movement Control Order

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A greater size of government spending, may be less efficient. This is contradicting with Malaysian practice because the current Malaysian fiscal policy has allocated a huge budget from the lowest income of individuals to the highest international trade with the aims of reducing the economic implications caused by the outbreak of COVID-19. This paper embarks on three objectives. First, to provide an overview of fiscal policy. Second, to investigate the impacts of COVID-19; and third, reveals the actions taken by the Malaysian Government to implement the recovery policy. This paper adopts an integrative literature review and published reports relating to fiscal policy and COVID-19. The findings show the consolidated efforts of Malaysian Government towards the current fiscal policy in stabilizing the economic impact after the Movement Control Order. This paper could be a prudent guideline for other countries to strategize their fiscal policies in steering the macro and socioeconomic development.
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Legal Issues Tsunami in the Wake of COVID -19 and Contractual Breach(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 breach of contract Force majeure

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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages through the world, a “tsunami” of legal and economic issues including breach of contracts occurred in the private and public sectors. In Iran and throughout the world, almost all contracts contain so-called “force majeure” clauses, which excuse a business’s non-performance if circumstances beyond their control prevent (or sometimes hinder) performance. These clauses often list out the circumstances which excuse non-performance and they may include flood, fire, terrorism, war “Act of God” and sometimes epidemic. Due to the impacts of the pandemic on the price of materials and tremendous increase in the costs, contractors try to take COVID-19 as a legal excuse (force majeure) to breach the contract. The present paper tries to answer the questions that can the contractors take force majeure as a “get out of jail free” card? Does the COVID-19 outbreak constitute force majeure and excuse non-performance of contract? And how does it affect “time of Essence” clauses in contracts? Through the critical analysis method, this article scrutinizes the legal challenges of the issue.  Findings show that having a look ahead, the legislator has to redefine the meaning of force majeure in the Iranian and European law .
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Application of Adaptive Neuro-Based Fuzzy Inference System to Evaluate the Resilience of E-learning in Education Systems, During the Covid-19 Pandemic(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: E-Learning Resiliece COVID-19 Adaptive Neuro-Based Fuzzy Inference System Virtual University

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Education systems in the world are enduring COVID-19 induced perturbations and consequences. Given the growing use of E-learning during COVID-19 epidemic and expansion of Internet-based infrastructure, the need for a resilient approach to e-learning systems is deeply felt. This paper aims to address the issue of how to provide a model for evaluating the resilience of E-learning in Iranian virtual universities during the outbreak of coronavirus employing an Adaptive Neuro-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). In the present paper, 5 substantial factors including individual, assessment and support, content, agility, and technology were identified as inputs, and e-learning resilience was considered as single output. Moreover, ANFIS was employed to model the resilience of E-learning systems. Findings revealed almost medium to low degree of resilience for the e-learning system established in Iran’s virtual university. Statistical analysis demonstrated that there was no meaningful difference between experts’ opinions and our proposed procedure for E-learning resilience measurement. The proposed model showed significant sensitivity to changes in agility. Therefore, agility should be considered as the first priority in achieving the desired level of resilience for the e-learning systems of the Iranian virtual university.
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The Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of Covid-19 Patients: A Qualitative Study(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

کلیدواژه‌ها: COVID-19 quarantine Qualitative Method spirituality

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The Covid-19 pandemic has been on the rise all over the globe during the last two years and numerous cases are being reported positive on the Covid-19 diagnostic test daily. Patients dealing with this disease experience special emotions and psychological conditions. The aim of this study is to understand and describe the lived experience of these patients and their psychological and spiritual dimensions. This study was carried out through a qualitative method following a descriptive phenomenological approach. Data gathering was performed via 14 semi-structured interviews with COVID-19 patients from different cities in Iran. The selection of the sample was started with purposive sampling in 2020, and continued with the selection of more samples through the snowball sampling method till data saturation was achieved. Data analyses were performed by a qualitative method based on the Colizzi approach, leading to the extraction of 8 major classes and 24 themes. The classes of negative reactions to the diseases included fear and anxiety, hopelessness, anger and hatred, depersonalization and de-realization, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The post-disease classes of attitudinal and spiritual evolutions included increased spirituality, modified interpersonal relationships, and evolved self-concept. have achieved unique spiritual experiences and growth dimensions in their life upon dealing with the pandemic. This study can greatly help psychologists, medics, and medical managers to identify therapeutic approaches to treat anxiety and improve peace in the Covid-19 patients