An evaluation of community satisfaction with the government's COVID-19 pandemic response in Aceh, Indonesia

This study aims to identify the dominant factors of the successful implementation of benchmarking on the performance of contracting companies and test the significance of the application of benchmarking on the performance of contracting companies. The research sample was saturated samples of 65 qualified contractor companies. The method and type of research used were correlational methods of multiple regression analysis using SPPS. The results of the study concluded that 1.Benchmarking significantly influences the performance of contracting companies in the Blitar City DPUPR; 1. The ranking of success factors for the Blitar City contractor companies in the process of implementing benchmarking (1) planning, (2) data collection, (3) acception and action and (4) analysis; 2.Benchmarking has proven to significantly improve company performance as measured by increasing (1) Corporate Finance (2) Company productivity, (3) DPUPR Consumer Satisfaction, (4) Community Satisfaction, (5) Quality of the company's construction technical personnel, (6) Satisfaction employee work, (7) Project acquisition rate in one year, (8) Effective completion of construction work, (9) Construction product quality.

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Laboratory Animal Research Centre (Larc) “A Specific Pathogen Free Rodent Facility” - Covid – 19 Pandemic Response Plan

University of the Future: Re-Imagining Research and Higher Education ◽

10.29117/quarfe.2020.0285 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Muralitharan Shanmugakonar ◽

Vijay Kanth Govindharajan ◽

Kavitha Varadharajan ◽

Hamda Al-Naemi

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Animal ◽

Animal Research ◽

Research Centre ◽

Functional Requirement ◽

Specific Pathogen Free ◽

Specific Pathogen ◽

Response Plan ◽

Pandemic Response ◽

Operational Plan

Laboratory Animal Research Centre (LARC) has developed an early emergency operational plan for COVID-19 pandemic situation. Biosafety and biosecurity measures were planned and implemented ahead of time to check the functional requirement to prevent the infection. Identified necessary support for IT, transport, procurement, finance, admin and research to make the operations remotely and successfully.

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The role of personality in shaping pandemic response: Systemic sociopolitical factors drive country differences

10.31234/osf.io/m9vj2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Meghan Siritzky ◽

David M Condon ◽

Sara J Weston

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Big Five ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Economic Factors ◽

State Fragility ◽

Systemic Factors ◽

Pandemic Response ◽

The Relationship

The current study utilizes the current COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the importance of accounting for the influence of external political and economic factors in personality public-health research. We investigated the extent to which systemic factors modify the relationship between personality and pandemic response. Results shed doubt on the cross-cultural generalizability of common big-five factor models. Individual differences only predicted government compliance in autocratic countries and in countries with income inequality. Personality was only predictive of mental health outcomes under conditions of state fragility and autocracy. Finally, there was little evidence that the big five traits were associated with preventive behaviors. Our ability to use individual differences to understand policy-relevant outcomes changes based on environmental factors and must be assessed on a trait-by-trait basis, thus supporting the inclusion of systemic political and economic factors in individual differences models.

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