Positive Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1755-1761
Author(s):  
Rashi Parashar
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Precautionary Measure ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Under the agony of this recent pandemic going on, in the world due to Covid-19; there has been loss of millions of human lives along with huge economical shock and great recession through out the globe. Environmental degradation has been one of the biggest threats of this century. In spite of all the steps taken by environmentalists and government for the healing of environment in past few years, we couldn’t reach upto the mark. But during the lockdown, which was forced as a precautionary measure for Covid-19 pandemic, environment has successfully recovered to a large extent which was otherwise not possible. This has definitely brought a positive change in climate globally. This review article deals with various such positive impacts of lockdown on ecosystem. Covid-19 outbreak has restricted the social freedom of people globally. It has caused both positive and negative effects on environment. Reduction in greenhouse gas emission because of reduced transport facilities and industrial and other activities were some of positive effects of lockdown while negative effects on mental health of people and increased medical waste during the lockdown were some of the negative effects of lockdown. In this study, the relationship between Covid-19 outbreak and effects on environment was discussed in worldwide sense and a detailed review was conducted that could be used for further planning of researches on the same subject.

Exploring privacy and trust for employee monitoring

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuchih Ernest Chang ◽  
Anne Yenching Liu ◽  
Sungmin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Employee Monitoring ◽  
Communication Privacy ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate privacy boundaries and explores employees’ reactions in employee monitoring. Design/methodology/approach – The research used the metaphor of boundary turbulence in the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to demonstrate the psychological effect on employees. The model comprised organizational culture, CPM, trust, and employee performance in employee monitoring to further investigated the influence exerted by organizational culture and how employees viewed their trust within the organization when implementing employee monitoring. Variables were measured empirically by administrating questionnaires to full-time employees in organizations that currently practice employee monitoring. Findings – The findings showed that a control-oriented organizational culture raised communication privacy turbulence in CPM. The communication privacy turbulence in CPM mostly had negative effects on trust in employee monitoring policy, but not on trust in employee monitoring members. Both trust in employee monitoring policy and trust in employee monitoring members had positive effects on employee commitment and compliance to employee monitoring. Research limitations/implications – This research applied the CPM theory in workplace privacy to explore the relationship between employees’ privacy and trust. The results provide insights of why employees feel psychological resistance when they are forced to accept the practice of employee monitoring. In addition, this study explored the relationship between CPM and trust, and offer support and verification to prior studies. Practical implications – For practitioners, the findings help organizations to improve the performance of their employees and to design a more effective environment for employee monitoring. Originality/value – A research model was proposed to study the impacts of CPM on employee monitoring, after a broad survey on related researches. The validated model and its corresponding study results can be referenced by organization managers and decision makers to make favorable tactics for achieving their goals of implementing employee monitoring.

Healthcare Management During a Pandemic: The Other Side of the Coin for the Treatment of Covid-19 Infection

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danila De Vito ◽  
Antonio Fusco ◽  
Caterina Benincasa ◽  
Luca Laghi ◽  
Francesco M. Ceruso
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
World Health ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Worldwide Population ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Organization

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) has increasingly improved the guidelines to tackle the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) among the worldwide population. In this context, each country has introduced specific social, healthcare, political and macroeconomic measures to face COVID pandemic locally. Objective: The general aim of this comparative overview is to highlight the most significant effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the main healthcare systems. Also, we critically analyzed the macroeconomic variables and the most promising solutions to improve both healthcare system and its related risk management, taking into specific consideration the most industrialized countries. Method: The main strategy has been built on a renewed concept of the hospital, rebuilding the old concepts of “triage” and “intensive care”. Recently, COVID-19 hospitals have allowed to cater the patients affected by COVID-19. Moreover, the reshaping of several healthcare policies and requirements has led to several positive effects, such as the recruitment of a huge number of human resources in the healthcare systems. Nevertheless, several negative effects have also impacted the communities mostly subjected to infections. Conclusion: Undoubtedly, the national healthcare systems have somehow addressed the people’s needs, trying not to neglect the social, healthcare, economic and political aspects. In our overview, we have reported how the different actions taken in the last months, have resulted in different outcomes.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Dampak Pariwisata di Kawasan Pesisir Pada Dimensi Sosial Budaya Masyarakat

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Komang Gde Sukarsa ◽  
Trisna Darmayanti ◽  
Eka N. Kencana
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Creative Products

Tourism is a leading sector in developing process of many countries. For Bali, tourism contributes more than 30 percent on the formation of Bali’s Regional Domestic Product. To assure tourism at this island will run in sustainable manner, three aspects have to be considered. This research is aimed to classify the positive as well as the negative effects of socio-cultural dimension arose from tourists activities at coastal area of Badung regency of Bali. A hundred of local community leaders at North Kuta district were selected and their perception regarding effect of tourism on socio-cultural aspect were collected on June – September 2017 and  analysed by using factor analysis. Three groups were identified as the positive effects i.e. (a) women empowerment as the economic agents for the family; (b) the increasing of Balinese values; and (c) the raising of community capacity building in developing culture-creative products. Viewed from the burden of cost, we found the potency of increasing the social as well as family conflicts because of different perspectives in viewing tourism.

From concentrations requirements to emission committments: prospects and challenges for the Global Stocktake

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Bowman ◽  
Junjie Liu ◽  
Anthony Bloom ◽  
Sassan Saatchi ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Modeling ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Biogeochemical Processes ◽  
Climate Feedbacks ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Data Assimilation System ◽  
Global Stocktake

<p>The Paris Agreement was a watershed moment in providing a framework to address the mitigation of climate change.  The Global Stocktake is a bi-decadal process to assess progress in greenhouse gas emission reductions in light of climate feedbacks and response.   However, the relationship between emission commitments and concentration requirements is confounded by complex natural biogeochemical processes potentially modulated by climate feedbacks.  We investigate the prospects and challenges of mediating between emissions and concentrations through the NASA Carbon Monitoring System Flux (CMS-Flux) project, which is an inverse modeling and data assimilation system that ingests a suite of observations including the Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) and state-of-the-art biomass change maps across the carbon cycle to attribute atmospheric carbon variability to anthropogenic and biogeochemical processes. We decompose the spatial drivers of CO2 accumulation since the beginning of the decade into component fluxes and emissions in the context of the historic 2010 and 2015 El Ninos, which had a tremendous influence on the CO2 growth rate.  These processes reshuffle the primary contributors of CO2 growth at Stocktake time scales that must be reconciled with Nationally Determine Contributions and concentration targets.  Based on these findings, we investigate how systems such as CMS-Flux can harness the carbon constellation to fill a vital gap between policy needs and scientific assessment needed for the Stocktake.</p>

International Market Orientation and International Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Escandón-Barbosa ◽  
Miguel Hernandez-Espallardo ◽  
Augusto Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Market Orientation ◽  
International Market ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
International Sales

The literature in the field of internationalization has managed to link other areas of knowledge such as marketing to give an explanation to the establishment of strategies to survive in international markets. In this sense, the concept of international market orientation emerges that manages to explain how businesses design a strategy to improve the satisfaction of customer needs in international contexts. The purpose of this article is finding the factors that influence the relationship between the international market orientation and international results. In turn, the directors of export SME´s should be aware that entering international markets prematurely and achieving a significant percentage by volume of international sales does not necessarily guarantee better international performance. They should search for other types of resources or capabilities that permit better possibilities of obtaining competitive advantage in the long-term, such as the adoption of an international market orientation, which makes it possible to evaluate and analyze the internal and external factors present in a company’s internal dynamics. To achieve this objective is taken as the unit of analysis Colombian exporters companies through a sample of 319 surveys and that are processed in a hierarchical regression analysis. The main findings confirm that adopt a strategy of international orientation relative to other strategies such as innovative and entrepreneurial orientation does have positive effects on the internationalization of companies. However, this strategy has a tendency to saturation and therefore can generate negative effects on the international results.

scholarly journals Clinical social work practices for adult offendersYetişkin hükümlülere yönelik klinik sosyal hizmet uygulamaları

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 620-634
Author(s):  
Esin Zengin Taş ◽  
Nurdan Duman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Clinical Knowledge ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual

In the historical process, crime has a long history. Crime is one of today's biggest social problem. Because of the consequences of crime to the whole society, prevention efforts have gained importance especially with the developments in the field of human rights. At this point today's prisons are places where the punishment foreseen by the law in return for the consequences of the crime are taken; also draw attention as institutions to prevent crime. One of the most important disciplines to prevent crime in prisons targeting rehabilitation is the social work profession. For this reason, social work practices in prison gain importance in terms of reducing the negative effects of the crime on the individual, family and society; contributing to the functional passage of the execution time; to intervene in accordance with the needs of special-needs offenders and  preventing re-offending.Based on all these; In this review article on clinical social work practices for adult offenders; It is intended to provide a perspective on the structure of today's prisons, current social work practices, population of prisons and theoretical and clinical knowledge and skills of the social worker working in the penitentiary system.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetTarihsel süreç içerisinde suç olgusunun uzun bir geçmişi bulunmaktadır. Suç günümüzün en büyük sosyal sorunlarından birisidir. Suçun tüm toplumu ilgilendiren sonuçları sebebiyle de önleme çalışmaları, özellikle insan hakları alanında var olan gelişmelerle birlikte önem kazanmıştır. Günümüz ceza infaz kurumları bu noktada suçun sonuçlarının karşılığında hukukun öngördüğü cezanın çekildiği yerler olmasının yanında; suçu önlemeye yönelik kurumlar olarak da dikkat çekmektedir.  Rehabilitasyonu hedefleyen Ceza İnfaz Kurumlarında suçu önlemeye ilişkin en önemli mesleklerden birisi de sosyal hizmet mesleğidir. Bu sebeple ceza infaz kurumlarındaki sosyal hizmet uygulamaları; suçun birey, aile ve toplum üzerindeki olumsuz etkilerini azaltmak, infaz sürecinin işlevsel geçmesine katkıda bulunmak, özel ihtiyaç sahibi hükümlülerin gereksinimlerine uygun müdahalelerde bulunmak ve en önemlisi yeniden suç işlemeyi önlemek anlamında önem kazanmaktadır. Tüm bunlardan hareketle; yetişkin suçlulara yönelik klinik sosyal hizmet uygulamalarını konu alan bu derleme yazısında; günümüz ceza infaz kurumlarının yapısı, mevcut sosyal hizmet uygulamaları, ceza infaz kurumu popülasyonu ve ceza infaz sisteminde çalışan sosyal hizmet uzmanının sahip olması gereken teorik ve klinik bilgi ve becerilere ilişkin bir bakış açısı sunulması amaçlanmaktadır.

scholarly journals Attracting the Right Crowd under Asymmetric Information: A Game Theory Application to Rewards-Based Crowdfunding

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 2757
Author(s):  
Francisca Jiménez-Jiménez ◽  
M. Virtudes Alba-Fernández ◽  
Cristina Martínez-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conditional Process Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, we investigate rewards-based crowdfunding as an innovative financing form for startups and firms. Based on game-theory models under asymmetric information, we test research hypotheses about the positive effects of two main campaign features: funding target and number of rewards. Furthermore, we examine how and when these characteristics are effective in attracting crowdfunders, by signaling high-quality projects (target) and by pricing according to backers’ preferences (rewards). Conditional process analysis is applied to a dataset of 1613 projects launched on the Spanish platform Verkami from 2015 to 2018. As expected, our study shows that market size is positively influenced by the target and the number of rewards, separately. Further analysis gives some interesting findings. Firstly, we find significant and positive mediating roles of social networks (in the relationship between target and market size) and of backers’ preferences (between rewards and market size). Secondly, the main orientation of a campaign, commercial or social, is relevant to explain previous relationships. While high funding targets are more effective in commercial projects, a high number of rewards is more effective in the social projects. This research provides new insights into the design of optimal crowdfunding, with theoretical and empirical implications.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Tanaman Hias untuk Meningkatkan Fasilitas Terapi Anak

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Michael Isnaeni Djim ◽  
Yolanda Demetrius
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Plant Characteristics ◽  
The Relationship

In certain circumstances children need to get therapy for supporting their growth and recovering their health. There are at least three types of therapy which are physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. The existence of ornamental plants are believed to bring positive effects on therapy for children in condition that the ornamental plants concern positive and negative effects of the therapy activities. This study tried to determine the relationship between the types of therapy activities with the choice of ornamental plants. The result showed that the diversity of colors and scents of different types of plants can improve therapy facilities for children by concerning the therapy characteristics and the compliance with plant characteristics.

scholarly journals Stigma-discrimination complex associated with major depressive disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-532
Author(s):  
Adalberto Campo-Arias ◽  
Edwin Herazo ◽  
Guillermo Augusto Ceballos-Ospino
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Perceived Stigma ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Personal Stigma ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Dear Editor:Throughout history, the stigma-discrimination complex (SDC) has been associated with serious mental disorders such as those on the spectrum of schizophrenia, where symptoms, side effects and impaired social functioning are difficult to conceal. (1) For its part, SDC related to major depressive disorder (MDD) is a growing phenomenon even though its clinical characteristics are easy to hide or are less evident in the social sphere (2,3); in these cases, said association may have more negative effects on people’s lives than the disorder itself. (4,5) Consequently, the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS) was designed to quantify the relationship between SDC and MDD (SDC-MDD). This is a Likert scale consisting of two subscales with nine items each. The first addresses the issue of attitude towards people who meet criteria for MDD, i.e. perceived stigma, and the second, the anticipated attitude for MDD, i.e. personal stigma or self-stigma. (6)

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