Teaching Anxiety, Stress and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Academic Professionals in Mexico Through the Adapted COVID-19 Stress Scales

To mitigate the COVID-19 infection, many world governments endorsed the cessation of non-essential activities, such as the school attendance, forcing a shift of the teaching model to the virtual classroom. From this shift, several changes in the teaching paradigm derived, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could have an impact in academic professional's mental health. In the present work we show the application of a modified version of the adapted COVID-19 stress scales (ACSS) which also included teaching anxiety and preparedness, and resilience for academic professionals in Mexico. These scales were applied during the unprecedented transformation of the education system undergone in the COVID-19 quarantine. Most of the studied variables: gender, age, academic degree, household occupants, having a disease, teaching level, teaching mode, work hours, resilience, teaching anxiety and preparedness, and fear of being an asymptomatic patient (FOBAP), showed significant statistical correlation between each other (p < 0.050) and to the 6 areas of the ACSS (danger, contamination, social economical, xenophobia, traumatic stress, and compulsive checking). Our results further showed that the perceived stress and anxiety fell into the category of Absent to Mild, with only the danger section of the ACSS falling into the Moderate category. Finally, the resilience generated throughout the quarantine was very high, which seems to be a predictor of adaptation the academic professional has undergone to cope with stress.

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Teaching Anxiety, Stress and Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Vulnerability of Academic Professionals in Mexico through the Adapted COVID-19 Stress Scales

10.20944/preprints202101.0406.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Juan Luis Delgado-Gallegos ◽

Gerardo R. Padilla-Rivas ◽

Erika Zuñiga-Violante ◽

Gener Avilez-Rodriguez ◽

Daniel Arrellanos Soto ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Stress ◽

Asymptomatic Patient ◽

School Attendance ◽

Virtual Classroom ◽

Statistical Correlation ◽

Teaching Mode ◽

Academic Degree ◽

Compulsive Checking ◽

Teaching Anxiety ◽

Academic Professionals

To mitigate the COVID-19 infection, many world governments endorsed the cessation of non-essential activities, such as the school attendance. Thereby, forcing the evolution of the teaching model to the virtual classroom. In the present work we show the application of a modified version of the adapted COVID-19 stress scales (ACSS) which also included teaching anxiety and preparedness, and resilience for academic professionals in Mexico, during the unprecedented transformation of the education system undergone in the COVID-19 quarantine. Most of the studied variables: gender, age, academic degree, household occupants, having a disease, teaching level, teaching mode, work hours, resilience, teaching anxiety and preparedness, and fear of being an asymptomatic patient (FOBAP), showed significant statistical correlation between each other (p<0.050) and to the 6 areas of the ACSS (danger, contamination, social economical, xenophobia, traumatic stress and compulsive checking). Our results further showed that the perceived stress and anxiety, fell into the category of absent to mild with only the danger section of the ACSS falling into the moderate category. Finally, resilience generated throughout the quarantine, seems to be a predictor of the adaptation the academic professional has undergone to cope with stress.

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Lichens as Biomonitors of Sulphur Dioxide Pollution in La Spezia (Northern Italy)

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1017/s0024282990000378 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 333-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

P. L. Nimis ◽

M. Castello ◽

M. Perotti

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Sulphur Dioxide ◽

Sampling Strategy ◽

Statistical Correlation ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Automatic Mapping ◽

Olive Trees ◽

Very High ◽

Scale Data

AbstractLichens epiphytic on olive trees were used as biomonitors of sulphur dioxide pollution in La Spezia (Northern Italy). The method adopted was designed to avoid subjectivity at all stages, from the sampling strategy to data analysis. Thus, lichen data are expressed by an index that does not depend on any sensitivity scale; data analysis relies on multivariate methods of classification and ordination, and the pollution maps have been produced by automatic mapping programmes. The index, based on the frequency of species within a sampling grid, showed a very high statistical correlation with pollution data measured by recording gauges. The results of classification and ordination indicate that Parmelia caperata is the species with a distribution best related to the lichen index. The quality of air pollution data obtained from biomonitors is discussed.

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Detection of Dientamoeba fragilis in Portuguese children with acute gastroenteritis between 2011 and 2013

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s0031182015000906 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 142 (11) ◽

pp. 1398-1403 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

C. JÚLIO ◽

C. FURTADO ◽

R. ROCHA ◽

C. ESCOBAR ◽

M. J. BRITO ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Abdominal Pain ◽

School Attendance ◽

Gastrointestinal Disease ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Hospitalized Children ◽

Older Children ◽

Human Gastrointestinal Tract ◽

Dientamoeba Fragilis ◽

Worldwide Distribution ◽

Very High

SUMMARYDientamoeba fragilis is an inhabitant of human gastrointestinal tract with a worldwide distribution. The first description considered this protozoan a rare and harmless commensal, since then it has struggled to gain recognition as a pathogen. Commercial multiplex real-time PCR was used to detect D. fragilis in fecal samples from hospitalized children (⩽18 years) with acute gastrointestinal disease, admitted to two hospitals of Lisbon area, with different demographic characteristics. A total of 176 children were studied, 103 (58·5%) male, 144 (81·8%) children between 0 and 5 years and 32 (18·2%) above 6 years old. The overall protozoa frequency considering the four tested microorganisms were 8·5% (15/176), and the most frequently found protozoan was D. fragilis, 6·3% (11/176). Dientamoeba fragilis frequency was higher among older children (21·9%), than younger children (2·8%), and greater in boys (6·8%) than in girls (5·5%). All positive children presented with diarrhoea associated with vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. Infection was associated with the age of children (P < 0·001), school attendance (P = 0·002) and consumption of certain foods (P = 0·014), e.g. cakes with crème and ham. The frequency of diantamoebiasis found in a cohort of hospitalized Portuguese children, with acute gastrointestinal disease, could be considered a very high value when compared with the protozoan frequency normally associated with this pathology.

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Academic professionals: The changing face of teaching, research, and service in the American research university

Policy Futures in Education ◽

10.1177/14782103211031500 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147821032110315

Author(s):

Elida Lee ◽

Pat Somers ◽

Zachary Taylor ◽

Jessica Fry

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Research University ◽

Disruptive Innovation ◽

Research Activity ◽

Advanced Degrees ◽

American Research ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities ◽

Academic Professionals ◽

Very High

This exploratory study responds to the criticism that non-instructional faculty or “academic professionals” at American universities are the cause of “administrative bloat.” The purpose of the study was to build from the work of Rhoades (1998) and Kane (2007) to examine whether academic professionals at an R-1 (very-high research activity university) performed core university work of research, teaching, and/or public service. A survey of 1036 academic professionals suggested that many of these individuals were routinely and directly contributing to research, teaching, and public service instead of administrative work, failing to contribute to any notions of “administrative bloat.” In addition to the three areas of core work, academic professionals often had advanced degrees, published in peer-reviewed journals, had specialized skills and bodies of knowledge, applied for grants, and engaged in entrepreneurial activities. The study concludes with a discussion of academic professionals in European countries and the role of disruptive innovation and new professionalism in compelling universities to expand the use of academic professionals in order to produce cheaper degree alternatives and generate new sources of funding .

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Discussion on Access Database Network Teaching Mode

Lifelong Education ◽

10.18282/le.v9i5.1216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 96

Author(s):

Xin Sheng

Keyword(s):

Teaching Methods ◽

Practical Application ◽

Application Development ◽

Teaching Mode ◽

Network Teaching ◽

Database Application ◽

Development Tool ◽

Access Database ◽

Very High

Access is a database application development tool software, which is mainly used in the management of most small and medium-sized enterprises and has very high practical application value. When teaching Access database, teachers should combine multiple teaching methods to improve the teaching effect of Access database. Aiming at the various problems in Access database teaching, this paper conducts research and discussion on the reform of Access database network teaching mode, hoping to bring some new inspiration to Access software teaching.

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Phenophases of blossoming and picking maturity and their relationships in twenty apricot genotypes for a period of six years

Horticultural Science ◽

10.17221/3813-hortsci ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 30 (No. 2) ◽

pp. 43-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Z. Vachůn

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Fruit Development ◽

Statistical Correlation ◽

Average Amplitude ◽

Very High

The phenophase course in a group of 20 apricot genotypes was evaluated in South Moravian conditions in Lednice, Czech Republic, from 1994 to 1999. The evaluated phases were as follows: “beginning of blossoming”, “beginning of picking maturity” and “end of picking maturity”. The aim was to evaluate the variability of these phenophases and their relationships. The amplitude of the phenophase “beginning of blossoming” did not exceed 9 days. The amplitude of phenophases between the different years was about three times higher than the average amplitude between the genotypes. The average amplitude of the factor “beginning of picking maturity” observed in all genotypes was 39 days, but a comparison between the years showed that the largest amplitude for a given genotype was only 16 days. No statistical correlation was found between the phenophases “beginning of blossoming” and “beginning of picking maturity” in any of the six observed years. The genotypes whose maturity occurs at the beginning or at the end of picking season showed higher year to year variability of the phenophase “beginning of picking maturity” than the genotypes maturing in the middle of the season. The rate of fruit development from blossoming to picking was considerably different depending on the apricot genotype. The number of days between the beginning of blossoming and the beginning of picking maturity was characteristic of each genotype. The variability of this interval for the six years was very low and the value of variation coefficients did not exceed 10%. This amplitude observed in the control variety Velkopavlovická LE-6/2 was on average 100 days. A very high statistically significant correlation (r = 0.996<sup>++</sup>) was observed between the intervals from the “beginning of blossoming” to the “beginning of picking maturity” and to the “end of picking maturity”.  

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Social Skills and Coexistence in the Virtual Classroom in University Students

Revista Gestão Inovação e Tecnologias ◽

10.47059/revistageintec.v11i1.1872 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 5969-5982

Author(s):

Dennis Arias- Chávez ◽

Mitchell Alberto Alarcón Diaz ◽

Liset Sulay Rodriguez Baca ◽

Segundo Pérez Saavedra

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

University Students ◽

Effect Size ◽

Statistical Power ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Virtual Classroom ◽

Weak Correlation ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

Very High

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between social skills and coexistence in the virtual classroom of students in intermediate cycles of the four branches of a Peruvian university. The population was 11,700 students from the fourth to the seventh cycle, from which a sample of 390 students was extracted. The instruments applied were: the Social Skills Scale (EHB) and the Virtual Classroom Coexistence Scale (ECAV). The results show that there is a direct and low relationship between social skills and coexistence in the virtual classroom given that the Pearson correlation is .240, the effect size is 0.4969909 and the statistical power is 1.000. It is concluded that there is a very weak correlation; however, the effect size is large and the statistical power is very high.

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Very High Resolution Analysis of the Dynamics of a Coronal Plasmoid

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100026117 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 144 ◽

pp. 593-596

Author(s):

O. Bouchard ◽

S. Koutchmy ◽

L. November ◽

J.-C. Vial ◽

J. B. Zirker

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Solar Eclipse ◽

Total Solar Eclipse ◽

Field Of View ◽

Small Field ◽

High Resolution Analysis ◽

Ccd Observations ◽

Resolution Analysis ◽

Very High ◽

Small Field Of View

AbstractWe present the results of the analysis of a movie taken over a small field of view in the intermediate corona at a spatial resolution of 0.5“, a temporal resolution of 1 s and a spectral passband of 7 nm. These CCD observations were made at the prime focus of the 3.6 m aperture CFHT telescope during the 1991 total solar eclipse.

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Monte Carlo Algorithms for Moments of Transition Arrays

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100107468 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 79-81

Author(s):

A. Goldberg ◽

S.D. Bloom

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

State Vector ◽

Basis Vector ◽

Collective State ◽

Dispersion Characteristics ◽

Dipole Strength ◽

The Third ◽

Monte Carlo Algorithms ◽

Third Moment ◽

Very High

AbstractClosed expressions for the first, second, and (in some cases) the third moment of atomic transition arrays now exist. Recently a method has been developed for getting to very high moments (up to the 12th and beyond) in cases where a “collective” state-vector (i.e. a state-vector containing the entire electric dipole strength) can be created from each eigenstate in the parent configuration. Both of these approaches give exact results. Herein we describe astatistical(or Monte Carlo) approach which requires onlyonerepresentative state-vector |RV> for the entire parent manifold to get estimates of transition moments of high order. The representation is achieved through the random amplitudes associated with each basis vector making up |RV>. This also gives rise to the dispersion characterizing the method, which has been applied to a system (in the M shell) with≈250,000 lines where we have calculated up to the 5th moment. It turns out that the dispersion in the moments decreases with the size of the manifold, making its application to very big systems statistically advantageous. A discussion of the method and these dispersion characteristics will be presented.

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Decomposition of the metastable beta titanium alloy Ti-15-3

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100075117 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 264-265

Author(s):

Y. L. Chen ◽

S. Fujlshiro

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

High Strength ◽

Alpha Phase ◽

Thick Sheet ◽

Omega Phase ◽

Beta Titanium Alloy ◽

Beta Titanium ◽

Beta Matrix ◽

Metastable Beta ◽

Very High

Metastable beta titanium alloys have been known to have numerous advantages such as cold formability, high strength, good fracture resistance, deep hardenability, and cost effectiveness. Very high strength is obtainable by precipitation of the hexagonal alpha phase in a bcc beta matrix in these alloys. Precipitation hardening in the metastable beta alloys may also result from the formation of transition phases such as omega phase. Ti-15-3 (Ti-15V- 3Cr-3Al-3Sn) has been developed recently by TIMET and USAF for low cost sheet metal applications. The purpose of the present study was to examine the aging characteristics in this alloy.The composition of the as-received material is: 14.7 V, 3.14 Cr, 3.05 Al, 2.26 Sn, and 0.145 Fe. The beta transus temperature as determined by optical metallographic method was about 770°C. Specimen coupons were prepared from a mill-annealed 1.2 mm thick sheet, and solution treated at 827°C for 2 hr in argon, then water quenched. Aging was also done in argon at temperatures ranging from 316 to 616°C for various times.

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