Trump’s Twitter Propaganda During Covid-19

<em><span lang="EN-US"><em><span>During the early Covid-19 pandemic, led by controversial presidential figure Donald Trump, the US seemed to be overwhelmed by this microbial creature, proving to be one of the countries with the most Covid-19. Besides health impacts, there are many multi-effects afterward, such as economic, social, political, and so on, that must be faced after this Covid-19 outbreak. Moreover, the US will hold a presidential election in November 2020. This challenge makes Trump must focus on how to complete Covid-19 while maintaining electability as President. One of the methods adopted is by forming narration through Twitter. Donald Trump is an active Twitter user who often tweets about his stance. Therefore, this study wants to analyze Trump's Twitter tweet content based on propaganda based on six propaganda classifications based on Holly Thayer's Theory. The quantitative content analysis method is the systematic and replicable examination of symbols of communication. The object of research in this article is Twitter's @realDonaldTrump tweet. We analyzed Donald Trump's Twitter content in the period 1 March 2020-27 May 2020 with a systematic random sample method. Our result shows that Trump constructs a message to support his policy and maintain his electability.</span></em> </span></em>

Effects of Electronic Devices and Internet Addiction on Sleep and Academic Performance Among Female Egyptian and Saudi Nursing Students: A Comparative Study

Introduction The widespread availability of Internet access and increasing rate of electronic device usage has helped enlighten the world community through copious applications, information resources, and other benefits. However, both the lack of controlled behavior and excessive Internet usage have resulted in a variety of difficulties that can hinder user achievement in many areas. Objectives This study investigated the prevalence of Internet and electronic device addiction among Egyptian and Saudi nursing students, with the aim of identifying any effects on sleep and academic performance. Methods A cross-sectional comparative research design was employed among a systematic random sample comprised of 920 Egyptian and Saudi female nursing students. All participants completed the Young-Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire (MPIQ), and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). Results Severe Internet Addiction (IA) detected in 42.69% and 10.31% of Saudi and Egyptian participants, respectively. However, Saudi participants were more likely to report high rates of mobile phone usage ( P < 0.001), while Egyptian participants tended to score higher on the ESS (17.47 ± 3.99 vs. 16.8 ± 3.83; P = 0.024). For all participants, IAT and MPIQ scores were correlated with ESS results, while IA was specifically associated with poor academic performance. Finally, MPIQ scores were inversely correlated with academic performance for Saudi participants. Conclusion Smartphone and Internet addiction were notable problems for the Egyptian and Saudi nursing students investigated in this study. Importantly, these conditions adversely affect academic performance and other activity engagement in addition to inducing excessive daytime sleepiness.

Patterns of Court Monitoring of Guardianship Practice in Iowa

Guardianship, as a best practice, should provide persons with medical incapacity support for better medical care decision making, but the examination of health outcomes for those under guardianship has a dearth of evidence in practice and within the research literature. This study addresses this gap by using the publicly-available Iowa Courts online database to collect data elements useful for the investigation of the process of guardianship practice. A systematic random sample using the 99 counties within Iowa as strata was extracted for all open guardianship cases. Most of the sampled cases (96%) had private appointed guardians. Approximately 28% had case histories over 10 years, 26% 5 to 10 years, 12% 3 to 5 years, 22% 1 to 2 years, and 12% were open cases for fewer than 12 months. Court monitoring of medical conditions varied with annual, biannual, triennial, or 5 year requirements. Delinquencies in filing required medical condition documentation was common and over half of all cases had at least one delinquency in their case history and 33% had a filing delinquency within the past 2 years. Local judicial courts vary in the amount of supervision they provide guardians, and the findings from this research provide needed research to inform guardianship practices as demand increases for these services with the demographic imperative of an aging population and increasing prevalence of dementia-related health conditions.

A Social Network Analysis of Tweets Related to Masks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background: High compliance in wearing a mask is a crucial factor for stopping the transmission of COVID-19. Since the beginning of the pandemic, social media has been a key communication channel for citizens. This study focused on analyzing content from Twitter related to masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Twitter data were collected using the keyword “mask” from 27 June 2020 to 4 July 2020. The total number of tweets gathered were n = 452,430. A systematic random sample of 1% (n = 4525) of tweets was analyzed using social network analysis. NodeXL (Social Media Research Foundation, California, CA, USA) was used to identify users ranked influential by betweenness centrality and was used to identify key hashtags and content. Results: The overall shape of the network resembled a community network because there was a range of users conversing amongst each other in different clusters. It was found that a range of accounts were influential and/or mentioned within the network. These ranged from ordinary citizens, politicians, and popular culture figures. The most common theme and popular hashtags to emerge from the data encouraged the public to wear masks. Conclusion: Towards the end of June 2020, Twitter was utilized by the public to encourage others to wear masks and discussions around masks included a wide range of users.

Ecological footprint for environmental sustainability in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria

Ecological footprint (EF) is an indicator that accounts for human demand in the environment compared with the sizes of the bio-productive land and sea areas. This research was carried out to determine the EF for environmental sustainability in Ilorin Metropolis. Empirical surveying, which involved systematic random sample technique, was used to select residential households in each community for this investigation. The EF indicators, which include food, energy and waste consumptions, were determined empirically. The bio-capacity (BC), ecological stress and deficit were determined, from the land used as environmental sustainable areas in Ilorin, using Google Earth Mapping. The results revealed that energy has the highest EF of 44%, followed by waste and food with the footprint of 25% and 5%, respectively. A deficit of 38% was obtained, and this requires eight times the BC to balance the EF of the population. This implies that people are consuming more of the energy and generating more wastes than they consumed food.

The impact of mobile phones applications in the educational process among students and faculty staff members at the College of Education- Female section, Jazan University

A systematic random sample of (110) college students (female) aged (18-22) year old, and (15) faculty staff members at the College of Education-female section, Jazan University, was chosen. The study conducted in the academic year (2018). Questionnaire and interviews were used for collecting data. The study sample were asked to express their attitudes towards the usage of mobile phone applications in education. All data were analyzed with the SPSS personal computer program. Appropriate statistics for description (frequencies, percentage, means, standard deviations, and Chi2) were used. The results showed that calculated Chi2 value is bigger than the value of Chi2 derived from statistical tables. Thus, the null hypotheses (H0) rejected. Rejection of the null hypotheses indicates that the difference is significant in favor of the usage of mobile phone applications in the educational process.

The nature of patient complaints: a resource for healthcare improvements

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the nature, potential usefulness and meaning of complaints lodged by patients and their relatives. Design A retrospective, descriptive design was used. Setting The study was based on a sample of formal patient complaints made through a patient complaint reporting system for publicly funded healthcare services in Sweden. Participants A systematic random sample of 170 patient complaints was yielded from a total of 5689 patient complaints made in a Swedish county in 2015. Main outcome measure Themes emerging from patient complaints analysed using a qualitative thematic method. Results The patient complaints reported patients’ or their relatives’ experiences of disadvantages and problems faced when seeking healthcare services. The meanings of the complaints reflected six themes regarding access to healthcare services, continuity and follow-up, incidents and patient harm, communication, attitudes and approaches, and healthcare options pursued against the patient’s wishes. Conclusions The patient complaints analysed in this study clearly indicate a number of specific areas that commonly give rise to dissatisfaction; however, the key findings point to the significance of patients’ exposure and vulnerability. The findings suggest that communication needs to be improved overall and that patient vulnerability could be successfully reduced with a strong interpersonal focus. Prerequisites for meeting patients’ needs include accounting for patients’ preferences and views both at the individual and organizational levels.

Clinical judgment among nursing interns

Clinical judgment (CJ) is considered a vital and crucial ability for nurses that can help them to improve their practical or clinical capabilities, particularly in the internship period. Nursing interns pass through a transient period with significant job responsibilities. They face multifaceted issues, dilemmas, and problems that oblige them to use CJ skills. CJ is a talent and clever skill which should be acquired by nursing interns. The current study is a quantitative study that aims to determine CJ knowledge and skills among nursing interns in nursing practice. A descriptive exploratory design was used. A systematic random sample of 150 nursing interns out of 305 was selected and assigned as a survey group. The data was collected in internship training hospitals in Damanhur, Egypt (Damanhur Medical National Institute, El Raee El Saleh, El Farok and Kafer El Dawar Hospitals). One tool was used for data collection, the Clinical Judgment Evaluation Sheet (CJES), which included two parts. The first part was the Clinical Judgment Knowledge Test that was developed by the researchers to collect the necessary data regarding the CJ knowledge needs of nursing interns. The Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR) 2009 was the second part. It was developed based on Tanner’s work in 2006 and included eleven skills in the four phases delineated with CJ developmental skills (noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting). Results revealed that the nursing interns have a serious lack of knowledge about the concept of CJ in nursing practice. Additionally, they have a great deficiency in the knowledge about all phases of the CJ process in nursing practice. As well, they suffered from observed insufficiently CJ skills in the nursing practice, respectfully. These findings confirmed that the nursing interns in Damanhur governorate have necessitated to an educational program about CJ knowledge skills. In conclusion, there is an obvious and serious lack of nursing interns’ CJ knowledge and skills in nursing practice in Egypt. Therefore, CJ teaching programs or self-learning references are important for them for developing and improving CJ knowledge and skills. Nurse educators and preceptors should take initiative steps in developing teaching sessions, models, and instructional aides to empower their nursing intern’s students in CJ practice.

Land as a Factor of Production and Scarce Resource

Aim and Objective: The aim and objective of this study is to explore the real value of land and the unfavourable factors that affects the demand and supply of land. The study aims to prove my theory about land. This theory suggests that all natural resource gains its logic of ‘buying and selling’ by employing all other resources to limit the demand of land in production activities. Method: Two Surveys was designed from two stage stratified random sampling. The primary sampling units were selected from the main sample frame (1328, 1704 regions from 2600, 36196 regions, respectively). The final sampling units were selected randomly from the primary sampling units (12,12 families from every 1328,1704 regions, respectively) using a systematic random sample. Findings: For a chosen city, the price growth rate of land is 93.77 % yearly for residential areas and 118.98% yearly for commercial areas. However, this has exceeded the cost and the price growth rate of construction materials and has resulted to the inflation of other materials. This explains clearly why around 83.15% planned areas and 198.23% unplanned areas are raw land. Here, much less than 29.47% of the population owns a house without loan. Conclusion: Conclusively, for a market in equilibrium at a certain price, the limitation of the demand of land in production activity will make the free supply curve more elastic. It was proven that if we deactivate the nonproduction (re-sale) demand of land for a market in equilibrium at a certain price, the supply of land will be greater than the demand of land. In addition, there will be no significant output unless we consider the real value of land as a part of a house or a project.

Managing airport service quality – the impact of self-service technologies

The impact of self-service technologies on service quality at a major international airport in South Africa, was determined using an adapted SERVQUAL instrument, which focused on Reliability, Convenience, Ease of Use and fulfillment, by developing and testing three hypotheses, which postulated relationships between the aforementioned. The data from a systematic random sample of 318 passengers collected during peak hours at the international departures terminals was analyzed using inferential statistics, confirmed that there is an association between convenience and fulfilment; between ease of use and fulfilment, and between reliability and fulfilment, although some relationships were not very strong. SSTs have addressed the long queues at the airport and improved passenger service experience. The findings must, however, be interpreted with caution as there are inherent limitations and opportunities for further research. Keywords: service experience, self-service, technology, airport service. JEL Classification: M31