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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Lockdowns"”.
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Evolving Weighted Networks to Simulate Epidemics and Lockdowns
Simulating epidemics is vital to understanding their effect on human populations, and developing models to provide insights into epidemic behaviour is a primary goal of this thesis. A generative evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve weighted personal contact networks that represent physical …
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns
… uncanny journey trying to perceive the COVID-19 lockdowns in China. By accepting the “middle ground” as a valid stance, I was able to devise a set of methods for navigating the complexity of materials gathered at various times and locations. In addition, utilizing architectural representation …
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Food matters - escaping to the garden during Covid-19 lockdowns and (re-)connecting with food
… their home-gardens during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in England, UK during 2020-2021. With people confined to their homes under law in attempts to stem the spread of the virus, the UK government recommended that people undertook daily exercise outdoors for the benefit of their physical and …
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Did The Pandemic Lockdowns Affect The Welfare of The Sumatran Orangutans (Pongo abelii) At The Toronto Zoo?
The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented lockdowns with rippling impacts on the lives of humans and animals alike. Fortunately, these lockdowns also presented the opportunity to study the relationship of visitor presence with the welfare of zoo-housed animals as natural experiments. The reduction …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Lockdowns and Mask Mandates on Reducing COVID-19 Infections in Essential Worker Populations
… intervention policies (such as mask mandates and lockdowns), incorporated in a model we term the Local-Policy SIR model. We assume mask mandates are applied only at essential locations, whereas lockdowns function only at non-essential locations. We find this model suggests mask mandates may not be …
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The use of information and communications technology to continue instruction and professional development in rural Ghana during COVID-19 school lockdowns
… during Ghana’s COVID-19 emergency school lockdowns using information and communications technology, including WhatsApp and local radio programming. A broader goal of this study is to recommend a course of action for viable emergency education protocols that can be initiated during future …
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Essays on Spatial Constraints and Gender Equality: the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Work-from-Anywhere Dynamics and Gender Equality in Job Searches
… and gender equality by leveraging the COVID-19 lockdowns as a natural experiment to study the impact of work-from-anywhere (WFA) dynamics on job search behaviors. The introduction of mandatory lockdowns drastically shifted the labor market landscape, prompting an increase in the demand for …
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How Does it Heal? Isolation and Re-engaging in Education the Role of Trauma Related Practice in a Post-Pandemic Britain
The Covid-19 pandemic, its multiple lockdowns and restrictions have had a well documented and often discussed effect on the mental health and wellbeing on the whole of the UK and more particularly, on school children who have missed significant periods of schooling (BBC, 2020). Research suggests …
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Parental Time Investment with Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK
… to curb the spread of the virus. During these lockdowns, parents became the primary source of developmental experiences for their young children. Therefore, illuminating parents’ time with their young children during this period offers vital insight into to the world of child development during …
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The Kids Aren’t Alright: Changes in the Mental Health of Adolescents Post-COVID-19
… age 14. The COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in lockdowns, social isolation, school closures, and ultimately a disruption in everyday life, is believed to have adversely impacted the mental health of children and adolescents. There is limited research available on the impacts of the pandemic on …
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From Level 5 to Level 3 Lockdown: The Work Experiences and Employment Relationships of Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa
… the Western Cape during levels 5, 4 and 3 of the lockdowns in 2020. The aim of this research was to discover how the lockdowns affected domestic workers' working conditions and employment relationships. The research adopted a qualitative research design that used in-depth, semi-structured …
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Impact of SARS-COV2 pandemic on emergency surgical services at Groote Schuur Hospital
… pandemic to those performed during the COVID-19 lockdowns at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. the data was retrieved from the Web Surgibank and Clinicom databases. Results: The total number of surgeries performed during the study period (April 2019 – March 2021) was 13715. The …
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The Current State of the Commercial Real Estate Office Sector
… coronavirus, regulators worldwide implemented lockdowns, forcing employees to work remotely indefinitely. And to the surprise of many, this trend has continued unabated. The adaptation of the work-from-home model by a myriad of office real estate tenants caused a significant decline in office …
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Connections during times of change: the interplay between gratitude communication, well-being and resilience
… lives daily. However, due to continuous changes, lockdowns, social distancing, mask mandates and more, people have found other ways to stay connected in lieu of face to face communication. This study aims to understand better how people are moving forward during these challenging, ever-changing …
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Lecturers' perceptions of enhancing student engagement through anonymous online engagement strategies
… The COVID-19 pandemic, with its extensive lockdowns and instant shift to fully online teaching and learning, created a more challenging context for student engagement. During this time, faculties and departments shifted from face-to-face to online teaching to continue teaching and learning …
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Integrated coastal and ocean management of areas hosting marine mammals a case study in the strait of Gibraltar
… us to investigate the effects of the human lockdowns, such as the reduction in maritime traffic, on the marine animals of the Gulf, contributing to the study of the global effects on nature. This thesis is organized into the following sections: i) Whale watching activities, ii) monitoring …
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Investigating the Usability and Quality of Experience of Mobile Video-Conferencing Apps Among Bandwidth-Constrained Users in South Africa
In response to Covid-19 and global lockdowns, we have seen a surge in video-conferencing tools' usage to enable people to work from home and stay connected to family and friends. Although understanding the performance and the perceived quality of experience for users with bandwidth caps and poor …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on International Arbitration
… to prevent it from spreading further. Nationwide lockdowns, travel restrictions and physical distancing measures were subsequently effected in several countries, causing many businesses to close down. In turn, many courts found themselves limiting their operations and postponing most hearings save …
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The impact of the social relief & distress grant on poverty in South Africa
… below the poverty line in South Africa and the lockdowns used to combat the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in more people living below the poverty line. This paper uses secondary data in South Africa, utilising all five waves of the NIDS-CRAM panel survey, with an initial sample frame of 7,073 …
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
… roughly from the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns to the advent of the racial justice uprisings following George Floyd’s murder by the hands of police, this study shows how musicians, organizers, and audiences congregating in jazz, experimental music, and DJ scenes created a widespread, …
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