The nation faces an unprecedented public health crisis, businesses are grappling with how to support their workforce, implement emergency policies and sustain their businesses amidst economic uncertainty. As of millions of workers especially frontline workers paid low wages are facing dire extremes: either experiencing layoffs or reduced hours, or working under demanding and often unsafe conditions. Many workers lack emergency protections and benefits to meet the needs of this moment. We must encourage companies to adopt multiple practices and focus on applying them as broadly and equitably as possible, to…
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EPISTEMOLOGY ON COVID-19 VACCINE AND IDEAL VACCINE CHARACTERISTICS REQUIREMENT FOR COVID-19
Vaccination is the process of administering a vaccine, i.e., a biological substance intended to stimulate a recipient’s immune system to produce antibodies or to undergo other changes that provide future protection against specific infectious diseases. Immunization is the stimulation of changes in the immune system through which that protection occurs. These two concepts differ slightly in that administration of a vaccine may not always result in satisfactory immunization (protection) and that immunization may sometimes occur as a result of processes other than administration of a vaccine, e.g., through the body’s…
Read MoreFOREST FIRE : TYPES AND IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN LIFE
Fire has been a source of disturbance for thousand of years. Forest and wild land fires have been taking place historically, shaping landscape structure, pattern and ultimately the species composition of ecosystems. The ecological role of fire is to influence several factors such as plant community development, soil nutrient availability and biological diversity. Forest and wild land fire are considered vital natural processes initiating natural exercises of vegetation succession. However uncontrolled and misuse of fire can cause tremendous adverse impacts on the environment and the human society. Forest fire is a…
Read MorePSYCHOSIS : HEALTH CARE EXIGENCY AND REQUIRE POLICYMAKING
Psychosis is a medical term used to describe hearing or seeing things that are not there, or holding delusional beliefs. Common examples include hearing voices or believing that people are trying to do you harm. It can be experienced as a one-off episode, but if left untreated can lead to long term illness and disability. Early Intervention in Psychosis(EIP) can significantly improves a young person’s prospects of recovering from psychosis. It also reduces the likelihood that they will relapse or be detained under the mental health, potentially saving the medical…
Read MoreGROWING ORGANIC DETERMINANTS REGULATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Read MoreROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BIG DATA IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK : CHALLENGES, LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS : PART II
As the COVID-19 outbreak is booming, various approaches have been taken to control this outbreak. For example, lockdown, social distancing, screen and testing at a large scale. In this way, regulatory authorities occupy a crucial role in defining policies that can encourage the involvement of residents, scientists and researchers, industry, giant techs and large firms, as well as harmonizing the approaches executed by different entities to avoid any barriers and obstacles in the way of preventing the COVID-19 disease. Regarding this challenge, many attempts have been made from the first…
Read MoreEMPIRICAL POLICY FOR AGRICULTURE PRICES VOLATILITY
The minimum support price (MSP) acts basically as an insurance cover to cultivators against the possibility of post harvest crash in market prices. More positively, it serves as an incentive to farmers and stimulates higher production by encouraging the use of modern inputs and by inducing investment in cost-reducing technology. The MSP system was started in India in the mid-1960s to create a favourable incentive environment for the adoption of High-Yielding Varieties (HYVs) of wheat and rice, which were seen to possess a vast potential for raising grain production. After about one…
Read MoreHUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS : OVERVIEW OF PROBLEMS, COMPLEXITIES AND CHALLENGES
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Read MoreCONSEQUENCES OF SCHOOL CLOSING AND ICT TRAINING NEEDS FOR TEACHING PROFESSIONALS
The current context under the threat of the pandemic as a result of COVID-19 is causing a series of transformations in the different spheres of social, political, labour, and economic life. Different governments have launched emergency policy initiatives based on the suspension of classes and the closure of educational centres to continue teaching activities from homes telematically through the use of information and communication technologies to be able to stop the number of infections. Consequently, education professionals are carrying out a process of assimilation toward new circumstances with a few…
Read MoreDEVELOPING COUNTRIES NEEDFULNESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
“A developing country, also known as a less-developed countries (LDC), is a nation with a low living standard, undeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. But former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Kofi Annan defined a developed country as follows: “A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.” However, the United Nations Statistics Division caution that” “there is no established convention for the designation of “developed” and “developing countries or areas…
Read MoreROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BIG DATA IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK: PART I
The very first infected novel coronavirus case (COVID-19) was found in Hubei, China in December 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has spread over many countries and areas in the world, and has significantly affected every aspect of our daily lives. Artificial Intelligence(AI) thriving technology for many intelligent applications in various fields. Some high-profile examples of AI are autonomous vehicles (e.g., self-driving car and drones) in automotive, medical diagnosis and telehealth in healthcare, cybersecurity systems (e.g., malware and botnet detection), AI banking in finance, image processing and natural language processing in computer…
Read MoreBEHAVIOUR AND EFFECTS OF OIL SPILLS IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS
When we think of oil spills, we usually think of oil tankers spilling their cargo in oceans or seas. However, oil spilled on land often reaches lakes, rivers, and wetlands, where it can also cause damage. Oceans and other saltwater bodies are referred to as marine environments. Lakes, rivers, and other inland bodies of water are called freshwater environments. The term aquatic refers to both marine and freshwater environments. When oil is spilled into an aquatic environment, it can harm organisms that live on or around the water surface and…
Read MoreBIG DATA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The data relating to our own actions and the data generated and reported on by “things”, are also increasingly shared and/or exploited in aggregate form, as so-called Big Data. In this new environment, we are generate extremely detailed personalized or quasi-personalized data trails even if we are only half aware of them. These data can be used to map social networks along with the spiders’ webs of contacts linked to further contacts. Combined with Big Data and profiles, they can show surprisingly revealing details of every man and woman’s life, beliefs, inclinations,…
Read MoreEPIDEMIC OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS FACTS: PART II
Epidemic treatments are often based on proactive solutions, early interventions and direct approaches wherever possible. What the literature on the costs of unemployment and the social determinants of health suggests is that directly creating employment opportunities for the unemployed is in and of itself an important policy objective. One such direct approach to joblessness is a job guarantee, aka, employer of last resort, buffer stock employment, or public service employment. The advantage of this type of program is that it not only stresses job creation as an end in itself, but…
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS 75TH ANNIVERSARY: CRITICAL ANALYSIS
“The new millennium presents the most appropriate time to review the history of United Nations(UN) institution, its successes and failures, and expectations for its future.” Opinions may differ about the successes and failure of the United Nations as an instrument for world peace and security. But everyone will agree that it has played a crucial role in the economic and social advancement of the people. United Nation’s efforts in the early Cold War era concentrated on the relationships between nations and the issues of war and peace. The UN has…
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