International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences最新文献

Analogizing Jean Baudrillard’s America and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49*: Entropy Imagery of the Puzzled 鲍德里亚的《美国》与品钦的《第49号拍卖品的哭泣》的类比:困惑的熵意象

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-23 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20002-6

Abdullah H. Kurraz

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引用次数: 0

Social media and COVID-19 pandemic: Enhancing panic or preventing it? 社交媒体与COVID-19大流行:加剧恐慌还是预防恐慌?

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20005-5

John Demuyakor

{"title":"Social media and COVID-19 pandemic: Enhancing panic or preventing it?","authors":"John Demuyakor","doi":"10.20469/ijhss.6.20005-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.6.20005-5","url":null,"abstract":"Social media has provided the best source of information about the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Updates are received via social media, and people encourage keep-up with public health measures to stay safe. Using best practices in crisis communication theory as the theoretical framework; this article investigates how social media is used in informing people during the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible impact. This study employed an online survey to investigate whether social media platforms helped to educate and prevent the COVID-19 pandemic or have instead caused panic among the Ghanaian migrants in Beijing, China. The statistical population of this study consisted of the entire 472 members of the WeChat groups of Ghanaian migrants while purposive sampling was used to select 460 Ghanaian migrants. The findings from this study indicated that the utilization of social media has dramatically caused panic among the Ghanaian Migrant community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public educations regarding pandemics are done through social media; therefore, there is a need to monitor social media usage. From a critical search of the literature on studies on social media and COVID-19, this article happens to be among the very few papers on how many social media has caused panic during the COVID-19 global public health crisis. Also, this study will contribute to both academia and policymaker’s knowledge of how information disseminates on similar future public health crises.","PeriodicalId":180368,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117100654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Assessing the Impact of University Ambassador Program Through Social Innovation for Rural Community Development in Malaysia 通过社会创新评估大学大使计划对马来西亚农村社区发展的影响

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20002-5

引用次数: 2

Analysis of Knowledge: The Epistemic Theories in View of Avicenna and Mulla Sadra 知识分析:阿维森纳与穆拉·萨德拉视角下的认识论

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-03 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20004-4

Abbas Kharabi Masouleh

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引用次数: 1

The Mobilization of Heritage into Touristic Territories Construction and Hinterlands Development: The Case of Souss Hinterlands-Morocco 遗产在旅游区域建设和腹地开发中的动员:以摩洛哥苏斯腹地为例

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-06-19 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20001-3

Samira Ghailane

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引用次数: 0

Interim Evaluation of Online Teaching for Senior Secondary Students Under COVID19 Lockdown 新冠肺炎疫情防控下高中生网络教学中期评估

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-06-19 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20004-3

I. Khan, Noor Un Nisa, Z. Aslam, Anmol Zubair

{"title":"Interim Evaluation of Online Teaching for Senior Secondary Students Under COVID19 Lockdown","authors":"I. Khan, Noor Un Nisa, Z. Aslam, Anmol Zubair","doi":"10.20469/ijhss.6.20004-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.6.20004-3","url":null,"abstract":"COVID19 outbreak took the school community by surprise, as no one was prepared for what has already been delivered and achieved in the last 4 months in the United Arab Emirates (UAE);and around the world alike. It was comparatively easier for teachers and students to connect with each other in UAE, with over 98% of the population connected to high quality internet. This study is an attempt to evaluate the online experience of both teachers and the students;during the emergency switch amid COVID19 lockdown;compared to the traditional physical classes. A quantitative rating survey was used to collect data from teachers and students of only current Grade XII at 3 private schools delivering the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum in the UAE. A total of 110 subjects responded and registered their feedback. The study found that while both teachers and students rated the overall physical class experience substantially higher than online. The online teaching successfully delivered and achieved the core academic objectives. Teachers rated online classes rated marginally higher than students, indicating a high level of commitment and readiness to learn and adapt. Though there was a clear concern on students’ engagement during online classes and their physical wellbeing during the period.","PeriodicalId":180368,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126539031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Stay Home Stay Safe: General Public Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Regarding Covid-19 During the Lockdown in Developing Countries 呆在家里，保持安全:发展中国家封锁期间公众对Covid-19的一般知识、态度和行为

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-04-20 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.6.20002-2

S. A. Qalati, N. Ahmed, Jinlan Mei, Troung Thi Hong Thu, J. Sohu

{"title":"Stay Home Stay Safe: General Public Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Regarding Covid-19 During the Lockdown in Developing Countries","authors":"S. A. Qalati, N. Ahmed, Jinlan Mei, Troung Thi Hong Thu, J. Sohu","doi":"10.20469/ijhss.6.20002-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.6.20002-2","url":null,"abstract":"To date, there has been little work dedicated to investigating the general public knowledge, attitude, and behavior regarding novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in developing countries. This study aims to investigate the general public knowledge, attitude, and behavior regarding COVID-19. One thousand three hundred and eighty participants completed the study, one-third of them were female, and two-thirds were male. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted to collect responses from three developing countries (China, India, and Pakistan). The IBM SPSS version 23.0 was used for descriptive and regression analysis of the study. The study’s findings include the intermediate knowledge and attitude of the general public compared to practices regarding COVID-19. Marital status is significantly linked with knowledge, whereas country and marital status are significantly linked with attitude, gender, and country significantly linked with behavior. Moreover, the correlation between knowledge, attitude, and general public behavior were significant (correlation coefficient = 0.322, p < 0.05). The study’s findings proposed that the general public should follow the instructions of government and health agencies to stay home stay safe. And future studies should focus on motivating factors for governments to impose lockdown.","PeriodicalId":180368,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122577019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Risk Identification and Management in Construction Projects: Literature Review 建设项目风险识别与管理:文献综述

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-12-27 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.5.20002-6

Shubham Sharma, A. Gupta

{"title":"Risk Identification and Management in Construction Projects: Literature Review","authors":"Shubham Sharma, A. Gupta","doi":"10.20469/ijhss.5.20002-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.5.20002-6","url":null,"abstract":": The signiﬁcance of risk management has increased in the last few years, and the Critical Risk Factors (CRFs) have attained more attention from the construction industry practitioners. Huge and complicated construction projects contain a lot of risk factors, and the completion of these projects relies on the proper management of the main risks. This paper identiﬁes the critical risk factors associated with construction projects along with the most commonly used risk identiﬁcation techniques and methods of classifying risks. For this study, a total of sixty-seven risk factors were identiﬁed through an in-depth content analysis of the literature. The method used for ranking critical risks, risk identiﬁcation techniques, and classifying risk was based on the number of articles considering that particular risk, technique, and method. The top ﬁve identiﬁed risks were unavailability of funds, design errors & poor engineering, poor site management & supervision, contractual risks, change in laws and regulations. The most commonly used risk identiﬁcation technique and method of classifying risk was the questionnaire survey and nature of the risk. The research ﬁndings are helpful to engineers, supervisors, project managers, and construction practitioners for early assessment and proper management of risks present in construction projects. of risk in the construction projects. The assessment was done on multi-attribute decision-making methods. In this paper, the risk was divided into three groups- external, project, internal. Only those risk attributes were selected that affect the construction and real estate industry. TOPIS grey and COPRAS-G methods were used for ranking and determining the optimality of different attributes. The proposed model can be used for avoiding negative impacts and increasing the chances of positive outcomes. Decision making has an signiﬁcant role in construction management. The results of the research show different levels of construction projects and if a risk assessment is done properly, loses can be minimized.","PeriodicalId":180368,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131973955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

The Relationship between Education and Crime Analysis (1991-2016): A Case Study of Pakistan 教育与犯罪的关系分析(1991-2016):以巴基斯坦为例

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-10-26 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.5.20001-5

B. Ahmed, Umair Abdullah, Sameea Akhtar

引用次数: 1

Figure of Speech in the Translation of the Book Sets of Common Knowledge about China 《中国常识丛书》翻译中的修辞格

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2019-10-26 DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.5.20002-5

Bingjie Yang, Wirat Wongpinunwatana

引用次数: 0