Natural disasters and economic losses: controlling external migration, energy and environmental resources, water demand, and financial development for global prosperity

The objective of the study is to examine the impact of natural disasters on external migration, price level, poverty incidence, health expenditures, energy and environmental resources, water demand, financial development, and economic growth in a panel of selected Asian countries for a period of 2005–2017. The results confirm that natural disasters in the form of storm and flood largely increase migration, price level, and poverty incidence, which negatively influenced country’s economic resources, including enlarge healthcare expenditures, high energy demand, and low economic growth. The study further presented the following results: i) natural resource depletion increases external migration, ii) FDI inflows increase price level, iii) increase healthcare spending and energy demand decreases poverty headcount, iv) poverty incidence and mortality rate negatively influenced healthcare expenditures, v) industrialization increases energy demand, and vi) agriculture value added, fertilizer, and cereal yields required more water supply to produce greater yield. The study emphasized the need to magnify the intensity of natural disasters and create natural disaster mitigation unit to access the human and infrastructure cost and attempt quick recovery for global prosperity

Nationwide lockdown, population density, and financial distress brings inadequacy to manage covid-19: leading the services sector into the trajectory of global depression

The service industry provides distributive services, producer services, personal services, and social services. These services largely breakdowns due to restrictions on border movements, confined travel and transportation services, a decline in international tourists’ visitation, nationwide lock-downs, and maintaining social distancing in the population. Although these measures are highly needed to contain coronavirus, it decreases economic and financial activities in a country, which re-quires smart solutions to globally subsidize the services sector. The study used different COVID-19 measures, and its resulting impact on the services industry by using world aggregated data from 1975 through 2020. The study benefited from the Keynesian theory of aggregate demand that re-mains provided a solution to minimize economic shocks through stringent or liberalizing economic policies. The COVID-19 pandemic is more severe than the financial shocks of 2018 that affected almost all sectors of the globalized world, particularly the services sector, which has been severally affected by COVID-19; it is a high time to revisit economic policies to control pandemic recession. The study used quantiles regression and innovation accounting matrix to obtain ex-ante and ex-post analysis. The quantile regression estimates show that causes of death by communicable diseases, including COVID-19, mainly decline the share of services value added to the global GDP at different quantiles distribution. In contrast, word-of-mouth helps to prevent it from the transmission channel of coronavirus plague through information sharing among the general masses. The control of food prices and managing physical distancing reduces suspected coronavirus cases; however, it negatively affects the services sector’s value share. The smart lockdown and sound economic activities do not decrease coronavirus cases, while they support increasing the percentage of the services sector to the global GDP. The innovation accounting matrix suggested that smart lockdown, managing physical distancing, effective price control, and sound financial activities will help to reduce coronavirus cases that will further translate into increased services value-added for the next ten years. The social distancing will exert a more considerable variance error shock to the services industry, which indicates the viability of these measures to contained novel coronavirus over a time horizon. The study used the number of proxies to the COVID-19 measures on the service sector that can be continued with real-time variables to obtain more inferences

A Numerical Study of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Performances Affected by Various Porosities of Gas Difussion Layer Materials

One of the factors that can increase the surface transfer property for gas diffusivity apart from the membrane material in PEMFC is the porosity of the gas diffusion layer material affecting species mass distribution at the electrodes. The present study simulates the performance of PEMFC by investigating the effect of GDL porosities in some commercial ELAT-TEK-1200W (e=0.31), and SIGRACET 25BA (e=0.63), also an organic material coconut coir (e=0.88) numerically. It was carried out using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.3a in the form of species mass concentrations plotted in the surface contour and cut points at the electrodes in the elapsed time transiently. Afterward, the results were used to determine the PEMFC performance by calculating some losses; activation, ohmic, and mass concentration polarization. The results showed that the PEMFC performance was only influenced by the mass polarization. It means that the power density is strongly influenced by the concentration of species in the anode and the cathode. The mass concentration is strongly influenced by the distribution of species; H2, O2, and H2O formed during the reaction. The highest H2 concentration at the anode occurs in the GDL using ELAT-TEK-1200W having the smallest porosity producing the highest power density compared to other GDL materials. It makes an easier diffusion process between H2 and O2 species to work properly. However, coconut coir as an organic material can be a promising GDL in the future because of its performance compared to the others

The role of transformational leadership in generating work engagement to the volunteers of humanity organization

Human resources are valuable assets for organizations and engaged employees is one of the most determining factor for an organization. Employees experience engaged condition when they have a leader with a supportive leadership style. The aim of the study is to find the role of the leadership style in generating work engagement to volunteers of humanity organization. The research method is by using Neuro-research. The calibration of the scoring sheet is by using Principle Component Avis approach through Varimax iteration (ratation) in which each reliability index ω is 0.781 and 0.873. Hypotheses test is conducted by using linear regression and classification regression tree (biner segmentation). The result of the research shows that (1)volunteers of humanity organization tend to sometimes engaged significantly at α< 0.05, (2) volunteers of humanity organization has the condition of leadership which tends to have an inspirational motivation significantly at α< 0.05, (3) there is an influence of leadership style towards work engagement of volunteers in humanity organization significantly at α< 0.01, and (4) inspirational motivation is a kind of leadership style which is the strongest in determining the work engagement of volunteers in the humanity organization significantly at α< 0.05 while to generate inspirational motivation is highly determined by improving the role of idealized influence (behavior) and contingent reward. Thus, based on the study is recommended to do some intervention for volunteers of humanity organization in order to increase the engagement by improving the leaders' self ability to be able to become an aspirator and motivator for humanity acts

Academic stress, stress levels and ways of coping among students of Johor Bahru Allied Health Sciences College

The study was done in Johor Bahru Allied Health Sciences College to gather information on academic stressors, stress levels and ways of coping among year one semester one nursing and assistant medical officer students. One hundred and twenty five nursing students and one hundred and twelve assistant medical officer students (total of two hundred thirty seven respondents) participated in this descriptive, cross sectional quantitative study. Instruments employed were Ying's Formal Academic Stress Scale 2009, Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale, 1983 and Ways of Coping by Lazarus and Folkman, 1984. The result of the study reported the highest academic stress that students are facing is related to peers. Highest mean was reported by both groups of students for this construct. Second highest mean was related to tests. Data analyzed using descriptive and t test proved significance (p value of 0.05) of academic stress among respondents. Analysis of stress levels were performed. The result demonstrated that students are facing high stress levels. Eighty eight percent of nursing students had more than average and high stress levels. Eighty nine percent of assistant medical officer students demonstrated the same. Ways of coping contained 8 constructs and highest mean determined the most used. Majority of students stated accepting responsibility for ways of coping. This finding was similar for both nursing and assistant medical officer students. Demographic variables were tested and demonstrated no significance differences according to race, age and sex. This finding is contradictory with other findings whereby the male and the female have different ways of coping, whereby women demonstrate more emotional coping compared to males. High stress levels need to be addressed as these students have just stepped into college life and need assistance to cope. Personal and group counseling can be effective in reducing stress and improving academic success

Construct theoretical: Indonesian teacher engagement index (ITEI)

The connection and interdependency between ability, competence and other social role become one whole unity of a teacher contribute tremendously toward Indonesian teacher profile in creating a qualified generation. The ideal teacher profile is then called Indonesian Teacher Engagement. To create the profile we need to make a new approach of valid and reliable standard instrument which is called Teacher Engagement Index (ITEI). The questions in this study what is the manifestation of construct theoretical from ITEI, which encompasses conceptual and contextual definition with Indonesian teachers, its dimension and the indicators. The first stage of the research method is by conducting a library research through literature reviews which interpret the effort of education as something which has a positive impact, it is called positive education. The second stage of the research is by content validity using Delphi technique. The result of the first stage finds that ITEI is the merging of the capacity of pedagogic competence, personality, social, and the professionalism of Indonesian teachers which is manifested in 5 (five) dimensions: (1) positive, work spirit marked by high level of work enthusiasm (vigor), the totality towards work (dedication), the self engagement towards work(absorption),initiative, responsibility, and commitment, (2) High performance, marked by: student achievement and teacher achievement,(3)competence comprises of pedagogic competence, personality, social and professionalism, (4) well-being, marked by: work-life satisfaction and work-life balance. The result of the second stage research finds that the result of the first stage of the research is valid in terms of content