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Derctuo is a book of notes on various topics, mostly science and engineering with some math, from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 02020 CE. Its primary published form is a gzipped tarball of 9MB of HTML files and sources, although there’s also an inferior PDF version of about 1000 pages for reading on hand computers or printing. It uses a page size slightly smaller than standard for improved readability on hand computers. My original plan was to write a reproducible computation system so that the book would be entirely reproducible from a minimal computational core, allowing all of its calculations to be not only verified but also easily extended, reused, and studied. I didn’t get very far on that plan. Instead it’s mostly just about a quarter million words of dead text, with some static inline images, plus a bundled library of source material which is not included in the PDF version. It contains some novel discoveries, but some of it is just my notes from exploring the enormous feast of knowledge now available on the internet to anyone who takes the time to taste of it, and some other parts are explorations that didn’t pan out — left here only as a cautionary tale to the next explorer. There are lots of notes in here that aren’t “finished” in the usual sense; they end in the middle of a sentence, or say “XXX”, or have a note in them that the foregoing is wrong in such-and-such a way. But I am publishing the final version of Derctuo today. I might make future versions of some of these notes, but not of Derctuo itself. Derctuo is the sequel to Dercuano, <http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano> a larger collection of my notes which I published in 02019.

The crisis came after a period of generally favorable financial markets in 2019, which had already built greater confidence among Swiss banks. As a result of the Covid-19 related lockdown, banks swiftly implemented crisis management measures. This enabled them to continue serving clients from home offices without significant disruption. The speed with which change has been implemented following the lockdown - and the benefits this change has already begun to produce - has given banks the confidence that change is possible, and that it can deliver tangible results in a very short timeframe.

International audience; Cet ouvrage s’est imposé à nous en raison de l’ampleur, la brutalité et la soudaineté de la crise de la Covid-19. Nous avons en effet immédiatement considéré qu’au sein du Business Science Institute, organisation académique internationale en réseau dédiée à un programme d’Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, nous nous devions, sans attendre, de lancer plusieurs initiatives en lien avec nos doctorants, des managers situés dans plus d’une trentaine de pays et nos professeurs internationaux.La première série d’initiatives visait à collecter de l’information auprès des managers confrontés à la crise.La seconde traduisait notre volonté de mobiliser la communauté des professeurs du Business Science Institute en considérant que la crise allait nécessairement remettre en cause certains aspects du management des organisations sur lesquels ils travaillent avec leurs doctorants.Ce livre auquel ont participé 27 professeurs de management ainsi que 3 docteurs du Business Science Institute en est aujourd’hui le résultat.Il est structuré en 4 parties complémentaires :1) Impact de la crise : les enseignements des enquêtes du Business Science Institute ;2) Impact de la crise sur le management du secteur de la santé ;3) Impact de la crise sur la pensée du management ;4) Impact de la crise sur les décisions managériales.

O objetivo deste estudo foi aplicar a metodologia de análise e solução de problemas em uma empresa de educação que atende crianças como suporte na solução de problemas durante a pandemia do novo coronavírus. Para isso, um estudo de caso foi realizado aplicando as etapas de identificação, observação, análise do problema, plano de ação, ação, verificação, padronização e conclusão, que perfazem um ciclo da metodologia. Esse ciclo foi aplicado sete vezes ao longo deste estudo de modo a mitigar os problemas que foram surgindo. Foi escolhida uma escola particular que atende crianças com idade inferior a 10 anos e superior a 2 anos situada na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte. Em conclusão, o estudo auxiliou na melhora da relação entre a escola e família durante o período pandêmico, na implantação e no fornecimento das atividades de aperfeiçoamento pedagógico e das aulas on-line acessíveis aos alunos, na precificação das mensalidades, no sistema de avaliação, na organização dos planos de aulas de acordo com a exigência da Secretaria de Educação, no processo de matrícula e nas adequações para o possível retorno das aulas presenciais.

In der Corona-Krise sind neue Verhaltensweisen in der Gesellschaft wichtig. Soziale Normen können je nach Ausprägung die Umsetzung behindern oder unterstützen.

El objetivo es proporcionar a los miembros de la Comisión de Empleo y Asuntos Sociales (EMPL) un análisis del impacto de la crisis del COVID-19 en los jóvenes, proporcionando información actualizada sobre su situación económica y social, con un enfoque sobre el empleo. ESP

This module aims to explore Digital Contact Tracing (D-CT) developed and implemented in South Africa for the COVID-19 response. Focus is on their D-CT app, COVID Alert SA, and understanding user-uptake. The case study begins with a brief overview of the country’s overall response to COVID-19 and the impact of the virus on the country. Following, we explain South Africa’s app by describing, how it emerged, how it is designed and functions, how users engage with the app across the whole user-engagement process, and what user-uptake looks like in the country. The next section describes the main factors that emerged in our research for this country that suggest influencing user-uptake within the country’s context including communications & misinformation, accessibility & inclusion, public trust, and response infrastructure. This section ends with a brief conclusion

Happenstance ’20s hopes to reflect the times and artefacts of the 2020s, when different chance meetings happened online due to COVID-19, when dialogues between hosts and guests have taken some new directions during lockdowns, cultural attitudes have changed due to Brexit, and media constructs demand new types of literacy regarding a cultural identity deconstruction.In order to emphasize the role of cultural artefacts, such as art, film, language and images, this textbook draws from a rich array of disciplines and theoretical frameworks in the study of the 2020s phenomena in the global contexts. The binary functions of a wide spectrum are grounded in a communicative approach, with a fair share of linguistic education in the language classroom. The authors wish to intrigue, perhaps even beyond their intention, with the attempt to document a moment in time, often pointing towards the detrimental planning of stereotypes. The expertise tries to span the globe and reflect the role of binary opposition in bridging the gaps and reconnecting cultures. In Chapter 1, film narratives and characters bring together the ways of understanding the interrelations between binary oppositions of multiculturalism and American Creed. Chapter 2 analyses synonymous lexical relations of newspaper headlines about COVID-19, which refer to binary oppositions of stereotypes about the superpowers: the USA and Japan. In Chapter 3, the host-guest social encounters are presented according to a binary concept of face-to-face communication vs. the counters we have frequented in Zoom meetings. Chapter 4 depicts globalization in language in Croatian online news and social media, as well as tackles the post-Brexit situation, with special regards to a binary concept of cultural appropriation and appreciation. At the end of each chapterthere are activities and appendixes. The linguistic and multimodal tool of the trade should empower and inspire readers to realise the versatile and diverse nature of possible happenstances as collateral events in the 2020s participatory practice. Happenstance '20s nastoji odraziti vrijeme i artefakte 2020-ih, kada su se različiti slučajni susreti dogodili online zbog COVID-19, dijalozi između domaćina i stranca krenuli nekim novim smjerovima tijekom lockdowna, kulturni su se sustavi promijenili zbog Brexita, a medijski konstrukti iziskuju nove vrste pismenosti u pogledu dekonstrukcije kulturnog identiteta. Koristeći umjetničke artefakte poput filma i svijeta slika te vizualnosti, udžbenik crpi iz bogatog niza disciplina i teorijskih okvira koristeći fenomene našeg vremena u globalnom kontekstu. Binarne funkcije širokog spektra utemeljene su stoga na komunikacijskom pristupu proučavanja medija i kulture dok je značajan udio jezičnog prostora okrenut prema praktičnom nastavnom radu. Autori nastoje zaintrigirati čitatelje te dokumentirati određena zbivanja, pritom često ukazujući na štetno djelovanje stereotipnih obrazaca. Stručni dio udžbenika osvrće se na ulogu binarnih opozicija u premošćivanju jaza i povezivanju kultura. U 1. poglavlju filmske pripovijesti i likovi donose različite načine razumijevanja međuodnosa u sferi multikulturalizma i američkog Creeda. Poglavlje br. 2 analizira sinonimne leksičke odnose povezujući korpus novinskih naslova vezanim uz COVID-19 te uspoređujući odnose medijskih stereotipa o dvjema supersilama: SAD-u i Japanu. U 3. poglavlju prikazani su društveni susreti na relaciji domaćin-gost prema binarnom konceptu izravne komunikacije (licem u lice) nasuprot susretima koji se događaju isključivo online uslijed naše česte posjećenosti Zoom- u tijekom lockdowna. Poglavlje br. 4 opisuje globalizaciju u jeziku na korpusu hrvatskih informativnih emisija na društvenim mrežama nakon Brexita te uz osobit naglasak na binarni koncept kulturološkog prisvajanja i uvažavanja. Na kraju svakog poglavlja nalaze se nastavne aktivnosti i dodaci. Udžbenik pruža jezične i multimodalne alate koji mogu osnažiti i potaknuti čitatelje da spoznaju svestranu i raznoliku prirodu kolateralnih događaja u participativnoj praksi 2020-ih.