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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major changes in digitization in many areas of life and professions. New areas were digitized almost overnight, the school system in Germany was no exception leading to a demand for videoconferencing tools and communication platforms. These technologies have many different functionalities that need to be discovered, explored, and exploited by the user. Given the disruptive events that the COVID pandemic brought to us, this paper aims to shed light on how the dynamics of discovery, exploration, and exploitation unfolds. We use a functional affordance theory perspective to analyze and understand how user learn to use new technologies. To do this, we conducted an exploratory case-study-based research design including interviews with teachers from various schools to analyze how they appropriate new technologies to develop an explanatory theoretical model.

War, inflation, food shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic's long tail have all sent shockwaves across the globe. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 and Ukraine war, financial markets have been incredibly volatile, and the commodity markets are in turmoil. The global conflicts have increased in upward tension on food and energy prices, pushing inflation to its highest level in decades in the European Union, the United States, Asia, Africa, and many other countries. However, the global economic slowdown, significant decline in the value of financial assets, decline in imports and exports, contraction of industrial production, rise in inflation, decline in wages, increase in unemployment, collapse of social security, and numerous natural disasters destroy not only the industrial economy but also the public health that have already grossly victimized by the pandemic. War, conflicts, climate change, the energy crisis, and pandemics are all directly and indirectly causing the crisis to worsen. All of these problems have the potential to put civilization in danger by preventing the availability of many essential healthcare services, including access to the healthcare system, vaccination, poison control, insurance coverage or co-payment policies, health vigilance and surveillance, tracking of adverse drug reactions, telemedicine support, health education or awareness programs, newer drug inventions, and related technological advancements and innovations. The submission should be free of any political interest, national or cross-border, or any antigovernment statements. Just bring out the grief of the common population of your country, who are affected by climate, COVID, and energy crunches, along with their economic and health challenges. Also, authors are requested to make the submission interesting and avoid monotony in the language. Consider your readers laymen and avoid technical jargon and complicated graphs and tables.

{"references": ["1.\tBRAUN, Sabine (2015), \u00ab Remote Interpreting \u00bb. In: H. Mikkelson & R. Jourdenais (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Interpreting. London/New York: Routledge", "2.\tFANTINUOLI, Claudio (2018), \u00ab Interpreting and technology. The upcoming technological turn \u00bb. In: Claudio Fantinuoli (ed.), Interpreting and Technology. Berlin, Language Science Press", "3.\tMOSER-MERCER, Barbara (2005), \u00ab Remote Interpreting: Issues of Multi-Sensory Integration in a Multilingual Task \u00bb. In: Meta, volume 50, number 2, p. 727\u2013738", "4.\tMOZOURAKIS, Panayotis (2006), \u00ab Remote interpreting: A technical perspective on recent experiments \u00bb. In: Interpreting 8 (1). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 45-66", "5.\tROZINER, Ilan, SCHLESINGER, Miriam (2010), \u00ab Much ado about something remote: Stress and performance in remote interpreting \u00bb. In: Interpreting 12 (2). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 214-247", "6.\tP\u00d6CHHACKER Franz (2018), \u00ab From user expectations to audience comprehension \u00bb. In: Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation, edited by Elena Di Giovanni and Yves Gambier. Benjamins Translation Library 141, p. 253\u2013276", "7. \u0160VEDA Pavol, DJOV\u010cO\u0160 Martin (2022), \u00ab Translation and interpretation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study from Slovakia \u00bb. In: Stridon. Journal of Studies in Translation and Interpreting, Volume 2 Issue 2, p. 25\u201343"]} This study aims to explore the state of remote interpretation during the COVID-19 pandemic (with a focus on the pre-pandemic situation as well), including the lockdown, and to survey the best options that could benefit the translators now and, in the future, along with the development of technology. This evaluation of the past and present practices in terms of distance interpretation will provide us with more precise information regarding the prospect of online interpretation with the use of various platforms, including interpreters’ resilience building. Our study emphasizes the case of the Republic of Moldova and will cover the period between 2020 and 2022.

Over the past decade, additive manufacturing (AM) has become widely adopted for both prototyping and, more recently, end-use products. In particular, fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the most widespread form of additive manufacturing due to its low cost, ease of use, and versatility. While additive processes are relatively automated, many steps in their operation and repair require trained human operators. Finding such operators can be difficult, as highlighted during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Augmented reality (AR) systems could significantly help address this challenge by automating the training for 3D printer operators. Given multidimensional design choices, however, a research gap exists in the system requirements for such immersive guidance. To address this need, we explore the applicability of AR to guide users through a repair process. In that context, we report on the system design as well as the results of the AR system assessment in a qualitative study with experts. EPSRC grant no. EP/V062123/1, Made Smarter Innovation - Research Centre for Connected Factories

{"references": ["1.\tBiroul Na\u021bional de Statistic\u0103 (2022). Disponibil: www.statistica.md. [data acces\u0103rii 03.10.2022]", "2.\tChong, P. P., Chen, Y. S., Chen, C.J. (2001). IT induction in the food service industry. In: Industrial Management & Data Systems, 101(1). p.13-20", "3.\tJauhari V. (2021). Managing Sustainability in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Paradigms and Directions for the Future. Apple Academic Press. 522 p.", "4.\tLee-Ross D., Lashley C. (2010). Entrepreneurship and small business management in the hospitality industry. USA: Routledge.", "5.\tPorter M. (2001) Strategia concuren\u021bial\u0103. Teora, Bucure\u0219ti: Teora.", "6.\tSolomon M. (2018). Only The Customer Gets To Decide What Matters In Customer Service And Customer Experience. Forbes. Disponibil: https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2018/11/18/the-customer-gets-to-decide-what-matters-in-customer-service-and-the-customer-experience/#4f5bd3b069db [data acces\u0103rii 09.10.2022]", "7.\tTavitiyaman P., Qu H., Zhang H. Q. (2011). The impact of industry force factors on resource competitive strategies and hotel performance. In: International Journal of Hospitality Management. \u20132011. \u0422. 30. \u2116. 3. p. 648-657"]} ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT IN THE HORECA SECTOR The period of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a chapter in which old patterns were broken and the ability to manage crises and react quickly to change was needed more than ever. The HORECA sector has always faced two key challenges: staff recruitment and training as well as high costs. On top of these, competition is becoming increasingly fierce in the sector due to the latest changes. In this respect, the importance of the problem proposed for research in this article lies in the continuous change of the HORECA sector, which is constantly adapting to the needs of consumers.

"…/...Ce qui est intéressant, que mon collègue mathématicien Perez pense, c'est qu'il y a une sorte d'harmonisation des séquences de l'information génétique qui est portée aussi bien par nos propres chromosomes que par les virus. Donc, la Nature n'accepte pas n'importe quoi, c'est à dire on peut faire n'importe quoi à la Nature. Mais si vous faites une construction Artificielle, elle a peu de chances de survivre. C'est à dire que la Nature aime les constructions harmonieuses et ce qui est etranger par exemple n'est pas bien toléré.../..." Extrait de l'interview historique de Luc Montagnier affirmant l'origine manipulée en Laboratoire du virus SARS-CoV2 (émission CNews du 17 avril 2020 https://twitter.com/ike_haris/status/1483479586814017536?t=eX5FUdtvGwItLno0kka4SQ&s=19 ). Hommage Nobel prizewinner Luc Montagnier RIP died on 8 February 2022

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In Italy, current tourism legislation unequivocally recognizes the right to vacation for all. The constitutional dictate has been implemented first and foremost by legislation on the removal of architectural barriers, which provides for conditions of accessibility in all public and private spaces. This legislation (although highly disregarded ed.) regulates design related to the construction of new buildings and renovation of existing buildings. {"references": ["1.\tClancy M. (ed.) (2018). Slow tourism, food and cities. Pace and the search for the \"googd life\". London: Routledge.", "2.\tClancy M. (2014). Slow tourism: ethics, aesthetics and consumptive values. In Weeden C., Boluk K. (eds). Managing ethical consumption in tourism. London: Routledge.", "3. Demma C. (2021), Il settore turistico e la pandemia di covid-19. Note Covid-19, Banca D'Italia Eurosistema."]}