Value |
Category |
- Physical interactive meetings not doable, the online ones are not so effective - Students are not serious with online lessons - Some students do not attend lessons as required and neglect to carry out required duties |
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-Coordinating the study - getting participants during this pandemic |
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-Delivering lectures and assessing coursework and tests - Having few staff at work - Limited visits to the field |
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ANY |
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About the finance |
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Access to Supervisor and University. |
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Access to clients |
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Access to equipment and facility |
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Access to human resource |
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Access to internet and computer. Restricted traveling |
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Access to internet has been a challenge; it has been quite expensive to buy adequate data to download research resources |
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Access to laboratory equipment |
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Access to reliable resources |
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Access to resources |
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Access to resources. |
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Access to tools needed to do my work |
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Accessibility to the library |
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Accessing internet |
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Accumulation of documents |
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Aceessing the work areas, equipment, shopping of samples, restructuring of budgets |
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Adapting to the new life |
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Addressing public needs that require site visits and inspections |
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Adjusting to online learning, reduced socialization with peers |
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Adopting the new normal in some environments |
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Affecting my financial part |
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All things got spoilt |
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Any |
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As a frontline worker, I felt at risk before being vaccinated. Initially, there was reduced income |
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As a teacher, I was not able to deliver to my learners as there was no online teaching |
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At risk of been infected |
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Balancing home and work |
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Being a healthcare worker, Covid 19 was a direct occupational risk. |
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Being alone at work without colleagues to consult from |
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Being away from work and not earning |
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Being called to office at any time where there is high risk of contracting the virus |
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Being cautious every moment at work |
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Being grounded and not being allowed human contact |
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Being laid off |
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Being unable to reach people for sample collection |
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COVID preventive measures were poorly implemented |
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Challenges in data collection |
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Challenges in data collection, especially in plan, meeting study participants, increment in research costs, working from home, limited access to internet, less frequent communication with supervisors |
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Changed calendar |
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Changed norm of physical meetings to virtual meeting s which sometimes its difficult to achieve |
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Clients retention on care,closing of boundaries as a containment measure,loss of sources of income for clients to mention a few |
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Closure of laboratories, libraries and travel restrictions affected progress of some research activities. |
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Closure of schools for a long period of time |
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Collecting data from patients and providers |
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Communication |
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Communication was most of the time online |
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Controlled movements and death of my big brother |
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Coping with it while working |
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Cost of internet bundles |
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Could not move to the field incase of any questionnaires |
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Covid 19 has increased my level of anxiety about many things especially regarding the well being of my family and friends |
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DEATH |
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Data collection |
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Data collection delayed |
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Data collection was a problem |
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Death and lockdown |
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Death of colleagues Separation in work station Discriminations of strangers due to suspicion of having covid 19 |
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Delay in university processes. |
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Delay of academic works |
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Delay of completing some tasks |
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Delayed University calendar |
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Delayed calendar |
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Delayed project start |
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Delaying my studies |
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Delaying our goals |
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Delays |
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Delays in everything especially laboratory work |
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Difficult in mplementing my project |
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Difficult to travel |
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Difficult to work from home |
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Disorganization everything |
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Disruption of work and none payment for lockdown period |
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Distance between patients physical address |
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Doing at home |
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Drinking |
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Economic and social |
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Engaging in discussions |
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Everything |
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Exposure to different strains of COVID because of much contact with others |
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Failure to access office facilities due to limited mobility |
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Failure to acquire funding for my research as well as funding for the course |
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Family responsibilities that have increased |
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Fear |
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Fear to COVID-19 pandemic itself, Limitations to normal schedules |
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Financement |
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Finances |
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Financial burden to students and parent as internet services are not cheap. As a result some of students missed online session |
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Financial challenge. |
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Financial constraints |
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Financial crisis |
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Financially |
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Finding journal articles from the library, access to internet and meeting with fellow students to encourage each other |
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Funding. Families suffered most private institutions were not functioning and workers were laid off their jobs |
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Funds |
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Funds withdrawal |
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Gathering we cannot attend the seminar because of fear |
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Generally remained the same |
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Getting hold of my supervisors, getting people in one room for a presentation |
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Group face to face meeting have been impossible. |
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Having no reaserch population |
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Having to juggle between family responsibilities and work |
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Having to work and care for children when the schools got closed down |
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Having to work from home when the home is not designed to have a separate study room |
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Health and safety risks: Workers who are required to work in close proximity to others, such as healthcare workers and retail employees, are at risk of exposure to the virus. Remote work challenges: While remote work has allowed some workers |
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How to conduct lesson online |
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I am more technology competent |
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I can't access resources like library |
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I could not move freely to the field to collect data |
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I have lost all my opportunities to get a job because of the COVID -19 |
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I have not faced any. I am still searching for work. |
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I lost a job |
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I was obliged to maintain social distanciation with famille,freind,and work team |
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I was stopped to go every where |
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I work in a covid-19 unit |
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I worked as a part time technician and when COVID-19 began I couldn't do the practicals hence my job ended |
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Inability to complete laboratory work on time. |
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Inability to move during lockdown to carry on with my survey |
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Increased anxiety because of the risk of contracting Covid at my work place |
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Increased workload |
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Infections |
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Interactions and laboratory actuvities |
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Interactions with individuals who didn't wish to obey the COVID 19 SOPs but me at risk of contracting the disease |
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Interfering with teaching calendar |
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Internet |
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Internet connectivity |
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Internet connectivity and students without laptops |
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Internet connectivity at home |
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Internet connectivity, Demotivated learners, lack of enough resources for online teaching |
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Internet/ network connection |
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Irregular work hours |
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Isolation and associated mental health. |
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Isolations |
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It delayed the negotiation |
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It has caused much stress |
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It has costed me in that I have not been able to get employed as most industry are laying off people. |
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It significantly increased the workload and stress because l had to treat an overwhelming number of patients with COVID-19 and provide care for other medical conditions. |
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Juggling in between work and other household activities |
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Keeping focused around soo many distractions |
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LIMITED RESTRICTION |
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Lack of access to IPC supplies for staff and patients at the supported health centres. Interruption of activity implementation and access to services were limited |
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Lack of access to laboratory to conduct my research |
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Lack of access to office infrastructure and resources. |
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Lack of access to participant |
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Lack of access to study participants |
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Lack of access to the field and lab The online teaching affected my students performance |
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Lack of important physical meetings, power outages during virtual meetings |
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Lack of money |
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Lack of physical meeting with my supervisors |
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Lack of stable internet connectivity |
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Lack of travel to conferences for exchanging ideas, lack of funding opportunities |
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Lack of up-close supervision encourages procrastination |
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Lackof field visit |
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Les conges |
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Less external contacts |
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Less work, people lost jobs |
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Limited access to physical meetings that are sometime more interactive and fulfilling than online meetings. |
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Limited access to resources |
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Limited control on class attendance |
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Limited documentation, difficulties to visit foreign universities |
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Limited interaction |
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Limited movement Reduced income More time at home |
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Limited movement. Death of clients |
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Limited movements to the field |
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Limited movements, especially during lockdowns |
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Limited social interactions |
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Lockdown |
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Lossing our beloved one |
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Low funds for conducting different developmental activities |
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Market |
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Mask |
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Meeting participants |
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Mental stress and anxiety caused by fear of getting sick |
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Minimal Face to face interactions which sometimes enhances the productivity and quality |
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Mobility |
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Money issues |
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Money to use |
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Movement restrictions |
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Movement restrictions especially for field work activities |
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Movements were restricted |
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Moving to work |
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My contract was not renewed thus affecting my income. |
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My publications work delayed |
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My three PhD students from Zambia, Rwanda and Kenya could not return to Tanzania fue to lockdowns in their vountried |
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My work is laboratory-based thus working from home completely stalls it. |
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My work many times require field work and there was a banned on movement within the country and hence affecting my income negatively |
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N/A |
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N/a |
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NA |
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NO CHALLENGES BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN |
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Negative effect on field work; onsite working while observing COVID-19 prevention measures. |
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Network connections |
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Networking online is challenging as you can not reach to conclusive deals and agreements |
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Nil |
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No |
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No access to some places |
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No allowance |
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No challdnging |
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No challenge |
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No collaboration with my classmates to share ideas |
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No customers for my other businesses like travel agency |
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No decisions meetings |
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No meeting allowed |
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No mitigation planed from my university |
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No overseas travels |
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No promotion, fail to meet deadline |
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No room for social relation |
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No work life balance |
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None |
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Not applicable |
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Not being able to do lab work |
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Not being able to meet my supervisors physically |
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Not being able to move and inability to execute research |
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Not teaching students |
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Nothing |
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Observing government's protocol of safety |
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Observing COVID -19 protocols |
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Online lectures are tricky |
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Online meetings so no travelling hence no allowances |
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Online teaching is technically challenging since many students had no reliable internet and couldn't meet deadline. When the University resumed operations,the tension of being exposed to COVID was just too much because classes are crowded and s |
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Online work |
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Opportunities for networking and travel greatly affected |
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Patient recruitment has been challenging. Additional needs |
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Pausing work some time |
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Physical training and refresher courses banned |
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Playing the role of mother, bringing up kids who need alot of attention and completing my studies |
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Posing great opportunity for proposal designs in the lockdown period hence securing funding. |
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Practical activities with students and running examinations |
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Price changes |
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Rearrangement of teaching weeks |
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Reduced in person scholarly meetings and interactions. |
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Reduced income |
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Reduced workload and lockdowns |
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Reduction of opportunities |
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Reliable internet |
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Relocation of participants |
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Research and practical courses have been hard to instruct |
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Research insuffisante |
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Resources |
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Restricted movement |
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Restricted movement. Especially to drug shops away from my district. Too many road blocks were on the way. |
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Restrictions |
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Retrenchment of employees |
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Rien |
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SOCIAL SSPECTS |
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Salary slashing |
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School closure which delayed my work |
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Shortage of supplies especially PPEs 36.3% of my departmental staff were infected with the virus and this paralyzed service delivery for the period they were off duty for treatment. |
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Sicknesses |
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Slow in economic development |
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Slow progress |
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Slow the progress by limiting access to laboratories, supervisors, workshops, seminars |
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Slowed wirk |
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Some people lost their jobs |
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Sometimes remote access to documents is not possible |
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Staff hit by pandemic,being in quarantine thus affecting their supervisory roles |
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Stop the job |
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Stopped recruitment of study participants |
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Stopping all the research activities and staying home for more than six months without collecting any substantial data and lacking and scientific output from the research. Also, continue payment of workers from the research funds which were lat |
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Students didn't manage internet charges |
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Supervision, University administrative issues, enough research funding and timely delivery of research resources |
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Surviving without money |
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Suspension of academic calender |
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Suspension of field work activities |
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Suspension of study activities delayed approval of my reservation considerably |
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Taking care of Covid-19 patients. |
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Teaching mathematics online was very challenging during teaching online |
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Teaching online undergraduate |
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Technology challenges, unstable internet |
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The challenge that I faced during COVID-19 was the financial issue to buy the bundles. |
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The initial stigma associated with it |
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The institution was closed up. |
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The isolation |
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The lack of physical meetings, students light in using the listening mode and dont participate in the lectures and this has greatly affected their performance. |
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The most challenging aspect was inability to physically meet my fellow PhDstudents and it prevented the physical conferences. |
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The opportunities either died or became scarce |
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The slow acceptance of the change |
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There are courses I was forced to do online courses instead of presential |
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There was a grant which was not released due to COVID-19 |
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Thé delay in each activity |
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Time |
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To access to the database and records |
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To be in quarantine affected My works |
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To get familiar with working at home was a big challenge |
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To get ready to work alone |
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To move |
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To work at home is somehow challenging because to care about the children and work at the same time is not easy. |
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Too much work and very few individuals with the skillset |
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Transition to online teaching |
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Transport |
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Transport and working environment |
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Transport costs |
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Transport means to workplace were a challenge. |
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Travel to work became troublesome |
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Traveling |
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Umploiyed |
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Unable to access required materials |
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Uncertainty |
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Uncertainty of employment since my school work is self sponsored |
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Unpredictability of the pandemic |
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Unreliable funds and consultation |
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Virtual meetings not the best |
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Virtual teaching with limited facilities |
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Wearing Mask |
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Wearing masks |
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Work at home |
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Working at home |
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Working at home while taking care of the kids |
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Working from Home |
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Working from home |
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Working from home Limited access to reliable technology and equipment |
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Working from home Decreasing network Decreased resources in non COVID-19 fields |
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Working from home and Online |
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Working from home and getting work done takes longer than expected |
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Working from home and internet |
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Working from home during rock down |
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Working from home was a big disraction for me |
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Working from home; accessing funds |
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Working from in the midst of many other responsibilities. Having stable internet is expensive and also gadgets are expensive. I had to invest more to support this. Whereas the salary remained the same. |
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Working in shifts |
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Worry |
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_ |
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academic writing from home was not possible, participants displacement has increased the rate of loss of follow up |
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access to information/ research resources |
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access to lab |
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accessibility to resources |
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attending courses online |
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availability of internet conectivity |
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being unwell Internet |
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collection of data for research work |
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combining my resaerch with domestic responsabilities Lack of internet |
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data purchases |
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delayed field data collection |
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delays |
|
delays in data collection |
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fear |
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financial support, difficult live, some product more expensive |
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going for exchange programs |
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inability to access office and the resources therein Inability to access library resources and delayed response from reviewers of my publications |
|
inaccessibility of adequate resources |
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inconsistency |
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internet |
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internet supply |
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keeping distance in an office environment |
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lack of data collection opportunity |
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lack of fund, delayed completion |
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laying off |
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less pay reduced number of participants |
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limited accessibility to resources |
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limited movements and difficulties in accessing sampling sites and laboratory equipment. |
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limited resources |
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lock down limiting mobility |
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lockdown, spiritual absence due to mosque closure, fear of contracting C19 |
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lockdowns |
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loss of concentration to work, despair, discouraged, lack of financial means |
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low interaction with others |
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meeting timelines |
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movement restriction and thus time lost for research and spoilage of expensive laboratory reagents due to expiration |
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no |
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no challenge |
|
no challenges |
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no salary |
|
non |
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none |
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not be able to interact with my colleagues |
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not being able to communicate with others as before using only emails, calls and messages causes project progression to slow since I do not know what am suppose to be doing when as opposed to physical learning where one can access people who ha |
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not travelling |
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nothing |
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physical learning suspension |
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poor Internet |
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projects have reduced |
|
projects were delayed |
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restrictions |
|
salary reduction |
|
sitting at home |
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slowed experiments/assays due to reagents |
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staying at home |
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stop doing things in framed time |
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suspend it |
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working from home |
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working from home is hard in making sure I meet the need of my students |
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yes |
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.