Academic Articles & Research Papers

Accomplishments in genome‐scale in silico modeling for industrial and medical biotechnology

Driven by advancements in high-throughput biological technologies and the growing number of sequenced genomes, the construction of in silico models at the genome scale has provided powerful tools to investigate a vast array of biological sy...

Te Tapatoru: a model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing

ABSTRACTWhanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisatio...

TO THE QUESTION ABOUT QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE OF GRADUATES EDUCATION IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

The article deals with the market knowledge and the activities of educational institutions, the conclusion about the necessity of reforming the system of high school based on the concept of open education is determined by the economic impac...

THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND THE IMPLICATION TO INDONESIA

The Novel Coronavirus has stressed and pressed a great number countries from a great number of sectors. This has impacted on travelling ban, supply chain, and even oil prices. The role of China in combating Covid-19 has considerably become ...

Major energy producers, exporters and importers―transition to renewables sources and diversification of suppliers in 2000-2019

The article consists of two main parts: theoretical and empirical. The first presents the opinions of authors representing International Political Economy who question the assumption that the transformation of the energy sector can be based...

The Study of International Relations.

The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations

In any area of scholarly inquiry, there are always several ways in which the phenomena under study may be sorted and arranged for purposes of systemic analysis. Whether in the physical or social sciences, the observer may choose to focus up...

The Middle East in International Relations

The international relations of the Middle East have long been dominated by uncertainty and conflict. External intervention, interstate war, political upheaval and interethnic violence are compounded by the vagaries of oil prices and the cla...

Son of Struggling Africa: On the Centenary of Patrice Lumumba’s Birth (July 2, 1925 - January 17, 1961)

The article commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Patrice Emery Lumumba, a national hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the most prominent leaders of the African anti-colonial movement, and the first Prim...

Russia–China Economic Relations in the 21st Century: Unrealized Potential or Predetermined Outcome?

In the first decade of the 21st century, Moscow and Beijing made two strategic decisions to expand and deepen bilateral economic relations. The first one was to endorse diversified energy partnership. The second was centered on cross-border...

La economía política del comercio justo y la teoría del desarrollo: implicaciones en el mercado del café costarricense (1990-2017)

Con respecto de sus fundamentos, las iniciativas del comercio justo experimentaron una metamorfosis entre la década de 1940 y finales de la década de 1980.  A través de las escuelas de pensamiento icónicas de la dependencia y del "desarroll...

A crise do COVID-19 e a defesa da concorrência:

A crise sanitária e econômica provocada pela pandemia do Coronavírus acende uma série de questões jurídicas, que incluem as relações trabalhistas, a proteção dos consumidores, a livre-concorrência, o acesso a dados pessoais para fins de mon...

Estimating the impact of between- and within-subject designs on consumer valuation experiments: the case of positive vs. negative information

IntroductionValuation experiments are an important technique for measuring preferences for products, product attributes, and the effect of information on consumer valuation. While these experimental valuation techniques are widely used, the...

Short-Term Expectation Formation Versus Long-Term Equilibrium Conditions: The Danish Housing Market

The primary contribution of this paper is to establish that the long-swings behavior observed in the market price of Danish housing since the 1970s can be understood by studying the interplay between short-term expectation formation and lon...

PRICING EUROPEAN OPTIONS IN SELECTED STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELS

In this paper four methods of calculating characteristic functions and their application to selected stochastic volatility models are considered. The methods applied are based on the assumption that the prices of European calls are evaluate...

Information diffusion, trading speed and their potential impact on price efficiency – Literature review

The continuous debate and research related to High Frequency Trading emphasises the importance of performing analysis on topics associated with the interaction of traders with different trading speeds, and the effects of this interaction on...

Modeling financial interval time series.

In financial economics, a large number of models are developed based on the daily closing price. When using only the daily closing price to model the time series, we may discard valuable intra-daily information, such as maximum and minimum ...

Analysis of life quality development in the administrative districts of South Moravia

: The equable regional development and mitigation of disparities among the individual regions are main objectives of regional policy not only in the Czech Republic but in the whole European Union. The paper presents an analysis of life qual...

Long-term relationship of crude palm oil commodity pricing under structural break

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the pricing efficiency of the Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) market before and after the structural break. This study uses the daily closing price of CPO and CPO futures (CPO-F) for the peri...

Commercial banks regulation and intermediation function in an emerging market

Purpose - This paper investigates the effect of commercial bank regulations, namely the price, product, and geographic regulations, on the intermediation function of commercial banks in Nigeria.  Methods - Using secondary data from 1986 to...