Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mapping AI startup investment and innovation in healthcare using a five-tier AI systems complexity framework.

Global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme: A model-based economic evaluation.

A modular digital method for eliciting multi-actor demand to prioritize agrifood research and scaling investments.

A multi-model carbon estimation framework for new urban district planning-integrating land use, transportation, and investment-based emission models.

A Model-Based Public-Payer Investment Appraisal of a National Home Hemodialysis Program in Greece: A Net Present Value Analysis.

The economic case for increased investment in the treatment of adolescents with common mental disorders in Colombia and South Africa.

Graded water supply decouples vegetative growth, reproductive investment, and nitrogen balance in trimorphic Atriplex aucheri.

Health and beyond...strategies for a better India: using the "prison window" to reach disadvantaged groups in primary care

As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...

Appreciate the Appreciation: Imported Inputs and Concern Over Dutch Disease

If anything is to blame for a higher dollar having negative effects on the Central Canadian manufacturing sector, you are not likely to find it in any “Dutch Disease” supposedly caused by Alberta’s oil sands. Contrary to popular belief, the...

Joint Costs in Electricity and Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructures: The Role of Urban Factors

This paper analyzes the joint cost structure of electricity and natural gas distribution investments. Assessing the joint costs is critical for urban development and public policy regarding competition at the local level. The paper accounts...

Investigating the factors affecting the disclosure of intellectual capital in companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange

The aim of the article. This research studies the effective factor of disclosing intellectual capital of firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of the analysis. Intellectual capital is one of the most valuable assets of the or...

Which Policy Issues Matter in Canadian Municipalities? A Survey of Municipal Politicians

Whether it’s a big city or a small town, all Canadian municipalities have core issues that their elected politicians are concerned about. Regardless of size, the daily business of a municipality must be managed and policies determined about...

Feasibility and priority strategies for diabetes prevention and control in Chinese demonstration areas

Background Diabetes is a leading global public health challenge with 537 million cases worldwide in 2021 and significant economic and societal burdens. Despite global initiatives, feasibility constraints limit widespread implementation of d...

ICT-enabled supply chain integration capabilities and firms’ financial performance: an empirical study of Tanzania’s manufacturing SMEs

The spectacular advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has shaped the way firms conduct their business, interact and communicate with customers and suppliers along their supply chains (SC). Yet, there exists limited k...

The effect of cropping pattern on the profitability of liquid fertilizer usage in dry season vegetable production in the Southern Guinea savannah zone of Nigeria

Liquid fertilizers in dry season vegetable production are applied using different cropping patterns with little or no empirical evidence on which pattern is the most profitable. This study, therefore, investigated the effect of cropping pat...

A survey about sports investments in Iran: Comparison between 1998 & 2016 without inflation

Background: Sports Investments is one of the most unique sports events, in the country dealing both with collectors and dealers.Aim: The purpose of this study was to compare the sports investment o Iran in 2016 and 1998. Therefore, we estim...

THE ANALYSYS OF ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT EXPENDITURE IN 2008 – 2017 INTERVAL

First, I introduce the concept of government investment expenditure in the context of macroeconomic evolution of last decade (2008 – 2017). We had a terrible crisis in the beginning of analysed period of time prolonged into stagnation and a...

Un modèle gravitaire géoéconomique des échanges commerciaux entre les pays de l’U.E., les PECO et les PTM

The process of enlargement of the European Union is continuous, involving in 2004 ten Central or Oriental European Countries (PECO), and later some Mediterranean countries (PTM). But the EU still asks important questions: what are the candi...

Fragile States in African Economic Communities as Exemplified by the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) – Investment Issues

The region of Central Africa is abundant in both fragile states and economic communities. According to the theory of international economic integration, in the long term such integration processes should stimulate not only short-term trade ...

La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...