Stock investment funds in Brazil: performance and management expertise by Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Artur Nave

“…The quadrimestral rebalancing of the portfolios based on these rankings permits inferring that in scenarios characterized as economic booms or recovery of financial markets, the strategies with equal participation in winner funds provides significantly higher average monthly gains, reduction of risk associated with diversification and consequently enhanced performance in relation to market or sector benchmarks. …”
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Screening recent studies about incorporating environmental, social and governance criteria in the investment process of institutional investors: scoping review by Khadija ARHILAS, Hassan BOUGANTOUCHE

“…Instead, most articles only focus on the impact of ESG risks on financial performance. …”
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Ji-Yong Lee, La gouvernance d’entreprise et l’hybridation : Le cas de l’Asie by Ji-Yong Lee

“…Asia’s corporate governance has undergone significant changes since the financial crisis of 1997. Our study, based on the theory of institutional change, seeks to examine current transformations. …”
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The Demise of Modernist Buildings in Khor Dubai: A Case Study on the FNCB Building by Rasha Saffarini

“…Today, early modernist buildings have been replaced with high-rise buildings to meet the financial demands of real estate. This replacement has been a rapid process, making it difficult for the Modern Heritage Initiative of Dubai (MHID) to cease it. …”
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MOŽNOSTI POSUZOVÁNÍ EFEKTIVITY INVESTIC DO MODRO-ZELENÉ INFRASTRUKTURY V URBANIZOVANÉM ÚZEMÍ by Jan Kopp, Pavlína Hejduková, Michaela Hejplíková

“…Methodologically, the question of assessing ecosystem services so that the assessment is compatible with the financial level of investments remains open.…”

Historyczno-prawna analiza sytuacji dzieci w epoce Rousseau by Sylwia Różycka-Jaroś

“…Important issues were presented relating to the entering into marriage by adolescent children, and their financial situation. Also mentioned briefly were legal sanctions threatened for abuse by children of parents, as well as parents for abandoning or killing a child. …”
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Barriers to the EU Single Services Market by O. V. Biryukova

“…The reasons are following: not all basic principles for single market are fully applied, and a service is a very specific object for international trade. Financial-economic crisis caused a new wave of protectionism in different countries, which has reflected in the preservation of old and the emergence of new barriers to trade in services within the EU. …”
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Information Trends in South Africa with Specific Reference to the Development of an Information Policy for the Electronic Media by Nina Overton

“…Deregu- lation and privatisation of the electronic me- dia are also advocated, despite financial difficulties and the risk of information over- load. …”
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Coralie Reslinger, La diversité des modèles d’émergence technologique by Coralie Reslinger

“…By adapting the Social Systems of Innovation and Production (SSIP) framework of Amable, Barré & Boyer (1997) for the study of 27 emerging countries in 2005, we analyse their institutional arrangements through six key domains (science and technology, education, international insertion, products, labour and financial markets) in order to observe the diversity of emerging models. …”
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Establishing criteria for the management of tephritid fruit fly outbreaks by Michael D. Ormsby

“…Because of their economic importance, the financial impacts of an incursion of tephritid fruit flies into a new area can often result in restrictions to trade. …”
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Nonlinear System Identification Using Quasi-ARX RBFN Models with a Parameter-Classified Scheme by Lan Wang, Yu Cheng, Jinglu Hu, Jinling Liang, Abdullah M. Dobaie

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Examination of Building Fires Occurred in Artvin City Center Between 2013-2017 by İlknur Bekem Kara

“…It was seen that 51% of the burning buildings were reinforced concrete and 27% were made of wood; fires in public buildings were 10.5% of all building fires; 10% of the public buildings that the firefighters intervened in all fire incidents were completely burned while 34% of private buildings were completely burned; the first place for the reasons in output of private building fires was the "electricity contact"; in the building fires, 1 person lost his/her life and the financial loss arising from building fires was 3.739.000 TL.…”
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COLLATERAL DETERMINATS IN BANK RISK MANANAGEMENT: THE REGIONAL CASE by A. M. Karminsky, O. D. Khon

“…Among them are strong competition with major big banks, strong resource restrictions, tightening the Bank of Russia’s requirements, and quite rapid expansion of financial technologies. Thus, the reduction of regional banks occurs, that produces both a negative impact on the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and challenges for balanced competition on the Russian market. …”
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Sustainable growth as a result of implementing the concept of sustainable development of Chinese companies by A. O. Volodina, M. B. Trachenko

“…The study concludes that it is necessary to develop a new toolkit or integrate the two concepts considered to ensure the ability of companies to achieve their sustainability goals without compromising fundamental financial performance. The study results can be used by companies that are already following the sustainable development concept, as well as by those ones that are only at the initial stage of developing and implementing ESG indicators in their operations, by investors when selecting an investment target and by academics in the course of research devoted to the topic of sustainable development and sustainable growth.…”
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Seamless multimodality for passenger transportation in the Russian Federation by A. S. Stepanenko, A. S. Bolt, P. S. Bolt

“…The introduction of a digital platform for convenient search and booking of transportation is considered, the key points of working with requests are highlighted. The movement of financial and information flows and the algorithm of actions of the system participants are determined.…”
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Everyday and Exotic Foodborne Parasites by Marilyn B Lee

“…Congenital transmission poses an immense financial burden, costing Canada an estimated $240 million annually. …”
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Conceptual approaches to definition of the category «management сitizens’ savings» by Yu. V. Indychenko

“…Savings are a source of financial wealth of citizens, which is manifested not only in monetary form, but also in tangible and intangible assets. …”
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Contribution of Daylighting to Saving Electrical Energy in Cameroon: Case Study of a Classroom in a Public School by Merimé Souffo Tagueu, Lionelle Adelaїde Madjou Tanekou, Benoît Ndzana

“…The solutions proposed so far relate to the construction of new hydroelectric dams and solar power plants, but this requires a lot of time and enormous financial resources. In this work, we develop a method for reducing the energy bill by adjusting lighting level while remaining within regulatory margins. …”
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Tax Secrecy and its Limitations: Is There a Balance? by Tereza Rogić Lugarić, Irena Klemenčić

“… Economic development in the past decades and the increase of cross-border business by the multinationals coupled with recent financial crisis have brought many questions about whether the taxpayers are paying their fair share. …”
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Evaluation of Dental Students’ Sociodemographic Characteristics and Perspectives on Dentistry by Alper Kizildağ

“…In addition, the fact that students' financial gain expectations when they become dentists remain in the background will ensure that more attention is paid to professional ethics.Keywords: Dentistry, Students, Specialisation…”
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