An assessment of collaborative research in corporate sustainability by Maitreyee Das, Abhishek Dutta, Gautam Dutta

“…There is a need for more case study-based research papers that bring out sustainability success stories from developed nations with relatively higher SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) scores to set benchmarks for the rest of the world.…”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…DDB serves as an infrastructure for research and is open to researchers of any nationality. …”
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Review on the Application of Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning to the Estimation of Anthropogenic Heat Emissions by Lingyun Feng, Danyang Ma, Min Xie, Mengzhu Xi

“…More in-depth research of this issue is recommended to provide important support for curbing global warming, mitigating air pollution, and achieving the national goals of carbon peak and a carbon neutrality strategy.…”
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Patterns in the influence of funding and reimbursement on the development and implementation of healthcare innovation: A systematic review by Sanne Allers, Frank Eijkenaar, Erik M. van Raaij, Frederik T. Schut

“…From the review of 157 included articles, four key findings stand out: 1) shortcomings in national reimbursement systems result in local fragmentation in the implementation of innovations; 2) lack of evidence on costs and benefits in financial decision-making may harm the development and implementation of potentially value-enhancing innovations; 3) more disruptive innovations encounter larger financial barriers; and 4) non-financial factors, including innovator characteristics and institutional support, are essential in overcoming financial barriers. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. …”
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Análisis del Referéndum Constitucional 2008 en Ecuador by Adrián López A., Paula Cubillos Celis

“…The article offers an interpretation of the dynamics currently at play in the national political arena, based on an analysis of the political campaign and a breakdown of the electoral results. …”
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - THE CASE OF WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES by Zijad Džafić

“…In this paper, the author uses only some such as: The Global Competitiveness Report of World Economic Forum, World Bank’s Doing Business Index, Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom, European Charter for Small Enterprises and Small Business Act of OECD and European Commission (EC) and Indicators of Business, Corruption and Crime in WBCs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The author has come to the conclusion that, in respect of SMEs, WBCs lag behind the countries in the European Union. …”
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Coupling and Coordination of the Regional Economy, Tourism Industry, and Exhibition Industry of China’s Provinces by Mengyuan Lu

“…Apart from that, the integration and development of regional economy, tourism industry, and exhibition industry show a continuous coordinated and benign development. On a national scale, the degree of integration of the regional economy-tourism industry-exhibition industry in China has gradually developed and improved from bare coordination to good coordination. …”
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Simplified Physical Stability Assessment of Chilean Mine Waste Storage Facilities Using GIS and AI: Application in the Antofagasta Region by Gabriel Hermosilla, Gabriel Villavicencio, Giovanni Cocca-Guardia, Vicente Aprigliano, Manuel Silva, Juan Carlos Quezada, Pierre Breul, Vinicius Minatogawa, Jaime Morales

“…Chile’s mining industry, a global leader in copper production, faces challenges due to increasing volumes of mining waste, particularly Waste Rock Dumps (WRD) and Leaching Waste Dumps (LWD). The National Service of Geology and Mining (SERNAGEOMIN) requires assessment of the physical stability (PS) of these facilities, but current methods are hindered by data scarcity and resource constraints. …”
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What Makes the Indian Megacity Chennai’s Air Unhealthy? - A Bottom-up Approach to Understand the Sources of Air Pollutants by Poonam Mangaraj, Saroj Kumar Sahu, Gufran Beig, Ashirbad Mishra, Som Sharma

“…Unlike India’s pollution capital, Delhi, Chennai is a megacity significantly impacted by industrial and transportation activities and has been designated as a non-attainment city by the Government of India under the National Clean Air Programme. The first step towards sustained clean air is identifying the sources causing the megacity’s air quality to deteriorate. …”
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Regenerative Medicine for Neurological Disorders by Dong-Hyuk Park, David J. Eve, Yong-Gu Chung, Paul R. Sanberg

“…A number of studies focused on novel methods for drug monitoring or graft tracking, and combination therapy with stem cells and medicine, such as cytokines or trophic factors. Finally, the National Institutes of Health guidelines for human stem cell research, clinical trials of commercialized stem cells without larger animal testing, and prohibition of medical tourism were big controversial issues that led to heated discussion.…”
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The Advantage of Using International Multimodel Ensemble for Seasonal Precipitation Forecast over Israel by Amir Givati, Mashor Housh, Yoav Levi, Dror Paz, Itzhak Carmona, Emily Becker

“…This study analyzes the results of monthly and seasonal precipitation forecasting from seven different global climate forecast models for major basins in Israel within October–April 1982–2010. The six National Multimodel Ensemble (NMME) models and the ECMWF seasonal model were used to calculate an International Multimodel Ensemble (IMME). …”
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Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston by Jeffrey Helgeson

“…Suffering both chronic decline and an acute social and economic crisis in the 1960s and 1970s, Boston’s corporate leaders began to create the initiatives that would allow the city to emerge in the succeeding decades as a leader amongst the nation’s newly thriving technology- and professional-service-based urban economies. …”
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Regional differentiation of the tax burden on personal income in Canada by I. V. Mitroshin

“…The results obtained found that in Canada, there is a conditional division into eastern provinces with a traditionally high tax burden, western provinces with a national average tax burden, and northern territories with a relatively low tax burden. …”
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Metabolic Activity of Micromycetes Affecting Urban Concrete Constructions by Galina Yakovleva, Eugene Sagadeev, Viktor Stroganov, Olga Kozlova, Rodion Okunev, Olga Ilinskaya

“…The alterations in concrete resistances to compression and flexure after fungal attack were recorded at the trend level, mainly due to a short exposure time of concrete to fungal destructors in tests recommended by national Russian standard. Finally, using scanning electron microscopy we have shown that colonization of concrete by the dominant fungi includes their penetration into the thickness of concrete and germination in cracks. …”
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Evaluating Children with Otitis Media for Bacteremia or Urinary Tract Infection by Daniel Yawman, Patrick Mahar, Aaron Blumkin, Gregory Conners

“…Cases of AOM were analyzed from the 2001–2004 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)-Emergency Department dataset. …”
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Intellectual measurement and evaluation of the results of customs authorities’ activities by G. I. Goremykina, Yu. E. Gupanova

“…In this article, the authors, taking as a basis the basic provisions of the National Technological Initiative, continued mapping the problem of measuring the results of the customs authorities functioning in key areas of their activities in the context of the qualitological system transformation of the customs institution, due to the process of its intellectualization in the digital economy. …”
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Insights into the Multidisciplinary Approach for Metastatic Acinic Cell Lung Carcinoma: The Pathologist’s Role in Romania Today by Dorela-Codruta Lazureanu, Amelia Burlea, Robert Barna, Daniela Cipu, Mihaela Pasca Fenesan, Ioan Icma, Marioara Cornianu

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Postponements of the presentation to the doctor at the onset of symptoms, as well as a lack of periodic health control for people insured by national health insurance companies, often lead to medical, human and financial complications that are difficult to manage. …”
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Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Variability and Its Impact on Oilseed Crop Yields in China by Yi Zhou, Tianyi Zhang, Xichen Li

“…Our analysis revealed that, at the national level, the six tropical SST modes collectively accounted for 51% of soybean, 52% of rapeseed, and 33% of peanut yield anomalies in China. …”
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Cost Analysis of Noninvasive Helmet Ventilation Compared with Use of Noninvasive Face Mask in ARDS by Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Raphaëlle Robidoux, Kednapa Thavorn, Dipayan Chaudhuri, Daniel Kobewka, John P. Kress

“…Projected annual cost savings, assuming the current prevalence of ARDS, were $237538 in ICU costs and $291682 in hospital costs. At a national level, using yearly incidence of ARDS cases in American ICUs, this represents $449 million in savings. …”
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