Risk factors affecting COVID-19 case fatality rate: A quantitative analysis of top 50 affected countries by Poh Hui Goh, Wafiah Ilyani Mahari, Norhadyrah Izazie Ahad, Li Ling Chaw, Nurolaini Kifli, Bey-Hing Goh, Siang Fei Yeoh, Khang Wen Goh, Long Chiau Ming

“…The number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths until April 16, 2020 for all affected countries were extracted from Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 websites. Datasets for indicators that are prevailing or postulated factors of COVID-19 mortality were extracted from the World Bank database. …”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

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Key Performance Indicators in Freestyle Swimming: Comparing Start, Turn, and Swimming Velocity in Top-Elite Female Junior and Adult Swimmers by Chantal Widmer, Julia Hernandez, Michael Romann, Wolfgang Taube, Dennis-Peter Born

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PECULIARITIES OF UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS by Semen E. Il'in, Ekaterina V. Filatova

“…The authors give a comparative analysis of self-presentations provided by the three world's top universities - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University and Imperial College London. …”
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Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia by Isabella M. M. Reeves, Andrew R. Weeks, Alison V. Towner, Rachael Impey, Jessica J. Fish, Zach S. R. Clark, Paul A. Butcher, Lauren Meyer, David M. Donnelly, Charlie Huveneers, Nicky Hudson, Adam D. Miller

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Transformation of the Personnel Policy of Russian Universities Participating in Project 5-100: The Case of National Research Nuclear University Mephi by E. A. Drugova, I. B. Pleshkevich, T. V. Klimova

“…National academic excellence programs have contributed to strengthening the performance-based governance in universities all over the world. These factors had deeply influenced the transformation of HRM practices at universities. …”
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Modern Russian Universities: Positioning, Development Trends, Potential to Enhance Competitive Advantages by M. V. Seroshtan, N. P. Ketova

“…The authors come to a conclusion that Russian universities, taking into account the existing motivation and the targeted state support provided for them, are able to become quite competitive, to join the ranks of the world top universities, to be attractive not only for Russian but also foreign students. …”
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Digital Technologies are a Key Driver of the Development of Smart Cities: Analysis of World Rankings by G. G. Goloventchik

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Three Worlds in One: Venus as a Natural Laboratory for the Effect of Rotation Period on Atmospheric Circulation by Maureen Cohen, James Holmes, Stephen Lewis, Manish Patel, Sébastien Lebonnois

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Chinese Students Abroad: Dynamics of the Number and Aims of Educational Travel by S. S. Donetskaya, M. Li

“…Therefore, currently the largest number of Chinese young people seek to become students in English speaking countries, where the concentration of the best world universities included in the top-100 of international rankings is high. …”
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Do Local and World COVID-19 Media Coverage Drive Stock Markets? Time-Frequency Analysis of BRICS by Ahmed Bossman, Tamara Teplova, Zaghum Umar

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Influencing Factors of University Core Competence: An Empirical Study Based on the Entropy Weight Gray Relation Model by Yongqing Shi, Xiaojiang Yang

“…To measure the gray relation between the core competence of research universities and its influencing factors, this paper took the same period statistical data of the five research universities directly subordinate to the Ministry of Education of China as the research samples, all these five schools were shortlisted in the “World Top 300” rankings of USNews, QS, THE, and ARWU from 2014 to 2018, and the indicator systems of the four authoritative lists were taken as the basis; 30 representative indicators affecting the core competence of research universities were selected, and the gray relation model was adopted for the research; moreover, this paper applied the information entropy method to calculate the weight of each indicator and estimate the comprehensive gray relation between the core competence of research universities and the entire factor system. …”
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A multidimensional assessment of adverse events associated with paliperidone palmitate: a real-world pharmacovigilance study using the FAERS and JADER databases by Siyu Lou, Zhiwei Cui, Yingyong Ou, Junyou Chen, Linmei Zhou, Ruizhen Zhao, Chengyu Zhu, Li Wang, Zhu Wu, Fan Zou

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Gender and learning attitudes in using Web-based science lessons by Siew Chee Leong, Suliman Al-Hawamdeh

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THE AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE NOTION “TOLERANCE” by V. V. Matyushina

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Monitoring of prostate-specific antigen in men with benign prostate enlargement receiving 5-alpha reductase inhibitors: a non-interventional, cross-sectional study of real-world pr... by Juan Manuel Palacios, Pratiksha Kapse, Vanessa Cortes, Marcio Augusto Averbeck, Alberto Budia Alba, Suryakant Somvanshi, Danilo Souza Lima da Costa Cruz, Fiona Pereira

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GDP OF THE G7 AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS by Svitlana Radziyevska

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Digital matrix of the Russian economy by I. V. Groshev, S. V. Koblov

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Presentations on How to Finance Iran's Higher Education Based on the Global Study Model by Ehsan Ehteshamnejad, Mehdi Pakzad Bonab, Mehdi Ramezani

“…This importance can be easily seen by delving into the financing methods of the world's top universities that have achieved such success (Ahmadi & Norozi, 2015:47). …”
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THE CONCEPT OF “THE CONCERT OF EUROPE” IN XX CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY by E. V. Romanova

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