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COVID‐19, ESG investing, and the resilience of more sustainable stocks: Evidence from European firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 602-623, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Following the COVID‐19 outbreak, orientation toward sustainability is a critical factor in ensuring firm survival and growth. Using a large sample of 1,204 firms in Europe during the year 2020, this study investigates how more sustainable firms fare during the pandemic compared with other firms in terms of risk–return trade‐off and stock ...
Giovanni Cardillo +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 736-752, January 2023., 2023 Abstract The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic has seriously impacted the performance of all types of businesses. It has given a tremendous structural boost to e‐commerce enterprises by forcing customers to online shopping over visiting physical stores. Moreover, customer expectations of the digital and operational capabilities of e‐commerce
Saurabh Pratap +3 more
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Hepatitis E Outbreak on Cruise Ship
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 In 2008, acute hepatitis E infection was confirmed in 4 passengers returning to the United Kingdom after a world cruise. Epidemiologic investigation showed that of 789 persons who provided blood samples, 195 (25%) were seropositive, 33 (4%) had ...
Bengü Said +7 more
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Intrinsic Unpredictability of Epidemic Outbreaks on Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 It has been known that epidemic outbreaks in the SIR model on networks are described by phase transitions. Despite the similarity with percolation transitions, whether an epidemic outbreak occurs or not cannot be predicted with probability one in the thermodynamic limit. We elucidate its mechanism by deriving a simple Langevin equation that captures an
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
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Introduction to statistical inference for infectious diseases [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 In this paper we first introduce the general stochastic epidemic model for the spread of infectious diseases. Then we give methods for inferring model parameters such as the basic reproduction number $R_0$ and vaccination coverage $v_c$ assuming different types of data from an outbreak such as final outbreak details and temporal data or observations ...
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Trends of measles in Nigeria: A systematic review
Sahel Medical Journal, 2016 Background: Measles, a highly infectious viral disease, is endemic in developing countries with a peak of transmission from October to March. The case fatality rate of measles in the developing countries stands at around 3-5%; this could be as high as 10%
Jalal-Eddeen Abubakar Saleh
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Traffic Optimization to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Metapopulation Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 We propose a novel framework to study viral spreading processes in metapopulation models. Large subpopulations (i.e., cities) are connected via metalinks (i.e., roads) according to a metagraph structure (i.e., the traffic infrastructure). The problem of containing the propagation of an epidemic outbreak in a metapopulation model by controlling the ...
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.In 2022, emergency cases with difficulties in transport markedly increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but had little effect on short‐term outcomes of colorectal perforation. These data suggest that the emergency system for patients with colorectal perforation was largely maintained during the pandemic in Japan, with no evidence indicating a serious ...
Shimpei Ogawa +12 more
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