Considering the absence of standards for culture collections and more specifically for biological resource centers in the world, in addition to the absence of certified biological material in Brazil, this study aimed to evaluate a Fungal Collection from Fiocruz, as a producer of certified reference material and as Biological Resource Center (BRC). For this evaluation, a checklist based on the r...

China has attracted increasing attention because it is the world’s most populous nation and it has maintained phenomenal rates of economic growth in recent years. However, consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household consumption ratio in rural Chi...

The human sex ratio at birth (SRB) is approximately 107 boys for every 100 girls. SRB was rising until the World War II and has been declining slightly after the 1950s in several industrial countries. Recent studies have shown that SRB varies according to exposure to disasters and socioeconomic conditions. However, it remains unknown whether changes in SRB can be explained by observable macro-l...

The paper studies the statistical correlation between the return on assets and some measures of financial balance. The research relies on the assumptions that the financial balance influences most of the indicators of performances of a company. Therefore, we chose the return on assets as dependent variable, as it represents the final result of the company’s business. As independent variables, m...

Recently, the Ethiopian Government drafted a five year plan (2010 to 2015) to achieve the country’s economic growth. When Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation plan was analyzed in light of the new growth theory and traced historically in terms of the push and pull factors that contributed to the flight of skilled Ethiopians to more advanced countries, it was found that over the years Ethiopia h...

IT business value (ITBV) research generally state that various “good” IT management and IT governance practices influence positively IT deployment success and organizational performance. This has proved hard to verify empirically. For this study, the authors analyzed factors that influence IT deployment success. First, the authors identified potential factors, then hypothesized about the relati...

Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, it has been transmitted to more than 200 nations world. The harmful impact pandemic on economy is far greater anything suffered in almost century. main objective this paper apply Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Machine Learning (ML) determine relationships among risk factors, epidemiology factors economic factors. equation modeling ...