This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reduced-form vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as well as growth of multifactor productivity. It seems that employment growth is negatively associate...

it can be argued that fuel and energy sector plays a crucial part in the countries' development and improvement of people's living standards, constituting a pillar of economic development for nations. electricity is considered as an infrastructure for economic, social and cultural development in a way that the growth in electric power is evaluated as an indicator for measuring the gro...

microbial activity and spoilage of chicken meat from the market in mashhad, iran, stored in air at 0, 4, 10 and 15°c was assessed. microbial spoilage population, total volatilebase nitrogen (tvb-n), ph and organoleptic changes were determined. based on the results of sensory analysis, shelf-life of chicken meat stored at 0, 4, 10 and 15°c was 72, 120, 220 and 320 h, respectively. tvb-n that ser...

Animals with compact sensory systems face an encoding problem where a small number of sensory neurons are required to encode information about its surrounding complex environment. Using Caenorhabditis elegans worms as a model, we ask how chemical stimuli are encoded by a small and highly connected sensory system. We first generated a comprehensive library of transgenic worms where each animal e...