With the financial crises ongoing in Greece and Venezuela, sovereign debt crises have become more and more prominent in the public eye. Thus, it has become important to be able to predict when nations will enter such debt crises. We collected publicly available data in order to train models to predict, given a nation’s economic status in one year, whether they would be in a debt crisis the next...

Identifying banking crises is the first step in the research on determinants of banking crises. The prevailing practice is to employ market events to identify a banking crisis. Researchers justify the usage of this method on the grounds that either direct and reliable indicators of banks’ assets quality are not available, or that withdrawals of bank deposits are no longer a part of financial cr...

Several public health crises in Europe have led to sustained outbreaks, political problems, or have generated social alarm. For this reason, a nationwide study was conducted in Spain with the objective to determine which public health events provoke the most frequent crises, to reach a consensus regarding the appropriate actions to be taken when responding to public health crises, and to provid...

The instability of international financial markets, as exhibited by persistent periodic crises, is an important issue for all market participants. This paper presents an alternative agent-based network theory of financial crises derived from recent developments in complexity science, and applies it to short-term currency crises. The theory, despite being parsimonious, is capable of generating c...

146 words) As organizations seek to maintain their competitive superiority, organizational learning has emerged as a central issue. Researchers have suggested that organizations need to focus on managing knowledge and promote learning, rather than managing individuals (Drucker, 1993; Weick, 1998). Some organizations have adopted these ideas, creating positions such as Chief Learning Officer, an...

Abstract The societal and policy transformations associated with the coronavirus disease pandemic are currently subject of intense academic debate. In this paper, we contribute to debate by adopting a systemic perspective on change, shedding light hidden indirect crisis effects. Based comprehensive analysis agenda developments in Germany, find that led profound shifts political attention across...

a Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico b Grupo de Investigación Ecobiología Médica, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico c Departamento de Fisiología, Farmacología y Toxicología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universi...

Painless and painful crises are common phenomena in sickle cell crises. People with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) do experience both chronic and acute pain throughout life. The painful crisis is unpleasant with wide variation in intensity, quality, duration and persistence. It accounts for over 60% of hospital admissions in any given year of persons affected with SCD. Little attempt has been made ...