scholarly journals Another year in the grip of COVID‐19 with slow recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 2340-2341
Author(s):  
J. Ring
Keyword(s):  
Slow Recovery

Sustainable Development Through Innovation In Service Sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Ilie Banu ◽  
Ioana Madalina Butiuc
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
Sustainable Development Indicators ◽  
Research And Innovation

AbstractRegarding the economic crises and the slow recovery that still continues, we believe that a solution can be improving the capacity to research and innovate in order to achieve sustainable development. Another key issue of the paper is about developing the cooperation between academia and business. The challenge of this development is how to increase the amount to finance research and innovation that can be implemented in the economy. As a global solution, to this problem we can recommend, for example, reducing tax evasion and by fiscal education. Also particular sources have to be found in order to develop innovation on SME level. It is essential for innovation to make quality research in order to be better prepared and increase adaptability to economic cycles. The aim of the paper is to find out how service innovation and cooperation between academia and business can enhance sustainable development indicators. The conclusions of the paper are structured in particular proposals and recommendations.

New experiments on the relationship between light-induced defects and photoconductivity degradation

2001 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Heck ◽  
Howard M. Branz
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Defect Density ◽  
Activation Energies ◽  
Dangling Bond ◽  
Fast Recovery ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Degradation Model ◽  
Induced Defects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous

ABSTRACTWe report experimental results that help settle apparent inconsistencies in earlier work on photoconductivity and light-induced defects in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and point toward a new understanding of this subject. After observing that light-induced photoconductivity degradation anneals out at much lower T than the light-induced increase in deep defect density, Han and Fritzsche[1] suggested that two kinds of defects are created during illumination of a-Si:H. In this view, one kind of defect degrades the photoconductivity and the other increases defect sub-bandgap optical absorption. However, the light-induced degradation model of Stutzmann et al.[2] assumes that photoconductivity is inversely proportional to the dangling-bond defect density. We observe two kinds of defects that are distinguished by their annealing activation energies, but because their densities remain in strict linear proportion during their creation, the two kinds of defects cannot be completely independent.In our measurements of photoconductivity and defect absorption (constant photocurrent method) during 25°C light soaking and during a series of isochronal anneals between 25 < T < 190°C, we find that the absorption measured with E ≤1.1 eV, first increases during annealing, then exhibits the usual absorption decrease found for deeper defects. The maximum in this absorption at E ≤1.1eV occurs simultaneously with a transition from fast to slow recovery of photoconductivity. The absorption for E ≤1.1eV shows two distinct annealing activation energies: the signal rises with about 0.87 eV and falls with about 1.15 eV. The 0.87 eV activation energy roughly equals the activation energy for the dominant, fast, recovery of photoconductivity. The 1.15 eV activation energy roughly equals the single activation energy for annealing of the light-induced dangling bond absorption.

scholarly journals Slow Recovery to Nowhere? Labor Market Issues in Advanced Economies: Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-701
Author(s):  
Nauro Campos ◽  
Karim El Aynaoui ◽  
Davide Furceri ◽  
Prakash Loungani
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Advanced Economies

Loss of gender difference in serum leptin levels and its slow recovery after successful surgery for Leydig cell tumours in two virilized females

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 693-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pekic ◽  
S. Vujovic ◽  
S. Spremovic-Radjenovic ◽  
M. Petakov ◽  
M. Djurovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Leydig Cell ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Serum Leptin ◽  
Leydig Cell Tumours

scholarly journals Silent Mastoiditis Associated with Pneumococcal Meningitis

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ashikin Mohd Nordin ◽  
Jean Jun Ong ◽  
Juriza Ismail ◽  
Norazlin Kamal Nor ◽  
Sau Wei Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Imaging ◽  
Pneumococcal Meningitis ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Invasive Disease ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Acute Mastoiditis ◽  
Focus Of Infection ◽  
Upper Respiratory

Streptococcus pneumoniae (S pneumoniae) can cause a wide spectrum of diseases which includes upper respiratory tract infection as well as more severe invasive disease such as meningitis. Meningitis may be caused by invasion of the organism through the blood brain barrier, either via haematological spread or from an adjacent focus of infection such as the ears. We describe two infants with pneumococcal meningitis and silent mastoiditis. They both presented with a classical history to suggest meningitis with no apparent focus of infection. A brain imaging was done in the first infant to look for the underlying cause of his focal seizure and in the second infant, to assess for complications of meningitis, as he had a slow recovery. While they did not have any clinical signs to point towards the diagnosis, they were both diagnosed to have acute mastoiditis from brain imaging. We would like to highlight the importance of brain imaging in excluding silent mastoiditis in infants with meningitis, particularly in those whose clinical course appears atypical.

scholarly journals The Financing of Ideas and the Great Deviation

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (176) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Garcia-Macia
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Heterogeneous Firms ◽  
Intangible Capital ◽  
Model Matching ◽  
Slow Recovery ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Financing Costs ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Intangible Investment

Why did the Great Recession lead to such a slow recovery? I build a model where heterogeneous firms invest in physical and intangible capital, and can default on their debt. In case of default, intangible assets are harder to seize by creditors. Hence, intangible capital faces higher financing costs. This differential is exacerbated in a financial crisis, when default is more likely and aggregate risk bears a higher premium. The resulting fall in intangible investment amplifies the crisis, and gradual intangible spillovers to other firms contribute to its persistence. Using panel data on Spanish manufacturing firms, I estimate the model matching firm-level moments regarding intangibles and financing. The model captures the extent and components of the Great Recession in Spanish manufacturing, whereas a standard model without endogenous intangible investment would miss more than half of the GDP fall. A policy of transfers conditional on firm age could speed up the recovery, as young firms tend to be more financially constrained, particularly regarding intangible investment. Conditioning transfers on firm size or subsidizing credit (as in current E.U. policy) appears to be less effective.

Slow recovery of the fatty acid composition of sciatic nerve in rats fed a diet initially low in n−3 fatty acids

Lipids ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 535-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Bourre ◽  
A. Youyou ◽  
G. Durand ◽  
G. Pascal
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Sciatic Nerve ◽  
Acid Composition ◽  
Slow Recovery
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