CALCULATING THE IMPACT OF TRADE ON ASPECTS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL EUROPE USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Calculating the Impact of Trade on Aspects of Human Development in Central Europe Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Three equally weighted variables, material output life expectancy and literacy.comprise the widely used comprehensive measure of development known as the Human Development Index (HDI).Although the level of development for a society is constrained by its resource endowment traditional HDI calculations ignore this.Economic theory suggests that intern

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Microbial symbiosis and coevolution of an entire clade of ancient vertebrates: the gut microbiota of sea turtles and its relationship to their phylogenetic history

Abstract Background The microbiota plays a critical role in host homeostasis and Miscellaneous has been shown to be a major driving force in host evolution.However, our understanding of these important relationships is hampered by a lack of data for many species, and by significant gaps in sampling of the evolutionary tree.In this investigation we

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Live and inactivated Piscirickettsia salmonis activated nutritional immunity in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Nutritional immunity regulates the homeostasis of micronutrients such as iron, manganese, and zinc at the systemic and cellular levels, preventing the invading microorganisms from gaining access and thereby limiting their growth.Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the activation of nutritional immunity in specimens of Atlantic sa

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