scholarly journals Assessment of Exchange Options for Attracting External Financing by Small and Medium Businesses

2021 ◽  
pp. 549-563
Author(s):  
Elena Starchenko ◽  
Danil Verzhitskii
Keyword(s):  
Bank Loan ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
External Financing ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Medium Businesses ◽  
Exchange Options

Introduction. The choice and justification of options for attracting investments are relevant for the development of any organization. The research objective was to assess exchange-traded options for attracting investment by small and medium businesses in the food and processing industry. Study objects and methods. The research featured small and medium businesses in the food and processing industry and their exchange options for attracting external financing. The study was based on system, situational, structural-functional, and process approaches, as well as methods of comparative and factor analysis, grouping, and sociological research techniques. Results and discussion. The authors described, analyzed, and classified ways to attract external financing by small and medium businesses. Exchange-traded options proved to be associated with the circulation of securities that differ in liquidity, direct access to the owners of funds, and access to a potentially unlimited amount of investment capital. The authors analyzed the existing exchange infrastructure for the businesses under consideration and assessed their potential for issuing securities. Based on such indicators as Average EBIT Margin and Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), small and medium food-related enterprises can issuer securities, especially exchange-traded bonds. Exchange-traded bonds demonstrated a number of serious disadvantages, compared to a traditional bank loan. However, issuers of securities receive guaranteed advantages, e.g. more flexible conditions for raising funds on the exchange, the right to state subsidies for the payment of coupon income, partial compensation for the costs of placing securities, the absence of collateral, a wide range of private investors, etc. Using some real cases, the authors evaluated the liquidity of exchange-traded bonds of small and medium businesses in the food and processing industry according to a number of indicators of profitability and liquidity of securities. Conclusion. Exchange options can be used to finance small and medium food-related businesses, based on the established ex-change infrastructure, government incentives, potential of the food sector, average EBIT profitability, and revenue growth.

The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: Case of TMT Toughened Glass Pvt. Ltd.

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 225-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manu Amitabh
Keyword(s):  
Float Glass ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Toughened Glass ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Glass Processing ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
High Level

TMT Toughened Glass Company is in the glass processing industry. This industry requires a high level of innovation and expertise to process glass which is a very fragile and unworkable material. Customers typically want complete and technically sound solutions to their security, structural, design and architectural needs where glass is a material of choice. Shiv Prasad, the Managing Director of TMT Toughened Glass Company Pvt. Ltd., likes to call himself a “Glass Fabricator” and has been the pioneer in finding innovative solutions to glass processing needs in India. Tempering is the core process in this. Manufacturers of float glass are the suppliers and real estate developers and builders, automobile manufacturers and industrial appliance manufacturers are its buyers. Growth in this industry has been fuelled by the economic boom in India. The industry is largely unregulated. The number of players in the industry has increased to 40 in the same period from a mere 10. While the demand in the glass processing industry is growing at a steady rate of 30%, the capacity is growing at a compound annual growth rate of almost 80%. Prasad's competence is in engineering and design innovation. The dilemma he faces is whether to carry on with his time-tested strategy of innovation led growth or follow what other industry players are doing. Prasad has the option of concentrating his resources on doing what he does best — finding innovative solutions to the glass processing needs of his customers. The central question for Prasad is how to ensure that TMT Toughened Glass outperforms others on a sustained basis. Out of several options, this case explores the option of expanding the product line to include processed glass for the passenger car segment.

Autoimmune and inflammatory disorder biologicals will power biotech market growth through to 2010

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare A C Churchill ◽  
Mark J Belsey
Keyword(s):  
Market Analysis ◽  
Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Antibody Therapeutics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Will Power ◽  
Strategic Market ◽  
Biological Market

Biologicals designed to treat arthritis, immune and inflammatory disorders (AIID) are currently powering biotechnology market growth. Datamonitor's biotechnology strategic market analysis team has therefore analysed this market to identify key biological products, together with growth drivers and resistors shaping the growth of this market. The AIID market covers a wide range of indications; however, the most prevalent are rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, which together represent a significant healthcare burden. A range of monoclonal antibody therapeutics such as Abbott/CAT's Humira are set to drive AIID biological market growth, together with Amgen/Wyeth's fusion protein Enbrel. Owing to very strong sales of Enbrel as a result of continued label expansion, Amgen is set to record the greatest biological AIID sales from 2004 to 2010. Many of the highly efficacious AIID biologicals such as Enbrel target TNF, which is rapidly emerging as the leading cytokine target for many AIID indications. Overall, AIID biologicals generated US$5.4bn in 2004, and this is set to rise to US$14.3bn by 2010: a strong compound annual growth rate of 17.9 per cent.

Assessment of Gaming Practices and its effect on scholastic performance of medical students in India: A Case Control study. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deodatt Madhav Suryawanshi ◽  
Divya Rajaseharan 2nd ◽  
Raghuram Venugopal 3rd ◽  
Ramchandra Goyal 4th ◽  
Anju Joy 5th
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Gaming Addiction ◽  
Gaming Disorder ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Internal Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
Scholastic Performance ◽  
Excessive Gaming

BACKGROUND Introduction: Gaming is a billion-dollar industry growing at a Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9 %- 14.3% with biggest market in South East Asian countries. Availability of Low-cost smart phones, ease of internet access has made gaming popular among youth who enjoy it as a leisure activity. According to the WHO excessive indulgence in Gaming can lead to Gaming disorder. Medical students indulging in excessive gaming can succumb to gaming disorder which can affect their scholastic performance. Hence this study was done to assess the gaming practices and its effect on scholastic performance. OBJECTIVE Objective: 1. To assess the various Gaming practices and the Prevalence of Gaming addiction among medical students. 2. To study the effect of Gaming practices on Scholastic performance of medical students. METHODS Methods: The present study used a case control design where the 448(N) study participants were recruited using non probability sampling technique.91 (Nc) cases who were Gaming for past 6 months were identified using rapid preliminary survey .91 controls (Nco) who never played games were selected and matched for age and sex. Internal Assessment scores (%) of cases and controls were compared. Snedecor F test and Student t test were used to find out the association between the hours of gaming and internal assessment scores (%) and difference of Internal assessment scores between cases and controls respectively. Odds ratio was calculated to identify the risk of Poor scholastic performance. Prevalence of Gaming addiction was assessed using Lemmen’s Gaming addiction scale (GAS). RESULTS Results: Frequency of gaming (hrs) was not associated with the Mean internal assessment scores (p>0.05). Male students (cases) showed significant reduction in both their internal assessment scores (p<0.001,<0.01) whereas no reduction was observed in Female cases. A negative correlation was observed between GAS and internal assessment scores (r=-0.02). Prevalence of Gaming addiction using GAS was found to be 6.2% among the study population(N=448) and 31% among Cases (Nc=91).The risk of low scores was (OR =1.80-1.89) times more in cases than controls. CONCLUSIONS Conclusions: Excessive Gaming adversely affects scholastic performance in males than females.Awareness about Gaming addiction needs to be created among students, parents and teachers. Institutionalized De-addiction services should be made available to medical students. CLINICALTRIAL No

The Remembered Anthropologist: Engaging with the Insights of M. N. Srinivas

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-240
Author(s):  
Nita Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Village Studies ◽  
Specific Sense

The plethora of M. N. Srinivas’s articles and books covering a wide range of subjects from village studies to nation building, from dominant caste in Rampura village to nature and character of caste in independent India, and from prospects of sociological research in Gujarat to practicing social anthropology in India have largely influenced the understanding of society and culture for well over five decades. Additionally, he meticulously wrote itineraries, memoirs and personal notes that provide a glimpse of his inner being, influences, ideologies, thought all of which have inspired a large number of and social anthropologists and sociologists across the world. It is then only befitting to explore the major concerns in the life and intellectual thought of one whose pioneering contributions have been the milestones in the fields of social anthropology and sociology in a specific sense and of social sciences in India in a general sense. This article centres around/brings to light the academic concerns that Srinivas grappled with the new avenues of thought and insights that developed consequently, and the extent of his rendition their relevance in framing/understanding contemporary society and culture in India.

scholarly journals Scaffold Hopping of α-Rubromycin Enables Direct Access to FDA-Approved Cromoglicic Acid as a SARS-CoV-2 MPro Inhibitor

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 541
Author(s):  
Hani A. Alhadrami ◽  
Ahmed M. Sayed ◽  
Heba Al-Khatabi ◽  
Nabil A. Alhakamy ◽  
Mostafa E. Rateb
Keyword(s):  
Binding Free Energy ◽  
Human Fibroblasts ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Energy Calculation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Novel Scaffold

The COVID-19 pandemic is still active around the globe despite the newly introduced vaccines. Hence, finding effective medications or repurposing available ones could offer great help during this serious situation. During our anti-COVID-19 investigation of microbial natural products (MNPs), we came across α-rubromycin, an antibiotic derived from Streptomyces collinus ATCC19743, which was able to suppress the catalytic activity (IC50 = 5.4 µM and Ki = 3.22 µM) of one of the viral key enzymes (i.e., MPro). However, it showed high cytotoxicity toward normal human fibroblasts (CC50 = 16.7 µM). To reduce the cytotoxicity of this microbial metabolite, we utilized a number of in silico tools (ensemble docking, molecular dynamics simulation, binding free energy calculation) to propose a novel scaffold having the main pharmacophoric features to inhibit MPro with better drug-like properties and reduced/minimal toxicity. Nevertheless, reaching this novel scaffold synthetically is a time-consuming process, particularly at this critical time. Instead, this scaffold was used as a template to explore similar molecules among the FDA-approved medications that share its main pharmacophoric features with the aid of pharmacophore-based virtual screening software. As a result, cromoglicic acid (aka cromolyn) was found to be the best hit, which, upon in vitro MPro testing, was 4.5 times more potent (IC50 = 1.1 µM and Ki = 0.68 µM) than α-rubromycin, with minimal cytotoxicity toward normal human fibroblasts (CC50 > 100 µM). This report highlights the potential of MNPs in providing unprecedented scaffolds with a wide range of therapeutic efficacy. It also revealed the importance of cheminformatics tools in speeding up the drug discovery process, which is extremely important in such a critical situation.

Encouraging millennials to collaborate and learn on the job

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Trees
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Outcomes ◽  
Wide Range

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present enterprise social networking and gamification as two potential tools to help organizations engage Millennial employees in collaboration and learning. Design/methodology/approach – The research provides general descriptions of enterprise social networking and gamification approaches, shares data on adoption of these approaches from APQC’s “2015 Knowledge Management Priorities Data Report” (based on a January 2015 survey of 524 knowledge management professionals) and includes four company examples adapted from APQC’s Connecting People to Content and Transferring and Applying Critical Knowledge best practices studies. The methodology for APQC’s best practices studies involves screening 50 or more organizations with potential best practices in a given research scope area and identifying five or six with proven best practices. APQC then conducts detailed site visits with the selected organizations and publishes case studies based on those site visits. Findings – Enterprise social networking platforms are in place at 50 per cent of organizations, with another 25 per cent planning to implement them by the end of 2015. By providing near-immediate access to information and answers, enterprise social networking helps Millennials learn the ropes at their new workplaces, gives them direct access to more knowledgeable colleagues who can assist and mentor them, and helps them improve their business outcomes by reusing knowledge and lessons learned across projects. Younger workers can also harness the power of social networking to create a sense of belonging and build their reputations in large, dispersed firms, where it is particularly difficult for them to gain visibility. A recent APQC survey indicates that 54 per cent of organizations either currently employ gamification to encourage collaboration or expect to implement it within the next three years. The rush to gamify the enterprise is, at least in part, a reflection of employers’ desire to satisfy Millennials and make them feel connected to a community of co-workers. Although games appeal to a wide range of age groups, Millennials grew up with digital interaction and tend to prefer environments that emphasize teamwork, social learning and frequent feedback – all of which can be delivered through gamification. Originality/value – The value of this paper is to introduce the value of and relationship between enterprise social networking and gamification platforms to human resource (HR) professionals looking to increase engagement and retention rates for Millennial employees.

Australian Biotechnology: A 10-Year Study of Investor Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter L. Molloy ◽  
Lester W. Johnson ◽  
Michael Gilding
Keyword(s):  
Drug Development ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Share Price ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Investor Returns ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

A recent study assessed the investor performance of the Australian drug development biotech (DDB) sector over a 15-year period from 2003 to 2018. The current study builds on that research and extends the analysis to 2020, using a 10-year period starting 2010, to exclude the impact of the global financial crisis in 2008/09. Based on a value-weighted portfolio of all 41 DDB firms, the overall sector delivered a negative annualized return of -4.1%. Individual firm performance was also assessed using the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in share price over the period as a measure of investor outcomes. On this basis 68% of firms produced negative CAGRs over the period, and of the 32% of firms that produced positive CAGRs, six firms produced CAGRs greater than 20% per annum and in three cases of recently-listed firms, the CAGR’s were greater than 50%. Overall however, the sector overall delivered very poor investor returns and despite a relatively large number of listed biotech firms, Australian biotechnology continues to be small and weak in terms of its contribution to global biotechnology industrialization. As such it lacks the critical mass to grow a robust bioeconomy based on drug development, which remains the standard-bearer of biotechnology industrialization.

A Study of E-Book Industry’s Cooperation in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Tsung Yu Hao ◽  
Li Yi Ma ◽  
Hsiang Jung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Penetration Rate ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
On Line ◽  
Internet Penetration ◽  
Hardware Industry

Purchasing the E-books from the on-line bookstore is the trend that Amazon created this business model successfully. Miniwatts Marketing Group (2010) pointed that the internet penetration rate in Taiwan has been reached 70%. Amazon and Barnes and Nobel both claimed the revenue of e-books exceeded the books in 2010. The compound annual growth rate is nearly 72% in year 2008–2013. Therefore, there is a great need to investigate the cross-industry of publisher industry, hardware industry, and internet service platforms to integrate the picture of E-book industry in Taiwan. The qualitative research method will be used to interview the managers in the related leading companies in order to understand the “how to do and what to do” between each other to promote the digital products. By gathering the information to gain the knowledge for the reference to the related industries to work closely to benefit each other and expand the business scope. It is absolutely helpful to create a comfortable reading environment to satisfy the readers’ various needs.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MALAYSIAN E-COMMERCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinesh Raj S. ◽  
Meghna Gohain
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Market Outlook ◽  
Customer Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Tremendous Impact

COVID-19 pandemic has made a tremendous impact all across the globe. It is clearly reflected in the ongoing lockdowns, closing down of almost all shops, restaurants and public transportations, surge of unemployment etc. all culminating into severe economic depression. Malaysia, also, has faced this hit of recession, depreciation, and unemployment to a great extent with the current pandemic situation. However, when everything seems to be crumbling, e-commerce appears to have found its golden break in raising its profit and contributing to the overall GDP growth of Malaysia. There are various factors that played into the booming of e-commerce owing to the current pandemic situation. Needless to say, the value of e-commerce in helping the depleting economy and just plain convenience for people to purchase essential commodities during lockdown cannot be denied. Even the government of Malaysia has been showing support by encouraging local Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). E-commerce has the potential to become a major source of contribution to the country’s economy. However, it needs to ramp up their infrastructure regarding security, delivery, and customer services. Additionally, importance should be given to local businesses in order to empower the local e-commerce sector. This article aims to give an overview of the trend in the growth of e-commerce during the COVID era and its potential growth in the next four years based on Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) and Statista Digital Market Outlook and the factors that have led to the boom in e-commerce in Malaysia.

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