scholarly journals Financing research and development around the world, in Southeast Europe and in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikret Čaušević
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
The Us ◽  
Good Export

This paper analyses the financing of research and development, starting from the global and regional contexts and moving on to the specifics of such investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first section presents an analysis of the global context and of the 10 highestinvesting countries, as well as a breakdown of the sources of such financing by sector. Based on the most recent data from UNESCO, which were for 2018 at the time of writing, South Korea and Japan invested most in research and development in relative terms, while the US and China did so in absolute terms. The second section contains a comparative analysis of investment in research and development by the countries of Central and Southeast Europe. This group is led by Slovenia, followed by the Czech Republic and Hungary. The third section is dedicated to the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina and certain factors affecting the country’s very low level of spending on research and development. The fourth section presents a number of successful examples of investment by Bosnian companies in key branches of industry where the country has achieved above-average results for the Southeast European region, as well as very good export results, as measured by the Economic Complexity and the Product Complexity indices.

Chemistry instructors’ intentions toward developing, teaching, and assessing student representational competence skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maia Popova ◽  
Tamera Jones
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Coding Theory ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Representational Competence ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Us

Representational competence is one's ability to use disciplinary representations for learning, communicating, and problem-solving. These skills are at the heart of engagement in scientific practices and were recognized by the ACS Examinations Institute as one of ten anchoring concepts. Despite the important role that representational competence plays in student success in chemistry and the considerable number of investigations into students’ ability to reason with representations, very few studies have examined chemistry instructors’ approaches toward developing student representational competence. This study interviewed thirteen chemistry instructors from eleven different universities across the US about their intentions to develop, teach, and assess student representational competence skills. We found that most instructors do not aim to help students develop any representational competence skills. At the same time, participants’ descriptions of their instructional and assessment practices revealed that, without realizing it, most are likely to teach and assess several representational competence skills in their courses. A closer examination of these skills revealed a focus on lower-level representational competence skills (e.g., the ability to interpret and generate representations) and a lack of a focus on higher-level meta-representational competence skills (e.g., the ability to describe affordances and limitations of representations). Finally, some instructors reported self-awareness about their lack of knowledge about effective teaching about representations and the majority expressed a desire for professional development opportunities to learn about differences in how experts and novices conceptualize representations, about evidence-based practices for teaching about representations, and about how to assess student mastery of representational competence skills. This study holds clear implications for informing chemistry instructors’ professional development initiatives. Such training needs to help instructors take cognizance of relevant theories of learning (e.g., constructivism, dual-coding theory, information processing model, Johnstone's triangle), and the key factors affecting students’ ability to reason with representations, as well as foster awareness of representational competence skills and how to support students in learning with representations.

scholarly journals A simple model for the estimation of the number of fatalities due to floods in central Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1663-1676 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Brazdova ◽  
J. Riha
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
River Floods ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Human Losses ◽  
Significant Factors

Abstract. In this paper a model for the estimation of the number of potential fatalities is proposed based on data from 19 past floods in central Europe. First, the factors contributing to human losses during river floods are listed and assigned to the main risk factors: hazard – exposure – vulnerability. The order of significance of individual factors has been compiled by pairwise comparison based on experience with real flood events. A comparison with factors used in existing models for the estimation of fatalities during floods shows good agreement with the significant factors identified in this study. The most significant factors affecting the number of human losses in floods have been aggregated into three groups and subjected to correlation analysis. A close-fitting regression dependence is proposed for the estimation of loss of life and calibrated using data from selected real floods in central Europe. The application of the proposed model for the estimation of fatalities due to river floods is shown via a flood risk assessment for the locality of Krnov in the Czech Republic.

Pharmaceutical Innovation in the United States: Factors Affecting Future Performance

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Cost Containment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Regulatory Strategy

AbstractFueled by high returns on its investments, the pharmaceutical industry in the United States has flourished for the past 50 years. The regulatory strategy of demanding stringent testing then allowing market-based pricing has allowed private companies to fund ambitious research and development activities with the assurance that these investments will be recovered. However, aggressive managed-care cost-containment strategies threaten the companies' ability to recoup research and development expenses and may affect their willingness to invest in future innovative research.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGIES ABROAD

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
D.B. Izyumov ◽  
E.L. Kondratyuk
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
The Us ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Cloud Environments

The article discusses the concept of cybersecurity and its features, presents a list of US regulatory documents in the field of cyberspace and cybersecurity, as well as significant research and development work and programs in the field of development of cybersecurity technologies conducted by the Department of Advanced Research Projects of the US Department of Defense (DARPA). The most common foreign technologies used to protect computers, smart devices, routers, networks and cloud environments, as well as the main scientific and technological problems of the development of cybersecurity technologies, are summarized.

scholarly journals FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI JUMLAH KUNJUNGAN WISATAWAN DI PROPINSI SUMATERA UTARA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Enita Rosmika
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Climate History ◽  
Dollar Exchange Rate ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Dollar

Tourism Product Knowledge is regarding the general knowledge of all regions in Indonesia which includes the location of the region / geography, climate, history, politics, culture, and particularly object - attractions and facilities and attractions which support it. In this study, entitled Factors Affecting Total tourist arrivals in Sumut Province Year Period 2014 -2019. The purpose of this study was to determine the number of rooms and the dollar exchange rate partially and simultaneously inuence the number of tourist arrivals in Sumut, in order to obtain a result the number of hotel rooms inuential not evident partially on the number of tourists visiting the province of Sumut, because t smaller than t table or -1.651 <1.761 while the dollar exchange rate has a signicant effect on the number of tourists visiting the province of Sumut, because t is greater than t table or 2.236> 1.740 and Total Room and the US dollar exchange rate simultaneously or together of the number of tourists visiting Sumut Province since F count> F table or 13.288> 3.59. The magnitude of the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable simultaneously can be known from the value of the coefcient of determination (R2) is equal to 0.639. This means that both variables jointly contribute to or inuence amounted to 63.9 percent of the number of tourists visiting the province of Sumut, while the remaining 36.1 percent is inuenced by other variables that are not described in the model, such as safety, service, facilities.

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