Maintaining public health and environmental safety in the Nordic nations calls for a strict plan to define exact benchmarks on air quality and energy efficiency. This study investigates the complicated interaction of decentralized energy production (DEP) with energy efficiency, and air quality index in the Nordic nations from 1990 to 2022 using System GMM and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach. Our research explored positive role of decentralized energy production and technological advancement to propel notable increases in energy efficiency, hence lowering pollution expressed as PM2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany fintech consumers are hesitant to perform online transactions given the lack of trust in online companies. In response to this reality, we construct and evaluate a trust-theoretic user acceptability model for financial technologies. The research seeks to look at the influence of trust on the intention to use fintech.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In the construction of emergency engineering, the effective participation of organizations such as government and construction enterprises can improve engineering emergency services to emergency adaptive, which faces the challenge of the enthusiasm of enterprises' emergency participation. This study proposed a new diversified social governance mode for public emergency facility construction.
Methods: This paper empirically analyzes the performance of stock market returns before and after construction enterprises' participation in emergency engineering.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
March 2023
Front Public Health
December 2022
This study explores the preferred behavior of self-management among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients and offers suggestions for different patients from personalized medicine. According to some related references, a questionnaire was designed in 2020 to collect data from 131 patients with CKD in a general hospital. The Sampling patients showed no difference in their disease progress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChina's rapid economic development has caused some environmental damage in recent years. The popularity of the Internet has enriched the ways for investors to obtain information, which would exert an impact on corporate environmental behavior. Focusing on micro-enterprise green innovation from the perspective of informal regulation, this paper investigates the impact of investor attention on corporate green innovation.
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July 2022
This study assesses climate change impact on rice productivity in 28 top rice-producing districts in Pakistan. Driscoll and Kraay estimation is applied on panel data from 1981 to 2019. The cross-sectional dependency test results reveals that climatic factors such as rainfall, humidity, and temperature have correlation issue in different selected regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe massive rise in the world's average temperature has created major economic and environmental issues that must be addressed by strict environmental legislation. Carbon pricing is seen as a sustainable instrument capable of assisting in the reduction of negative environmental externalities associated with global carbon emissions. The race-to-the-bottom (RTB) hypothesis describes a competitive environment in which economies sacrifice environmental quality standards to undercut competitors, thus undermining the ecological sustainability objective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClimate change and increased greenhouse gas emissions boost the global average temperature to less than 2°C, which is the estimated breakeven point. The globe is moving into blue pollution economies as the environmental sustainability objective becomes more distorted. The study looked at three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, namely (i) affordable and clean energy; (ii) industry, innovation, and infrastructure; and (iii) climate change, to see how far the Chinese economy has progressed toward green and clean development strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify the stage of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) at the time of presentation.
Methods: This cross sectional observational prospective study was carried out at Gastro Department of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Multan from August 2017 to December 2018. Patients were diagnosed on the basis of alpha fetoprotein, abdominal ultrasound, triphasic contrast enhanced computerized tomography (CECT).