THE APEC INTEGRATED COMPETITIVE FORCE INDEX

Characterizing the APEC pathotype.

The purpose of this study was to compare avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) isolates to fecal isolates of apparently healthy poultry (avian fecal E. coli or AFEC) by their possession of various traits in order to ascertain whether APEC and AFEC are distinct and if the APEC strains constitute a distinct pathotype. Four hundred and fifty-one APEC and one hundred and four AFEC isolates were ...

APEC Study Centers Consortium 2011 : Promoting Academic Dialogue Among the APEC Economies APEC Update

1 The annual APEC Study Centers Consortium (ASCC) conference convened on September 22-23, 2011, in San Francisco, California, with Vinod Aggarwal of the Berkeley APEC Study Center and Richard Feinberg of the UC San Diego APEC Study Center co-chairing the conference. Within the context of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) III, the ASCC 2011 conference brought together scholars from 19 of the 21...

Integrated Model of the Competitive Higher Education: Legal, Economic and Psycho-pedagogical Aspects

In the era of digitization and globalization, national higher education systems face a number of challenges of the exogenous nature. Intensification of the competition in the educational services market necessitates the search for new ways of increasing the level of the competitiveness of universities and higher education systems as a whole. Development of theoretical, methodological and applie...

Regional Port Productivity in APEC

The regional growth of the goods and services trade has placed greater pressure on the ports of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members, especially in the developing countries. The purpose of this study is to apply the generalized metafrontier Malmquist productivity index (gMMPI) to compare the port productivity of developed countries (DCs) and developing countries (LDCs) in APEC. ...

Apec as an International Institution