The raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides experienced an active introduction and acclimatization in the European part of Russia followed by its migration to and colonization in the neighboring countries. Eventually, it has spread rapidly into many European countries. N. procyonoides probably invaded Lithuania from the neighboring countries of Belarus and Latvia where the species was introduced. ...

This paper examines the direct and spillover effects of exchange rate on foreign investment (FDI) inflows in a panel ASEAN countries from 2001 to 2018. We utilize spatial econometric approach accommodate nature dependence among countries. Our results suggest that effect depends source-region FDI, implying existence heterogeneity ASEAN’s FDI. also show FDI are not only influenced by country itse...

the results showed success of the health system to detect suspected cases of the measles and appropriate sampling from suspected cases that were more than expected. in addition, per every one million population of iran in 2014, 1.27 of cases of measles were reported; that a numbers of confirmed cases observed in afghan refugees. low levels of immunization coverage in eastern neighboring countri...

Sudan is a sanctuary for many neighboring countries such as south Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Chad and Egypt. There are four million foreigners in the country 40 per cent of population Khartoum State foreigners, including 60,000 illegal residents

I use the first-time enforcement of insider trading laws in sixteen countries as a shock to enforcement and examine its influence on timely loss recognition (TLR). Consistent with greater enforcement increasing the usefulness of accounting information in contracts and thereby the demand for higher quality reporting, insider trading enforcement is associated with a significant increase in TLR. N...

This paper estimates switching autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (SWARCH) time series models for weekly returns of nine Asian forward exchange rates. We find two regimes with different volatility levels, whereby each regime displays considerable persistence. Our analysis provides evidence that the knock-on effects from China’s currency forwards markets upon other Asian countries hav...