Electric vehicles are an important part of governments’ environmental policies, and therefore understanding the factors affecting their market share is very important. So, this research designed to investigate electric vehicle adoption, considering effects COVID-19 pandemic sustainable development level. Effective have been investigated in three categories. One characteristics vehicles; other i...

We consider the problem of outsourcing warranty repairs to outside vendors when items have priorities in service. The manufacturer has a contract with a fixed number of repair vendors. The manufacturer pays a fixed fee for each repair done by a vendor which is independent of the repair type and priority class but depends on the vendor. There are a fixed number of items under warranty, and each ...

The objective of this paper is to study empirically the cyclical behaviour fiscal policies in CEMAC. According literature, are pro-cyclical developing countries. Two main arguments put forward: borrowing constraints during economic downturns; and irrational governments, which do not save enough booms because political pressure groups. Over period 1992 2012, using ordinary least double squares o...

Recent findings of authorship criteria violations in the manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica show that almost 40% of authors do not meet necessary criteria for authorship and thus indicate the need for better dissemination of editorial policy on authorship in our journal. We believe that such cases are mostly due to the authors’ unawareness or the lack of understanding of the authorship c...

Like Archimedes who demanded a place to stand so that he could move the Earth, scientific journals also need a firm point to stand on. We use this example because it stresses the importance of determining the journal’s specific research field by editorial policies. One of the basic strategies for medical journals is to define their scope, which helps them to target specific readership, attract ...

Statistical significance tests (SSTs) have been the object of much controversy among social scientists. Proponents have hailed SSTs as an objective means for minimizing the likelihood that chance factors have contributed to research results; critics have both questioned the logic underlying SSTs and bemoaned the widespread misapplication and misinterpretation of the results of these tests. The ...

During the early 2000s governments in Russia, Poland and Hungary declared demographic crises adopted pro-natalist programmes to increase fertility, as well policies support families with children. Our article compares their ‘flagship’ programmes: Russia’s Maternity Capital, Poland’s Family 500+, Hungary’s enhanced earned income tax credit, all framed by governments’ neo-familialist discourses. ...