Globally, 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) were generated in 2016, about 37% which was disposed into landfills. This study evaluates the environmental and financial viability producing ethanol from autoclaved MSW via fermentation. Experimental screening four different microorganisms (i.e., S. cerevisiae, Z. mobilis, E. coli, pombe) process modelling indicate that MSW-derived c...

Real property tax belongs to traditional taxes, often imposed as a local tax. The same applies V4 countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland), however, the budgetary significance of its revenues differs across these states and so does their approach regulation. In this research article, authors deeper analyse in particular terms selected criteria (ratio GDP, other total government), t...

BACKGROUND Medical records are kept in the interest of both the patient and clinician. Proper filing of patient's medical records ensures easy retrieval and contributes to decreased patient waiting time at the hospital and continuity of care. This paper reports on an intervention study to address the issue of misfiling and multiple patient folders in a health facility. DESIGN Intervention stu...

We explore, for the first time in literature, how revenues of ship management companies respond to macroeconomic exogenous shocks. Using data ship-management Cyprus, we find evidence that a demand shock has largest impact on revenues, exhibiting an almost one-for-one relationship. If is permanent, observe ceteris paribus permanent effect revenues. Similarly, this occurs irrespective final relev...

Sewage is a kind of ideal low-temperature heat sources. Sewage heat source pump system uses heat energy in sewage, and it is a method of utilizing sewage resources. In this article we analyze sewage’s characteristics and sewage source heat pump system; introduce its practical applications in sewage treatment plants in China, analyze its technical and economic characteristics, and discuss its ap...

Municipal bond markets experienced a significant amount of strain in response to the COVID-19 crisis, creating liquidity and credit concerns among market participants. During economic shutdown resulting from pandemic, income tax revenues were deferred sales decreased beginning spring 2020, while cost borrowing significantly increased for municipal issuers. To aid needs, Federal Reserve implemen...

Incumbent malfeasance is a major challenge in many developing democracies. Our model suggests that electoral accountability requires a media market structure incentivizing local media to report incumbent malfeasance. We test the model’s implications in Mexico, leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in the pre-election release of municipal audits revealing misallocated spending and greater acc...