THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NATURAL RESOURCE RENTS IN THE BRICS ECONOMIES: EVIDENCE FROM GMM PANEL VAR

By employing the GMM panel VAR framework, we examine the interplay among natural resource rents, technological innovation, financial development, and energy consumption in the BRICS from 1990 to 2020 on an annual basis.The findings of the study demonstrate a significant negative association between natural resources and technical innovation, as wel

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in heightened stress, anxiety, and depression in doctors.This research was undertaken during the lockdown period in Mumbai to study the differences in perceptions of the various concerns related to the pandemic, viz., concerns related to area of residence, workplace, personal, and educational and stress fa

The present research featured a functional comparative analysis of egocentric language units in contemporary Russian translated narratives, namely six Russian translations of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The study was based on parallel corpora within the Russian National Corpus and a set of digitized translations.The research objective was to prese

Background: The use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining has negative effects on human health and the environment.In Suriname, the current gold rush resulted in estimated mercury emissions up to 63t per year.To reduce the use of mercury and the subsequent health impact to gold miners and local inhabitants, knowledge and awareness in