Kerstens, Kristiaan Shen, Zhiyang
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This contribution defines short- and long-run output- and input-oriented plant capacity measures and evaluates them relative to convex and nonconvex technologies. By applying these different plant capacity concepts, the authors seek to measure the use of existing capacities, as well as the evolution and build-up of extra hospital capacity in the Ch...
Louhichi, Waël Ftiti, Zied Ameur, Hachmi Ben
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This study measures the global economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. This pandemic is characterized by demand and supply shocks, leading to restrictions on trade, product and service transactions, and capital flow mobility. We investigate its impact on currency markets, stock market performance, and investor fear sentiment. We employ an empi...
Iheanachor, Nkemdilim Umukoro, Immanuel Ovemeso David-West, Olayinka
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This study investigates the impact of product development practices on the performance of new financial products and services through the analysis of ten in-depth case studies. We argue that weak product development practices negatively affect product performance. This study finds that in Nigeria, new financial product performance is suboptimal bec...
Lee, Sang M. Lee, DonHee
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This study examines the opportunities and challenges involved with contactless healthcare services in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. First, we reviewed the literature to analyze contactless or contact-free healthcare services that have been utilized in pre-and during the COVID-19 pandemic periods. Then, we interviewed medical experts and hospital ...
Jha, Srinidhi Goyal, Manish Kumar Gupta, Brij Gupta, Anil Kumar
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This study investigates the influence of climate variables (pressure, relative humidity, temperature and wind speed) in inducing risk due to COVID 19 at rural, urban and total (rural and urban) population scale in 623 pandemic affected districts of India incorporating the socioeconomic vulnerability factors. We employed nonstationary extreme value ...
Mat Daud, Auni Aslah
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
This short research note describes and summarizes several recent peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed studies on the concept of flattening-the-curve (FTC) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This note also highlights contradictory findings of these studies in terms of the effect of FTC on the total number of infections (the final epidemic size)...
Baudier, Patricia Kondrateva, Galina Ammi, Chantal Chang, Victor Schiavone, Francesco
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Technological forecasting and social change
In recent months, humanity has had to deal with a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19, which has caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzed the global economy. Struggling to cure infected patients while continuing to care for patients with other pathologies, health authorities have faced the lack of medical staff and infrastru...
Margherita, Alessandro Elia, Gianluca Klein, Mark
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
The global outbreak of the coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) showed how epidemics today can spread very rapidly, with potentially ruinous impact on economies and societies. Whereas medical research is crucial to define effective treatment protocols, technology innovation and social research can contribute by defining effective approaches to emergenc...
SECUNDO, Giustina MELE, Gioconda VECCHIO, Pasquale Del ELIA, Gianluca MARGHERITA, Alessandro NDOU, Valentina
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
The COVID-19 crisis has forced universities worldwide to seek urgent solutions to reconfigure traditional education programs for distance learning. The transformation process faces a number of complexities deriving from both institutional and contextual factors. It may generate threats and as well as opportunities to enhance the education system an...
Luo, Jianxi
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Technological Forecasting and Social Change
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many efforts to forecast infection cases, deaths, and courses of development, using a variety of mechanistic, statistical, or time-series models. Some forecasts have influenced policies in some countries. However, forecasting future developments in the pandemic is fundamentally challenged by the...
