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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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AudioPairBank: towards a large-scale tag-pair-based audio content analysis
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2018 Recently, sound recognition has been used to identify sounds, such as the sound of a car, or a river. However, sounds have nuances that may be better described by adjective-noun pairs such as “slow car” and verb-noun pairs such as “flying insects,” which
Sebastian Säger +5 more
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Les noms sous-spécifiés anaphoriques résomptifs vs leur équivalent prototypique dans les constructions spécificationnelles attributives : comparaison dans un corpus diversifié en genres [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 Shell nouns (Schmid 2000) are abstract nouns like problem or result, which have the potential to “encapsulate” a portion of text either cataphorically (The problem is that + Propositional content) or anaphorically (Propositional content, this problem…)
Anaïs Vajnovszki
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson +2 more
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COMBINATORIAL SET OF LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL CLASSES OF NOUNS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The article focuses on the changes of nouns, the lexico-grammatical features of which make it impossible to refer them to a specific lexico-grammatical class.
Mariya L. Lapteva, Natalya V. Lukina
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STRATEGI PEMARKAHAN KEDEFINITAN DALAM BAHASA INDONESIA/DEFINITENESS MARKING STRATEGIES IN INDONESIAN
Aksara, 2021 Abstrak Bahasa Indonesia tidak memiliki pemarkah kedefinitan yang khusus. Namun, bahasa Indonesia memiliki sejumlah kata yang dapat berfungsi sebagai pemarkah nomina.
Ketut Widya Purnawati +2 more
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Climate‐Related Disclosure and Bank Performance: Does Bank Type Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether climate‐related disclosure (CRD) affects the financial performance of conventional banks (CBs) and Islamic banks (IBs) differently. Using a unique hand‐collected dataset on CRD for 591 banks (422 CBs and 169 IBs) from 24 countries over a 4‐year period, we examine how the relationship between CRD and financial ...
Rasim Simsek +2 more
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The Usefulness of the Definitions of Abstract Nouns in OALD7 and NODE [PDF]
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2008 The paper presents a study aiming at comparing the usefulness of the definitions of abstract nouns in a pedagogical dictionary (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, OALD7) and a nativespeaker dictionary of English (The 8ew Oxford Dictionary of English, NODE).
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Revisiting the Latin Vocabulary of Terminologia Histologica: II. Adjectives and Participles
Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Terminologia Histologica, the international standard nomenclature of human histology and cytology, contains 1093 Latin words that appear to be used as adjectives. Among these, we identified 56 (5%) with a variety of linguistic issues, including typographical or spelling errors, less favored spelling variants, and several unfortunate word ...
Paul E. Neumann +7 more
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Agreement with conjoined singular noun phrases in Icelandic
Glossa, 2019 This article presents results from a study on agreement with conjoined singular noun phrases in Icelandic. A survey was conducted to elicit agreement choices on two agreement targets (predicate adjectives and personal pronouns) with agreement controllers
Thorbjorg Thorvaldsdóttir
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