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Does shareholder activism help or hinder shareholder value enhancement? : empirical evidence from the UK [PDF]
, 2009 Shareholder activism has increasingly become a widespread value enhancement strategy for institutional investors in the UK. However, thus far only one paper has reported a clinical study to analyse its impact on target firms (Becht et al, 2008) in ...
Broadhurst, Timothy
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Activated: Decentering activism in and with academia [PDF]
Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2021 Who is an activist? With the advent of activism-related scholarship in HCI and CSCW, the current challenge involves thinking about what activism is, who an activist is, and the opportunities and limitations of activism. Recently, researchers in academia and industry, such as Timnit Gebru, demonstrate a commitment to stay activated for the structural ...
Minha Lee +4 more
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Caution (Creative Intervention)
Studies in Social Justice, 2020 N ...
Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective
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Youth Work, Music Making and Activism
Youth, 2023 Music making holds great potential for youth activism. When combined with youth work, that potential is significantly heightened. This article applies Kuttner’s framework for justice-oriented cultural citizens to data gleaned from five youth workers ...
Frances Howard
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Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]
, 2008 African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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We the People... (Creative Intervention)
Studies in Social Justice, 2020 N ...
Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective
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“Not quite the struggle of normatives”: Belonging and entitlement in Swedish “body activism”
Nordicom Review, 2022 A “body activism” movement, with roots in fat activism and body positivity, has developed in Sweden during the last decade. As new forms of activism emerge, boundaries and approaches are being negotiated. Who is the movement for?
Sveningsson Malin +2 more
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To Activate or Not to Activate [PDF]
Circulation Research, 2013 In a recent study, Watanabe et al identify a novel enhancer in the fgf10 locus that is necessary and sufficient for expression in anterior second heart field. Their results suggest a competitive mechanism in which Isl1 and Nkx2-5 bind the enhancer to activate or repress this enhancer, respectively.
Cornelis J, Boogerd, Sylvia M, Evans
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Role of No-Voting shareholder activism in corporate governance in a developing Arab country [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2019 Because of agency conflict in firms with dispersed ownership, governance mechanisms to mitigate this agency cost, such as shareholders’ active monitoring of the firm’s management, have been developed.
Ali Mohamed Albakoush, Zuaini Ishak
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Activate or Not: Learning Customized Activation [PDF]
2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 We present a simple, effective, and general activation function we term ACON which learns to activate the neurons or not. Interestingly, we find Swish, the recent popular NAS-searched activation, can be interpreted as a smooth approximation to ReLU. Intuitively, in the same way, we approximate the more general Maxout family to our novel ACON family ...
Ningning Ma +3 more
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