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Enhancing Drone Light Shows Performances: Optimal Allocation and Trajectories for Swarm Drone Formations

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drone light shows (DLShows) represent a rapidly growing application of swarm robotics, creating captivating aerial displays through the synchronized flight of hundreds or thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as environmentally friendly and reusable alternatives to traditional pyrotechnics.
Yunes Alqudsi
wiley   +1 more source

Drop by Drop: The Impact of Green Certifications on Attributed Improvement in Corporate Water Efficiency

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Complexity of Optimization over the Standard Simplex [PDF]

open access: yes
We review complexity results for minimizing polynomials over the standard simplex and unit hypercube.In addition, we show that there exists a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for minimizing Lipschitz continuous functions and functions with ...
Klerk, E. de   +2 more
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Measuring Institutional Work in Sustainability Reporting: Scale Development and Validation in the Oil and Gas Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has gained significant importance in assessing and enhancing organisational sustainability performance. However, there has been limited focus on how sustainability reporting managers (SRMs) perceive and engage in the institutional work that underpins reporting practices.
Hania Rehman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Escaping the Regional Carbon Trap: The Role of Renewable Energy Innovation in EU Decarbonisation

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The persistence of carbon‐intensive development pathways continues to hinder progress towards climate neutrality, especially in regions where industrial legacies, infrastructural inertia, and institutional rigidities reinforce emissions.
Kingsley Imandojemu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing to multiple tunes: Establishing legitimacy with first‐time and repeat backers in crowdfunding campaigns

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Using 14,108 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns, we examine three strategies to gather support from first‐time versus repeat backers: narrative distinctiveness aligning with backers' expectations of novelty, endorsement from Kickstarter staff, and campaign leadership's reciprocity of funding other campaigns.
Stephanie Hepp   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new operator of Bernstein type

open access: yesJournal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory, 1987
A positive linear operator is considered which generalize Bernstein's operator. The authors give an easy constructive process and they prove some monotony properties and convexity preserving. Some convergence theorems are given and estimates of the remainder are established.
G. Mastroianni, M. R. Occorsio
openaire   +3 more sources

Why theory matters for causal inference? Rethinking endogeneity in entrepreneurship research

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Endogeneity in entrepreneurship research is often treated as a statistical complication addressable through advanced econometric tools. This commentary argues that such an approach overlooks a deeper issue: endogeneity is conceptual before it is statistical.
Daniel Tzabbar
wiley   +1 more source

Experimentation on a leash: How stakeholder influence shapes entrepreneurial experimentation across the venture lifecycle

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Prior studies have often conceptualized entrepreneurial experimentation as an activity over which founders exert a high amount of discretion in decision‐making. However, the locus of control over experimentation programs is dynamic, shifting with varying external stakeholder influence and venture growth. This paper proposes an
Hyeonsuh Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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