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An open-source approach for measuring corporate impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity

Communications Earth & Environment
Existing approaches to evaluating companies on sustainability-related issues include limited accounting of impacts on nature and its contributions to human well-being.
Lisa Mandle, Andrew Shea, Emily Soth, Jesse A. Goldstein, Stacie Wolny, Jeffrey R. Smith, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Richard P. Sharp, Mayur Patel   +8 more
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Thresholds for clinical practice that directly link handgrip strength to remaining years of life: estimates based on longitudinal observational data

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength (HGS). What is missing for clinical practice, however, are empirically meaningful cut-off points that apply to ...
Sergei Scherbov, Sonja Spitzer, Nadia Steiber   +2 more
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Global capital flows and financing constraints [PDF]

Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease the financing constraints of host country firms.
Harrison, Ann E., Love, Inessa, McMillan, Margaret S.   +2 more
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Survival and Years of Good Life in Finland in the very long run

Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2020
In this paper we apply the recently developed wellbeing indicator ‘Years of Good Life’ (YoGL) to Finland, which has the world’s longest annual demographic time series starting in 1722. We combine this with scenarios up to 2100 as developed under the SSP (
Claudia Reiter, Wolfgang Lutz
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HOW WELL DOES SATELLITE FINE MODE AEROSOL PRODUCT VALIDATE WITH GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS FOR MODIS AND HIMAWARI-8? [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
Currently, the validation of MODIS and Himawari-8 aerosol products mostly focuses on AOD, but the validation of their fine mode aerosol data is limited. In this paper, 22 AERONET sites in Asia from 2015 to 2016 were selected to validate the MODIS and the
J. Jin, J. Jin, J. Jin, X. Yang, C. Liang, C. Liang, W. Zhao, Z. Li, Z. Li, X. Yan, X. Yan   +10 more
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Towards reviving post-Olympic Athens as a cultural destination [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the effects of global change on the status and qualities of the Greek national capital, Athens, focusing on how they affect the development of cultural tourism in the city.
Alevizopoulou M., Apostolopoulos Y., Arksey H., Asprogerakas E., Denzin N. K., Georgios Boustras, Glaser B. G., Graham B., Hall C. M., King N., Koutoulas D., Leontidou L., Leontidou L., Maitland R., McKercher B., Meethan K., Miles M., Morgan N., Nikolaos Boukas, Papageorgiou-Venetas A., Shaw G., Theobald W. F., Van der Borg J., Vassilios Ziakas, Weed M., Wickens E., Yin R. K.   +26 more
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Global Sourcing under Imperfect Capital Markets [PDF]

We develop a simple model to study the interactions between a supplier’s financial constraints and contract incompleteness in a vertical relationship. Production complexity increases the extent of contract incompleteness and the hold-up problem, which ...
Carluccio, J., Fally, T.
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An audit of corporate decarbonisation ambition against low carbon futures

Scientific Reports
Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration has been steadily increasing since the 19th century, causing global warming. Despite efforts to reduce emissions, current projections anticipate a significant increase in global surface temperature by the end of ...
Iain Weaver, Jesse F. Abrams, Jack Oliver, Nikolaos Dimakis, Andrew Parry, Timothy M. Lenton   +5 more
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Global unions: chasing the dream or building the reality? [PDF]

, 2010
This article takes as its theme the global restructuring of capital and its impact on worker organization. It argues for a reassertion of class in any analysis of global solidarity, and assesses the opportunities and barriers to effective global ...
Castree N., Compa L., Eade D., Fitzgerald I, Gallin D., Herod A., Hyman R., Hyman R., Lee E., Linkon S., Mason P., Miller D., Papadakis K, Russo J., Stirling J., Waldinger R., Walker S., Waterman P., Wills J   +18 more
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Cohort fertility and educational expansion in the Czech Republic during the 20th century

Demographic Research, 2018
Background: During the 20th century the Czech Republic went through profound changes in female employment, gender roles, population and family policies, and public childcare. The educational structure of the female population changed tremendously. At the
Krystof Zeman
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