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Optimal risk financing in large corporations through insurance captives [PDF]
A captive is an insurance or reinsurance company established by a parent group to finance its own risks. Captives mix internal risk pooling between the business units of the parent group and risk transfer toward the reinsurance market.
Jean Pinquet, Pierre Picard
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The fashion industry is facing unprecedented structural pressures, including increasing regulatory demands and rising expectations for social accountability. This study examines how global fashion supply chains respond to such pressures to advance sustainability.
Diletta Tosetto +2 more
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore the different phases of social media influencers in firm‐based marketing campaigns using a content analysis. The authors categorized the existing studies into twenty (20) major themes of social media influencers in consumer engagement by considering the analytical framework of Maciel and Fischer ...
Prakash Singh +2 more
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Graphene Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications: A Contemporary Perspective
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Graphene has garnered significant attention as a promising material with great potential for contributing to sustainable energy initiatives, such as RE100 (100% renewable energy initiative) and CF100 (100% carbon‐free initiative). This review aims to explore the potential of graphene for advancing renewable energy applications by highlighting
Niraj Kumar +3 more
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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Illuminating Olympicenes: Insights Into Anti‐Kasha Photophysics in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.Compact olympicene‐based chromophores reveal unexpectedly rich excited‐state behavior, including dual fluorescence, excitation‐dependent emission, and anti‐Kasha‐type emission. Tunable locally excited and intramolecular charge‐transfer states emerge from subtle structural changes, expanding the design rules for polycyclic aromatic chromophores and ...
Wenlong Li +5 more
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The life and work of Ernest Sydney Keeping
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract This article reviews the life and contributions of Ernest S. Keeping (1895–1984), a British‐born physicist who became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta in 1929. He played a pivotal role in shaping the university's Mathematics Department, serving as its head from 1954 to 1961, and continuing to teach until 1970, nine years ...
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Procession of captives (c. 1540)
, 2015 El testimonio dado por María de Saavedra, en el proceso de beatificación de Fernando Contreras, nos permite documentar las procesiones de cautivos en la Sevilla de la primera mitad del siglo XVI.The testimony given by María de Saavedra, in the process of
Ruiz Jiménez, Juan; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Granada
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