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Assessing Climate Change Disclosure and Its Governance Drivers: Insights From the European Utilities Sector

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to enhance academic understanding of the factors influencing the disclosure practices of climate change among European utility companies, specifically in the context of their sustainability reporting. The primary objective is to explore, through a multi‐theoretical framework, the governance drivers that significantly affect the
Cristina Boţa‐Avram, Adriana Tiron Tudor, Liana Stanca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Efficient Numerical Technique for Solving Time-Fractional Generalized Fisher's Equation

Frontiers in Physics, 2020
This paper extends the existing Fisher's equation by adding the source term and generalizing the degree β of the non-linear part. A numerical solution of a modified Fisher's equation for different values of β using the cubic B-spline collocation scheme ...
Abdul Majeed, Mohsin Kamran, Muhammad Abbas, Jagdev Singh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plant diversity estimates of Mediterranean islands differ among biodiversity databases

Ecography, EarlyView.
Large‐scale biodiversity databases encompass three main types of data for plants, namely single species point occurrences, co‐occurrences in vegetation plots, and checklists for specific areas. Evidence shows that such data types exhibit specific biases, reporting different species assemblages at local scales.
Francesco Santi, Julian Schrader, Riccardo Testolin, Michele Di Musciano, Olivier Argagnon, Fabio Attorre, Irena Axmanová, Federico Bombardi, Gianmaria Bonari, Vanessa Bruzzaniti, Juan Antonio Campos, Johannes Foufopoulos, Emmanuel Garbolino, Riccardo Guarino, Behlül Güler, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Lea Klepka, Holger Kreft, Michele Lussu, Corrado Marcenò, Frédéric Médail, Maria Panitsa, Salvatore Pasta, Sofia Prandelli, Diletta Santovito, Željko Škvorc, Enrico Tordoni, Kiril Vassilev, Marlene Volz, Piero Zannini, Alessandro Chiarucci   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extension of Cubic B-Spline for Solving the Time-Fractional Allen–Cahn Equation in the Context of Mathematical Physics

Computation
A B-spline is defined by the degree and quantity of knots, and it is observed to provide a higher level of flexibility in curve and surface layout. The extended cubic B-spline (ExCBS) functions with new approximation for second derivative and finite ...
Mubeen Fatima, Ravi P. Agarwal, Muhammad Abbas, Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed, Madiha Shafiq, Nejmeddine Chorfi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Fractional SIRC Model with Salmonella Bacterial Infection

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014
We propose a fractional order SIRC epidemic model to describe the dynamics of Salmonella bacterial infection in animal herds. The infection-free and endemic steady sates, of such model, are asymptotically stable under some conditions.
Fathalla A. Rihan, Dumitru Baleanu, S. Lakshmanan, R. Rakkiyappan   +3 more
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Fractional Almost Kahler - Lagrange Geometry

, 2010
The goal of this paper is to encode equivalently the fractional Lagrange dynamics as a nonholonomic almost Kahler geometry. We use the fractional Caputo derivative generalized for nontrivial nonlinear connections (N-connections) originally introduced in ...
Baleanu, Dumitru, Vacaru, Sergiu I.
core   +1 more source

Appraising Policies Through Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation: Lessons From a Systematic Review of Applications

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to renewed interest in analytical tools that address complex policy problems and move beyond linear‐rational approaches in policy appraisal, Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) integrates participatory approaches with multi‐criteria analysis (MCA), thereby incorporating specialised knowledge and diverse social values and ...
Egle Basyte Ferrari
wiley   +1 more source

All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Consumers' valuation for cultured meat: A multi‐city choice experiment in China

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the rising interest in cultured meat, there remains scant information on whether consumers would value it. This study evaluated consumers' willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for cultured chicken and examined how information affects WTP. Using a choice experiment with a total of 571 samples, the results found that consumers are unwilling to pay a
Rao Yuan, Daniele Asioli, Shaosheng Jin, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reachability and Controllability of Fractional Singular Dynamical Systems with Control Delay

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2013
This paper is concerned with the reachability and controllability of fractional singular dynamical systems with control delay. The factors of such systems including the Caputo’s fractional derivative, control delay, and singular coefficient matrix are ...
Hai Zhang, Jinde Cao, Wei Jiang
doaj   +1 more source