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ComputationA 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 +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have increasingly sought to strengthen their sustainability commitment and reporting practices, particularly in industries with significant environmental and social impacts, such as fashion. The completeness and quality of sustainability reporting are central to European policy.
Daniela Preite +2 more
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Consumer‐Orientation Effects in Sustainable Beer Valuation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether consumers' valuation of a product‐level sustainability claim differs according to their beer‐consumption orientation. Using a discrete choice experiment with 1046 Spanish beer consumers, we estimate conditional logit and panel mixed logit models to analyse willingness to pay for a sustainability claim in beer.
Ángel Sabino Mirón Sanguino +3 more
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Derivative actions in China [PDF]
, 2014 The enactment of derivative action was expected to be actively used by shareholders to protect their interests. In fact, it turned out that this reform effort seemed futile as the right to engage in such actions was rarely exercised.
Lin, Shaowei
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Cellular aging associated with telomeric shortening plays an important role in female fertility. In addition to natural decline, due to the loss of telomeric repeats during cell division, other factors such oxidative stress (OS), accelerate telomere ...
García Velasco, Juan Antonio +2 more
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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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
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Entropy, 2018 This paper introduces a general solution of singular fractional-order linear-time invariant (FoLTI) continuous systems using the Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) based on the Caputo's definition of the fractional-order derivative.
Iqbal M. Batiha +3 more
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Complexity, 2020 In this paper, we investigate a class of fractional-order time-varying delays gene regulatory networks with structured uncertainties and controllers (DFGRNs).
Zhaohua Wu, Zhiming Wang, Tiejun Zhou
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between board independence and corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. Based on legitimacy theory, we conducted a structured literature review of 167 archival studies to analyze the influence of board independence on CSR performance and reporting.
Patrick Velte
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