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How Climate Change Shapes Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Performance in the MENA Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad, Alanoud Al‐Maadid, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali   +2 more
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Cultural Echoes: How World’s Famous Wars Shaped George Lucas’s Star Wars Saga

Language, Culture, Politics
This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the profound connections between George Lucas’s Star Wars saga and several major historical military conflicts, specifically the American Civil War, the Second World War, and the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Iryna Biskub, Wojciech Żołnacz
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Peace and Inclusive Governance in Sustainable Development: Strengthening Institutions and Environmental Services

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16) emphasizes peace, justice, and strong institutions as essential foundations for sustainable development. This study adopts a desktop‐based qualitative research approach to examine how institutional quality and governance systems influence progress toward SDG 16 and broader development outcomes.
Maryem Souiai, Hind Alkhowar, Haya Al‐Obaidli, Moza Al‐Muhannadi, Noora Alkhelaifi, Maythaa Al‐Kubaisi, Najlaa Al‐Khayareen, Shooq Al‐Sahoti, John N. Hahladakis   +8 more
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The Impact of Civil Wars in Iraq and Syria on Middle East Security Complex (2011-2015) [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2016
Middle East is a region in which conflict and disintegration is much more prevalent than integration and cooperation. Meanwhile, current civil wars in Iraq and Syria have effected regional security complex in the region.
Seyd Amir Niakoee, Ali Asghar Sotodeh
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Five Lessons From a Decade of Sustainable Development Goals Policy Traction

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda deadline looms, the gap between political commitments and operational outcomes is widening. While previous studies offer fragmented diagnoses, holistic lessons derived from a decade of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation remain lacking. To address this gap, we examine 60 countries'
Volkan Göçoğlu, Elifnur Düzsöz, Prajal Pradhan   +2 more
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Civil War and Intervention in Russia and the Russian North: Current and Debatable Problems

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2018
The article is devoted to the analysis of the current position in the history and historiography of the Civil War in Russia and the Russian North in connection with the centenary of these events.
Vladislav Goldin
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani, Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Giuseppe Carignani   +2 more
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Civil war theory testing: How greed, horizontal inequalities, and institutions explain the Yemeni civil war between 2004 and 2009?

Köz-gazdaság, 2019
This article applies a comparative design to test the explanatory power of formal quantitative models of civil war. It examines the grievance, horizontal inequalities, and institutional models of civil war through the case study of the Yemeni civil war ...
Júlia Palik
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Balancing Accuracy and Cost: Trade‐Offs in Large Language Model Quantization for the Systems Engineering Domain

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed within the systems engineering domain, optimizing these models to balance performance accuracy and cost for given computational resources becomes essential. One process for finding the right balance is quantization, a process that involves converting model parameters from higher ...
Ryan Bell, Raymond Madachy, Ryan Longshore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Baselining Large Language Model Performance in Systems Engineering Using SysEngBench

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), large language model s (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating natural language. However, their proficiency in specialized domains, particularly in the field of systems engineering (SE), remains less explored and unquantified.
Ryan Bell, Ryan Longshore, Raymond Madachy, Ashlyn Hanrahan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source