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Imputing Human Descriptions in Semantic Biometrics [PDF]

, 2010
Human identification at a distance has received significant interest due to the ever increasing surveillance infrastructure. Biometrics such as face and gait offer a suitable physical attribute to uniquely identify people from a distance.
Nixon, Mark, Reid, Daniel
core   +2 more sources

ESG Uncertainty in Supply Chains: How Rating Divergence Shapes Buyer–Supplier Trade Credit

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncertainty in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings has raised concerns about the reliability of sustainability evaluations and their consequences for interfirm relationships. Although prior research has highlighted firm‐level financial outcomes of ESG rating divergence, little is known about its implications for buyer–supplier ...
Liukai Wang, Na A., Yu Gong, Steve Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Soft biometrics; human identification using comparative descriptions

, 2014
Soft biometrics are a new form of biometric identification which use physical or behavioral traits that can be naturally described by humans. Unlike other biometric approaches, this allows identification based solely on verbal descriptions, bridging the ...
Reid, Daniel, Nixon, Mark S., Stevenage, Sarah V.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Managerial Conflicts of Interest: Heterogeneous Sustainability Outcomes Through Actions Directed at Primary and Secondary Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether firms' sustainability actions aimed at serving multiple stakeholders lead to similar or differing sustainability outcomes depending on the manager's stakeholder focus. It proposes a conceptual framework distinguishing between primary and secondary stakeholders, wherein managers can face conflicts of interest ...
Felix B. Fischer, Paul A. Griffin, Florian Habermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MARTT: Using Induced Knowledge Base to Automatically Mark up Plant Taxonomic Descriptions with XML [PDF]

, 2005
Despite the sub-language nature of taxonomic descriptions of plants, researchers warned about the large variations among different collections of descriptions in terms of information contents and presentations. These variations impose a serious challenge
Cui, Hong
core   +1 more source

On pro-isomorphic zeta functions of D*-groups of even Hirsch length

Israel Journal of Mathematics
The pro-isomorphic zeta function of a finitely generated nilpotent group is a Dirichlet generating series that enumerates all finite-index subgroups whose profinite completion is isomorphic to that of the ambient group.
Mark N. Berman, B. Klopsch, U. Onn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Standard comparison of local mental health care systems in eight European countries

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2017
Aims. There is a need of more quantitative standardised data to compare local Mental Health Systems (MHSs) across international jurisdictions. Problems related to terminological variability and commensurability in the evaluation of services hamper like ...
M. Gutiérrez-Colosía, L. Salvador-Carulla, J. Salinas-Pérez, C. García-Alonso, Jordi Cid, D. Salazzari, I. Montagni, F. Tedeschi, Gaia Cetrano, K. Chevreul, J. Kalseth, G. Hagmair, C. Straßmayr, A. Park, R. Sfectu, Taina Ala-Nikkola, J. González-Caballero, L. Rabbi, B. Kalseth, F. Amaddeo   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainability and Scope: A Comparative Study of Discretion Making for Sustainability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The measurability of sustainability is a subject of ongoing debate. Discretion is an important antecedent to such valuation yet remains largely unaddressed. Thus, we conduct a cross‐case study of four organizations, finding differences between product and service firms in how they define their sustainability discretion, which is shaped by and,
Annabelle Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Slipping and fluidisation in active crystalline rotors.

Soft Matter
In equilibrium, commensurability between sliding surfaces underpins our understanding of nanoscale friction and yielding in crystals. However, these concepts have only recently begun to be imported into the realm of active matter.
Abraham Mauleon-Amieva, T. Liverpool, I. Williams, Anton Souslov, C. P. Royall   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainability‐Related Credit Risk: A Scientometric Mapping and Research Agenda

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability‐related credit‐risk research has grown rapidly as environmental, social, and governance (ESG), climate, and transition exposures increasingly affect credit pricing, default risk, and supervisory practice, positioning credit markets as key transmission channels for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly ...
Imen Jellouli, Sana Jellouli
wiley   +1 more source