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Staphylococcus aureus proteins Sbi and Efb recruit human plasmin to degrade complement C3 and C3b [PDF]

, 2012
Upon host infection, the human pathogenic microbe Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) immediately faces innate immune reactions such as the activated complement system. Here, a novel innate immune evasion strategy of S. aureus is described.
Peter F. Zipfel, Christine Skerka, Kraiczy, Peter, Michael Reuter, Reuter, Michael, Skerka, Christine, Barthel, Diana, Diana Barthel, Koch, Tina K., Elsen, Jean van den, Böhm, Sascha, Zipfel, Peter F., Jean van den Elsen, Peter Kraiczy, Tina K Koch, Sascha Böhm, Peter F Zipfel, Tina K. Koch   +17 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, Lucio Masserini, Zeila Occhipinti, Roberto Verona   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Nonfinancial Reporting to Management Control: A GRI‐Based Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The integration of sustainability into strategic management systems has shifted from a reporting‐oriented exercise to a challenge of implementation, control, and accountability. Although the SBSC is widely acknowledged as a suitable framework to embed environmental and social objectives into strategy execution, its practical application ...
Piedad Ortiz‐Fernández, Belén Payán‐Sánchez, Eva Carmona‐Moreno   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Control in Romanian and Se constructions

Isogloss
In this paper, we account for different patterns found in complement clauses of se constructions in Romanian and Spanish. In Romanian, a se construction cannot host an infinitival complement, an apparently controlled clause, whereas in Spanish a se ...
Katie VanDyne, Jonathan E. MacDonald
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Collaborating for Circularity: A Relational View Perspective on Buyer–Supplier Relationships in Restorative and Regenerative Supply Chains

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial firms are required to redesign their supply chains into restorative and regenerative archetypes, rethinking not only their own production systems but also relationships with suppliers that may possess resources, capabilities, and knowledge too complex to be developed on their own but vital for circular value creation.
Francesco Cafforio, Giovanni Franceco Massari, Ilaria Giannoccaro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complementizers kad and jog(ei) ‘that’ in the 19th century Lithuanian fiction texts

Lietuvių Kalba
The paper examines the functions of the complementizers kad and jog(ei) ‘that’ in the 19th-century Lithuanian fiction texts. In Lithuanian grammars, the examined complementizers are described as asemantic, i.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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En torno a los complementos dobles o complejos

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013
In this article we try to analyse a specific kind of place complement which is combined with motion verbs. We deal with a double place complement which consist of two members, source and goal, and that is analysed as a single complement or function.We ...
María Victorina Crego García
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How Firms ‘Speak’ Social: Disclosure Posture as a Stable Strategic Communication Construct in ESG Reporting

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do firms subject to identical ESG reporting requirements nevertheless ‘speak’ the Social pillar in different ways? Some foreground numerical indicators; others rely on narrative accounts of policies, systems and stakeholder engagement. This variation in disclosure form, rather than in disclosure coverage, motivates this exploratory study ...
Laurence L. Delina, Leslie Anne L. Yasis
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Reputation: A Function for CSR in the Age of Systemic Crises. Evidence From the Italian Business Landscape

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) are historically distinct constructs that have converged to the point of conceptual confusion. This paper operates within the CSR tradition, arguing that authentic CS is structurally impossible without the ethical foundation CSR provides.
Massimo Franchi
wiley   +1 more source

Ce dans les incises en français médiéval (12e s. -16e s.) [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2020
This study explores the use of the item CE – translated variously in English by this, that or it – in medieval quotative frames. It investigates the gradual decrease in the attested occurrences of the item and proposes two hypothesis in order to ...
Daniéla Capin
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