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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One of the major subfields of chemical ecology is the study of toxins and how they mediate interactions between organisms. Toxins produced by harmful algae (phycotoxins) impact a wide variety of organisms connected to the marine food web. Significant research efforts have thus aimed to identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers behind ...
Milad Pourdanandeh, Erik Selander
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National and constitutional identity before and after Lisbon
Utrecht Law Review, 2010 This essay seeks to reflect on how the conscious political effort to overcome the divisiveness caused by Member States' idiosyncracies has matured into the constitutional recognition of Member State identities as essential to the European project ...
Leonard F.M. Besselink
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Fundamental Rights in the European Community Legal Order [PDF]
, 2008 The role of the courts in the protection of human rights in any legal system is a constitutionally sensitive one. The observance and protection of such rights articulate with many aspects of the exercise of governmental and legislative power.
Murray, John L.
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) and social entrepreneurship (SE) are increasingly recognised as critical pathways for sustainable development, yet CE research often underplays social inclusion, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
Maria L. Granados, Adeyemi Adelekan
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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The hungarian Constitutional Court and the concept of national constitutional identity [PDF]
IANUS Diritto e Finanza, 2017 Con una decisione molto attesa, pubblicata nel dicembre 2016, la Corte costituzionale ungherese si è pronunciata su alcune questioni relative alla relazione tra l'ordinamento giuridico dell’Unione europea e l’ordinamento costituzionale dell'Ungheria. Con
Katalin Kelemen
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Nationhood and Constitutionalism in the Dutch Republic: An Examination of Grotius' Antiquity of the Batavian Republic [PDF]
, 2017 The emphasis in contemporary democratic theory and in the history of political thought on the ‘natural rights’ theory of popular sovereignty of Locke, precursors of which are found in the work of Hugo Grotius and others, obscures
Alexander-Davey, Ethan
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The Stabilization of High‐Nitrogen Systems: 10 Catenated Nitrogen Chain
Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.Improving the understanding of high‐nitrogen materials. ABSTRACT High‐nitrogen materials have attracted intense interest in recent decades due to their unique chemical, physical, and biological properties. Stabilizing high‐nitrogen materials is often challenging as they become more unstable with increasing nitrogen catenation and nitrogen mass ...
Nicholas F. Scherschel +3 more
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Constitutional Identity in Italy: European Integration As the Fulfillment of the Constitution
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 The paper examines the notion of constitutional identity in Italy, with the aim to question whether the highest constitutional authorities of the Italian state have identified a core or fundamental elements of the Constitution which define its individuality.
FABBRINI, Federico, POLLICINO, Oreste
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