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Dialysis initiation, modality choice, access, and prescription: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference.

Kidney International, 2019
Globally, the number of patients undergoing maintenance dialysis is increasing, yet throughout the world there is significant variability in the practice of initiating dialysis.
Christopher T. Chan, P. Blankestijn, L. Dember, M. Gallieni, D. Harris, C. Lok, Rajnish Mehrotra, P. Stevens, A. Wang, Michael Cheung, D. Wheeler, W. Winkelmayer, C. Pollock   +12 more
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La modernisation écologique en action : les promesses à l’aune de leurs contradictions internes

Développement Durable et Territoires
This introductory article to the Ecological Modernization special issue begins with the observation that, when it comes to transitions, ecological modernization projects are often the ones being implemented.
Brice Auvet, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Lise Desvallées, Selin Le Visage, Sébastien Chailleux   +4 more
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ESG Controversies: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis for the Sociopolitical Determinants in EU Firms

Sustainability, 2022
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are novel and exciting tools of corporate disclosure for decision making. Using quantitative and qualitative analyses, the present study examined the key characteristics and trends of ESG controversies
Ioannis Passas, Konstantina Ragazou, E. Zafeiriou, Alexandros Garefalakis, C. Zopounidis   +4 more
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On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation

Big Data & Society
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue on Analysing Articifial Intelligence Controversies (?) discusses how the contributing articles and commentaries address this question through original research and critical reflection.
Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin   +3 more
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The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies

Biological Conservation, 2022
Fake controversies have influenced policy making on health and environmental issues for decades, resulting in major implementation setbacks worldwide.
R. Rajão, A. Nobre, Evandro L.T.P. Cunha, T. Duarte, Camilla Marcolino, B. Soares-Filho, G. Sparovek, R. Rodrigues, C. Valera, Mercedes Bustamante, Carlos Nobre, Letícia Santos de Lima   +11 more
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Debating Democracy: Concepts, Histories, and Controversies

Politics and Governance
Within academia as much as in political practice, democracy remains a contested concept. This issue focuses on the practices of the contestation of the concept of democracy—the debates, controversies, and contestations of democracy in theory, practice ...
Claudia Wiesner, Kari Palonen
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Heart failure in chronic kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference.

Kidney International, 2019
The incidence and prevalence of heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are increasing, and as such a better understanding of the interface between both conditions is imperative for developing optimal strategies for their detection ...
A. House, C. Wanner, M. Sarnak, I. Piña, C. McIntyre, P. Komenda, B. Kasiske, A. Deswal, C. Defilippi, J. Cleland, S. Anker, C. Herzog, Michael Cheung, D. Wheeler, W. Winkelmayer, P. McCullough   +15 more
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ESG Scores as Indicators of Green Business Strategies and Their Impact on Financial Performance in Tourism Services: Evidence from Worldwide Listed Firms

Administrative Sciences
The increasing integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices into corporate strategy has raised important questions about their financial implications.
Chrysoula Matsali, Michalis Skordoulis, Aristidis Papagrigoriou, Petros Kalantonis   +3 more
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Le bruit des controverses vidéoludiques : entre infobésité et mobilisation politique en réseaux

Sciences du Jeu, 2022
Since their creation, video games seem to cause multiple controversies. In the French-speaking world, researches have mostly focused on controversies understood as specific topics.
Michael Perret, Esteban Giner
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Consensus statement from 2nd International Conference on Controversies in Vitamin D

Reviews in Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders, 2020
The 2nd International Conference on Controversies in Vitamin D was held in Monteriggioni (Siena), Italy, September 11-14, 2018. The aim of this meeting was to address ongoing controversies and timely topics in vitamin D research, to review available data
Andrea Giustina, Robert A. Adler, Neil Binkley, J. Bollerslev, J. Bollerslev, Roger Bouillon, Bess Dawson-Hughes, P. Ebeling, David Feldman, A. Formenti, M. Lazaretti-Castro, Claudio Marcocci, R. Rizzoli, C. Sempos, J. Bilezikian   +14 more
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