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The Double Facetted Nature of Health Investments - Implications for Equilibrium and Stability in a Demand-for-Health Framework [PDF]
A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities.
Bjorn Lindgren, Kristian Bolin
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This contribution critically analyses the main international educational frameworks for teachers' digital competence, highlighting both critical issues and potential in relation to their professional development and the need to update school curricula.
Daniela Marzano +3 more
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Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises [PDF]
We examine the incentives that public enterprises may have to undertake anticompetitive activities. These activities include setting prices below marginal cost, raising the operating costs of existing rivals, erecting entry barriers to preclude the ...
Sappington, David E. M. +1 more
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are ...
I. Södervik +4 more
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An Elementary Proof of Dodgson's Condensation Method for Calculating Determinants
, 2016 In 1866, Charles Ludwidge Dodgson published a paper concerning a method for evaluating determinants called the condensation method. His paper documented a new method to calculate determinants that was based on Jacobi's Theorem. The condensation method is
Donor, Micah +2 more
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Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This empirical study examines how chemistry teachers in lower and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic evaluate the content of the chemistry curriculum, focussing on its perceived importance and didactic difficulty. Based on a quantitative survey (N = 146), the study provides insight into the pedagogical content knowledge of ...
Jitka Lorenzová +6 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Adolescents with higher weight status (HWS; body mass index > 85th percentile adjusted for age and sex) are at greater risk of eating disorders (ED). This study examined factors associated with HWS adolescents' increased risk and how weight status interacts with other risk factors to influence ED onset. Method Australian adolescents (
Gabriela Tavella +5 more
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Output and Wages with Inequality Averse Agents [PDF]
We analyze a two-task work environment with risk-neutral but inequality averse individuals. For the agent employed in task 2 effort is verifiable, while in task 1 it is not.
Carsten Helm +2 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Eating disorders (EDs) often emerge in adolescence, but developmental trajectories across different core features remain largely unclear. Method The prospective, community‐based study included N = 898 participants aged 9.5–17.5 years (47.6% female, age 11.8 ± 1.4 years) with annual follow‐up over 2–6 (3.4 ± 1.2) years.
Anja Hilbert +5 more
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