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Sailing From Penalties to Accountability: Business Strategies and Governance for Firms to Innovate After Environmental Misconduct

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms' continuous pursuit of making a profit in the competitive market may ignore the actions related to environmental responsibilities. This set of actions for financial gains constitutes environmental misconduct, which not only harms ecosystems and communities but also brings reputational damage. Negative press and social media amplification
Ashutosh Singh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cruise tourism and Cruise Industry

open access: yes, 2011
This paper proposes a reflection on the cruise industry, the importance and scope of this industry. One of the objectives is to examine in particular the relationship between cruise lines and ports that receive cruises and excursionists. The cruise product built from the 1970s engendred a specific mass tourism.
Dehoorne, Olivier   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Cruise Crimes: Economic-Legal Issues and Current Debates [PDF]

open access: yes
Cruise tourism is one of the sunshine sectors of international tourism and is growing rapidly in many parts of the world. It is estimated that the growth rate of cruise tourism is twice the rate of tourism overall.
Babu P George   +2 more
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POWER: Performance Optimization With Evaluated Results for HEV Battery Selection via MCDM‐TOPSIS

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasing transportation demands and environmental concerns in India necessitate the selection of optimal battery technologies for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). As the fifth‐largest car market globally, India faces rising vehicle demand, while the transportation sector remains a major contributor to air pollution.
Rinku Kumar Roy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immunosuppressive Microenvironment Reprogramming by Synergistic Sonodynamic Therapy of Phthalocyanine‐MOF Hybrids for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

open access: yesExploration, EarlyView.
Hepatocellular carcinoma presents a formidable clinical challenge, constructing a hypoxic and immunosuppressive microenvironment that renders conventional therapies largely ineffective. In response, we have developed Pc@Zr‐MOF, a phthalocyanine‐integrated metal‐organic framework hybrid engineered to penetrate this defensive barrier.
Han Wu   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carnival Cruise Lines: Burnishing the Brand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The case of Carnival Cruise Lines chronicles the company’s birth and development as it redefined the leisure cruise industry. With a theme of “Fun Ships” and low pricing, Carnival appealed to a diverse market. Under the pressure of increasing competition,
Kwortnik, Robert J., Jr.
core  

Wearable fabric electronics for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
Overview of textile electronic devices for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications. Abstract With the advent of the big data era, traditional Von Neumann architecture is facing an energy consumption bottleneck due to separated memory and computing units, inspiring the research of brain‐like neuromorphic computing devices for artificial ...
Bo Sun, Lin Lu, Jialin Meng, Tianyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Cruise Tourism in the World: Constancy and Recomposition

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2011
Cruise tourism is a sector that is rapidly expanding (16 million passengers in 2011). Today, cruise business remains an essentially American, monopolized by North American clients who have a special predilection for the Caribbean Sea area.
Olivier Dehoorne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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