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Brazil’s sugarcane embitters the EU-Mercosur trade talks
Scientific Reports, 2021 The Brazilian government’s decision to open the Amazon biome to sugarcane expansion reignited EU concerns regarding the sustainability of Brazil’s sugar sector, hindering the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.
Marco Follador +5 more
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Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2012 In contrast to the adverse outcomes of obesity in general population, increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with improved survival in hemodialysis (CHD) patients. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the association between obesity
Serpil M. Deger +3 more
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BMC Medical Education, 2022 Background Through the provision of advice and counselling, general practitioners (GPs) play an important part in promoting physical activity (PA). Lack of knowledge is a key barrier to engaging in such practice.
Shannon Sahlqvist +5 more
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Image Segmentation with a Priori Conditions: Applications to Medical and Geophysical Imaging
Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2022 In this paper, we propose a method for semi-supervised image segmentation based on geometric active contours. The main novelty of the proposed method is the initialization of the segmentation process, which is performed with a polynomial approximation of
Guzel Khayretdinova +3 more
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Sustainability, 2022 Despite the substantial attention given to pro-environmental behavior (PEB) by academicians, practitioners, and policymakers, few studies have investigated how employee-perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects employees’ PEB.
Badar Latif +4 more
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Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation As per Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), prevalence of tobacco use among people between 15 and 24 years has reduced from 18.4% in 2009-10 to 12.4% in 2017.
Chandra Ramakrishnan +2 more
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Low altitude energetic electron lifetimes after enhanced magnetic activity as deduced from SAC-C and DEMETER data [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2010 When flux enhancements of energetic electrons are produced as a consequence of geomagnetic storm occurrence, they tend to vanish gradually when the magnetic activity calms down and the fluxes decay to quiet-time levels.
S. Benck +5 more
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After Corona Comes the Debt Wave — Well-Founded Concern or Scaremongering?
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2022 The corona pandemic had a considerable impact on consumers. The difficult situation in numerous sectors of the economy has led to financial burdens for many households.
Kai-Friedrich Donau
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Mandatory CSR and sustainability reporting: economic analysis and literature review
Review of accounting studies, 2019 This study collates potential economic effects of mandated disclosure and reporting standards for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability topics. We first outline key features of CSR reporting.
Hans B. Christensen, Luzi Hail, C. Leuz
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CSR communication:quo vadis? [PDF]
Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 2013 PurposeThis paper aims to introduce the special issue on CSR communication attached to the First International CSR Communication Conference held in Amsterdam in October 2011. The aim of the introduction is also to review CSR communication papers published in scholarly journals in order to make a summary of the state of CSR communication knowledge ...
Golob, U. +5 more
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