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Why California retailers stop selling tobacco products, and what their customers and employees think about it when they do: case studies

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background In California, some 40, 000 retailers sell tobacco products. Tobacco's ubiquitousness in retail settings normalizes use and cues smoking urges among former smokers and those attempting cessation.
McDaniel Patricia A, Malone Ruth E
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Optimizing Strategies for Non‐Invasive Prospection of Settlements in the Intertidal Zone: A Case Study From the Centre of the Drowned Medieval Village of Tolsende (Scheldt Estuary, the Netherlands)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medieval and early modern drowned villages in the intertidal zone of the Scheldt estuary (the Netherlands) constitute intriguing yet largely understudied components of north‐western Europe's underwater cultural heritage. Despite their high archaeological potential as time capsules of past settlement landscapes, research has remained limited ...
Jan Trachet, Sarah Bäumler, Stefan Krojer, Jeroen Verhegge, Wim De Clercq, Philippe De Smedt, Wouter H. Maes, Bente S. Majchczack, Immo Trinks, Dennis Wilken   +9 more
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Revisiting the Carbon Footprint of Single‐Use Technologies in Biomanufacturing: A Bottom‐Up Analysis Reveals a Paradigm Shift

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The biopharmaceutical industry increasingly relies on single‐use technologies (SUT) for operational flexibility. For a long time, SUT was considered more sustainable than stainless‐steel (SST) systems due to water and energy savings. This study re‐evaluates this paradigm via a detailed bottom‐up analysis of the SUT carbon footprint at the 2000 
Jan Reiners, Katharina Bruno‐Thakur, Daina Romeo, Weronika Kuśmierczyk, Ferdinand Stückler   +4 more
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The protection of customer personal data as an element of entrepreneurs’ ethical conduct

Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2018
The right to the protection of personal data, which is part of the right to privacy, is a fundamental human right. Thus, its guarantees were included in the high-level regulations of the European Union as well as the legal norms of the EU Member States ...
Ewa Kulesza
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Control of multiclass queueing systems with abandonments and adversarial customers [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis considers the defensive surveillance of multiple public areas which are the open, exposed targets of adversarial attacks. We address the operational problem of identifying a real time decision-making rule for a security team in order to minimise the damage an adversary can inflict within the public areas.
James, Terry, Glazebrook, Kevin, Lin, Kyle   +2 more
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Organizational Sensemaking Theory Perspective of Developing AI‐Driven Strategies for Sustainability Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
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Probabilistic detection model for unqualified units under encouraged arrivals in a feedback Markovian queue: a search-theoretic approach with discounted effort and waiting time reduction

Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering
This study develops a probabilistic framework for detecting non-servable units in a feedback Markovian queue with finite capacity. Such units arise from system-level constraints (e.g.
Mohamed Abd Allah El-Hadidy, R. Alraddadi   +1 more
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Explaining the banking customer's hedonic journey in combined channels physical-digital [PDF]

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Extended AbstractIntroduction: The banking industry in metropolitan Tehran, particularly its affluent northern districts, faces a critical challenge: transitioning from purely functional service delivery to creating hedonic customer experiences across ...
شاه جعفری shahjafari, Tahmoorth Hassangholipour   +1 more
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi, Ruth O. Sagay, Reon Matemane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operational Performance Implications of Circular Economy Implementation: An Empirical Exploration in the Manufacturing Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global manufacturing sector has increasingly adopted circular economy (CE) practices to address sustainability challenges and improve operational efficiency. This study explores the impact of five CE practices—reduce, reuse, remanufacture, recycle, and recover—on key operational performance dimensions: quality, speed, dependability ...
Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes, Meiirman Khassen, Ranjit Roy Ghatak, Rohit Joshi, Christian Muñoz Sánchez, Jayakrishna Kandasamy   +5 more
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