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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
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Combustion Characteristics of CI Engine Running with Biodiesel Blends

, 2011
Biodiesel is one of the promising renewable, alternative and environmentally friendly biofuels that can be used in diesel engine with little or no modification in the engine.
Gu, Fengshou, Ball, Andrew, A. Ball, Ball, A. D., Gu, F., F. Gu, Mishra, R., Tesfa, Belachew, Tesfa, B., Mishra, Rakesh, B. Tesfa, R. Mishra   +11 more
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A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Lubricity of Used Lubricating Oil Diluted with Diesel Oil

Applied Sciences
Experience shows that dilution of lubricating oil with diesel oil is unfavorable to the engine, causing issues including deterioration of engine performance, shortening of oil life, and reduction in engine reliability and safety.
Leszek Chybowski, Marcin Szczepanek, Robert Sztangierski, Piotr Brożek   +3 more
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Shaping Energy Transitions: Sectoral Demand, Climate Risk Exposure, and Renewable Pathways in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Energy is a fundamental driver of economic growth, shaping productivity, industrialization, and long‐term economic resilience. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where energy access remains uneven and infrastructure is underdeveloped, understanding sector‐specific energy demand is essential for designing sustainable energy strategies.
Michael Appiah, Emmanuel Baffour Gyau, Genanew Bekele Worku, Simplice A. Asongu   +3 more
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Combustible Microemulsions with Diesel and Diesel Admixed with Rapeseed Oil

Revista de Chimie, 2019
Novel results on combustible microemulsions prepared with diesel (D), blends of diesel and rapeseed oil (RSO), and mixtures of eco-friendly amphiphiles are presented. Water solubilization in oil/amphiphile systems was estimated by pseudo-ternary diagrams whereas the phase behavior by Winsor (W) diagrams.
Florentina Cristina Mihailescu, Marieta Balcan, Monica Elisabeta Maxim, Dan Florin Anghel   +3 more
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Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco, Yari Vecchio, Margherita Masi, Michele Borgia   +3 more
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Estudo da degradação de óleo diesel por diferentes métodos oxidativos e identificação de subprodutos por cromatografia a gás bidimensional abrangente [PDF]

, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Química, Florianópolis, 2011Este estudo trata da aplicação de processos oxidativos avançados na degradação de óleo ...

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Bioremediation Potentials of Heterobasidion annosum 13.12B and Resinicium bicolor in Diesel Oil Contaminated Soil Microcosms

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2015
 The remediation potentials of diesel oil by two white rot fungi (Basidiomycota; Hymenomycetes)  Heterobasidion annosum 13.12B and Resinicium bicolor were tested in two artificially contaminated experimental matrices: Norkran’s liquid medium and Insch -
OI Nicholas
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Effects of Oil Contamination on the Physical-Mechanical Behavior of Loess and Its Mechanism Analysis

Geofluids, 2021
Oil leakage will not only pollute the soil but also change its physical-mechanical behavior, and loess has complex properties in the environment of oil presence. Artificial loess contaminated by diesel oil is collected as the research object.
Shibin Zhang, Rongjian Li, Weishi Bai, Qiang Yang   +3 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
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