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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to determine whether the practices companies carry out to contribute to the SDGs have an impact on sustainable development and influence their performance. It also seeks to establish whether sustainable development enables companies to improve their business results.
Juan Antonio Giménez Espín +1 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is substantial potential for the procurement of food by public institutions to contribute to Sustainable Development across multiple environmental, social, and economic outcomes. In this study we used theories of policy instrumentation and learning to analyse global guidance for designing public food procurement instruments to leverage ...
Erica Reeve +7 more
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
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The Tragedy Zone: Ableism in Entertainment [PDF]
, 2018 Ableism, or discrimination towards individuals with disabilities, is pervasive in our society. The entertainment world and the media are largely responsible for shaping the way the general public views minority groups.
Sumner, Linnea
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Beauty as Pride: A Function of Agency [PDF]
, 2011 This is basically a paper about artistic evaluation and how multiple interpretations can give rise to inconsistent and conflicting meanings. Images like Joel-Peter Witkin’s First
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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The EU Rights Based Approach to Disability: Some Strategies for Shaping an Inclusive Society [PDF]
, 2006 [Excerpt] The past ten years have witnessed a marked change in the legal and policy responses of many European countries, and of the EU itself, to the issue of disability. This new (and still emerging) response is often termed the ‘rights based approach’.
Lawson, Anna
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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No easy exit: Negotiating affects and researcher self‐care in car ride‐alongs
Area, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the affective realities of car ride‐alongs by examining the ways in which researchers might be affected in the process of doing such methods. While there is an ethic of care for research participants, which often emerges from the assumption that participants are vulnerable or can be made vulnerable by participating in ...
Yi Fan Liu, Maryam Altaf, Sieun Lee
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British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Background and Purpose Human adenovirus (HAdV) causes respiratory or gastrointestinal tract infections depending on the virus subtype. While HAdV infections are generally self‐limiting in immunocompetent people, they can result in significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised adults and children.
Mohamed Zamzamy +16 more
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