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Understanding environmental performance variation in manufacturing companies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sustainability is an area of increasing interest for industry and its stakeholders, and some companies now aspire to address sustainability issues (e.g. carbon emissions) at strategic and operational levels.
Bocken, Nancy   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Molecular Weight Isoform Responses to Resistance Exercise Are Sex-Dependent

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2020
Purpose: To determine if acute resistance exercise-induced increases in growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) were differentially responsive for one or more molecular weight (MW) isoforms and if these responses were sex-dependent ...
Joseph R. Pierce   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circumference-Based Predictions of Body Fat Revisited: Preliminary Results From a US Marine Corps Body Composition Survey

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
Purpose: Body composition assessment methods are dependent on their underlying principles, and assumptions of each method may be affected by age and sex. This study compared an abdominal circumference-focused method of percent body fat estimation (AC %BF)
Adam W. Potter   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental proactivity and firms' performance: Mediation effect of competitive advantages in Spanish wineries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The main aim of this paper is to show the extent to which environmental proactivity is able to generate competitive advantages in a firm in order to improve their economic-financial performance by introducing the role of managerial perception into the ...
Ambec   +33 more
core   +2 more sources

Using a Contemporary Portable Metabolic Gas Exchange System for Assessing Energy Expenditure: A Validity and Reliability Study

open access: yesSensors, 2023
There are several methods available to assess energy expenditure, all associated with inherent pros and cons that must be adequately considered for use in specific environments and populations.
Holly L. McClung   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental innovation and environmental performance

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2010
Abstract By estimating a simultaneous panel data model of environmental innovation and toxic air pollution, this paper identifies bi-directional causal links between the two. We study a panel of 127 manufacturing industries over the period 1989–2004. Pollutant emissions are an implicit measure of policy stringency and environmental patent counts are ...
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0240, USA ( host institution )   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Automatic Environmental Sound Recognition: Performance versus Computational Cost [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), sound sensing applications are required to run on embedded platforms where notions of product pricing and form factor impose hard constraints on the available computing power.
Krstulovic, Sacha   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

PERFORMATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review
Performative law is law ‘just for show’. Where the law expresses a commitment to targets, objectives and aspirations which are, in a strict sense, legally binding, but which are ultimately hard to formally enforce, it can take on a highly symbolic or gestural appearance. Environmental law is particularly vulnerable to performativity. This is because of
Lees, Emma, Pedersen, Ole W
openaire   +3 more sources

A history of low back pain affects pelvis and trunk coordination during a sustained manual materials handling task

open access: yesJournal of Sport and Health Science, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the coordination between the trunk and the pelvis during a sustained asymmetric repetitive lifting task between a group with a history of low back pain (LBP; HBP) and a group with no history of LBP (NBP).
Joseph F. Seay   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical clusters of dengue outbreak in Singapore during the Covid-19 nationwide lockdown of 2020

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) dengue infection locations Technology Type(s) NEA’s disclosured report Factor Type(s) Singapore’s dengue in in ...
Liping Huang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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