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SYMBOLIC USE OF DOMESTIC SPACE IN THE UPPER SVANETIAN (GEORGIA) VERNACULAR HOUSE [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020
Upper Svaneti (Georgia) is a territory in almost permanent isolation amid the Caucasus mountain range. This strategic position, along with the military nature of its settlements made its defence so effective that Svaneti served as Georgia`s safehouse ...
G. Sousa, M. Alcindor
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ESG: Extended Similarity Group method for automated protein function prediction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We present here the Extended Similarity Group (ESG) method, which annotates query sequences with Gene Ontology (GO) terms by assigning probability to each annotation computed based on iterative PSI-BLAST searches.
Changsoon Park   +3 more
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Access and allocation in global biodiversity governance: a review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Access and allocation is one of the five analytical themes of the science plan of the Earth System Governance (ESG) project. Concerns over access and allocation are at the core of struggles and conflicts brought about by the often ineluctable trade-offs ...
Coolsaet, Brendan   +3 more
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Social Enterprise in Quebec: Understanding Their "Institutional Footprint"

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2015
This article explores how the social enterprise concept is used in Québec. Focusing on the historical, institutional, and current conceptual understanding of the social economy in Québec, it explores the related definitions, terminology, and typologies ...
Marie J. Bouchard   +2 more
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Sustainable Investing and the Cross-Section of Maximum Drawdown [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We use supervised learning to identify factors that predict the cross-section of maximum drawdown for stocks in the US equity market. Our data run from January 1980 to June 2018 and our analysis includes ordinary least squares, penalized linear ...
Goldberg, Lisa R., Mouti, Saad
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A Sustainability Disclosure Index Using Corporate Sustainability Reports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: There are already many indices such as Bloomberg’s environmental-and-social governance (ESG) ratings and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DSJI), which use proprietary methods to rate companies using private and publicly available ...
Papoutsi, A., Sodhi, M.
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Modeling demand for ESG

open access: yesThe European Journal of Finance, 2021
Existing approaches have considered characteristics of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) focused investments from a return-oriented perspective, not paying due consideration to investors’ utility and how ESG features impact utility.
Ahmed, Muhammad   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

THE UNMANNED MISSION AVIONICS TEST HELICIOPTER – A FLEXIBLE AND VERSATILE VTOL-UAS EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
civil customers. These applications cover a wide spectrum from R&D programs for the military customer to special services for the civil customer. This paper focuses on the technical conversion of a commercially available VTOL-UAS to ESG's Unmanned ...
Dr. H.-W. Schulz
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborating on ESG consulting, reporting, and communicating education: Using partner maps for capability building design

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Given the rising demand for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) talents, this study aims to provide a multidisciplinary outlook of specific capability requirements for ESG talents, focusing on the use of ESG and carbon information, thereby ...
Han-Teng Liao   +8 more
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Divergent ESG Ratings

open access: yesThe Journal of Portfolio Management, 2020
Responsible investors require data to underpin their stock and sector selections. Regardless of the rating agency, bond ratings for a particular issuer are broadly similar. This is not the case for ESG ratings. Companies with a high score from one rater often receive a middling or low score from another rater.
Dimson, E, Marsh, P, Staunton, M
openaire   +1 more source

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