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BN/BNSiO2 sputtering yield shape profiles under stationary plasma thruster operating conditions

open access: yesAIP Advances, 2016
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) is used to measure the volumetric and total sputtering yield of Boron Nitride (BN) and Boron Nitride Silicon Dioxide (BNSiO2) bombarded by Xenon ions in the energy range of 100 eV to 550 eV.
M. Ranjan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) DISCLOSURE ON FIRM RISK (Empirical Study on Non-Financial Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study aims to analyze the influence of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure on firm risk. ESG disclosure covers the environmental, social and governance issues considered by stakeholders to reflect a company’s accountability.
ARITONANG, Fitri Anita, HARTO, Puji
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Societal Biases in Text Corpora via First-Order Co-occurrence

open access: yes, 2020
Text corpora are used to study societal biases, typically through statistical models such as word embeddings. The bias of a word towards a concept is typically estimated using vectors similarity, measuring whether the word and concept words share other ...
Hanbury, Allan   +3 more
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Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
wiley   +1 more source

O “Terrorismo Islâmico” sob a ótica do Construtivismo e do Pós-colonialismo | The “Islamic Terrorism” from the standpoint of the Constructivism and the Post-colonialism

open access: yesMural Internacional, 2019
Este artigo introduz duas perspectivas críticas no debate sobre o terrorismo, buscando apresentar algumas críticas acerca da categoria, definida na literatura como o novo “terrorismo islâmico”.
Luiza Bizzo Affonso   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melting simulations of high-entropy carbonitrides by deep learning potentials

open access: yesScientific Reports
The melting temperature is a crucial property of materials that determines their potential applications in different industrial fields. In this study, we used a deep neural network potential to describe the structure of high-entropy (TiZrTaHfNb)CxN1−x ...
Viktor S. Baidyshev   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Two-Wheeled Vehicle Navigation System Based on a Fuzzy Logic Controller [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper deals with a two-wheeled vehicle,namely ESG-2 (Extended Segway-like Generation- 2) navigation control system using a fuzzy logic controller.
Nugraha, Diki Arya, Pitowarno, Endra
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