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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
wiley   +1 more source

Localization of solar panel cleaning robot combining vision processing and extended Kalman filter. [PDF]

Sci Prog
Kim JH, Lee SH, Kim JG, Jang WJ, Kim DH.
europepmc   +1 more source

3,4‐Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) does not induce robust psychomotor activation and 50‐kHz ultrasonic vocalisations in tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (Tph2)‐deficient rats lacking serotonin in the central nervous system

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose 3,4‐Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy, is a psychostimulant with entactogenic properties and known to induce arousal and euphoria. As an amphetamine derivate, MDMA acts on the monoamine systems in the brain and stimulates release of dopamine (DA), noradrenaline (NA) and serotonin (5‐HT), yet their ...
Tianhua Wang, Rainer K. W. Schwarting, Markus Wöhr   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Progress and trends of non-contact detection methods for poultry growth information: A review. [PDF]

Poult Sci
He X, Xue H, Jia Y, Xie Z, Li L.
europepmc   +1 more source

The heterogeneous impact of European Central Bank asset price surprises on corporate liquidity demand

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract Theories of corporate liquidity demand build on the notion that firms accumulate cash to safeguard their activities in the face of costly external finance. Monetary policy provides a clear source of exogenous variation in the external finance premium.
Benedicta Marzinotto
wiley   +1 more source

Exploration of using a wall-climbing robot system for indoor inspection in occupied buildings. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ma L, Hartmann T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Omni-directional mobile robot for floor cleaning

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2008
openaire   +1 more source

Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-Modality Alignment Perception and Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism for Vision-Language-Action of Humanoid Robot. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Ren B, Shi D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi, Daniele Angelo Previati, Lucia Michela Daniele, Giuseppe Galloppo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source