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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business 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
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms in emerging economies integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices to enhance biodiversity conservation and circular economy outcomes. It examines the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) governance and the moderating effect of ...
Suleman Bawa, Simplice A. Asongu
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PLoS ONEObjectivesData on the association between sleep problems and chronic conditions among single parents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are limited, and no study has, to date, reported the serial mediation effects of functional limitations and ...
Obed Jones Owusu-Sarpong +4 more
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NeuroImageThe current study demonstrates that an individual's resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) is a dependable biomarker for identifying differential patterns of cognitive and emotional functioning during late childhood.
Jacob DeRosa +3 more
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Circuit Bootstrapping: Faster and Smaller [PDF]
We present a novel circuit bootstrapping algorithm that outperforms the state-of-the-art TFHE method with 9.9× speedup and 15.6× key size reduction. These improvements can be attributed to two technical contributions.
Benqiang Wei +6 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how sustainable human resource management (SHRM) influences employee engagement and performance through distinct cognitive and relational mechanisms. While previous research has demonstrated positive associations between SHRM and employee outcomes, the processes through which these effects occur remain insufficiently ...
Daniel Roque Gomes +4 more
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MONOTONICITY AND CURVATURE - A BOOTSTRAPPING APPROACH
This research contributes to the ongoing discussion on functional flexibility and theoretical consistency by comparing the empirical performance of two second order flexible functional forms - the Symmetric Generalized McFadden and the Transcendental ...
Sauer, Johannes
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT SMEs receive increasing institutional support to embed sustainability, yet they vary widely in their ability to translate such support into practice. This study addresses this gap by examining the internal cognitive and strategic mechanism (sustainability orientation) through which managers interpret institutional support and the contextual ...
Michael Zisuh Ngoasong +3 more
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UniChrom: a universal deep learning architecture for cross-scale chromatin interaction prediction
BMC GenomicsChromatin interactions regulate gene expression and genome organization, but computational prediction across cell types remains challenging. We developed UniChrom, a deep learning framework integrating DNA sequences and epigenomic features through ...
Shuaibin Wang +4 more
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Neuroimaging biomarkers to associate obesity and negative emotions
Scientific Reports, 2017 Obesity is a serious medical condition highly associated with health problems such as diabetes, hypertension, and stroke. Obesity is highly associated with negative emotional states, but the relationship between obesity and emotional states in terms of ...
Bo-yong Park, Jisu Hong, Hyunjin Park
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