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Location Discriminative Vocabulary Coding for Mobile Landmark Search [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
With the popularization of mobile devices, recent years have witnessed an emerging potential for mobile landmark search. In this scenario, the user experience heavily depends on the efficiency of query transmission over a wireless link.
Duan, Ling-Yu   +13 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A corpus-based study of vocabulary distribution in the finance register [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
As far as is known to date, no attempts have been made to comprehensively describe the vocabulary in the finance register in terms of its lexical density, range, and frequency by financial sectors, text types, modes of communication, and geographical ...
Ha, YH
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Words and Seasons: Measuring Seasonal Effects on Early Vocabulary [PDF]

open access: yes
NOTE FOR REVIEWERS: Some R files such as the Rmd to recreate the Manuscript contain the authors' information. In this study, we measured seasonal variations in word learning across monolingual and bilingual children from multiple geographical locations.
Laia Fibla, Krista Byers-Heinlein
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“Fictional” toponyms in Agatha Christie’s detective stories

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis
The article analyses the toponymy in the works of a famous detective writer. The author establishes that there is a connection between the names of certain places from her literary works and historical events and real geographical objects. When inventing
Bogatyrev Arseniy Vladimirovich
doaj  

From Capabilities to Competitive Greening: Managerial Commitment and Green Shared Vision as Serial Mediators in Energy‐Sector SMEs

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on dynamic capabilities view and upper echelons theory, this study shows how energy‐sector SMEs convert dynamic capabilities into green competitive advantage. We theorize that sensing–seizing–reconfiguring routines are associated with green competitive advantage only when top managers visibly prioritize environmental goals and foster a
Anna Chwiłkowska‐Kubala   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vocabulary of Canadian English in the Vancouver Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
In this paper I try to discuss some of the features of the vocabulary of Canadian English, especially in the Vancouver area. For this purpose I have conducted a survey with 37 respondents in that area.
ミヤケ, トオル   +4 more
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THE DIALECT OF BANDUROVO VILLAGE (HAYVORON DISTRIC, KYROVOGRAD REGION)

open access: yesЗаписки з українського мовознавства, 2016
The speech of Bandurovo village (Hayvoron district, Kyrovograd region) belongs to the south-west dialect of Ukrainian language. The author aimed to describe village dialect and to characterize it on different levels of Ukrainian language.
А. П. Романченко
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Corporate Alignment With the Circular Economy: a Text‐Based Circularity Index From Mandatory Non‐Financial Disclosures

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) has become a strategic priority for firms, yet empirical assessments of corporate circularity remain fragmented and heavily dependent on structured indicators or self‐reported metrics. This paper proposes a novel, text‐based circularity index derived from mandatory non‐financial statements of large ...
Giuseppe Pernagallo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Section XII, 3 - Notes on Grammar, Vocabulary etc. Various districts of W.A. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Notes on Grammar, vocabulary etc – additional sundry notes, various districts of W.A.: pronunciation, list of dialects eg from north western district, Murray district; Aboriginal names of places (article 1913), D.B.s suggestions for aboriginal names that

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