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The Impact of Equity Engagement Evaluating the Impact of Shareholder Engagement in Public Equity Investing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Over the last decade, growing numbers of investors have become increasingly concerned with the environmental and social impact of their investments across asset classes.
Becky Johnson   +4 more
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A Microfluidic Multiplex Sorter for Strain Development

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 10, Issue 6, March 18, 2025.
A new multiplex method for high‐throughput screening of yeast strains based on glucoamylase production is presented. Droplets containing single mutant yeast cells are incubated for enzyme production. A sorting platform divides mutants by their high‐ and mid‐activity levels.
Chiara Leal‐Alves   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation, economic sustainability and sustainable development: Theoretical and practical aspects

open access: yesInnovation and Sustainability
The article conducts a comprehensive study of the relationship between innovation, economic sustainability and sustainable development, which are key factors of modern economic growth.
V. Bokovets, L. Davidyuk, I. Hryhoruk
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Fabrication of High Dielectric GRIN Lens for a Directive Antenna Using a Hybrid Filled Voxel Additive Manufacturing Technique

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Hybrid‐filled voxel AM enables integration of high‐permittivity materials into additively manufactured devices. Using this approach, a graded refractive index (GRIN) lens is demonstrated, achieving a 50% antenna size reduction with enhanced directivity.
Qianfang Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

End‐to‐End Sensing Systems for Breast Cancer: From Wearables for Early Detection to Lab‐Based Diagnosis Chips

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging resource flows for social entrepreneurship; theorizing social investment

open access: yes, 2009
In the UK and elsewhere, a ‘market’ in social investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10-15 years, yet there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date.
Nicholls, Alex, Paton, Rob
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Reforming the International Monetary System in the 1970s and 2000s: Would an SDR Substitution Account Have Worked [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper analyzes the discussion of a substitution account in the 1970s and how the account might have performed had it been agreed in 1980. The substitution account would have allowed central banks to diversify away from the dollar into the IMF’s ...
McCauley, Robert N.   +1 more
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Progress and Prospects of Persistent Luminescent Nanocrystals in Biomedical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in materials‐level control of persistent luminescence, including mechanistic understanding, wavelength/intensity tuning, and activation strategies, as well as emerging biomedical applications in imaging, biosensing, cell tracking, optogenetic stimulation, and biophotochemical activation.
Peng Pei   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Sector Investment and Sustainable Development: The Current and Potential Role of Institutional Investors, Companies, Banks and Foundations in Sustainable Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper seeks to provide the Financing for Development process with a perspective on the role institutional investors, companies, and foundations can play in the design and implementation of a financing strategy for global sustainability.

core  

Enhanced Trapping with an Optimized Graphene‐Based Bowtie Plasmonic Nanotweezer: Design, Analysis, and Bioanalytical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
A graphene‐based bowtie plasmonic nanotweezer is designed and optimized using particle swarm optimization and transfer matrix analysis. The structure achieves strong field confinement, delivering trapping forces up to 6 nN W−1 for 10 nm bioparticles with sixfold lower power requirements than conventional designs.
Saba Ebrahimpanah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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