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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
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Terrestrial Chlorophyll Limitation on Global Gross Primary Production

Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract Different trends were found for global terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) based on different light‐use‐efficiency (LUE) models. None of these models considered chlorophyll content as a driving variable, although chlorophyll content is essential for capturing light energy in the photosynthetic ...
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Efficiency Effects Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Mechanization and Fast Track Land Reform Programme: A Stochastic Frontier Approach [PDF]

A development goal pursued by the Zimbabwean government even before the much-maligned fast track land reform programme (FTLRP) was expansion of agricultural production through agricultural mechanization. This goal has been pursued through the acquisition
Chisango, Future Fortune T., Obi, Ajuruchukwu   +1 more
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The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne, Alice M. I. Auersperg   +1 more
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre   +3 more
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Green Banking Practices, Social, Health and Environmental Disclosures and Bank Financial Performance: The Role of Innovations and Corporate Governance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators in the banking industry in the Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) region are progressively concentrating on corporate innovation and bank social, health and environmental disclosures (BSHED) as crucial corporate governance (CG) structures to improve bank financial performance (BFP).
Douglas A. Adu, Musa Mangena, Emmanuel Adegbite, Frank Boateng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020
Fu Z, Ciais P, Bastos A, Stoy PC, Yang H, Green JK, Wang B, Yu K, Huang Y, Knohl A, Šigut L, Gharun M, Cuntz M, Arriga N, Roland M, Peichl M, Migliavacca M, Cremonese E, Varlagin A, Brümmer C, Gourlez de la Motte L, Fares S, Buchmann N, El-Madany TS, Pitacco A, Vendrame N, Li Z, Vincke C, Magliulo E, Koebsch F.   +29 more
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Using energy pricing as a tool for efficient, equitable and sustainable use of groundwater for irrigation: evidence from three locations of India [PDF]

Groundwater irrigationCostsElectrical energyPricingPumpingWater use efficiencyWater productivityMilk productionDairy farmsLivestockWater useFodderCrop ...
Kumar, M. Dinesh, Singh, O. P.
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Mandatory TCFD Disclosure and Corporate Financial Performance: Evidence From UK Non‐Financial Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The escalating urgency of climate change has intensified calls for transparent corporate reporting on climate‐related risks and opportunities. This study examines the causal impact of the United Kingdom's mandatory Task Force on Climate‐Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework on the financial performance of non‐financial firms.
Prashant Gupta
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