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Emotional nourishment begets academic coping during the primary to secondary school transition
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from primary to secondary school is widely viewed as the most demanding in a child's educational journey. Despite a wealth of research on this transition, little is known about the children's ‘lived experience’ of it across different contexts.
Peter Wood +2 more
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Iowa Insurance Commissioner Bulletin: December 21, 2015 [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this bulletin is to update and replace Bulletin 13‐08. This bulletin applies to all insurance companies qualified to write crop‐hail insurance in the State of Iowa for the 2016 crop season, and for each subsequent crop season.
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Early evolutionary history of the seed
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman +2 more
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HorticulturaeThe aim of this study was to explore the impacts of hail-proof nets with different coverage years on the environment, leaf traits and fruit quality of ‘Fuji’ apple orchards, with the expectation of providing a basis for the scientific application of the ...
Junjiao Guo +4 more
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Position paper on the potential of inadvertent weather modification of the Florida peninsula resulting from the stabilized ground cloud [PDF]
Based on the climatology of the Florida Peninsula, we assessed the risk for weather modification. Certain weather situations warrant launch rescheduling because of the risk of possible impact on hurricanes, hail formation and lightning activity, strong ...
Bollay, E. +7 more
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Too Hot to Profit? Climatic Stress and Farm‐Level Performance in Italian Viticulture
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the economic impact of long‐run climatic conditions on Italian wine farms by applying a Ricardian framework to 1431 firms from the 2022 RICA‐FADN survey. We combine farm‐level revenues with viticulture‐specific agroclimatic indicators to assess how climate stress shapes profitability across 77 Italian NUTS3 provinces ...
Diego Grazia +4 more
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Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Remote Sensing of Crop Damage Attributed to Severe Weather in the Central United States [PDF]
Damaging hail and wind from severe thunderstorms threatens agricultural areas annually, especially across the central United States where agriculture is prevalent. On average, these storms produce $160 to $580 million worth of damage in the US every year
Bell, Jordan +5 more
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Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate‐related news influences mutual fund investor behaviour in the United States. Although prior research has documented the financial relevance of climate risks, little is known about how media attention to climate change shapes capital allocation across mutual funds.
Laura Andreu +3 more
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3D Hail Size Distribution Interpolation/Extrapolation Algorithm [PDF]
Radar data can usually detect hail; however, it is difficult for present day radar to accurately discriminate between hail and rain. Local ground-based hail sensors are much better at detecting hail against a rain background, and when incorporated with ...
Lane, John
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Business 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
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