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Towards climate‐conscious corporate restructuring: A comparative exploration of English and Bhutanese legal frameworks

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper conducts a comparative legal analysis of corporate restructuring frameworks in England and Bhutan, examining their capacity to integrate climate variability considerations and promote sustainable business practices. It discusses the procedural mechanisms for restructuring financially distressed enterprises available under the law of
Eugenio Vaccari, Migmar Lham
wiley   +1 more source

Hair Color and Hearing Loss: A Survey in a Group of Military Men [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2011
Introduction: It has been shown that low levels of pigmentation increase susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss in humans. For this reason, white populations develop more pronounced noise- induced hearing loss in comparison to black populations ...
Rahman Movahhed, Ebrahim Mahdavi, Mehdi Bakhshaee, Amir Hossain Ghazizadeh   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Iran: (1997-2012): Systematic Review Article.

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2014
Noise-induced hearing loss, which is one of the 10 leading occupational diseases, is a debilitating and irreversible disease. During the recent 15-years period (1997-2012), several studies have investigated the association between noise, hearing damage ...
Ahmad Soltanzadeh, Hossein Ebrahimi, Majid Fallahi, Mojtaba Kamalinia, Shadi Ghassemi, Rostam Golmohammadi   +5 more
doaj  

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Among Quarry Workers in a North-Eastern State of Malaysia: A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice

Oman Medical Journal, 2013
Objectives: Noise is known to be one of the environmental and occupational hazards listed in the Factory and Machinery Act 1967. Quarries with loud deafening sounds from trucks and machineries pose the risk of noise-induced hearing loss to workers.
Ahmad Filza Ismail, Aziah Daud, Zaliha Ismail, Baharudin Abdullah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and determinants of noise‐induced hearing loss among workers in the automotive industry in China: A pilot study

Journal of Occupational Health, 2019
Data on noise‐induced hearing loss (NIHL) in the automotive industry are rare. This pilot study aimed to investigate the prevalence and determinants of NIHL among workers in the automotive industry in China.
Yali Chen, Meibian Zhang, W. Qiu, Xin Sun, Xin Wang, Yi-Wen Dong, Zhen-Long Chen, Weijiang Hu   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Motive and Opportunity: Order Choice in a Limit Order Book With Dispersed Information

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test predictions of market microstructure theory relating to the determinants of order choice in a limit order book where information is dispersed among traders. Using an experimental limit order book, with a large state space, we find that informed traders exhibit patience, compatible with the ‘waiting game’ behaviour described in Foster ...
James Steeley, Charles Schnitzlein, Patricia Chelley‐Steeley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music-Listening Behavior of Adolescents and Hearing Conservation: many risks, few precautions [PDF]

, 2009
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a significant social and public-health problem. Long-term exposure to high-volume levels will cause permanent hearing loss after 5-10 years.
Vogel, I. (Ineke)
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Effects of furosemide on the hearing loss induced by impulse noise [PDF]

, 2011
Background The permanent hearing loss following exposure to intense noise can be due either to mechanical structural damage (tearing) caused directly by the noise or to metabolic (biochemical) damage resulting from the elevated levels of free
Cahtia Adelman, Jeffrey M Weinberger, Leonid Kriksunov, Haim Sohmer   +3 more
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Awareness of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Use of Hearing Protection among Young Adults in Jordan

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
Action to prevent noise-induced hearing loss is necessary, especially because many causes of permanent hearing loss are preventable. The aim of this study is to identify and raise awareness of the effect of loud sounds on hearing and effective ways to ...
Nasim Alnuman, Talha Ghnimat
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decision Threshold Setting in Binary Classification Problems—A Behavioral Lens

Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When binary classification models are wrong, managers face misclassification costs. Although false positive outcomes imply unnecessary mitigation efforts, false negative outcomes imply overlooking the class of interest. Humans calibrate these ai models supporting operational systems by adjusting the decision threshold that translates ...
Patrick Moder, Kai Hoberg, Felix Papier
wiley   +1 more source