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Investing in a Cleaner Future: The Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Waste Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As environmental sustainability gains prominence, institutional investors are increasingly recognized for their influence on corporate environmental practices. Despite this growing interest, their impact on waste management and circular economy initiatives is yet to be explored.
Afef Slama, Khaled Ghozzi, Faten Lakhal, Assil Guizani, Khaled Hussainey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of vitamin D receptor gene start codon (Fok1) polymorphism with high myopia

Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2011
Background : High myopia caused primarily due to abnormal emmetropization and excessive axial ocular elongation is associated with sight-threatening ocular pathology.
Sandhya Annamaneni, Chintala Hema Bindu, Kasu Prasad Reddy, Satti Vishnupriya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

IT‐Enabled Organisational Transformation and Green Employment Growth in Microfirms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore whether IT‐enabled organisational transformation (ITOT) moderates the relationship between eco‐innovation and the growth performance of microfirms. Our framework conceptualises ITOT in microfirms as a multistage process that includes: (i) setting a digitalisation strategy, (ii) adopting advanced information systems ...
Pelin Demirel, Effie Kesidou, Gamze Ozturk Danisman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stress induced aging in mouse eye

Aging Cell, Volume 21, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Skowronska‐Krawczyk and colleagues describe the transcriptional and epigenetic changes happening in aging retina. They also show that upon stress such as intraocular pressure elevation in the eye, retinal tissue undergoes epigenetic and transcriptional changes similar to natural aging.
Qianlan Xu, Cezary Rydz, Viet Anh Nguyen Huu, Lorena Rocha, Claudia Palomino La Torre, Irene Lee, William Cho, Mary Jabari, John Donello, David C. Lyon, Robert T. Brooke, Steve Horvath, Robert N. Weinreb, Won‐Kyu Ju, Andrzej Foik, Dorota Skowronska‐Krawczyk   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining higher education: The impact of learner outcome metrics in Ireland and beyond

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract A college is an institution that exists to provide instruction. Subtly but profoundly, we are shifting to a new paradigm: a college is an institution that exists to produce learning (Barr & Tagg, 1995, p. 13). This paper traces the evolution of learner outcomes, from their progeny as a diagnostic tool in accurately measuring learning gains and
Gerry Dunne
wiley   +1 more source

Real earnings management: A review of the international literature

Accounting &Finance, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 4279-4344, December 2022., 2022
Abstract We provide a systematic literature review of the determinants and consequences of real earnings management (REM) in an international context. We provide a theoretical framework for REM, the development of REM measures, and review the determinants of REM, categorising these into financial reporting, auditing, governance and controls, capital ...
Ahsan Habib, Dinithi Ranasinghe, Julia Yonghua Wu, Pallab Kumar Biswas, Fawad Ahmad   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Myopia: its historical contexts [PDF]

, 2018
Worldwide, and especially in Asia, myopia is a major vision-threatening disorder. From AD 1600 on, to prevent myopia, authors warned against near work without sufficient pauses.
Paulus T V M de Jong
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Genetic and clinical profile of high myopia patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

Frontiers in Genetics
IntroductionOur previous research identified pathogenic variants in RetNet genes in 23.4% of individuals with early-onset high myopia. This study aims to analyze the genetic defects in patients with high myopia complicated by rhegmatogenous retinal ...
Lin Zhou, Farrukhjon Boboev, Hui Chen, Fanwen Jiang, Chun Zhang, Jing Xiao, Hui Jiang, Yongchuan Liao, Zhuping Xu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multidisciplinary diagnostic approach and surgical ophthalmologic therapy for progressive high myopia [PDF]

, 2021
Myopia has become a leading cause of blindness and therefore a serious world health issue recently. This can be attributed to its extreme phenotypes on the „upper end of the scale”, namely high and pathologic myopia.
Széll Noémi
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Incidence of and Factors Associated With Myopia and High Myopia in Chinese Children, Based on Refraction Without Cycloplegia

JAMA ophthalmology, 2018
Importance Myopia has reached epidemic levels among children in regions of East and Southeast Asia. High myopia is associated with myopic macular degeneration, glaucoma, and retinal detachment.
Sean K. Wang, Y. Guo, Chimei Liao, Yanxian Chen, Guangxing Su, Guohui Zhang, Lei Zhang, M. He   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source