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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the gap in number skills between socioeconomically disadvantaged and non‐disadvantaged children in the first year of compulsory schooling in England. Past research mostly relies on statutory assessment data collected towards the end of the first year of school and does not show the attainment gap associated with ...
Martin Culliney, Joanne Robson
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Honour killings in Jordan [PDF]
, 2019 This paper interrogates Jordan’s socio-political positioning of honour to grasp how societal meanings about honour killings are constructed in Jordanian society, which is both complex and grounded in traditional values.
Kaplanian, C. +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The integration of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) in higher education is reshaping student engagement, yet its impact on postgraduate international students remains underexplored. This study examines how generative AI shapes postgraduate international students' engagement through a psychological needs perspective.
Olatunji David Adekoya +4 more
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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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On the Strengthened Jordan's Inequality
Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2007 The main purpose of this paper is to present two methods of sharpening Jordan's inequality. The first method shows that one can obtain new strengthened Jordan's inequalities from old ones.
Li Jian-Lin, Li Yan-Ling
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Sharpening Jordan’s inequality and the Yang Le inequality
, 2006 In this work, the following inequality: sinxx≤2π+π−2π3(π2−4x2),x∈(0,π/2] is established. An application of this inequality gives an improvement of the Yang Le inequality [C.J.
Zhu, Ling
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Addressing the Energy Trilemma: The Role of Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Climate Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Balancing energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability has become increasingly challenging as economies pursue low‐carbon growth amid climate risk and persistent disparities in access to modern energy. Although entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a driver of innovation, its role in addressing the energy trilemma ...
Kingsley Imandojemu +3 more
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Decarbonization in Financial Turbulent Times: Global Value Chains and Regulatory Framework
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how participation in global value chains (GVCs) influences carbon emissions amid financial turbulence, with attention to cross‐country heterogeneity and distributional dynamics. Although existing research has explored trade–environment linkages, limited attention has been given to how GVC integration interacts with ...
Xiaoyong Xu +4 more
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A general refinement of Jordan-type inequality
, 2008 In this work, a general form of Jordan’s inequality: P2N(x)+aN+1(π2−4x2)N+1≤sinxx≤P2N(x)+1−∑n=0Nanπ2nπ2(N+1)(π2−4x2)N+1 is established, where x∈(0,π/2],P2N(x)=∑n=0Nan(π2−4x2)n,a0=2π,a1=1π3,an+1=2n+12(n+1)π2an−116n(n+1)π2an−1, and N≥0 is a natural number.
Ling Zhu, Zhu, Ling
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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
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