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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Extensive research has shown that students from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds generally outperform their lower SES peers. Nevertheless, some low SES students succeed, albeit it ‘against the odds.’ Coleman's (1988) theory of social capital in the family suggests that financial capital, human capital and social capital all affect
Fang Xu, Steve Strand
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 2013 Gwerz contain two strata of tropes. Their presence is proportional to the gwerz’s age and inversely proportional to its complexity. One stratum derives from the oral tradition, the other from the sphere of reading and writing. Although this suggests the ‘
Yves Le Berre
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, schools receive additional annual funding in proportion to the number of disadvantaged students that they enrol. This Pupil Premium funding is allocated by schools to help overcome educational disadvantage. According to Department for Education regulations, schools must report the evidence underpinning their spending allocations ...
Wenqing Chen +2 more
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La rhétorique « Kleiz Breizh »
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2013 The variety of Breton used in a contemporary novel such as Piv a glevo? [who will hear?] immediately marks it out as a recent work in the literary history of Breton.
Mannaig Thomas
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño +2 more
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Quand la polysémie se généralise : le labre, le roitelet et l’euprocte se font « vieux »
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2015 In 2009, the third volume of the Nouvel Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique de la Corse was published. Its subject was the language of nature and in particular flora and fauna, and it followed on from Volume II, which focused on the language of the sea.
Muriel Poli
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 2017 This contribution is based on doctoral research conducted for a thesis entitled ‘Dire (avec) l’accent: représentations et attitudes liées aux accents en formation linguistique obligatoire pour adultes migrants allophones’ (Dupouy, 2018). It addresses the
Myriam Dupouy
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Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora [PDF]
, 2012 Pietsch C, Buch A, Kopp S, de Ruiter J. Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora. In: Stolterfoht B, Featherston S, eds. Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure. Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG].
Kopp, Stefan ; https://orcid.org/ +9 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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