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Beyond Profit: Do Mergers and Acquisitions and the Board of Directors Increase the Environmental, Social, and Governance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos, Camila Lima Bazani, Pablo Zambra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining multi-domain statistical machine translation models using automatic classifiers [PDF]

, 2010
This paper presents a set of experiments on Domain Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation systems. The experiments focus on Chinese-English and two domain-specific corpora. The paper presents a novel approach for combining multiple domain-trained
Banerjee, Pratyush, Du, Jinhua, Kumar Naskar, Sudip, Li, Baoli, van Genabith, Josef, Way, Andy   +5 more
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Agree to Disagree: Improving Disagreement Detection with Dual GRUs

, 2017
This paper presents models for detecting agreement/disagreement in online discussions. In this work we show that by using a Siamese inspired architecture to encode the discussions, we no longer need to rely on hand-crafted features to exploit the meta ...
Duppada, Venkatesh, Hiray, Sushant
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Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, José Carlos Marques   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Análisis comparativo de la disponibilidad léxica en español como lengua extranjera (ELE) y lengua materna (ELM) [PDF]

marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2012
El objetivo del presente trabajo es comparar la disponibilidad léxica de los estudiantes eslovenos de ELE con la disponibilidad léxica de los estudiantes españoles de ELM, y detectar las diferencias o similitudes léxicas entre los hablantes extranjeros y
Šifrar Kajan, Marjana
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology [PDF]

, 2011
According to the Feature-Assembly Hypothesis (FAH) (Lardiere 2005, 2009, Choi and Lardiere 2006a) convergence in second language acquisition is determined by whether L2 speakers can effectively reassemble existing features into new (L2) configurations ...
Arche, MJ, Dominguez, L, Myles, F
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Bridging Academic Research and Business Practices at the Crossroad of Circular Economy and the SDGs

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global shift toward sustainability has amplified interest in the Circular Economy, which aims to optimize resource use and minimize waste. In parallel, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a universal framework for addressing social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Corentin Juin, Andrea Nicolodi
wiley   +1 more source

El lèxic català i castellà en els escolars valencians de 3r d’educació primària. Caracterització des de la disponibilitat lèxica

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
We are interested in the initial stages of vocabulary acquisition in L1 and L2 ‒ coofficial languages ‒ and we analyze the lexical materials provided by 200 Valencian 3rd grade primary school students.
Begoña Gómez-Devís
doaj   +1 more source

Manifestaciones de clusters y switches en el léxico disponible de aprendices griegos de ELE en diferentes niveles lingüísticos [PDF]

marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2019
El presente trabajo pretende demostrar que el nivel lingüístico en la lengua extranjera (LE) es un factor que afecta al proceso de evocación del léxico disponible en esta lengua de una manera tanto cuantitativa como cualitativa.
Palapanidi, Kiriakí
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Phonographic neighbors, not orthographic neighbors, determine word naming latencies [PDF]

, 2007
The orthographic neighborhood size (N) of a word—the number of words that can be formed from that word by replacing one letter with another in its place—has been found to have facilitatory effects in word naming.
Adelman, James S., Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.)   +1 more
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