Minimally invasive or conventional sternotomy for concomitant mitral valve surgery and surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation: propensity score study. [PDF]
Front Cardiovasc MedKashapov R +8 more
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Surgical Repair of Supracristal Ventricular Septal Defect With Combined Multivalvular Disease in an Elderly Patient: A Transaortic Approach. [PDF]
Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac SurgKanemitsu S +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nonfood geographical indications (GIs) are increasingly emerging as collective sustainability strategies. They enable territories to transform cultural and productive heritage into sources of long‐term competitive advantage. While existing research recognises their regulatory and cultural relevance, limited attention has been paid to how ...
Giovanni Peira, Alessandro Bonadonna
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Tracing melanin-concentrating hormone function: decades of memory research and emerging links to Alzheimer's disease. [PDF]
Front NeurosciNiño-Rivero S +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen +4 more
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Impact of thermal ablation methods on sinus rhythm maintenance after mitral valve surgery in patients with atrial fibrillation. [PDF]
Turk Gogus Kalp Damar Cerrahisi DergÇolak A, Sönmez E, Kaya U, Jalalzai I.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adopting certifications in food supply chains (FSCs) is a common practice for sustainable management, including among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates how SMEs in FSCs navigate the complexities of certification adoption for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).
Belinda Borrello +2 more
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