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What's a White Matter ‘Fiber’?

Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT White matter anatomy is investigated using methods that operate at markedly different spatial scales and rely on distinct biological and physical principles. Nevertheless, the term “fiber” is routinely applied to the outputs of tract‐tracing studies, diffusion MRI tractography, and postmortem fiber dissection, often as though these entities ...
Guillaume Dannhoff, Frederic Andersson, Christophe Destrieux, Igor Lima Maldonado   +3 more
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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira, Weng Marc Lim, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Bernardo Frantz, Jean Carlos de Oliveira Rosa, Mohd Azhar   +6 more
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Implementing a basic income in Belgium? An experimental study of the impact of argumentation and metaphors on political preferences

, 2016
A revised version of this paper has been published in: "Basic Income Studies : an international journal of basic income research" - Vol. 13, no. 2, p.
Legein, Thomas, Perrez, Julien, Dodeigne, Jérémy, Heyvaert, Pauline, Vandeleene, Audrey, Fifth edition of the conference BELGIUM: THE STATE OF THE FEDERATION, Reuchamps, Min, International conference "Metaphors and political discourse"   +7 more
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee, Charles R. Taylor, Tyler Milfeld   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro, Nirupa Padia, Dusan Ecim, Warren Maroun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biology and Economics: Metaphors that Economists usually take from Biology

Ecos de Economía, 2007
Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, Stanley Jevons, Karl Marx, Francois Quesnay and Joseph Schumpeter all have at least one thing in common: they used biological metaphors when speaking about economics. Nonetheless, today, this relation subsists and biology and
Danny García Callejas
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Of Burning Ovens, Half-Baked Cakes, and Helpless Birds : Exploring a Cluster of Metaphors in Hosea 7

, 2020
This article explores a cluster of metaphors in the book of Hosea 7 (vv. 3-12). The methodological approach is informed by cognitive metaphor theory as well as by recent developments in the study of biblicalmetaphors.
Eidevall, Göran,
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Does Credibility Matter? The Role of Green Bond Certification in Supporting EU Taxonomy‐Aligned Investments

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable financial instruments are increasingly promoted as tools to accelerate firms' transition toward more sustainable business models. However, skepticism remains regarding their ability to generate substantive environmental outcomes.
Federica Tonnarello, Carlo Vermiglio
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
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Assessing interdisciplinary understanding: Disciplinary crossroads in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Assessing interdisciplinary learning within school curricula remains a persistent challenge in educational research. Difficulties in articulating shared assessment criteria, alongside differing disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives, have contributed to ongoing uncertainty around how interdisciplinary learning should be evaluated.
Hermione Paddle
wiley   +1 more source