Millennium Development Goals in Vietnam: Taking Multi-sectoral Action to Improve Health and Address the Social Determinants. [PDF]
Glob Health Action, 2016 Van Minh H +4 more
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How Brazilian Public Universities Are Operationalizing The SDGs: Strategic Plans Analysis
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the importance of universities for Sustainable Development, only a handful of studies have evaluated the implementation levels of SDGs in HEIs in Latin America. To fill this void, this study examines the strategic plans of 70 Brazilian public universities, which account for 92.8% of Federal Universities.
Carolina Grano +6 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex issue in which scientific knowledge inevitably coexists with the subjective perception of humans in its turn influenced by civilization, cultural but also unconscious aspects. These results emerge with evidence from a critical analysis of the main definitions of sustainability delivered by credited entities (
Francesco Di Maria, Hamid Safarzadeh
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Assessing the influence of knowledge translation platforms on health system policy processes to achieve the health millennium development goals in Cameroon and Uganda: a comparative case study. [PDF]
Health Policy Plan, 2018 Ongolo-Zogo P +3 more
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ESG investing and pollution outsourcing
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Can environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investors hold businesses accountable for their environmental impact? Extending institutional theory and analyzing a global sample of firms from 2006 to 2019, we argue that, in response to ESG investors' institutional pressures, firms may intensify pollution outsourcing to ...
Shipeng Yan, Fan Zhang, Zhengyu Li
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Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community. [PDF]
Jamba, 2016 Kunguma O, Ncube A.
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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Millennium Development Goals: how public health professionals perceive the achievement of MDGs. [PDF]
Glob Health Action, 2014 Lomazzi M +4 more
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A Novel Approach to Energy Management in Electric Steelworks
steel research international, EarlyView.Feed‐forward neural networks are exploited to estimate electric energy consumptions of the electric arc furnace and ladle furnace processes. The models are used to optimize production schedule so that more energy intensive grades are produced when the cost of energy is lower.
Valentina Colla +12 more
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