Investigating the Demographic Foundation of Fertility: Temporal Trends in the Female Population of Reproductive Age in Greece, 1956-2024. [PDF]
CureusVlachadis N +8 more
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AIsakova LH +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects for general responses. [PDF]
BiometricsGao Z, Hastie T.
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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Mirror Descent and Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms Using Trace-Form Entropies. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Cichocki A +3 more
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Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg +4 more
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Using Social Networks and Model Simulations of Social Disruption to Identify Alternative Translocation Strategies for the Endangered Cooperative-Breeding Floreana Mockingbird. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Reyes EMR +4 more
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez +4 more
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