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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Representations of Pomegranate in Ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, 2018
Pomegranate was an exotic tree imported from Asia in the New Kingdom. During this period pomegranate became among other trees decorated several Egyptian gardens in the palaces and houses of king, queens and the elite. These gardens were an integral part of Egyptian houses, tombs and temples.
openaire   +1 more source

Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laboratory Studies and Numerical Modeling of using Natural Micro beads for Environmental Applications

International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2010
Micro-beads have been prepared from naturally occurring polymers, sodium alginate (an anionic polysaccharide). Beads forming technique applied in this study is based on the principle that a laminar liquid jet is broken into equally sized droplets by a ...
M. Elsayed Youssef, E.A. Soliman, M.A. Abu-Saied, M.S. Mohy Eldin, Salem S. Al-Deyab, El-Refaie Kenawy, A.A. Elzatahry   +6 more
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Knife - Holders in Ancient Egyptian Tombs (Religious and Artistic Study) [PDF]

Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2015
Studying ancient Egyptian tombs have long been an important source of information regarding many aspects of Egyptian religion. Walls of New Kingdom tombs are often decorated with plenty of painted religious scenes.
dr.Rasha Omran
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COVID-19 Booster Doses: A Multi-Center Study Reflecting Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions

Vaccines, 2023
(1) Background: During 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic was threatening healthcare services and workers, and acquiring immunity was an option to stop or limit the burden of this pandemic.
Hager Salah, Israa Sinan, Omar Alsamani, Lamyaa Samir Abdelghani, May Hassan ElLithy, Nazar Bukamal, Huda Jawad, Raghda R. S. Hussein, Marwa O. Elgendy, Al shaimaa Ibrahim Rabie, Doaa Mahmoud Khalil, Amira S. A. Said, Mohammad M. AlAhmad, Azza Khodary   +13 more
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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
wiley   +1 more source

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Review of the Global Intervention for SARS-CoV-2 Combating: From Drugs Repurposing to Molnupiravir Approval

Drug Design, Development and Therapy, 2022
Nada A Ashour,1,* Ayman Abo Elmaaty,2,* Amany A Sarhan,3 Eslam B Elkaeed,4 Ahmed M Moussa,3 Ibrahim Ali Erfan,5 Ahmed A Al-Karmalawy3 1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Horus University-Egypt, New Damietta, 34518, Egypt ...
Ashour NA, Abo Elmaaty A, Sarhan AA, Elkaeed EB, Moussa AM, Erfan IA, Al-Karmalawy AA   +6 more
doaj  

Tribological characterization and rheology of hybrid calcium grease with graphene nanosheets and multi-walled carbon nanotubes as additives

Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2020
Recently used nanoparticle additives are proposed to improve lubricant performance under different conditions because of their unique properties. The key objective of this exploration is to study the possibility to employ multi-walled carbon nanotubes ...
Alaa Mohamed, Vineet Tirth, Bahaa M. Kamel   +2 more
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