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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Occupational recognition and teachers’ retention intentions: A latent profile analysis informed by recognition theory

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Teacher retention is often explained through workload, job satisfaction and burnout, but these accounts have examined less systematically whether teachers experience their profession as socially and institutionally recognised. Drawing on recognition theory, this study examines how occupational recognition is configured across material and ...
Mengting Qian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimizing Off‐Target Effects of CRISPR‐Cas9 With Optimized sgRNA: Evaluation of Efficiency and Specificity in the Tumor Protein 53 (TP53) Region

open access: yesBiotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) – Cas9‐based genome editing has emerged as a widely used tool across various disciplines, ranging from molecular biology to gene therapy. This revolutionary technology, which enables precise gene editing, represents a significant advancement in biotechnology, opening new frontiers for ...
Ali Mertcan Köse   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent methodological development in phylogenetic inference has focused predominantly on molecular data. However, renewed interest in other data types, particularly morphological data, has followed from the increased recognition of the power of total evidence and tip‐dating approaches, including fossil data, for inference of time‐scaled trees ...
Melanie J. Hopkins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Nature‐Related Investment Strategies Among Institutional Investors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors are increasingly responding to biodiversity loss through nature‐related investment strategies. Using survey data from 557 institutional investors, this study examines the drivers of strategy selection and how biodiversity risk is integrated across investor types, sizes, and regions.
Emma Olofsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Corporate Sustainability Rating Methodology on Disclosure Behavior

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has illuminated long‐standing concerns over the ability for sustainability rating schemes to accurately convey sustainability‐related performance of firms. This study theorizes and empirically examines how a detailed and transparent rating methodology influences what information
Patrick J. Callery
wiley   +1 more source

Do Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Enhance Corporate Sustainability? The Moderating Roles of Regulation and Management Support

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effects of big data analytics (BDA) and artificial intelligence (AI) on corporate sustainability performance, specifically investigating the influence of regulatory pressure and top management support. Utilizing hierarchical regression analysis on questionnaire data from 220 Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that both BDA and
Mandella Osei‐Assibey Bonsu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of the Ordinal Logistic Regression Models in Quality of life Studies

open access: yesمجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2014
Background & Objectives: Due to the increasing tendency to measure the quality of life in recent years and the extensive quality of life questionnaires, it is important to determine the appropriate method of analyzing data derived from these studies. The
Z Asadollahi, P Jafari, M Rezaeian
doaj  

Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Credit Risk in Banking: A Global Study of Bank Governance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and environmental credit risk in the global banking sector. Using a panel dataset of 345 publicly listed banks from 75 countries over the period 2018–2022, we find that greater female representation on bank boards is significantly associated with lower environmental credit
Kenza Mouti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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