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Managing Biodiversity Disclosure in Global Firms: How Culture, Institutions and Risk Shape Corporate Reporting

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers of biodiversity disclosure and the interplay between firm strategies and national institutions in shaping transparency. Using a global panel of 4703 firms across 40 economies from 2013 to 2022, we integrate differentiation, signalling and institutional perspectives to explain variation in reporting behaviour ...
Chi Chen, Yaman O. Erzurumlu, Giray Gozgor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HIV/AIDS, poverty and pastoral care & counselling : a home-based and congregational systems ministerial approach in Africa [PDF]

, 2007
CITATION: Magezi, V. 2007. HIV/AIDS, poverty & pastoral care and counselling : a home-based and congregational systems ministerial approach in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS. doi:10.18820/9781920109349.The original publication is available from AFRICAN
Magezi, Vhumani
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Development and External Validation of an Efficient Deep Learning Model for Lesion Segmentation and Subtyping of Hepatic Echinococcosis in Ultrasound Imaging

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
We developed a lightweight deep learning framework that integrates frequency‐ and spatial‐domain ultrasound features with segmentation‐assisted classification for hepatic echinococcosis diagnosis. The model outperformed existing state‐of‐the‐art methods in both accuracy and inference speed while requiring substantially fewer computational resources ...
Zhu He, Jiajun Qiu, Chenlin Du, Jin Yin, Xuhui Zhang, Yelei Ren, Yifei Wang, Lamu Suolang, Chunyang Li, Zongjiu Zhang, Diming Cai, Qicheng Lao   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charismata and compassion : Dhinakaran, Charismatic healing and Pastoral Pentecostalism in South India : a practical theological assessment [PDF]

, 2006
This dissertation is a theological assessment of the Jesus Calls divine healing movement as it developed in South India. It analyses the thought of the founder D. G. S.
Gnanakan, Christopher Guru
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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan, Saqib Aziz, Akanksha Jalan, Fazal Muhammad, Dhoha Trabelsi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A pastoral evaluation and responses to the challenge of spiritual insecurity in African pastoral ministry and Christianity

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
This article argues that there is a form of Christian syncretism operating in African Christians use of traditional African powers to address their spiritual insecurity challenges that arises from their former traditional African worldview of spiritual ...
Vhumani Magezi, Christopher Magezi
doaj   +1 more source

The Protective Paradox: Can School Connectedness Buffer Socioeconomic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health?

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established factor influencing adolescents’ mental health, as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience stress, anxiety, and poorer overall wellbeing. One factor that may help protect students from these negative outcomes is school connectedness which is the ...
Esther Ariyo, Amurtiya Michael, Cindy Oreoluwa Ajala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socio- spiritual approaches towards rehabilitation of the victims of sexual molestation in Zimbabwe: An African pastoral care perspective [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
Sexual molestation is a common phenomenon in communities globally, particularly in situations of family disintegration and periods of political violence and economic instability that cause migration and displacement.
Dr Rabson Hove
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: Land Management–Based Strategies Within a Nature‐Based Solutions Framework

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses serious threats to food security by affecting agricultural production processes in multiple ways. This study aims to analyze land management–based solution strategies that can be developed in response to this threat and presents a systematic and holistic framework through the relationship these strategies establish with ...
Nihal Genc, H. Ebru Colak
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation Structure and Diversity Under Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration: A Comparison of Silvo‐Arable and Silvo‐Pastoral Systems in Kenya

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low‐cost, adaptable agroforestry practice that enhances land restoration by promoting systematic integration of naturally regenerating trees within farming systems through tree selection and management.
Irene Awino Ojuok, Madelon Lohbeck, Till Stellmacher, Ermias Aynekulu, Tony Rinaudo, Christian Borgemeister   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source