ABSTRACT New product development (NPD) has become essential for many small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to ensure their competitiveness and survival. However, NPD is fraught with pitfalls that can lead to project failure. To increase the likelihood of success, SMEs need to monitor the performance of their NPD projects using accurate indicators ...
Caroline Blais, Josée St‐Pierre
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BIM-integrated carbon footprint assessment for sustainable buildings using real-time monitoring and optimization. [PDF]
Yu S, Zhang Y.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the negative effect of earnings pressure (EP) on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and explores governance mechanisms that can address this problem. Drawing on behavioural agency theory and incorporating insights from resource allocation theory and agency theory, this paper identifies the key
Sha Tang +2 more
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An Integrated Approach to the Sustainable Remediation of Dairy Industry Effluents: Sequential Processes of Coagulation-Flocculation, Adsorption, and Photocatalysis. [PDF]
Castro LEN +3 more
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ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
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Improving Postharvest Stabilization of Henna Leaves Using a Solar-Assisted Zigzag-Airflow Dryer: Drying Kinetics, Quality Attributes, and Economic Feasibility. [PDF]
Ibrahium AE, El-Beltagi HS.
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Error detection is not necessary for representation
Some philosophers have recently proposed an error detection condition (EDC) for representation, such that for R$$ R $$ to be a representation for system S$$ S $$, S$$ S $$ must be capable of detecting errors in tokenings of R$$ R $$. We argue that this condition is unmotivated, and that it is too strong. We show that theories of representation that are
Ori Hacohen, Kenneth Aizawa
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Comprehensive energy audit and conservation strategy for public buildings: enhancing energy efficiency and grid sustainability. [PDF]
Habib S +5 more
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Drying kinetics, power consumption, economic and environmental analysis of pomegranate peels drying using a hybrid solar dryer compared with oven dryer. [PDF]
Metwally KA +9 more
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