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Exploring the Boundaries of Aromaticity in Complex Structures and Excited States Through Computational Analysis

open access: yesChemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Understanding aromaticity has evolved from benzene‐centric concepts to a broad multidimensional framework spanning organic, inorganic, and excited‐state systems. This review highlights ambiguities between magnetic, electronic, geometric, and energetic descriptors, emphasizing the need for unified, multi‐criteria approaches.
Sílvia Escayola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Business Case for Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of 21 Companies' Engagement With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
wiley   +1 more source

Play by play [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Hong Kong\u27s toy industry has had a dominant role on the global stage in the past but after a recent exhibition that showcased some of its halcyon days one of the city\u27s biggest manufacturers of playthings says it\u27s time for the region to win ...

core   +2 more sources

Toy Story: Childhood versus Children in Toy Museums

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
Toys are considered to be children’s cultural objects, yet when placed in a toy museum context they become a collection for adult viewing. This article uses Kress and van Leeuwens’ concept of ‘semiotic landscape’ wherein the exhibit provides a specific ...
Anne Jodon Cole, Eva Petersson Brooks
doaj   +1 more source

Abnormal Sustainability Reporting Tone and the Value Relevance of Accounting Fundamentals

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether and how abnormal sustainability reporting tone is associated with the firm's market value and conditions the value relevance of accounting fundamentals. Building on impression‐management theory, the value relevance literature, and recent advances in textual analysis, we focus on the discretionary component of ...
Alessandra Allini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lotman and play: For a theory of playfulness based on semiotics of culture

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2016
The aim of the article is to introduce an approach to play based on semiotics of culture and, in particular, grounded in the works and ideas of Juri Lotman.
Mattia Thibault
doaj   +1 more source

Play(e)scapes:Stimulation of Adult Play through Art-based Action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether adults’ play can be stimulated using art-based exercises. It is based on an experiment in which people were asked to make visual reinterpretations of artworks of their choice while visiting a forest or ...
Luostarinen, Nina, Hautio, Minna
core   +1 more source

Transition Metal Compounds as Thermochromic Materials: Classification, Properties, Limitations, and Applications

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This review systematically examines how different transition metal compounds—such as binary and multinary metal oxides, halides, sulfides, and salts—exhibit thermochromism based on the d‐electron configurations of their transition metal cations. It focuses on three main mechanisms of thermochromism: phase transition, charge transfer, and bandgap change.
Jie Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

How do Children Play Nowadays? Habits and Strategies for Promoting Healthy Development

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa
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Maria Francisca Santos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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