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We identify corporate commitments for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions—green pledges—from news articles using a large language model. About 8% of publicly traded U.S. companies have made green pledges, and these companies tend to be larger and browner than those without pledges.
Michael D. Bauer +4 more
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Background: As a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, many intellectual property (IP) owners have signed on to the “Open COVID Pledge”, an agreement that makes corporate and university IP available free of charge for the purpose of facilitating the ...
Richard Li-dar Wang +3 more
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A van der Waals optoelectronic synaptic device based on a ReS2/WSe2 heterostructure and oxygen‐treated h‐BN is presented, which enables both positive and negative PSCs through photocarrier polarity reversal. Bidirectional plasticity arises from gate‐tunable band bending and charge trapping‐induced quasi‐doping.
Hyejin Yoon +9 more
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Rignoris capio during Roman history: Rignoris capio according to the institutes of Gaius [PDF]
Rignoris capio used to exist since the earliest times of Roman history until its end. In terms of its primordial form, which consisted of creditor's act of taking debtor's thing in pledge until the repayment of the debt and pronouncing certain solemn ...
Milutin Milan M.
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LEGAL POSITION OF LEGAL ENTITIES AND PUBLIC ENTITIES AS SUBJECTS PLEDGE LEGAL RELATIONS
The article deals with particular ways of participation of legal entities and public entities in pledge legal relations, as well as specificity of legal regimes of participants’ property pledge.
R. Sapunkov
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The (in)visibility of Hobson's Pledge : a struggle for survival in the socio-political environment of Aotearoa/New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]
This study explores the emergence of Hobson’s Pledge, as an alt-right group that attempts to influence government policy towards a state of ‘ethnic unity’.
Barendze, Robin Aldrich
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Topological van der Waals contacts represent a new class of electrodes for 2D semiconductors, enabling precise control of the Schottky barrier height (SBH) and contact resistance (RC) through interlayer distance and orbital hybridization engineering. In Se‐based transition metal dichalcogenides, these contacts achieve an ultralow SBH of 7 meV, RC of 0.
Soheil Ghods +15 more
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Rights over “The Property of Another” (Iura in re aliena) in Byzantine and Mediaeval Serbian Law
In some cases, when a person owned property, his rights over such property might be limited. The most important rights over another’s property, mentioned by Byzantine law and accepted in mediaeval Serbian legal sources are servitudes, pledge and ...
Srđan Šarkić
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Picturing, Pledges and Other Scripted Acts: Performance (In) Art
This essay re-examines several examples of non-performance based artworks from the perspective and history of performance art. For instance, the photomontages I produced as an undergrad art student were based on repeated acts of stealing posters from ...
Dave Beech
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Adolescent Virginity Pledges in the United States [PDF]
This paper presents a brief history of teen-focused abstinence groups and virginity pledge traditions. It then examines the various meanings virginity pledges have for the adolescents who take them.
Hickey, Audrey
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