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Activity Levels of Polonium-210 in Tobacco and Cigarette in Iran [PDF]
مجله علوم و فنون هستهای, 2011 Polonium-210 (210Po) is a natural contaminant of tobacco and its products. Due to its volatility and inherent adsorption properties, 210Po is one of the major potential sources of human exposure through smoking.
B Ghanbar Moghaddam +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha +4 more
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Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
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Study of radioactive decay process of uranium atoms via fractals-fractional analysis
South African Journal of Chemical EngineeringThis manuscript is devoted to derive a mathematical formulation for radioactivity process of uranium to radium which decays to produce radon. Radon which further decays to produce polonium atoms.
Kamal Shah, Thabet Abdeljawad
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Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how financial innovation and environmental sustainability intersect by analyzing spillovers between FinTech, blockchain energy use, and green finance. Using a Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) framework, we examine weekly data from 2018 to 2024 across 11 digital, environmental, and macro‐financial indices.
Mehmet Sahiner, Sisi Sung, James Devlin
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Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides novel evidence on the role of supply chain networks in influencing firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and financial performance. Our analysis employs financial, board, ESG and supply chain data, resulting in an unbalanced panel of over 16,000 firm‐year observations from 3028 publicly traded US firms ...
Michail Filippidis +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As businesses are increasingly integrating circular economy (CE) principles to promote concrete sustainability actions, understanding which managerial aspects may align with this change becomes paramount. Employing a conceptual framework based on Cognitive‐Affective Personality System (CAPS) and Organizational Support theories, this study ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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, 2009 The thermodynamical properties of the main phases of metallic polonium are examined using Density Functional Theory. The exceptional nature of the solid-solid phase transition of $α$ to $β$ Po is underlined: it induces a lowering in symmetry, from cubic to rhombohedral, with increasing temperature.
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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The Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined the career development of Brazilian undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields through the lens of the psychology of working theory (PWT), focusing on career barriers, volition, social support, and future decent work.
Alexsandro Luiz De Andrade +2 more
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