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Economic Change in India [PDF]
India has become an increasingly important part of the global economic landscape over the past decade. Its economy has become more open to international trade, its workforce is growing strongly and the rate of investment has picked up following economic ...
Adam Cagliarini, Mark Baker
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A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many firms set ambitious sustainability goals but these are frequently “displaced” by proxy goals that are easier to track and measure. However, the specific types of goal conflicts that follow from this displacement are poorly understood. We conducted a case study of circular innovation initiatives at a global MedTech company and identified ...
Wiebke Reim +2 more
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Fıkhî Açıdan Altın ve Gümüş Dışındaki Madenlerin ve Kıymetli Taşların Ziynet Amaçlı Kullanımı
Cumhuriyet İlahiyat DergisiZiynet kavramı, Kur’ân-ı Kerîm’de hem maddi hem de manevi güzelliklerin bir ifadesi olarak ele alınırken fıkıh disiplini içinde daha çok maddi süslenme aracı olan ürünler için kullanılmıştır.
Süleyman Şahin
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How to ‘survive’ after graduating in science or engineering: Becoming an academic administrator
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract This is the eighth article in the series ‘Survival Skills for Scientists’; previous papers were published in the Journal of Materials Education. Here I describe my views, based partly on personal experience, about pursuing an alternative career path within academia: becoming an administrator (e.g., Department Chair, Dean, Vice‐President ...
Federico Rosei
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Multinational Firms and Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries [PDF]
Multinational firms have played an important role in leading the developing countries into world markets. Multinationals from the United States, Japan and Sweden have all increased their shares of LDC exports of manufactures since the mid-1960s or mid ...
Irving B. Kravis +2 more
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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
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Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cells sense the stiffness of their extracellular matrix (ECM) and adapt their behavior accordingly. We investigated how ECM stiffness affects the spatial organization of talin1, a key mechanosensitive focal adhesion protein. Using polyacrylamide (PA) hydrogels with tunable stiffnesses (0.2–188 kPa), we analyzed cell morphology, migration ...
Joanna Hajduk +5 more
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The current legislative and administrative issues of the value added tax system in Armenia [PDF]
, 2006 Armen Alaverdyan; Vahe ...
Alaverdyan, Armen, Balayan, Vahe
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