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Making Sense of Japanese Relative Clause Constructions

open access: yes, 2008
We apply the C4.5 decision tree learner in interpreting Japanese relative clause constructions, based around shallow syntactic and semantic processing. In parameterising data for use with C4.5, we propose and test various means of reducing intraclausal ...

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Sand in the Wheels: Corruption, Governance, and the Quest for Sustainable Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governance quality and corruption jointly shape sustainable development? We analyze an unbalanced panel of 38 Sub‐Saharan African countries (2002–2021) employing PCSE and FGLS estimators. The model also includes controls for health expenditure, digitalization, unemployment, trade openness, and GDP.
Deniz Erenel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Impacts of the Bioeconomy: A Systematic Review of Variables, Methods, Sectors and Policy Relevance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy has become a component of sustainability strategies addressing climate change, resource scarcity and economic transformation. Despite a growing body of literature, evidence on the environmental impacts of the bioeconomy remains fragmented, heterogeneous and distributed across sectors and regions. This paper provides a systematic
Javier Coca, Valeria Ferreira, Laia Pié
wiley   +1 more source

When ESG Failure Triggers Control Rights: Sustainability‐Linked Convertibles and Incomplete Contracting

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The majority of existing sustainability‐linked bonds and loans utilize a pricing‐based approach in order to link the terms of the financing to an issuer's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. However, from a governance perspective, such an approach suffers from a critical weakness.
Hyoung‐Goo Kang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interrelationships Among Stakeholder‐Perceived Factors Influencing Solar PV Adoption in Passive Houses in New Zealand

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The adoption of solar photovoltaic systems (SPVS) in passive houses (PHs) is shaped by technical, economic and policy‐related factors. Yet, the interactions among these factors have not been quantitatively modelled in the New Zealand context.
Franklin Chukwuebuka Nkado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Decarbonization: Human Rights, Vulnerable Workers, and an Operational Framework for Just Climate Transitions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate transitions are widely presented as pathways toward decarbonization, green growth, and sustainable development, yet their social effects are mediated by labour‐market segmentation, regional dependence, institutional capacity, and unequal political voice.
Jacob Kwakye, Solomon Tawiah McBanasam
wiley   +1 more source

Justice Coherence in Climate Legislation: A Design‐Level Evaluation of South Africa's Climate Change Act 22 of 2024

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa's Climate Change Act 22 of 2024 was enacted amid escalating climate risk, entrenched inequality, carbon‐intensive development, and uneven state capacity. This article evaluates the Act at the level of policy design rather than implementation outcomes.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

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