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Facial Feature Tracking and Occlusion Recovery in American Sign Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Facial features play an important role in expressing grammatical information in signed languages, including American Sign Language(ASL). Gestures such as raising or furrowing the eyebrows are key indicators of constructions such as yes-no questions ...
Castelli, Thomas J.   +2 more
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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical Resolutions to the Tension Between Issue Ownership and Agency OR What do you do with an old social movement? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper will apply Gusfield’s theory of issue ownership to one specific social issue: domestic violence. It will briefly trace the evolution of the issue as a social problem, looking at the battered women’s movement.
Hirsch, Christine M, 9313586
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Green Banking Practices, Social, Health and Environmental Disclosures and Bank Financial Performance: The Role of Innovations and Corporate Governance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators in the banking industry in the Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) region are progressively concentrating on corporate innovation and bank social, health and environmental disclosures (BSHED) as crucial corporate governance (CG) structures to improve bank financial performance (BFP).
Douglas A. Adu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Legal or Illegal? Documented or Undocumented?” The Struggle over Brookhaven’s \u3cem\u3eNeighborhood Preservation Act\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This critical essay applies the concept of “presence” as a theoretical lens for explaining the rhetorical efficacy of protest events surrounding a contemporary debate about immigrants’ rights in a suburban New York township.
Miller, Jackson B.
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetoric of Promotion and Persuasion in Grant Proposal Abstracts

open access: yesИнтеграция образования
Introduction. Grant proposal abstracts represent a pivotal academic genre aimed at persuading experts in a specific field of research to fund the proposed projects.
Olga A. Boginskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Green Human Resource Management and Employee Green Behaviour in Hotels: Mediating Roles of Job Satisfaction and Work Well‐Being

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of green human resource management (GHRM) practices on employee green behavioural intention (GBI) and in‐role green behaviour (EGB‐IR) in the hospitality sector. Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory, we examine the mediating roles of job satisfaction and employee well‐being as psychological ...
Vanessa Guerra‐Lombardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

I Knew There Was Something Wrong with That Paper : Scientific Rhetorical Styles and Scientific Misunderstandings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday\u27s favorite
Reeves, Carol
core   +1 more source

Addressing Symbolic Versus Substantive Disclosures Under CSRD/ESRS E5 in the Circular Economy Disclosure of the Automotive Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how European automotive companies disclose circular economy (CE) information in light of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) E5. Using a mixed‐methods, data‐driven approach that combines keyword analysis and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA ...
Dominika Hadro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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