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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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DiSeg: an automatic discourse segmenter for Spanish [PDF]

, 2010
Hoy en día el análisis discursivo automático es un tema de investigación relevante. Sin embargo, no existen analizadores del discurso para textos en español. El primer paso para desarrollar esta herramienta es la segmentación discursiva. En este artículo
Castellón Masalles, Irene, Cunha Fanego, Iria da, Lloberes Salvatella, Marina, SanJuan, Eric, Torres Moreno, Juan Manuel   +4 more
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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

Business 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

Interpreters' note layout and coherence building in consecutive interpreting: A rhetorical structure theory approach

Acta Psychologica
This study investigates how professional interpreters externalise coherence-building processes during consecutive interpreting (CI) through the spatial organisation of their notes. Twelve English-Chinese professional interpreters performed a long CI task,
Weiwei Zhang, Marc Orlando
doaj   +1 more source

An Exploratory Application of Rhetorical Structure Theory to Detect Coherence Errors in L2 English Writing: Possible Implications for Automated Writing Evaluation Software [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents an initial attempt to examine whether Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann & Thompson, 1988) can be fruitfully applied to the detection of the coherence errors made by Taiwanese low-intermediate learners of English.
Skoufaki, S
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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Work for Enhanced Sustainability at the Base of the Pyramid

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Promoting sustainability at the base of the pyramid (BoP) often falls short of inclusive development due to informal and fragmented institutions, creating institutional voids. Although institutions are critical in BoP settings, there is limited clarity on how institutional mechanisms can address sustainability challenges in low‐income contexts
Nikolas K. Kelling, Sadaat Ali Yawar, Stefan Gold   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving advanced learners' communication skills through paragraph reading and writing [PDF]

, 2007
Japanese learners of English have suffered from an inability to become competent communicators despite their large vocabulary and good grammar. This is mainly because their messages are not presented logically.
Miyasone, Mika
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Green Banking Practices, Social, Health and Environmental Disclosures and Bank Financial Performance: The Role of Innovations and Corporate Governance

Business 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, Musa Mangena, Emmanuel Adegbite, Frank Boateng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intonation and discourse : biased questions [PDF]

, 2008
This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions.
Asher, Nicholas, Reese, Brian
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

Business 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, Erik‐Jan Hultink, Nancy M. P. Bocken   +2 more
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